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The wall noticed the speck that had brought itself so close almost instantly, and swung one of its swords down on it. The wall knew this little dinosaur could be a major problem if it was allowed to return to its master with that skin. And such a thing was inexcusable, lest Alphanus demolish the wall and use the stone for something else as punishment for failure.

((you have assumed correctly))

Impending doom - always a good thought. All around Tyval was now a bunch of swirling images and sounds he couldn't discern. Only thing he was aware of was that he was going to die, and he had pretty much resigned to that fate.

The squirrel? It was bravely charging towards the wall. Not that anyone cared about it.

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"Dash? Is that you? Can't see. It's Sam. Poisoned and blind, and I took a pretty bad hit. Not lookin' good." She had trouble pronouncing his name, a quirk of her native accent combined with her exhaustion.

She motioned vaguely towards where she thought Tyval was - where she'd last seen him. "Tyval's up there somewhere. Mort too." She coughed, and felt more warmth running down her chin. "It's not lookin' good."

For everyone except Mort, that was. He dashed off just as the enormous blade hit the ground, missing him by mere centimeters. The force of the impact sent him sailing through the air, far faster than he could have ever run. He tumbled and bounced and rolled after coming back down, finally coming to rest just a few meters from where Sam and Dadj sat. The skin popped out of his mouth, and Sam heard it land with a soft pflop nearby.

Mort bounced up immediately, seemingly no worse off from his violent journey. He trotted over to Sam, his tail wagging happily. As soon as she heard him approach, she reached up and hugged his head close, tearing up. She could barely speak, but as Mort expressed his affection in the only way he knew how, she managed to say a few words.



"Good boy. Best friend."

"Alright, that's fantastic. I'm blind too. Are you going to be less blind now that your lizard has returned?" Mort had smacked him at least once with his thick reptilian tail, so Dadj knew the mount was back. "Where is everyone else?"

He was still groping around without sight, trying to find anything that would tell him where he was and how to proceed from here.

Annoyed by it's failure to stop Mort, the wall hastened it's advance even more. The wall's movement made the corridor shake enough to loosen the stalactites on the ceiling and make them fall, along with large amounts of accumulated dust. As it happens, these stalactites are quite sharp and can do some damage in the event that one hits somebody.

Not much more to say about Tyval. For the time being, he was making an incredible effort to stay conscious. Panicking, poisoned, and overall exhausted - he could, in fact, barely move.

But this post isn't about the Paladin. It's about his squirrel that was by then climbing up the big mean wall.

How? Well, after being poisoned AND blinded, Gabby didn't even flinch. He swiftly used cancellation on himself, thus ridding himself of the annoying blindness - smart guy, wasn't he? Sure he was. And unlike his wimp master, he didn't collapse to the effect of poison easily. And then, like a tiny, shiny and furry bold of lightning, the mini-paladin dashed towards the wall.

Now the rest was history. Well, not really, the rest was him leaping onto the wall and climbing it, until he reached its 'face'.

The wall, furious due to the pest crawling upon it's face, put away one of it's swords and started clawing at the nuisance that plagued it, unaware of the fact that the intruders were starting to recover from the maladies previously inflicted upon them. Furthermore, while clawing at it's own face, the Demon Wall managed to accidentally damage itself by embedding a claw in it's face. Not a very bright sentient wall, it would seem. *GrandFinale facepalms at the wall*

Dadj took the skin and put it to his lips after feeling for what it was and where it opened. He had a gulp and swallowed it quickly. The blessed water almost came back up, but he forced it down for he could feel it's healing effects on his vision. He coughed after the liquid made it to his gut and he did in fact feel rather queasy. Now that his vision had returned, he took stock of the room. The squirrel had disappeared, maybe it was stepped on? He could see Tyval suffering and made strides towards him.

"I'm giving this to the paladin," he said over his shoulder to Sam. He sprinted over and told to drink, shoving he skin in his face.

And while Gabby, the brave, ran around on the Wall's face, poking it with his needle of a sword and hitting hit with his shield whenever he had the chance, Tyval, the cowardly, was drinking some water he had just been offered by Dadj.

The effect was almost immediate. The poison was cured, and with it died a little - just a little - of his terror. He thanked Dadj, gave him the skin back, and stood up.

Then he heard something above him? He look up and saw something big and spiky falling on his face. Were it not for his quick reflexes he would have died right there! He raised his shield, blocking the stalactite, and once he got up again - the impact had made him fall on his buttocks - he glanced at the stalactite on the ground and smiled.

Was he being brave for once, or stupid as always? We might never know. He dropped his shield and sword. "You can have them if you wish.", he would tell Dadj... and then he grabbed the stalactite from the floor, wielding it as it if was a two-handed mace.

And with a yell of 'For the Eternal!', he charged towards the wall.

He looked at Tyval like he had actually just tossed his brain on the floor and then ran off skipping. He watched the angel run off to his more than likely death and left him to return to Samantha. Water skin in tow, Dadj looked to the roof of the room to make sure he wasn't about to be crushed as he walked.

Once safely to the lizard woman, he dropped the skin in her lap and looked behind him to what he expected to be a dead Paladin.

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"Thanks."

With the skin safely in her satchel once more, she grabbed a hold of Mort's saddle and somersaulted up in to it. Clearly, she was feeling better.

Once more she raised her sword, and thumped Mort's side with her boots. They charged flat out towards the wall, and DESTINY (actually death).

Tyval was indeed possessed by... something! How else could he be so deftly dodging the Wall's slashes, sometimes by hopping out of the way, sometimes by sliding underneath them, and at least once by tripping on his own feet, thus getting out of the way of a horizontal slash?

His brand new weapon in hand, he looked up at the Wall during a breather moment, and didn't waste the chance.

First he took a step back. Then he tightened his grip on the stalactite. And then he swung the weapon upwards in a broad arc, hitting the monster with great strength, right on its... chin?

Dumbfounded, Dadj watched Tyval attacked the Wall and actually do some sort of damage. At least, he had pissed it off because the thing exploded with fiery light. The flare attack burst through the room and the Ranger made an attempt to look away. He failed however, and the brightness stung his vision, causing him to back-peddle to get away from the Wall. He held his hands over his singed retinas and cursed below his breath.

The stalactites continued to fall down into the room, previously unnoticed by the party. However, one was hurtling to the ground with Dadj's name on it.

Good God, this thing must be a retard. Sure, Flare can be a game-winner...but it should have made the explosion a bit smaller, because two large holes were blasted into the long, non-sentient walls that make up the cavernous 'hallway', and as such all the intruders could easily slip into one or both of them and the wall would just pass by. Have I mentioned the wall can't stop one it gets going? That means it may very well have made this battle unwinnable for itself- it will slam against the far wall at the end and crush it's entire frontside, and the intruders can then demolish the rest of the wall. What makes it worse for the Demon Wall? It hasn't even noticed the holes yet. Wall, I am dissapoint.

(Mink was magicked away..and she kinda stayed there.)

(Guess I'll wait until the next room..heh..)

(Speaking of reboots, that's what I'm thinking of doing to this character yet again >->; )