14th Ashan 717
The large spider-snake bit into Jackson Eclipse and his scream, which had briefly harmonised in an almost awful beauty with Amaris' screams, stopped. The spider snake lifted it's head and his limp body raised into the air. Judging by the blood on the floor and the amounts still pouring out of him, the way that his body moved, it was fair to assume to all who looked, that Jackson Eclipse was very dead.
Lakia, through chattering teeth and with the feeling of approaching hypothermia being, frankly, the least of her worries, gave advice and both she and Padraig listened to it. Lakia fired arrow after arrow, this time aiming for the bulbous abdomen. Padraig tried to haul Amaris out of the way, but he also fired, and fired again. As he hauled Amaris, he might notice that their tall companion was, in fact, covered in a strange purple goo all over their hands. Mostly, though, he and Lakia concentrated on continuing to attack.
Each time, the bolts and arrows were absorbed into the creature.
Unwittingly and without desire to, in that fashion at least, Jackson Eclipse bought them time. The spider snake lifted it's head with him in its maws and used it's two front-most legs to grab his body. Smaller than the other legs, these worked well as appendages for holding it's food and that was what they did now. Sharp pincer-thin talons grabbed him and Amaris and Padraig got to see, and they all got to hear the sound of the spider-snake biting through bone as it literally bit him in half.
It did, however, give them some brief moments where they were shooting without fear of being bitten themselves. However, Lakia was beginning to feel faint from blood loss and pain. Every arrow loosed was making the wounds on her hand worse, blood was pouring and her head was starting to spin.
As Padraig and Amaris got covered in a shower of blood which had once belonged to their former guide, Lakia felt consciousness start to slip from her. Sheer force of will was keeping her conscious, but it was running out. Every arrow of Lakia's and every bolt of Padraig's had hit, there was no doubt, but still the thing kept coming.
They were in a dire situation indeed. And then, three things happened simultaneously. Amaris stepped on a small, purple spider. The crunch beneath a booted foot might not normally be something anyone would notice, but the word small here was relative. Small compared to the big enormous spider-snake, yes. But now, these purple spiders were roughly the size of an orange. So, as Amaris' foot came down the resulting crunch and splatter was noticeable. Was it that which prompted the next things, or was it Lakia's arrow or Padraig's bolt? No one could really know but as that small purple spider died under Amaris' boot, every purple spider in the cavern exploded.
Purple goo splatted everywhere and where it landed, it hissed unpleasantly. Amaris might even notice that her foot felt a strange sensation, quite unknown for a while.
Warm.
Ice sizzled under the acidic purple goo, which hadn't been acidic before. However, it was likely that Lakia and Padraig might not even notice that at this point. What they all certainly would notice, however, was the sudden onset of a high pitched screeching, like steam escaping from somewhere where there was a lot of steam, a lot of pressure, and a very very small hole.
It came from the spider-snake and, as last of the small purple spiders exploded into acidic goo, with a scream of truly horrific proportions, so too did the spider snake explode. It's insides weren't purple. Nor were they the blue of a usual spider or the red of blood.
No, the insides of this enormous beast were a deep mustard yellow. It was inevitable that they would all get some purple acid-goo and some mustard yellow-goo (properties currently unknown) on them. There were also many, many spider parts and pieces of spider-snake. There were the scattered remains of Jackson Eclipse in there, too, rather unfortunately mixed in. It was carnage.
And the little furry white spiders scuttled around, burning up individually as they inadvertently got covered in, or scuttled on, the purple acid.
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