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Message: <blockquote data-quote="sniffles" data-source="post: 3734186" data-attributes="member: 30035">Letter #4513 PatchwallThe Plane of AirWhen I went to train with the druids of the Tree I never thought I'd spend so much time serving as a warrior.Delna fell asleep as soon as she activated the power of the show glass. I suppose using such power took a great deal out of her. We were left with no source of information on how the time manipulation worked - though I doubt the fairy could have told us much even if she'd been awake.Thor transformed himself into a bat and flew away from us to discover that we couldn't move more than 50 feet from Delna. We also found that we couldn't move Delna. We would have to spend our extra time in the same place where she activated the spell. Having discovered that, we settled down to rest and restore our spells in our rather cramped pocket outside of normal time. We didn't know precisely when the effect would fade, but it did so at about the time we expected it to, some 24 hours after Delna activated it. Prepared as best we could for our encounter with Bloodfist, we followed Cail to the chamber where we'd find the ape. We could hear apes hooting and moving about as we approached. Their noise grew louder and louder just as Thor received a message from his birds that our allies were beginning their attack.Erasyne crept ahead to peer into the cavern and then we heard a loud voice bellow something in a commanding tone. The ape noises fell silent. Ninad drew out the dowsing rod and confirmed that Bloodfist was in the cavern. Then Thor had a clever idea: rather than fight our way through the crowd of apes between the cavern entrance and Bloodfist, he used the Rock of Ages to make a hole in the tunnel wall nearer to where Bloodfist stood. Just before he did this Shishir drank a potion that greatly increased his size. After Thor opened the wall, Shishir picked Thor up and moved the gnome closer to our target.I hung back for a moment to cloak myself in a skin of bark while my friends slipped through the opening Thor had made. Varian and Shishir headed straight for Bloodfist. The ape leader was enormously tall, and his right arm seemed even larger and more grotesque than it had appeared in the whale king's vision. He wielded a huge sword with his distorted limb. Ninad followed his enlarged twin across the cavern, casting a spell on his staff to increase its power. Then the ground to my left began to tremble and a large earth creature emerged into the chamber, pinning one of the flying apes against the wall near the opening Thor had made. It wasn't an ordinary elemental and looked rather sinister, but at the time I thought Thor must have summoned it with the Rock, as it was attacking the apes.Bloodfist hit Varian several times with his huge blade, wounding the knight badly. The blade cause wounds that bled profusely. I summoned up a lance of ice and stabbed Bloodfist, but not surprisingly he was too tough to be stunned by the blow. Then I saw Varian collapse. None of my companions were facing Bloodfist at that moment, being occupied with dealing with the apes around him. I was sure he would slice Varian in two. Though there were several apes between me and the knight, I decided to chance running to his side. Thank the Keen Eye the apes all had long spears and didn't have room to strike at me effectively. But when I got to Varian, Bloodfist menaced me with his sword and I miscast the healing spell I'd prepared.Bloodfist took a few steps back and I decided I'd have to defend myself and Varian. Then Thor came winging over and healed Varian enough that he at least wouldn't die immediately. I summoned a blade of flames to my hand. Ninad moved around behind the ape and struck him several heavy blows with his ensorceled staff. Bloodfist turned his attention to dealing with the young monk, and soon Ninad had also fallen to the ground.Erasyne had been at the other end of the cavern fighting the ordinary apes - if winged apes can be called ordinary. She'd been helping Shiera, who had impulsively rushed into the cave as soon as we began our assault. But now Erasyne came running past me and began whirling in her dervish dance, her blades repeatedly slashing Bloodfist's flesh. I cut into him with my flaming blade twice as well. Thor flew to heal Ninad enough that he could get back on his feet. Bloodfist was beginning to look rather battered by this point and took flight to get away from us. Erasyne and I both stabbed him as he lifted off. He didn't go far and we followed him. Shishir joined us, having crushed several of Bloodfist's soldiers by then. It was Shishir's massive blow that finally brought the ape leader down.I made certain Bloodfist wasn't going to rise again, thanking Solonor that he didn't gain any kind of regenerative power from the black shards in his arm. I sliced the arm off for good measure, and Shishir, whose hands were coated with acid, began probing the dead flesh for the shards. It was rather unpleasant and I didn't object to a chance to move away when Erasyne called out that Shiera had fallen.After I'd given some small amount of healing to the hawkgirl, I turned my attention to Ninad. On reflection I should have prepared more healing spells and not worried so much about being ready to fight, though the flaming blade was very useful. Cail reappeared at about this time; he'd disappeared during our battle. He explained that he'd gone to look for the vault of the dwarves, for the moon had at one time been occupied by his people. He hadn't been able to locate the vault by himself. Erasyne, ever eager for treasure, offered our aid in locating it. Evidently Cail felt ashamed enough by his failure to fight that he agreed to allow us to assist him.Thor had flown outside the moon and made contact with our allies. The arrowhawks left as soon as the fight with the other apes was done, but Prince Vultan entered the cave to see Bloodfist's lair. He wasn't happy with Shiera for disobeying his orders, but he was proud that she'd proved herself in battle. Ianus and a numbef of other air whales arrived then, and we were presented with the kokobu egg as we'd been promised once we showed the king Bloodfist's severed head and arm. Ianus had brought Pheretima with him, safely freed from her bottle prison. As a reward to us for freeing her, she offered us a single wish. We'll have to think carefully on what we would like. Erasyne wants to ask for Vogelein the clockwork fairy to be made so that she'll never need to be wound again. An admirable wish, but I think we should ask for the location of the lost temple Varian seeks. And Thor has revealed that using the Rock of Ages comes with a price: the earth creature that appeared wasn't there to help us but to recover the Rock. It apparently belongs to Ogremoch, the lord of evil earth creatures, and he wants it returned. __________________________Quips & Quotes:patv: "It's the 13th of Patchwall."DH: "The 13th of Pat's Fall?"Hedrin: "It's the new Apple i-Anus."DH: "Does it come in black and white?"Hedrin: "It comes in brown."patv: "I'm seeing that Huey Lewis song coming into play any time now..."Devo: ""It's Hip to be Square'?"Dh: "So I'm officially an old fart now."Zora: "So you added 'old' to your title?"Dh: "I replaced 'lame' with 'old'."Hedrin: "Why?"(patv started recording the session)Dh: "The moral of the story is, don't say you're doing anything on tape." (leans in to the recorder) "We're not doing anything."Hedrin: "And this is different for you how?"Jubilee: "That's a lot of hot monkey lust."Jubilee: "I finally get to the front of the party and they make the back of the party the front of the party!"patv: "He (Bloodfist) doesn't look like he's wearing a lot of armor."sniffles: "He's just wearing a lot of arm."p[atv: "You cut into his... southeast - because I rolled my compass dice by mistake."patv: "You get his full and unabashed attention."Hedrin: "I hit him with my staff, so I think I get his bashed attention."</blockquote>

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