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<blockquote data-quote="Nail" data-source="post: 1894623" data-attributes="member: 224"><p><strong>Almost there.....</strong></p><p></p><p><span style="font-size: 12px"><strong>Session #43</strong></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 9px">Real life: evening of October 28th, 2004</span></p><p></p><p><em>From the Journals of the Aldersborn: Rowan, Druid of Eaglesford</em></p><p>The Mystery of Endlessness Part IV</p><p></p><p><strong>August 11th</strong> </p><p></p><p>Mor’Elandi spent the day in the second chamber of the library, chanting and meditating. Torsten practiced with his weapon, I worked in getting Tieran’s robes cut down to a better size for his new form. Tieran worked on scribing a new scroll, figuring that another dispel magic would be a useful item for us, given our recent difficulties. Kytum-up paced a lot – he’s quiet when he does this. Quiet and intense.</p><p></p><p><strong>August 12th</strong></p><p>Once again into the Mystery of Endlessness! All of us cast spell in preparation: Mor-Elandi invoked <em>Protection from Evil</em> and [/i]Expeditious Retreat[/i], Tieran cast [/i]Invisibility<em> (and a host of others I didn’t get to see!), I cast <em>Barkskin</em>, <em>Bull’s Strength</em>, and </em>Call Lightning[/i] .... you never know when a quick lightning bolt will do the trick!. </p><p></p><p>As we stepped into the test area, we saw that the ethereal mist was less dense than it had been before. We could see now that we were standing on a circular stone platform surrounding the portal. The stone block floor is worked into a sunburst pattern and at intervals, we noted colored crystals at the edge of the platform. Blue, green, and orange crystals sit in the half of the platform where the mist is less dense; these must be the “keystones” we’ve been able to uncover so far. Each of the crystals has chisel marks around it, as if the defilers of this place had tried to remove them and failed. They must have put those nasty “summoning” discs over them after being unable to remove the colored keystone. (There are bolt holes in the stone where the summoning discs were held down. ) Based on the arrangement of the colored crystals we’ve uncovered, there are probably three more stones left to find and free.</p><p></p><p>I find it interesting that the things that have tried to kill us were designed by the Great Church. The Great Church was the one who defiled this place. The tests appear to have been designed mostly as mysteries to contemplate, but they have been turned much more deadly by people who would “protect” us from these mysteries. Whatever is at the end of these tests must be very interesting indeed, to have caused such hatred and fear in those people. </p><p></p><p>As we examined the crystals, we heard a loud CRACK! The flash was red this time. We moved in the direction it came from, wondering what we would be facing this time. </p><p></p><p>Torsten was in the lead, running ahead of the rest of us, intent upon reaching the disc and getting it up quickly. He heard the noise first, a snuffling sound, whatever it was, it sounded pretty big. </p><p></p><p>We moved up behind him and saw the creature we would be facing. The mist was darker around the large beast, making it difficult to see. It was roughly dog shaped, but there the similarity to any familiar animal ended. The creature had no head, no eyes, only a gaping maw where a head should have been. There were teeth though, lots of them. It had armored plates bolted to its body and was covered in long, dangerous looking spikes. All in all, a very unpleasant creature. </p><p></p><p>“Why can’t we ever run into nice, friendly bunnies?” I wondered as I moved toward the beast, though, not too close, since that armor looked pretty tough. </p><p></p><p>The creature (a Chaos Dog?) loped toward us, darkness radiating from its body. Mor’Elandi shot three arrows, but each bounced off of its grotesque armor. Kytum-up hit it once, just as Tieran cast Evard’s Black tentacles, centered on the Chaos dog. The creature tried (and failed) to “lick” Tieran with its spiked tongue...that thing could extend out from its body over 20 feet! Torsten, seeing what we were up against, moved to the edge of the tentacles and held position, waiting for the creature to attack, though hopefully out of range of the tongue. </p><p></p><p>While it was trapped in the ‘Tentacles, we used ranged attacks as best we could. It resisted my lightning bolt magic easily enough (darn it!), and it kept strugging off Mor’Elandi’s arrows. Kytum-up’s crossbow bolts seemed to do fine, though. Torsten just waited for the thing to escape the tentacles.