The priests reacted to the approach of the druid and bard with notable and quite reasonable defensiveness. If the trap was set off when the adventurers approached, then they were most certainly enemies of their sect, and had to be eliminated. Their reaction to the commoners that were having fiends burst from them, covered in gore from their victims, was much less savory; they looked on with horror for the moment that it took for Aidan to transform into a dragon and burrow into the stone. Noting the hole in the floor, they backed up to the statue of the bird god, holding their swords at the ready, although refraining from attacking. As for Aidan, as soon as he passed about five feet in the direction of the priests, he felt himself being forcefully twisted back into his natural form. Though he was underground, there was still more than enough room to let him crawl out, if he wished.<br/><br/>Gajol heard and took note of Aidan's call of advice, charging in the direction of where the high priest had fled. There being nothing in the way, she'd reached the door and plowed into it, splintering a good portion of it and throwing it off the hinges. Peering down the hallway that had been revealed, she spied the man making a corner about thirty feet long with a staircase at the doorway that was ten feet high.<br/><br/>As for Inyrra, she was soon being circled by a babau, a rutterkin and a dretch, each of them making an attack on her. The babau landed two strikes with its lengthy claws, slashing at her and leaving fierce wounds over her belly, reaching thoguh the smallest of gaps in her armor. The rutterkin and dretch had less fortune, and missed their own attacks.<div class="messageTextEndMarker"> </div>