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Message: <blockquote data-quote="the Jester" data-source="post: 618405" data-attributes="member: 1210">The Six-Armed Statue with the Elephant HeadThe stairs are slightly damp with the foul yellow bile.  Traces of froth like dried-up sea foam dot the steps from time to time as the group pounds up them, Alcar flying ahead.  Sheva is running through the air, followed closely by Angel, and the two of them rush into the room at the top of the stairs just after Alcar.  As Angel runs in there's a sharp click.  Horbin's next up the stairs, and he runs smack into an invisible barrier of some sort, crying out in surprise and coming to a sudden halt.  He feels blood start leaking out his nose.There's a loud grinding sound, and the three of them barely have time to even notice the huge statue before it starts moving towards them on thunderously loud rollers.  It's made of some sort of greenish stone, and it's easily 10' high and 20' wide.  It depicts some sort of six-armed creature with a strange elephantine head.  Sheva and Angel dodge behind it as it rolls forward, but Alcar's too slow.  Horbin watches in horror as it rolls right into the servant of his god, smashing him into the barrier right in front of him with incredible force.  Blood spurts from Alcar and his wings both break.  Horbin can't hear anything from where he's at, but the sight is gruesome.  He can see Angel swinging blow after blow at it, but the thing's huge, and even his punishing blows aren't as effective against it as they would be against a living enemy with vitals.  Sheva grunts as the stone juggernaut pummels her with all six of its arms, inflicting terrible damage, and Horbin can see Alcar striking at it even as the massive things crushes him against the wall.  Desperately, the cut-off priest casts a dispel magic at the barrier, but to no avail.  It's a wall of force! he thinks.  If only I had some sort of disintegration ability!  But he can only watch as Sheva disappears, timeslipping away from almost certain doom.Alcar finally manages to break free and get out from under the six-armed statue, staggering away long enough to invoke the power of Galador to heal himself.  Angel keeps hitting it, and the creature turns on him, lashing out with all six arms and beating him badly.  Horbin swears aloud and begins summoning a huge earth elemental, angry and worried.  His companions are barely standing up to the thing.But then Alcar steps back in on it, swinging his mace with a mighty roar, and he smashes the statue's head.  The blow resonates through his arms, the shock reaches his shoulders, and for a moment he has to blink the impact from his eyes; but then his vision clears and the juggernaut lays smashed and destroyed before him.Alcar turns to Angel.  "You gotta bring some to get some," he says, smiling.  Angel smiles back, and the two match gazes for a moment.Sheva reappears a moment later, and all three move to the wall of force that seals them off from the stairway down.  There are two other doors out and Alcar starts to head for one, but Sheva dissuades him.  "Let's at least wait until Horbin and the others can get through."Soon enough the barrier drops, and then the group moves on.  Sheva checks both doors for traps and the party opens each to see what their options are like.  Both open on hallways, but one of them is crumbled and drops downward, ending in an area where bile fills much of the height of the passage.  The group agrees as one to take the other passage.  "Let's search around a little here first," Sheva suggests, and they do so, looking among the broken shards of the elephant-headed statue for loot, checking the walls for hollow spaces or small catches- and finding one!  Sheva checks it for traps, her pulse quickening.  Secret doors usually hide something, she thinks.Finding no traps, Sheva stands back and Alcar trips the catch.  A section of wall pivots with a loud grinding sound not too dissimilar from the juggernaut's sounds, and the party enters a smaller chamber full of old pillows and cushions gone brittle with age.  "I wonder what this place was?" Sheva muses.  Then almost everyone falls upon the cushions- and each other.  They start pawing at each other, kissing and touching lewdly.  "By Galador!" Alcar exclaims.And then something appears out of nowhere, rushing Alcar.  It looks like a huge insectoid horror spewed from a strange planar window.  It's the size of a man, and it's got a freakish four-mandibled mouth full of death and a set of four-foot claws that just don't look very nice at all.Next Time: Attack of the strange outsider!  Memories of a whale!  Relgious debate between Alcar and Horbin!  And- hey, are those dragons?  I'm not saying they are for sure, but...</blockquote>

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