While the group of adventurers journey onwards, a gigantic spectral hand suddenly appears, before anyone can react, it closes around Kivan, Rissa and Ben, they and the hand then dissapear.
Some time later, Kivan is awakened by someone kicking him in the ribs and a familiar voice, which he can't quite remember who owns, saying to him, "Wake up you lazy ranger, I've summoned you here for a reason and it's not to look at you and your pals sleeping on the floor of my cell." Kivan opens his eyes and looks up at a Sorcerer in a red robe who looks a lot like Neb, he groans as he remembers who this is, Rissa and Ben also wake up, even though they wake up slower than Kivan since they didn't have the help of a well-placed kick, Kivan stands up, checks that all his equipment is still where it was before they were transported to the cell, and talks to the Sorcerer, "Well Kharanax, I thought we'd seen the last of you after you left for Baator to find a cure for your curse, did you find one?" Kharanax answers, "I found a cure, but I have yet to use it since it can only be used on the Plane of Slaughter in which we find ourselves at this moment and the spell components I had gathered for the spell that would break the curse has been taking from me by my jailers, but enough of this talk, I summoned you here to cut through my cell door with your Vorpal Blade, you still have it right?" Kharanax looks worried at the thought that Kivan might have lost his weapon, "This cell is filled with a powerful anti-magical field, the spell I used to get you here was the only one I could get through the field and I can't break down the door since it requires a Vorpal Blade to cut through since my jailers thought no mage or sorcerer would bring one, they didn't count on me bringing in reinforcements, but now, cut through the door so we can get out of here, I tire of talking." Without comment Kivan draws his blade and swiftly removes the door, he also destroys the robotic guardian outside the cell, Kharanax, Rissa and Ben follow him through the destroyed door, Kharanax says, "I think we had best work together to get out of this place, the guardians here are not all as easy to destroy as this one, by the way, I managed to find out that two of your friends are trapped in the cell next to mine, Siria and Dacuben I think they are called, do you think we shall free them?" "Of course we should free them!" shouts Rissa, "We can't just leave them here to rot!", "Well actually we can," responds Kharanax, but, seeing Rissa's fists clench and her hand straying to the hilt of her enchanted scimitar "Magebane" quickly adds, "But I wouldn't dream of doing that!" he then disentigrates the cell door, freeing Siria and Dac, who thank their rescuers, even though they're a bit surprised that Kharanax is the one who freed them. Kivan takes his place as leader of the small party, and they journey off through a nearby tunnel which leads down, even though they can feel that they're pretty far underground, they do this because of Kharanax's reasoning that, "Noone would ever expect them to go even farther down.".
(OOC: I'll make sure that my little party here bumps into the rest of you soon enough, or you can bump into them.
Dac is a mage, specialising in Enchantment and Invoking spells.
Siria is a female warrior, her preferred weapon is the longsword.
Kharanax is a Sorcerer, I'll keep the nature of his curse a secret, but expect a surprise when he breaks it, he's not human even though he appears to be one.)
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Worshipper of Tiax.
Wielder of the ancient Lawyer spells.
Member of the HADB clan.
Ally of the Fluffy Queen and the Dreaded Red Fluffy
General of the highest class and Leader of the Legal Department and Jumprope Compound in the IW Peacekeeping Force.
I've also got a pretty long sig.