</p><p></p><p>As the tentacles grappled the creature, it managed to do....something, turning its head, well, gaping maw in the direction of several of us. We could feel a wave of dark energy, a brief moment of fear, and then it passed. All of us were fine,......err, except Mor’Elandi, who I guess was overcome with some sort of magical fear. He even dropped his bow as he fled. I thought elves were tougher than that....we’ll have to go searching for ours after were through here. <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" /></p><p></p><p>The chaos dog finally escaped the tentacles, so Torsten closed with it and attacked. I tried to hit it with a spell – Poison” – but I missed. Tieran’s <em>magic missile</em> spell didn’t miss, though, and the creature fell. Like the others we’ve killed, this one quickly began to decay and rot. (What a strange effect this place has on corpses....)</p><p></p><p>Tieran and I waited for Mor’Elandi while Torsten and Kytum-up moved toward the disc, hopefully to get it up and out before anything new came through the portal. We heard the crack and saw the flash, but none of us sensed anything nearby. </p><p></p><p>Tieran and I moved toward the flash, figuring that Mor’Elandi had seen it as well and would move in that direction. As we arrived, Kytum-up and Torsten stood watching the disc. The cracking sound came and a flash and only three hands rose, and disintegrated, falling in a shower of red sparkles. </p><p></p><p>I thought that the disc’s power had failed and it was the perfect time to pop it out of the ground. Sadly, I was wrong. </p><p></p><p>As I rushed to the disc, the sixteen hands of reddish energy flew out of the bronze disc. Two moved up, and with a CRACK, ripped another gate in the fabric of reality. The other fourteen.....flew towards me! They grappled me, and dragged me towards the opening. The smell of brimstone and fire was getting stronger.</p><p></p><p>Mor’Elandi hit one of the hands holding me with an arrow, which caused it to vanish in a puff of red sparkles. I wild shaped into a crocodile, to better resist the hands. Torsten and Kytum-up moved toward the disc and the rip in space, intent on destroying the hands that were holding the gate open. </p><p></p><p>Tieran, thinking fast, put up a wall of ice between me and the hole! Mor’Elandi took out two more of the hands with arrows and I resisted their efforts to pull me, holding my position. I used a lightning bolt ...but I only mangaged to injure myself. Arrg. </p><p></p><p>Tieran fired off a fireball. All of the hands were unaffected...I, on the other hand, am not immune to fire. Ouch! </p><p></p><p>Mor’Elandi took out one more hand, ...and hit me too. Ouch – again. The hands tried to pull me toward the end of the wall, but I was able to resist their pulling and hold my position. I snapped my powerful jaws at the hands, but missed, still, not moving toward the opening was good enough for the moment. </p><p></p><p>Tieran moved up and cast burning hands. All of the hands were fine, but I, of course, was injured. (Did I mention I’m not immune to fire, Tieran?) Torsten and Kytum-up finally made it to the planar gate, only to see a fiendish fish leaped out of the lake of fire on the other side of the opening. It flopped around at his feet, but otherwise did no harm. Kytum-up shot one of the hands holding the gate open. Half of it closed up as the hand vanished. </p><p></p><p>Mor’Elandi hit two more of the hands grappling with me, and hit me again. Ouch, ouch, ouch!!! The remaining ones managed to drag me closer to the end of the wall, though I fought furiously against them. Tieran cast a ray of frost, but it had no effect. </p><p></p><p>Torsten pulled the first pin holding the disc to the floor. Kytum-up hit the other hand holding the portal open and suddenly, it was closed, though the diabolic fish was still flopping on the floor next to Torsten. </p><p></p><p>Mor’Elandi sent his arrows flying and dispatched two more hands. Two went flying away, to reopen the portal to Hell while the others continued to try to drag me toward it. I bit one of them and