Kal gave the one who'd said the balance comment the finger.

He yanked his head up, and looked. His face had literally gone through the floor. He rubbed his nose and looked through. He could barely make out anything...

Without any apparent provocation he grabbed the Grot and stuffed him through the hole.

"YOW!" came the reply from the hole.

"What do you see?" Asked Kal.

"Nothing. Just a disembodied head that's looking at us. And mumbling about Spider-Slayers having come."

Kal looked at the others. He then pulled his sword and stuck it into the floor, carving a hole.

After a little while he climbed back out with a disembodied head and the Grot.

"I hold in my hand an undead prophet. Friend of yours Brad?"

He tossed the head and the Grot up. "Who wants to carry the head?"

Ganurath shakes his head. "I'm a meatshield, not a meat carrier. As for the problem of me standing alone, keep in mind these monkeys lack two things I have: courage and an insane quantity of armor."

"Well," Axel said, grinning and patting Ganurath's shoulder, "have fun getting ripped apart, becuase I doubt armor's gonna save your life from a giant monster. And courage, I think, will just get you ripped apart faster. Now if you excuse me, I'm getting my stuff." Axel walked out of the dining hall and into his room, getting his gear together.

"I'm used to dealing with talking heads." Coin walked over and picked up severed head. "Shall I we see what this one has to say?"

Holding the head in both his hands at arms length, he stared into its face and said in a stern, commanding voice. "Well then, what can you tell us ... erm, Ivan?"

Ivan coughed and said, "Damned if I fucking know. Wait....oh shit, here we go again..."

Ivan's eyes rolled back and his mouth started foaming (Somehow!) When he spoke, his words didn't match up with the movements of his lips.

"Spider-slayers are come. Three will complete a job that began in years past, many will began a path. The World-Gate is anxious for your arrival. But beware the raven. BEWARE THE RAVEN!!"

It was oddly cold in the room.

Kal walked forward, and asked, "Raven? What?"

The head started swaying back and forth, shrieking, "BEWARE THE RAVEN!! BEWARE THE RAVEN!!"

Coin slapped it. After it was done bobbling, it ominously said, "May the pheonix guide your blades...and stop the fallen pheonix from rising again..."

With a definitive pop! the temperature went back to normal, the foam dissapeared from Ivan's mouth, his eyes rolled back, and a donkey suddenly appeared in the room.

There was an odd silence as they looked at the donkey. It then got over it's confusion, and ran out of the room.

Tweek and Bang simontaneously yelled, "MONSTER BLAMMIN' TIIIME!" Ka smacked them over the back of their heads.

Kal knocked a chair out. "Okay...this is...weird. What do you think he meant by "three will complete a job began years past'?"

"Three sentient beings will finish what they started." Kay said flatly.

"I feel I should point out that I could kill you right now."

Kal went back to pondering. He looked around the room. He scanned faces. He stopped.

Guy looked a bit freaked out because Kal was staring at him intently. He glanced at Celes.

"Guy, Celes, I think he was talking about us. Can you think of anything we didn't kill that we fought?"

"...well, he could be talking about Larry, Curly and Moe over there." Vin interjected, pointing at the two dwarves and the Grot.

"Well thats simple. You three were part of the group that killed the evil godess two years back right? And now those weird cultist guys are trying to bring her back. Anyone else seeing a connection here?" said fredan, still eating some food from the table.

"Well, she's dead. Somehow, dead qualifies as a finished job to me. We definitely didn't plan for her to come back. Hell, we didn't plan for fighting her in the first place. It was moer Myst's fault we got dragged in...."

Kal snapped back to the present situation. "Oh well. Let's go kill the big turtle-spider. When we get to Ulthuan I'll waste time thinking about it."