Chapter 23

A passage from Rutger's Journal

 * Having won the tourney we get our names inscribed on the winners plaque and we waited around for Ravel to do some shopping, when ready we headed to the portal room where Bradbury opened the portal with a few deft touches, Iggy gets his sunrod out and we step through the portal and find ourselves in a very dark cave full of webs. The sounds of scuttering and chittering which reminded me of previous encounters with spiders.
 * R1: As the others battle a spider with large pincers another spider comes forth to attack me.  It's bites at me both miss and I am forced to divert my attention away from our common target to this threat. As I ready my swing another spider comes out of the darkness then dissapears from before me.  I shout out "come and get it you 8 legged freaks" - it only seems to draw one of them and I slash into the beast.
 * R2:  The spider before me bit into me, i felt weakend by the poison coursing through my veins, but got a couple of blows against the spiders beside me, Jakar moved up beside me and created an oppertunity to attack which I did, the poison reduced the damage i could deal but I managed to hook my axe into its head.  I tried to shake off the effects of the poison but failed.
 * R3:  the spider that was attacking me turns it's attention to Jakar, I get a slash in to it from the stance I took at the beginning of the battle but i was still weakened from it's bite.  I swipe at it's legs knocking it prone and manage to shake off the effects of the poison.
 * R4: The spider before me got up and snapped at me, missing both times, I get a hit in on it as it tries and then I bring my axe to bear on it trying to cleave into another spider but I miss.
 * R5: The spider snapped at me twice, connecting and poisoning me again.  I strike into the beast with a a rejuvinatiung strike but succum to the poison of a spider that attacked from behind and fell unconcious.
 * R6: Zzzz
 * R7: Zzzz
 * R8: I wake up.
 * R9: The one remaining spider we surround and crush it.