Friday, April 29, 2011

In The Valley of the Spider Part 2

I've been blown up a lot, its actually a constant issue I've had (as technology expands and more things are discovered to blow people up, I worry because its only a matter of time before I'm a part of these things and their explosions).  Being blown up in a cave underground while a giant spider wanted to eat me though? Fairly unique in my limited experience.  The explosion tossed me from one wall of the cave to another one (rather violently I'll add), the saving grace was that upon falling from the impact I was caught in the spider webs and suspended from damaging my injured ankle more. 

I still rung my bell pretty damn hard though (I had a killer head ache and the right side of my face was coated in blood) once I got over the initial alarm of waking up in a big spider web with half my face suffering vision issues from being coated in blood, I was able to calmly assess the situation. Which meant abject panic while trying not to scream to alert the spiders I hadn't killed. My sword was laying nearby, I could see in the cave due to the explosion having ignited the large spider that had tried to attack me (it apparently burned very well I almost wonder instead of selling spider silk you could have sold parts of spider as firewood, sure it would have smelled awful, but think of the trees!).  That still left me stuck in a spider web with more spiders around (I couldn't even tell how long I'd been there, I figured a few hours based on how long the spider had been burning).  I tried to use my fire in a reasonable manor, but the injury to my head apparently overrid the care, and instead of just trying to burn the web around me I ignited the whole damn thing in a flourish, which dropped me to the ground with a thump (and sent my ankle into painurism). The fire on the web of course spread around the entire cave system (woops, I guess the explosion was localized on the spider that exploded, mine was unfortunately not).  I snatched my sword up as desicated bodies and bones started raining from above. I hobbled out of the cave as best I could, a huge foom of fire was going on behind me, the smoke choking out my vision and making seeing anything difficult.

I was actually choking on so much smoke I couldn't even make out where I was going, I started crawling immediately, but even that was too much.  My will fading I collapsed again, I tried to drag myself forward, but it was too much, too much pain, too much blood loss, too much smoke.  In the end I closed my eyes and waited for death.  And then blackness.

Obviously I didn't die of course, but when I awoke well things got a little bit more complicated.  Naturally, nothing is ever simple with me, aside from something being simply damn awful.

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