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<blockquote data-quote="evilash" data-source="post: 2163615" data-attributes="member: 8625"><p>Heion immediately let Vlada search the wizard's tome for traps. When he found none, Heion proceeded with opening the book and reading the first paragraph. A green snake of pure magic leaped from the pages and bit him in the face, after which Heion froze to the spot. I recognized this as the spell Sepia's Snake Sigil and unless we wanted to leave our friend in the fortress for the better part of a tenday, I would have to dispel the magic holding him. The anticipation rose as I prayed for my goddess to grant me this power. </p><p></p><p>As the spell leaped from my fingertips, the snake reappeared to do battle with the seven stars. For a few seconds it looked like the magic was too strong but in the end Mystra won the day and vanquished the evil incantation. Heion and Swyth had a small argument over how wise it was to read dangerous magic tomes in the middle of a hostile stronghold when we are only stopping for a short break and already have limited magical resources at hand. </p><p></p><p>To supplement Heion's arcane might, I used a spell granted by Mystra to copy his web spell. As the magic sunk into my mind, I felt ready to take on what the fortress might bring in terms of adversaries. We moved through the secret door and found another in the small room behind it. As we opened the second one, we found some very surprised guards standing at arrow slits. Erold, Darius and Vlada closed with the enemy as I and Heion peppered them with bolts and arrows. As we looked out through the arrow slits, we saw the hallway behind the double doors. We decided it was not worth it risking the hallway at this time and look for a possible match for what we had found on this side on the opposite. </p><p></p><p>We circled the fortress to the opposite side and tried the first set of doors. As he started walking across the floor, Vlada's keen reflexes saved him from certain death as he found an illusory floor. As we peeked below it, we saw that 10 feet below was water with a swarm of hostile tiny oozes. We crawled through the room, backs pressed against the walls and into the hall beyond. </p><p></p><p>Vlada pressed his ear against the doors to the left and right and heard snoring from the one on the left. We opened the door and burst in and the men still in their beds immediately surrendered at weapon point. We tied them up and questioned one of them. Apparently the room across the hall also held soldiers. We burst through the door and killed two of them with their armor still only half on and the two others seconds later. I saw the soldier we had questioned swallow hard and utter a prayer better left unspoken at our effectiveness and the benefit of his surrender. </p><p></p><p>With four guards' dead and three imprisoned, we felt confident. We moved swiftly from room to room guided by Vlada's expert eyes, ears and hands. At the end of a corridor we found four archers and just as we where finishing off the last of them Triel Eldurast burst through a door at our backs, buffed with magic to her teeth and speaking the famous prayers of a silence spell. As the silence settled I used my wand to ward myself against this obvious evil and stepped up to protect Swyth and Vlada from the fury of this scourge. Heion took a step back out of the silenced area and a dark ray shot from his palm, just catching Triel on the shoulder. Heion did a little dance and song (thank you Mistress for urging me into the silent area) as Triel's strength was sucked out of her. </p><p></p><p>Vlada, now aware of the threat from Triel activated his magic boots and ran faster than I have seen anyone do ever before. He didn't stop as he rounded the corner and dodged below Triel's whip. He was now standing behind her. Darius was next to act, he used a scroll to enlarge himself to twice his height and pressed himself in front of me, expecting to receive the Red Fury's charge. Erold and Swyth attempted to circle Triel by going outside the fortress, however, Erold wasn't so fast with his full plate armor. </p><p></p><p>Triel focused her attention on Vlada, hitting him once with her scourge and moved towards Erold to try and get our spell casters into the area of the silence spell. Vlada stabbed her in the back as she did so and the huge Darius hit her with his greatsword. She looked injured, but not beaten. Both I and Heion tried to hit her with arrows to no effect. </p><p></p><p>Triel seemed disturbed by the development of the battle and focused once more on Vlada, trying to get out of the trap that had been reversed on herself. She managed to hit him once more; then Vlada punctured her left lung and stabbing her in her arm with his dagger, followed by Darius severing her head from her body. Triel lay dead mere seconds after we had seen her for the first time. </p><p></p><p>We moved on and found a torture chamber, a prison to where we moved our captured guards and a room leading to a pair of lava tubes. Behind the last door in the corridor we found a room with drilled holes in the floor. Uncertain what this might be, we moved back towards the doors we had yet to explore. </p><p></p><p>The next door we opened was into what must have been Triel's living quarters, as Vlada tried to go through the door a devilish trap was sprung. The door slammed shut and protruded blades that sunk into his flesh. It was horrible to see Vlada having to disable the mechanism while still stuck on the blades, but the door was too string for even Darius and Erold's combined efforts to move. </p><p></p><p>After this we found an armory and