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Message: <blockquote data-quote="the Jester" data-source="post: 563436" data-attributes="member: 1210">Battle for the Formian Hive (pt. 1)As the formians and their allies pour out of the nest, our heroes spring into action.   Zeebo starts casting haste on everyone, while Orbius stays behind the L and continues to scry the queen.  Lester attacks one of the wasp things as it rushes forward.  It stinks of smoke and hellfire, but he swings Felix Optima at it and his sword strikes!  There’s a clap of chaotic sound as the blow connects, and Lester shouts, “They’re lawful!”  Then the wasp is attacking him back, but the frightful armor he wears, Fuligin’s Armor, deflects its sting and bite.  A large, tough-looking gargoyle swoops out, attacking Angel.  As he attempts to defend himself from it, a crowd of the ant-like formians moves in around him, stinging at him.  Angel is beset on all sides, deflecting blows with his falchion and trying desperately to protect himself.  A troll suddenly appears at the top of the wall surrounding the hive, and it’s immediately starting to clamber down to meet them.  Almost immediately afterward, some sort of horrifying creature with hooks for hands clacks its way to the top of the wall as well.Jibber starts blowing snot at the forces rushes out at the adventurers, strangely inspiring confidence in the champions of Chaos.  Lester hammers away at the strange wasp-devil with Felix Optima Maxima as it stings and bites at him.  Fuligin’s Armor turns all the wasp-thing's blows, however.As more defenders keep pouring out of the woodwork, Orbius drops his scrying to start hurling spells at them.  The bugs move in en masse, and soon everyone is being attacked by something.  Angel busts free of the knot of enemies around him and races up the wall as easily as a normal man would run across a floor, stopping at the top to swing a mighty blow at the hook horror, but things only get worse as he’s dominated by something up there!  The gargoyle charges towards him, not realizing that Angel has just switched sides.  Sybele fires arrow after arrow that bursts into flames at the troll and the formians, dropping one after another.  Sheva grows larger through the Mayor’s magical power while Horbin grows through his own spells, and both tear into the surrounding foes.  Lester drops the creature he’s fighting with another clap of chaotic power.  There’s a tremendous boom of noise as the Eye fires off a lance of disruption, setting off a momentary twinge of jealousy in the L.  Things start looking worse as Lester calls out, “The wasp things are regenerating!”  Meanwhile, the hook horror rushes at Sybele, attacking the archer with its terrible hooks, ripping her up and down for terrible damage.  She backs away from it, trying to shoot it with her bow, but its reach gives it a deadly advantage.  Then Angel charges down the wall and into Horbin, slashing the cleric of Dexter with his terrible flaming falchion...Next time:  The battle continues!   Undead, timeslipping, teleportation, and the queen!</blockquote>

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