[OOC: I apologize for my absence the last few days. Work has been hectic, just draining me. I'm getting back in stride, though!]<br/><br/>Everyone hooked up, Rachel radios up to the surface to get them moving. She wasn't sure if the urgency was conveyed in her tone, but the ropes began hauling upwards soon enough.<br/><br/>"Weapons? No ... no, of course not," Dr. Parker said, nervously looking downward.<br/><br/>They are about a hundred feet up when Rachel feels her cable give an unexpected twang. Looking up, she sees nothing but the massive and climbing sheer ice wall, at first. Then she sees motiong, something moving along the wall. Rachel can barely make it out, but there is definitely something up there, vaguely humanoid in shape, attached to the ice wall near their cables.<br/><br/>The thing reaches out suddenly and grasps Lewis' cable and gives it a mighty jerk.<br/><br/>"Whoaa!" Lewis cries, swinging side to side. "What the hell?!"<br/><br/>As if in answer there is the sound of cracking ice. Looking up, Rachel sees showers of ice bursting out from various points on the ice wall above them. Holes are appearing, the ice exploding outwards and falling to the cavern below. Dark shapes begin to edge out of the holes, shapes with long, twisting arms and eyes that twinkle in the gloom.<br/><br/>More and more of them appear out of the ice, with the cables bringing the three right up toward them.