Mor’Elandi took another one away with an arrow. </p><p></p><p>Only two hands held me and I moved back toward the group, biting one of the two remaining hands. The last was taken off of me by Mor’Elandi. </p><p></p><p>The two that had returned to reopen the portal were easily shot by Kytum-up as Torsten worked on the pins. </p><p></p><p>Soon, the pins were all out and with one step, we were back at the red jewel. This disc, the one that had been covering the red keystone, was heavily corroded. </p><p></p><p>In speaking to Slythia, we’ve figured out that the Chaos Dog is actually a daemon called a “Canoloth”, from the place she calls “the Outlands”. (Tieran mumbles “the outer planes, you mean?”) The diabolic fish was a “Spikefish” and was indeed hell spawn. </p><p></p><p>We spent the night in the library again. I used a stone shape spell to create another hammer so we could get the discs up more quickly. </p><p></p><p><strong>August 13th</strong></p><p>We moved back in, knowing that only two discs remained. We moved in the direction of the two remaining jewels on the stone platform and were rewarded with a CRACK and a yellow flash off to our left. We moved in that direction, prepared for almost anything. </p><p></p><p>Mor’Elandi moved ahead of us to scout. We all heard a strange keening melody. Torsten and Kytum-up were captivated by it and moved forward, weapons hanging loosely by their sides. I began a summoning spell. Mor’Elandi held his arrows until he could be more sure of what we were fighting. </p><p></p><p>The strange melody came closer as Tieran and Mor’Elandi waited and Torsten and Kytum-up moved closer. I finished casting and a dire wolf appeared. Then I moved forward. </p><p></p><p>The wolf began moving closer to the singer, unconcerned with attacking anything. </p><p></p><p>Suddenly, the tune changed a bit and Kytum-up stopped, looking confused for a moment. Torsten continued his march toward the source of the music. </p><p></p><p>Then, both Kytum-up and I began moving toward the music as well, as Torsten shook the effect off and began running toward the presumed location of the disc. Tieran moved forward on his own, trying to see what we might be up against. Mor’Elandi also moved up, still uncertain of what we were facing. </p><p></p><p>Kytum-up and I found ourselves suddenly forward of where we had been, with no real memory of how we had gotten there. We were able to see two creatures: one a glowing mass of metallic tentacles, the other a sticky mass of metallic tentacles. So many masses of metallic tentacles! Torsten attacked the glowing one (which was the one singing) and hit it. It grabbed him with its sticky tentacles and then changed the tune again. He escaped its tentacles and moved toward the sticky metal creature. </p><p></p><p>Tieran cast a grease spell on Torsten, making him harder to grab next time while I cast an Ice Storm in the area, pounding the creatures with hailstones, somehow managing to miss all of us. </p><p></p><p>Mor’Elandi found himself facing a strange, oily mass of metallic tentacles. It had tumbled toward him wildly, seeming to be not quite in control of its direction as it did so. Mor’Elandi backed away from it, and shot it three times with arrows. His arrows seemed to dissolve as they hit it. Acid. It was covered in viscous acid. </p><p></p><p>The sticky metal creature hit Torsten, who then struck back, hard. Unfortunately, his weapon stuck in the creature and he had to spend some time freeing it. </p><p></p><p>Kytum-up scored two hits on the sticky one, Tieran moved toward the glowing one, though the sticky creature took a swipe at him as he passed. I moved up to the glowing mass of metallic tentacles. </p><p></p><p>Mor’Elandi shot the dull metal thing in front of him again, three hits. It went down in a jumble of dull metal. </p><p></p><p>The glowing one changed its tune again, while the sticky one hit Torsten. Kytum-up moved toward the glowing one, leaving Torsten to deal with the sticky one on his own. Torsten pulled his weapon free after a brief struggle to do so. </p><p></p><p>Tieran cast Burning Hands on the glowing one, killing it. The strange keening stopped. My summoned Dire Wolf finally shook off it’s stupor, and attacked and killed the remaining metallic tentacular creature.