Loopshard

“It’s not optional if they lock us in here…” Gladwyn muttered.

“Maybe one of the levers works for the door,” Adam suggested.

“I don’t think we’re getting around that thing,” he replied.

The Cell Warden was still lowering itself down from the hole in the ceiling, revealing a massive squishy body like that of a cephalopod, except instead of its head was a squishy ball with a giant eye on it that eight arms sprouted from. The arms didn’t have any suction cups, but there were tiny spikes all along their undersides that Adam feared were venomous. Its body was off-white with tiny red rings randomly dotting its skin.

“What are you waiting for!?” James protested. “Let’s kill it before it gets all the way in here!”

Hahn didn’t waste a second and fired off his bow, the Fiendbarb yet again back on his weapon.

But the projectiles failed to pierce the octopus monster’s hide, bouncing off and clattering to the floor instead.

Gladwyn moved forward, smashing his shield into the nearest arm and producing a strange hum from the Warden. James performed a flourish of his blade and sent a vertical crescent of sheering ice at the same arm, which left a shallow cut in the hide.

“Aim for the wound!” he yelled to Hahn.