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Schmendrick · 03-18-2003, 04:41 PM

Durmán felt discouraged to hear this. How could they ever find Aragorn? Surely there were innumerable places that fit the description: walls of stone, a wooden door, spiders...

Just then the guard, who had escorted Arwen to the room, coughed. " With your permission, m'lord", he said turning to Prince Imrahil, "I have an idea about this place...There is a whole web of tunnels under the castle. I do not know exactly for which purpose it has been built, but I think it was, when---" he saw the others looking at him, impatient, " Well, as I was saying, there is this web of tunnels and my son and his friends once went down there - they thought it would be a great adventure - but very soon they came back, screaming. The whole place, they said, had been swarming with spiders, unusually big ones.
And I remember how Linghril, the king's advisor, laughed, when he heard about this. He said that a minute more and they all would've been...spider-food." The guard shivered. "Now there's a scary man, if you ask me. Bet he has something to do with all this."

The Prince nodded. "Yes, that's what we think, too. You have been of great help to us. Now, go and get some more guards to come with us. You will show us the way to the tunnels." The guard, who had turned ghostly white, nodded and was off to find some reinforcements.

It was only then that Durmán dared to speak. "What arms can we possibly use against spiders? Swords and bows do not scare them." The prince nodded, he seemed deep in thoughts. "No, you are right. If there are hundreads of them...We must make some plan, we can't just run there and get us all killed, that will do us no good."
Durmán hesitated, he had got an idea, but he didn't know, if it was worth saying aloud. Finally he summoned his courage.

"What about hot water, then? That would at least wash them away and make them lose their balance? And maybe we could even add something poisonous to it?"
Durmán felt his face blushing, as he waited for the others to answer.

[ March 18, 2003: Message edited by: Schmendrick ]

03-18-2003, 04:41 PM	#133
Schmendrick Wight Join Date: Sep 2002 Location: unidentified Posts: 105	Durmán felt discouraged to hear this. How could they ever find Aragorn? Surely there were innumerable places that fit the description: walls of stone, a wooden door, spiders... Just then the guard, who had escorted Arwen to the room, coughed. " With your permission, m'lord", he said turning to Prince Imrahil, "I have an idea about this place...There is a whole web of tunnels under the castle. I do not know exactly for which purpose it has been built, but I think it was, when---" he saw the others looking at him, impatient, " Well, as I was saying, there is this web of tunnels and my son and his friends once went down there - they thought it would be a great adventure - but very soon they came back, screaming. The whole place, they said, had been swarming with spiders, unusually big ones. And I remember how Linghril, the king's advisor, laughed, when he heard about this. He said that a minute more and they all would've been...spider-food." The guard shivered. "Now there's a scary man, if you ask me. Bet he has something to do with all this." The Prince nodded. "Yes, that's what we think, too. You have been of great help to us. Now, go and get some more guards to come with us. You will show us the way to the tunnels." The guard, who had turned ghostly white, nodded and was off to find some reinforcements. It was only then that Durmán dared to speak. "What arms can we possibly use against spiders? Swords and bows do not scare them." The prince nodded, he seemed deep in thoughts. "No, you are right. If there are hundreads of them...We must make some plan, we can't just run there and get us all killed, that will do us no good." Durmán hesitated, he had got an idea, but he didn't know, if it was worth saying aloud. Finally he summoned his courage. "What about hot water, then? That would at least wash them away and make them lose their balance? And maybe we could even add something poisonous to it?" Durmán felt his face blushing, as he waited for the others to answer. [ March 18, 2003: Message edited by: Schmendrick ] __________________ Be strong, saith my heart; I am a soldier, I have seen worse sights than this. - Iliad -