</p><p> </p><p>As we stood to catch our breath, we noticed that the shiny creature was made of platinum. Tieran took out his haversack and began tossing pieces into it, since they would be of great value, should we ever leave this place. The rest of us moved forward, toward the disc. </p><p></p><p>The flash and crack were not long in coming. Torsten ran ahead to combat whatever was awaiting us in the mist. </p><p></p><p>He saw two masses of multi-colored tentacles. One was standing right smack on top of the disc. The other was ten feet or so from it. Both were quite large. </p><p></p><p>The first one wiggled its tentacles and Torsten found the ethereal mists around him form into more large masses of tentacles! These new summoned creatures hit him hard, several times.</p><p></p><p>The second one wriggled its tentacles and I found myself in much the same position as Torsten, being attacked by 2 more ethereal tentacles. </p><p></p><p>We began to attack the “ethereal tentacles”, leaving the multi-colored tentacle-creatures on the disk alone. These creatures could disarm us, trip us...and if they hit, we could feel the sting! After a short time I turned into a crocodile to help avoid the trip attacks. Torsten wasn’t so lucky; he had been tripped, and was now down on the ground and flanked by two of the ethereal; tentacles.</p><p></p><p>Eventually we destroyed 3 of the ethereal tentacles, and breathed a sigh of relief...until the multi-colored tentacles summoned 3 more! They were wearing us down, and we were getting nowhere.</p><p></p><p>Kytum-and Mor’Elandi began concentrating their arrows on the multicolored tentacle creatures, while Tieran tried to soften them up with first a sonic thunderball (immune! Arrg!) and then a fireball (“That got ‘em!”). I managed to get close enough to take a swipe or two at them myself. All the while, we had to ignore the ethereal tentacle creatures pounding on us.</p><p></p><p>With all of the abuse, and no one to back him up, Torsten was knocked unconscious. He was still under the effect of my “fast healing” spell, though, so he recovered quickly. Then he “played dead” long enough for the ethereal tentacle creatures to move away.</p><p></p><p>Finally one of the multi-colored tentacles went down, and its summoned ethereal tentacles disappeared. I finished the other multi-colored tentacle creature off with a tail slap, and si it, and its two summoned ethereal tentacles evaporated.</p><p></p><p>Torsten drank a potion of healing, then he and I (using my magical stone pry-bar!) popped off the disc. </p><p></p><p>With a single step, we were back at the yellow gem and through the portal. We pulled four more clamps and moved to the library to prepare for the last battle before we could begin the test. </p><p></p><p><span style="font-size: 10px"><strong>End of Session #43</strong></span></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Nail, post: 1894623, member: 224"] [b]Almost there.....[/b] [size=3][b]Session #43[/b][/size] [size=1]Real life: evening of October 28th, 2004[/size] [i]From the Journals of the Aldersborn: Rowan, Druid of Eaglesford[/i] The Mystery of Endlessness Part IV [b]August 11th[/b] Mor’Elandi spent the day in the second chamber of the library, chanting and meditating. Torsten practiced with his weapon, I worked in getting Tieran’s robes cut down to a better size for his new form. Tieran worked on scribing a new scroll, figuring that another dispel magic would be a useful item for us, given our recent difficulties. Kytum-up paced a lot – he’s quiet when he does this. Quiet and intense. [b]August 12th[/b] Once again into the Mystery of Endlessness! All of us cast spell in preparation: Mor-Elandi invoked [i]Protection from Evil[/i] and [/i]Expeditious Retreat[/i], Tieran cast [/i]Invisibility[i] (and a host of others I didn’t get to see!), I cast [i]Barkskin[/i], [i]Bull’s Strength[/i], and [/i]Call Lightning[/i] .... you never know when a quick lightning bolt will do the trick!. As we stepped into the test area, we saw that the ethereal mist was less dense than it had been before. We could see now that we were standing on a circular stone platform surrounding the portal. The stone block floor is worked into a sunburst pattern and at intervals, we noted colored crystals at the edge of the platform. Blue, green, and orange crystals sit in the half of the platform where the mist is less dense; these must be the “keystones” we’ve been able to uncover so far. Each of the crystals has chisel marks around it, as if the defilers