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No answer. Cavern goes down.

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She hates everything and her leg is screaming at her.

She heads down. Every few meters she calls out again, as long as the group behind her isn't obviously following.

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At some point - 

"- Imrainai?"

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" - people outside, they have Verita - fuck - "

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They arrive a second later. 

"Cure Moderate Wounds. What happened."

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"Bunch of people showed up outside the rope trick. Maybe ten. Bunch of them tried to climb inside. We jumped out. Lost each other in the landing. They dispelled invisibility, caught her but not me. Last I saw she was tied up and gagged by the rope trick."

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"Stay behind us." 

And they take off at a run back up through the cavern.

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She follows, not at a run, on account of she's staying behind them. She sticks to the wall of the cavern.

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They stop short of the entrance to the cavern, cast a flurry of spells, step out.

There are four cultists, and no Verita.

 

 

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"Mass Pain Strike."

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"Admonishing Ray."

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"We technically only need one of them alive," he says loudly, but doesn't actually shoot anyone. 

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One of the cultists tries to cast a spell at them and fails, convulsing. Another one gets off a fireball. Mahdi counterspells it. And then it's over and all four of them are trembling on the ground. 

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"Zone of Truth."

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"Where'd they take her?"

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The cultists blink at him a bit incredulously.

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He spins around to look at tracks. 

 

They lead in. 

" - is there a branch in the cavern that we didn't see?"

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The cultists do not answer this.

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Well obviously they're not gonna talk. Probably the party's too good and stuff for torture, at least on this plane.

She doesn't move from her spot by the cavern wall. She does look to see whether the tracks keep going down into the darkness.

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They do.

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He follows them.



A little ways into the dark they veer abruptly sideways, into what looks like solid rock.

 

He pokes it. It feels like ice.

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"Maybe it'll melt," he says, and tries that. 

 

It will melt. Somewhat slowly.

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"Are we taking them with us?" 

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" - I think no."

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"Unless someone has a really good objection I'mma stab them."

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