"Now to just get down without breaking my legs." The fire from the previous blast had given a decent view of the hardened rock that made up the catacombs beneath him. A simple water spell would prove much less effective against this surface as opposed to the one he had previously turned to mud. He reached a hand over the edge to test the sturdiness of the rock that formed the walls of the hole as well as to check for any breaks in the rock that could be used as handholds. Sadly the earth felt smooth with only a couple miniscule bumps. "I guess I'll have to make them myself," groaned Tash as he dug through his rune pouch. He retrieved some earth, air, and mind runes then divided up the group into individual spells. "Let's hope this works." He laid down on the ground and gripped one spells worth of runes in between the fingers of his left hand and made a fist. Reaching as for down as possible he punched into the rock which caused the runes in his hand to form a spell and strike into the rock making a hole deep enough to fit Tash’s foot in. "Good, my hand isn't broken."
Now knowing that his method would work Tash punched another hole next to the first one. He shifted his body around to be sitting on the edge of the hole with his feet dangling off the side. The mud was still fresh and sticky, which was a good thing for him. He pulled his feet back out of the hole and shoved more runes for a spell into the mud on the toe of his boots then began his descent into the crevice. His body was halfway into the darkened pit and supported by his feet in the man made footholds and by his hands on the edge of the ground. One foot backed out of the hold, reached down lower, rose backwards, kicked into the rock, and came to rest in a new hold. Tash proceeded to do the same with the opposite foot then crept down to move his hands into the first two slots.
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