of this place had tried to remove them and failed. They must have put those nasty “summoning” discs over them after being unable to remove the colored keystone. (There are bolt holes in the stone where the summoning discs were held down. ) Based on the arrangement of the colored crystals we’ve uncovered, there are probably three more stones left to find and free. I find it interesting that the things that have tried to kill us were designed by the Great Church. The Great Church was the one who defiled this place. The tests appear to have been designed mostly as mysteries to contemplate, but they have been turned much more deadly by people who would “protect” us from these mysteries. Whatever is at the end of these tests must be very interesting indeed, to have caused such hatred and fear in those people. As we examined the crystals, we heard a loud CRACK! The flash was red this time. We moved in the direction it came from, wondering what we would be facing this time. Torsten was in the lead, running ahead of the rest of us, intent upon reaching the disc and getting it up quickly. He heard the noise first, a snuffling sound, whatever it was, it sounded pretty big. We moved up behind him and saw the creature we would be facing. The mist was darker around the large beast, making it difficult to see. It was roughly dog shaped, but there the similarity to any familiar animal ended. The creature had no head, no eyes, only a gaping maw where a head should have been. There were teeth though, lots of them. It had armored plates bolted to its body and was covered in long, dangerous looking spikes. All in all, a very unpleasant creature. “Why can’t we ever run into nice, friendly bunnies?” I wondered as I moved toward the beast, though, not too close, since that armor looked pretty tough. The creature (a Chaos Dog?) loped toward us, darkness radiating from its body. Mor’Elandi shot three arrows, but each bounced off of its grotesque armor. Kytum-up hit it once, just as Tieran cast Evard’s Black tentacles, centered on the Chaos dog. The creature tried (and failed) to “lick” Tieran with its spiked tongue...that thing could extend out from its body over 20 feet! Torsten, seeing what we were up against, moved to the edge of the tentacles and held position, waiting for the creature to attack, though hopefully out of range of the tongue. While it was trapped in the ‘Tentacles, we used ranged attacks as best we could. It resisted my lightning bolt magic easily enough (darn it!), and it kept strugging off Mor’Elandi’s arrows. Kytum-up’s crossbow bolts seemed to do fine, though. Torsten just waited for the thing to escape the tentacles. As the tentacles grappled the creature, it managed to do....something, turning its head, well, gaping maw in the direction of several of us. We could feel a wave of dark energy, a brief moment of fear, and then it passed. All of us were fine,......err, except Mor’Elandi, who I guess was overcome with some sort of magical fear. He even dropped his bow as he fled. I thought elves were tougher than that....we’ll have to go searching for ours after were through here. :) The chaos dog finally escaped the tentacles, so Torsten closed with it and attacked. I tried to hit it with a spell – Poison” – but I missed. Tieran’s [i]magic missile[/i] spell didn’t miss, though, and the creature fell. Like the others we’ve killed, this one quickly began to decay and rot. (What a strange effect this place has on corpses....) Tieran and I waited for Mor’Elandi while Torsten and Kytum-up moved toward the disc, hopefully to get it up and out before anything new came through the portal. We heard the crack and saw the flash, but none of us sensed anything nearby. Tieran and I moved toward the flash, figuring that Mor’Elandi had seen it as well and would move in that direction. As we arrived, Kytum-up and Torsten stood watching the disc. The cracking sound came and a flash and only three hands rose, and disintegrated, falling in a shower of red sparkles. I thought that the disc’s power had failed and it was the perfect time to pop it out of the ground. Sadly, I was wrong. As I rushed to the disc, the sixteen hands of reddish energy flew out of the bronze disc. Two moved up, and with a CRACK, ripped another gate in the fabric of reality. The other fourteen.....flew towards me! They grappled me, and dragged me towards the opening. The smell of brimstone and