Thanks to Rayne's archery skills, Youmu didn't have to break her stride as she dragged Sylvia into the safety of the elevator that was already starting to descend.<br/><br/>Meanwhile the Announcer was having trouble laying a huge egg that looked like it was going to split her in two. An impatient Colossus smacked the shell, cracking it without care for the fact that half of it was still stretching the unfortunate woman's folds wide! The monster inside struggled to get out, slimy tentacles coated in white and yolk slithering out first, like the appendages of a giant squid or octopus, though instead of suckers, each one sported a single evil unblinking eye at its tip. As soon as the eye stalks were exposed, even before the rest of the monster squeezed out of the Announcer's wrecked pussy, they started shooting out rays in all directions. Several eye rays hit the ceiling causing dust and debris to fall down into the arena and stands below.<br/><br/>The monster's movements, not to mention the egg shell fragments still inside her passage, drew out hoarse screams that were music to the fly-demon's ears. He laughed demonically while aiming the Announcer's crotch at the ground as though it was a pussy eye ray cannon - which admittedly worked like such, as rays started to pepper the ground around the descending elevator. But the outer doors were already closing together to fill in the hole in the floor left by the descending platform. Echos reverberated down the elevator shaft as the doors took a beating from the rays, but they held.<br/><br/><div class="spoiler_container"><div class="spoiler_header" onclick="hideSecond (this);" role="button">Knowledge (Dungeoneering) DC 23</div><div class="spoiler_body">The monster is none other than a beholder, a large floating orb of flesh with a single central eye that emits an antimagic cone in the direction it is looking, plus ten long prehensile tentacle-like eye stalks with smaller eyes that shoot eye rays!<br/></div></div><br/><br/><hr/><br/>The interior of the arena building seemed abandoned, apparently all the guards had rushed out to join the fighting above and met their doom. Sylvia laid her final egg in the locker room, which Youmu immediately sliced into two halves to prevent it from hatching into a monster. She was able to walk but only with someone to lean on.<br/><br/>"Rayne? Youmu? Where are we? What happened?" Sylvia croaked.<br/><br/>"We're getting you out of here. Save your strength for walking," Youmu suggested as the group started to make their way down the corridor between the locker room to the staircase. The sounds of monsters banging against the elevator doors continued to carry from the top of the elevator shaft and through the locker room, albeit softer with distance, but still adding urgency to the situation. "Rayne, think you can leave them a present to slow them down? Anything would help, even if only a little."<br/><br/>They reached the spiraling stairs with the option to go up or down. The last time Rayne's and Sylvia's excursion took them this way seemed so long ago now... Youmu looked at Rayne. "I'll take Sylvia, we're using the disposal chute as our escape route. If you're going to grab your gear first, we'll split up here and meet up on the other side..."<br/><br/><div class="spoiler_container"><div class="spoiler_header" onclick="hideSecond (this);" role="button">OOC</div><div class="spoiler_body">Time Units (TU) are back! They represent how far ahead of the monsters the girls are. At 0 TU, the foremost monsters have caught up and they have to be fought!<br/>Start with 1 TU<br/>+1 TU for successfully taking down the Ovyph<br/>More TU can potentially be earned for trapping the hallway!<br/></div></div>