a food store, then moved on and found a room with a floor trap. Luckily for us, it was sprung by the use of the door and we could watch as the spikes receded back down. This gave us a clear idea what might be in the room we had seen before with holes in the floor. We went back to the store room and put some real effort into finding a possible secret door. There should be one considering what we had found on the other side. Sure enough, Vlada found the door and we butchered the guards behind it in short order. I am amazed that our enemies don't surrender when we tell them to. </p><p></p><p>We now stood with four options to press on; the double doors, the lava tubes and the trapped room. We chose the trapped room. Vlada brought the chair from the torture room and placed it carefully by the door at the far end, making sure that no part of the chair was covering a hole and then opened the door. Behind it was a corridor with a single door. We opened the door and found four more guards, they didn't surrender either. Pity such waste of life. There was another lava tube in the room beyond. </p><p></p><p>We then decided to go back to the double doors. We had been warned by the guards we had captured that there where traps hidden in the floor. Vlada proceeded carefully with a rope around his waist and Swyth ready to cast his spell of feather fall if so was needed. He found the first pit without trouble, but the second one he managed to step on before he saw it. With his ample reflexes however, he jumped back before it sprung. A few seconds later, the triggering mechanism had been disabled. We opened the door and looked into the enormous chamber beyond. </p><p></p><p>Tables in the room where littered with arcane gear, but there were no creatures in sight. We moved from alcove to alcove and at the far end of the room we found a small package glowing with magic. We suspected a trap and continued our search of the room but found nothing. As we approached the magic for a second time, a mud Slaad jumped out from behind the table. He bit Vlada nastily, but the poison wasn't strong enough to weaken Vlada, instead the mud Slaad was downed in a hail of blows. Just as Heion spoke the words, "It regenerates", I said, "It's faking death" and the mud Slaad jumped to his feet and bit Vlada again. The second round of combat ended no differently than the first, but this time Erold made sure its head was no longer attached to the rest of its body. </p><p></p><p>As the echoes of battle subsided and we had a few moments to catch our breaths, we made notes on the vast amounts of treasure we had found. We suspected that we had six of the eight missing wands in our possession, and it felt good that the town was no longer under threat of someone raising the water with wands, now it was a mere matter of principle to reclaim the wands and punish all the criminals responsible for the death of Sarcem and the others at the Lucky Monkey.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="evilash, post: 2163615, member: 8625"] Heion immediately let Vlada search the wizard's tome for traps. When he found none, Heion proceeded with opening the book and reading the first paragraph. A green snake of pure magic leaped from the pages and bit him in the face, after which Heion froze to the spot. I recognized this as the spell Sepia's Snake Sigil and unless we wanted to leave our friend in the fortress for the better part of a tenday, I would have to dispel the magic holding him. The anticipation rose as I prayed for my goddess to grant me this power. As the spell leaped from my fingertips, the snake reappeared to do battle with the seven stars. For a few seconds it looked like the magic was too strong but in the end Mystra won the day and vanquished the evil incantation. Heion and Swyth had a small argument over how wise it was to read dangerous magic tomes in the middle of a hostile stronghold when we are only stopping for a short break and already have limited magical resources at hand. To supplement Heion's arcane might, I used a spell granted by Mystra to copy his web spell. As the magic sunk into my mind, I felt ready to take on what the fortress might bring in terms of adversaries. We moved through the secret door and found another in the small room behind it. As we opened the second one, we found some very surprised guards standing at arrow slits. Erold, Darius and Vlada closed with the enemy as I and Heion peppered them with bolts and arrows. As we looked out through the arrow slits, we saw the hallway behind the double doors. We decided it was not worth it risking the hallway at this time and look for a possible match for what we had found on this side on the opposite. We circled the fortress to the opposite side and tried the first set of doors. As he started walking across the floor, Vlada's keen reflexes saved him from certain death as he found an illusory floor. As we peeked below it, we saw that 10 feet below was water with a swarm of hostile tiny oozes. We crawled through the room, backs pressed against the walls and into the hall beyond. Vlada pressed his ear against the doors to the left and right and heard snoring from the one on the left. We opened the door and burst in and the men still in their beds immediately surrendered at weapon point. We tied them up and questioned one of them. Apparently the room across the hall also held soldiers. We burst through the door and killed two of them with their armor still only half on and the two others seconds later. I saw the soldier we had questioned swallow hard and utter a prayer better left unspoken at our effectiveness and the benefit of his surrender. With four guards' dead