Loupy was able to pick the locks on Snow’s straitjacket, the bard's skill more into artistry than lockpicking but he had managed to free a few others prisoners before finally finding the bear druid. The guards had made sure to keep bear gaged and bound to prevent spells. With his arms free Snow was able to free his friend, though in his rush his claws tore the bondage suit the wolf had been placed in.
Naked or not they were free and this was no time for modesty. Unarmed, using the confusion caused by the jailbreak was their only chance to slip past the Red Wizards guards and escape his fortress.
They quickly and quietly darted down the halls looking for a way out. Unfortunately, in their haste they weren’t paying attention for traps. Suddenly the floor gave way beneath them. Both lunged to grab the edge as they fell but neither succeeded. They screamed as they plummeted down the shaft, waiting for the sudden and fatal landing that awaited them.
But the landing was softer than expected. In the pitch darkness it felt like they had landed on woven ribbons like a hammock. They were smooth and a little stretchy, but the momentum of their fall drove them through it, then another layer of it, and another. When they finally hit the ground what they passed through had slowed them enough for impact to only knock them out.
As the pair came to their heads throbbed from the blow, but at least their eyes had adjusted enough to see. Something was wrong, it felt like they were suspended and tightly bound. Their first thought was they had been recaptured, but that’s when they noticed all the webbing around them – some of it torn as if someone had fallen through it. But the webbing looked strange … black and shiny. It resembled something called latex that the Wizard had been rumored to have created, and from what the two friends had seen, easily enchanted to animate itself to bondage people just like they were currently.
A chittering sound drew their attention and dread filled them as they saw huge black shapes in the gloom. Shapes with 8 legs, many eyes and leaving trails of the latex web behind them. Something had captured them, but it wasn’t the guards. What abominations had the Wizard been creating? Their need to escape now more desperate than ever, for it seems the masters of this tower had plans for any left in their grasp, plans that wouldn't give any the release of death...