fire was getting stronger. Mor’Elandi hit one of the hands holding me with an arrow, which caused it to vanish in a puff of red sparkles. I wild shaped into a crocodile, to better resist the hands. Torsten and Kytum-up moved toward the disc and the rip in space, intent on destroying the hands that were holding the gate open. Tieran, thinking fast, put up a wall of ice between me and the hole! Mor’Elandi took out two more of the hands with arrows and I resisted their efforts to pull me, holding my position. I used a lightning bolt ...but I only mangaged to injure myself. Arrg. Tieran fired off a fireball. All of the hands were unaffected...I, on the other hand, am not immune to fire. Ouch! Mor’Elandi took out one more hand, ...and hit me too. Ouch – again. The hands tried to pull me toward the end of the wall, but I was able to resist their pulling and hold my position. I snapped my powerful jaws at the hands, but missed, still, not moving toward the opening was good enough for the moment. Tieran moved up and cast burning hands. All of the hands were fine, but I, of course, was injured. (Did I mention I’m not immune to fire, Tieran?) Torsten and Kytum-up finally made it to the planar gate, only to see a fiendish fish leaped out of the lake of fire on the other side of the opening. It flopped around at his feet, but otherwise did no harm. Kytum-up shot one of the hands holding the gate open. Half of it closed up as the hand vanished. Mor’Elandi hit two more of the hands grappling with me, and hit me again. Ouch, ouch, ouch!!! The remaining ones managed to drag me closer to the end of the wall, though I fought furiously against them. Tieran cast a ray of frost, but it had no effect. Torsten pulled the first pin holding the disc to the floor. Kytum-up hit the other hand holding the portal open and suddenly, it was closed, though the diabolic fish was still flopping on the floor next to Torsten. Mor’Elandi sent his arrows flying and dispatched two more hands. Two went flying away, to reopen the portal to Hell while the others continued to try to drag me toward it. I bit one of them and Mor’Elandi took another one away with an arrow. Only two hands held me and I moved back toward the group, biting one of the two remaining hands. The last was taken off of me by Mor’Elandi. The two that had returned to reopen the portal were easily shot by Kytum-up as Torsten worked on the pins. Soon, the pins were all out and with one step, we were back at the red jewel. This disc, the one that had been covering the red keystone, was heavily corroded. In speaking to Slythia, we’ve figured out that the Chaos Dog is actually a daemon called a “Canoloth”, from the place she calls “the Outlands”. (Tieran mumbles “the outer planes, you mean?”) The diabolic fish was a “Spikefish” and was indeed hell spawn. We spent the night in the library again. I used a stone shape spell to create another hammer so we could get the discs up more quickly. [b]August 13th[/b] We moved back in, knowing that only two discs remained. We moved in the direction of the two remaining jewels on the stone platform and were rewarded with a CRACK and a yellow flash off to our left. We moved in that direction, prepared for almost anything. Mor’Elandi moved ahead of us to scout. We all heard a strange keening melody. Torsten and Kytum-up were captivated by it and moved forward, weapons hanging loosely by their sides. I began a summoning spell. Mor’Elandi held his arrows until he could be more sure of what we were fighting. The strange melody came closer as Tieran and Mor’Elandi waited and Torsten and Kytum-up moved closer. I finished casting and a dire wolf appeared. Then I moved forward. The wolf began moving closer to the singer, unconcerned with attacking anything. Suddenly, the tune changed a bit and Kytum-up stopped, looking confused for a moment. Torsten continued his march toward the source of the music. Then, both Kytum-up and I began moving toward the music as well, as Torsten shook the effect off and began running toward the presumed location of the disc. Tieran moved forward on his own, trying to see what we might be up against. Mor’Elandi also moved up, still uncertain of what we were facing. Kytum-up and I found ourselves suddenly forward of where we had been, with no real memory of how we had gotten there. We were able to see two creatures: one a glowing mass of metallic tentacles, the other