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[Klear]

It all happened so fast. One moment MkLear was descending the rope and checking if Lazerus was hurt seriously by his fall, the next there was fluorescent blood splashing all around them. As soon as the shock leaves him he aims his autopistol above him after the mangled from of the giant spider scurrying to safety. It's too fast though and soon it disappears in the webbed mess of pipes surrounding them.

"Is anybody hurt?" he asks.

[LuckyDee]

"Yes.", Lazerus replies while exchanging the partially emptied clip for a new one - clearly in a higly pissed off mood.
"But if he can still walk, we'd better step aside before that thing decides to jump back down."

With the clip exchange complete, Lazerus makes a flanking move towards the hole in the wall, staring down his gun's barrel again.

[Klear]

"Are you talking about the spider or Hex?" MkLear asks cynically, noticing a bloody wound in the guardsman's back.

[HexaDoken]

HexaDoken, having no more strength to stand, falls down. He, however, quickly regroups and aims at spider...

...only to realize that it is gone.

Mercerenary sits on place, still aiming at nothing, then puts his shotgun down and sighs. He opens it, ejects the shells, swiftly catches one, puts it back in shotgun, then follows it with another shell from the belt. HexaDoken looks at Lazerus for a few seconds with a rather strange expression - a mixture of sadness and laughter.

"Well..." - another sigh follows. - "Thanks, buddy!" - Mercerenary smiles.

[Silhar]

The water level is reaching your knees now.

[HexaDoken]

"Also." - says HexaDoken, who is sitting and therefore almost drinking the water. - "I wonder if anyone did notice something... uhh, wrong with this picture?"

[Klear]

"If you are all OK, we should move out. It's getting a too wet in here for my tastes," says MkLear and heads towards the hole in the wall with Lazerus, his autopistol ready.

[Silhar]

The rushing water grows even harder to move on, each step coming with more and more effort, but finally, Lear finds himself on the other side of the drowning room. In front of him there's a shady cave of stone. The ceiling is rife with stalactites, the sight not unlike a toothed mouth of some ferocious giant animal.

Then...
Gunshots. A bullet ricochets off the steel wall in a rain of sparks, then drowns in the evergrowing lake of polluted water with a loud plopping noise.

"Halt! Who's there? Lay yer weapons down and come out with yer hands up!", announces the loud, low voice of some male. There's a visible cone of light, now flashing right at the motormouth's eyes.

[HexaDoken]

HexaDoken slowly stands up. He places his shotgun back on the shoulder and wastes several seconds searching for the lasgun underwater. Sounds of gunshots make him instinctively duck.

After hearing the offer, mercerenary wields his lasgun and slowly moves to the hole. Judging by the way he moves you can tell that his wound is pretty painful.

[Klear]

MkLear slowly holsters his autopistol and shields his eyes from the bright light, trying to see past it with little success.

"Take it easy. I don't want any trouble, sure as sure."

Fighting the urge to grab his wooden dice, he keeps his right hand visible and takes slow steps towards the man in the darkness.

"We both surrender," he announces loudly enough for Xilla and HexaDoken to hear it, glancing at Lazerus to see if he'll cooperate.

[Esther]

The moment the spider jumps upon the right wall and starts running upwards, Xilla runs to the pile of webbing  (%) on the right at the front of the hole. She can hear the voices of the others in the back, while she makes another run. This time for the wall on the right side of the hole. Pressing her back against the wall, she silently slides towards the entrance of the hole. One of her throwing knives falls into her hands after a flick of her left wrist, sword still in her right hand.

When she's beside the entrance, there are bullets and a voice calling out. As she was going to check the hole for more spiders, the bullets and the human voice startle Xilla. Standing in the shadows, Xilla then sees a cone of light aimed at MkLear's face. Hearing MkLear's answer, she waits for right the opportunity.

[Silhar]

"Who are ye and what tha hell are ye doing 'ere?", the voice asks, still flashing right in MkLear's face. "Ye don't look familiar. And I know everyone in this Throne-forsaken place!"
"Do ye? Well, tell me about your affair with Lord Governor, pardner", another voice points out.
"Shut up!"
"Lower the light, man. He's not a bandit, sure as sure. Look at him - spooked to death, even his trousers are wet...", the other voice continues.
"Oi! Are there more of likes of you out there?", the third voice cuts in. "We mean no harm at all. This place is dangerous, y'know. Spiders - and Throne blind me, huge ones!"

[LuckyDee]

Lazerus nods to MkLear, his head angled in the direction the voices are coming from as if urging him to do something...

[Esther]

Xilla sees Lazerus nod towards MkLear. She then tries to spot Hexadoken, but can't seem to find him. The pillar and webbing must be in the way.

[Klear]

"You are right we're not exactly from around here," MkLear replies with more confidence. "It's an interesting story. I'd be happy to share it with you, but I'd prefer to do so somewhere else, perhaps over a glass of amasec?"