and three imprisoned, we felt confident. We moved swiftly from room to room guided by Vlada's expert eyes, ears and hands. At the end of a corridor we found four archers and just as we where finishing off the last of them Triel Eldurast burst through a door at our backs, buffed with magic to her teeth and speaking the famous prayers of a silence spell. As the silence settled I used my wand to ward myself against this obvious evil and stepped up to protect Swyth and Vlada from the fury of this scourge. Heion took a step back out of the silenced area and a dark ray shot from his palm, just catching Triel on the shoulder. Heion did a little dance and song (thank you Mistress for urging me into the silent area) as Triel's strength was sucked out of her. Vlada, now aware of the threat from Triel activated his magic boots and ran faster than I have seen anyone do ever before. He didn't stop as he rounded the corner and dodged below Triel's whip. He was now standing behind her. Darius was next to act, he used a scroll to enlarge himself to twice his height and pressed himself in front of me, expecting to receive the Red Fury's charge. Erold and Swyth attempted to circle Triel by going outside the fortress, however, Erold wasn't so fast with his full plate armor. Triel focused her attention on Vlada, hitting him once with her scourge and moved towards Erold to try and get our spell casters into the area of the silence spell. Vlada stabbed her in the back as she did so and the huge Darius hit her with his greatsword. She looked injured, but not beaten. Both I and Heion tried to hit her with arrows to no effect. Triel seemed disturbed by the development of the battle and focused once more on Vlada, trying to get out of the trap that had been reversed on herself. She managed to hit him once more; then Vlada punctured her left lung and stabbing her in her arm with his dagger, followed by Darius severing her head from her body. Triel lay dead mere seconds after we had seen her for the first time. We moved on and found a torture chamber, a prison to where we moved our captured guards and a room leading to a pair of lava tubes. Behind the last door in the corridor we found a room with drilled holes in the floor. Uncertain what this might be, we moved back towards the doors we had yet to explore. The next door we opened was into what must have been Triel's living quarters, as Vlada tried to go through the door a devilish trap was sprung. The door slammed shut and protruded blades that sunk into his flesh. It was horrible to see Vlada having to disable the mechanism while still stuck on the blades, but the door was too string for even Darius and Erold's combined efforts to move. After this we found an armory and a food store, then moved on and found a room with a floor trap. Luckily for us, it was sprung by the use of the door and we could watch as the spikes receded back down. This gave us a clear idea what might be in the room we had seen before with holes in the floor. We went back to the store room and put some real effort into finding a possible secret door. There should be one considering what we had found on the other side. Sure enough, Vlada found the door and we butchered the guards behind it in short order. I am amazed that our enemies don't surrender when we tell them to. We now stood with four options to press on; the double doors, the lava tubes and the trapped room. We chose the trapped room. Vlada brought the chair from the torture room and placed it carefully by the door at the far end, making sure that no part of the chair was covering a hole and then opened the door. Behind it was a corridor with a single door. We opened the door and found four more guards, they didn't surrender either. Pity such waste of life. There was another lava tube in the room beyond. We then decided to go back to the double doors. We had been warned by the guards we had captured that there where traps hidden in the floor. Vlada proceeded carefully with a rope around his waist and Swyth ready to cast his spell of feather fall if so was needed. He found the first pit without trouble, but the second one he managed to step on before he saw it. With his ample reflexes however, he jumped back before it sprung. A few seconds later, the triggering mechanism had been disabled. We opened the door and looked into the enormous chamber beyond. Tables in the room where littered with arcane gear, but there were no creatures in sight. We moved from alcove to alcove and at the far end of the room we found a small package glowing with magic. We suspected a trap and continued our search of the room but found nothing. As we approached the magic for a second time, a mud Slaad jumped out from behind the table. He bit Vlada nastily, but the poison wasn't strong enough to weaken Vlada, instead the mud Slaad was downed in a hail of blows. Just as Heion spoke the words, "It regenerates", I said, "It's faking death" and the mud Slaad jumped to his feet and bit Vlada again. The second round of combat ended no differently than the first, but this time Erold made sure its head was no longer attached to the rest of its body. As the echoes of battle subsided and we had a few moments to catch our breaths, we made notes on the vast amounts of treasure we had found. We suspected that we had six of the eight missing wands in our possession, and it felt good that the town was no longer under threat of someone raising the water with wands, now it was a mere matter of principle to reclaim the wands and punish all the criminals responsible for the death of Sarcem and the others at the Lucky Monkey. [/QUOTE]
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