a sticky mass of metallic tentacles. So many masses of metallic tentacles! Torsten attacked the glowing one (which was the one singing) and hit it. It grabbed him with its sticky tentacles and then changed the tune again. He escaped its tentacles and moved toward the sticky metal creature. Tieran cast a grease spell on Torsten, making him harder to grab next time while I cast an Ice Storm in the area, pounding the creatures with hailstones, somehow managing to miss all of us. Mor’Elandi found himself facing a strange, oily mass of metallic tentacles. It had tumbled toward him wildly, seeming to be not quite in control of its direction as it did so. Mor’Elandi backed away from it, and shot it three times with arrows. His arrows seemed to dissolve as they hit it. Acid. It was covered in viscous acid. The sticky metal creature hit Torsten, who then struck back, hard. Unfortunately, his weapon stuck in the creature and he had to spend some time freeing it. Kytum-up scored two hits on the sticky one, Tieran moved toward the glowing one, though the sticky creature took a swipe at him as he passed. I moved up to the glowing mass of metallic tentacles. Mor’Elandi shot the dull metal thing in front of him again, three hits. It went down in a jumble of dull metal. The glowing one changed its tune again, while the sticky one hit Torsten. Kytum-up moved toward the glowing one, leaving Torsten to deal with the sticky one on his own. Torsten pulled his weapon free after a brief struggle to do so. Tieran cast Burning Hands on the glowing one, killing it. The strange keening stopped. My summoned Dire Wolf finally shook off it’s stupor, and attacked and killed the remaining metallic tentacular creature. As we stood to catch our breath, we noticed that the shiny creature was made of platinum. Tieran took out his haversack and began tossing pieces into it, since they would be of great value, should we ever leave this place. The rest of us moved forward, toward the disc. The flash and crack were not long in coming. Torsten ran ahead to combat whatever was awaiting us in the mist. He saw two masses of multi-colored tentacles. One was standing right smack on top of the disc. The other was ten feet or so from it. Both were quite large. The first one wiggled its tentacles and Torsten found the ethereal mists around him form into more large masses of tentacles! These new summoned creatures hit him hard, several times. The second one wriggled its tentacles and I found myself in much the same position as Torsten, being attacked by 2 more ethereal tentacles. We began to attack the “ethereal tentacles”, leaving the multi-colored tentacle-creatures on the disk alone. These creatures could disarm us, trip us...and if they hit, we could feel the sting! After a short time I turned into a crocodile to help avoid the trip attacks. Torsten wasn’t so lucky; he had been tripped, and was now down on the ground and flanked by two of the ethereal; tentacles. Eventually we destroyed 3 of the ethereal tentacles, and breathed a sigh of relief...until the multi-colored tentacles summoned 3 more! They were wearing us down, and we were getting nowhere. Kytum-and Mor’Elandi began concentrating their arrows on the multicolored tentacle creatures, while Tieran tried to soften them up with first a sonic thunderball (immune! Arrg!) and then a fireball (“That got ‘em!”). I managed to get close enough to take a swipe or two at them myself. All the while, we had to ignore the ethereal tentacle creatures pounding on us. With all of the abuse, and no one to back him up, Torsten was knocked unconscious. He was still under the effect of my “fast healing” spell, though, so he recovered quickly. Then he “played dead” long enough for the ethereal tentacle creatures to move away. Finally one of the multi-colored tentacles went down, and its summoned ethereal tentacles disappeared. I finished the other multi-colored tentacle creature off with a tail slap, and si it, and its two summoned ethereal tentacles evaporated. Torsten drank a potion of healing, then he and I (using my magical stone pry-bar!) popped off the disc. With a single step, we were back at the yellow gem and through the portal. We pulled four more clamps and moved to the library to prepare for the last battle before we could begin the test. [size=2][b]End of Session #43[/b][/size] [/QUOTE]
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