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Message: <blockquote data-quote="the Jester" data-source="post: 674440" data-attributes="member: 1210">Zeebo throws a fireball into the mix and hunkers down, trying to get as much cover as he can.  He's terrified, as are most of his companions.  He raises up to fire off another spell.Another arrow from Grumpy whizzes by Alcar.  The angel just grits his teeth and keeps thumping on the beholder.  It's terrible teeth are ripping at his abdomen, but his hard body can withstand tremendous punishment.  He swings, smashing his weapon into the monster's side.  It roars and blood begins pouring out of its mouth.  Grimly, determinedly, Alcar swings again.  With a mighty crash his mace staves in the top of the monster's head!  Its great central eye rolls up and its ten eyestalks go limp.  The dead beholder hangs in the air like a flaccid balloon.The other one roars in anger.  Its eye rays are blasting everywhere, shooting at Alcar, Angel, Sheva.  It's moving in on Angel, but this proves to be a terrible mistake.  The servant of Coila slashes out with the Airsword, cutting into the beholder several times and inflicting horrible wounds.  He stands in the glare of several of the eye beams and manages to throw off their effects.  Horbin's corpse is in easy view.The beholder looks like it might be about to reconsider; it starts to drift up and back, but a volley of magic missiles from Zeebo streaks in and blasts it from the side.  The monster gives a great cry and goes limp.The dust settles.Alcar almost immediately raises Horbin from the dead.*  Shaken by death, the cleric immediately bursts into a tirade.  "And I'm not gonna just run off everywhere with you anymore!" he finishes, shaking his finger at Alcar.  "You're gonna get us all killed that way!"Angel announces that he's changing his name to Angelfire.  He isn't the same person he was when Sheva and Zeebo first met her five years ago; she was a normal human then, looking for her father, Nigel.  So much has changed since then: now she's a man, and fire runs in her veins.  His skin is red, his hair the flickering orange of flames.  "It's only fitting," he says.The party's resources are badly depleted.  Most of them have cast most of their spells, and everyone's a little wounded.  After some healing, Horbin insists the group rest.  Alcar and Lester press them to continue on, but Zeebo, Angel and Sheva throw in thier lots with Horbin.  The group sets watches and proceeds to rest, most of them for only a short time via the magical nap that Coila's priests can induce.  Still, it's about 3 a.m. according to Sheva's reckoning, and the various clerics won't get their spells back til as late as the next midnight.Horbin settles in to an exhausted sleep after an initial period of tossing and turning.  He's still shaky from his experience.  He will sleep a long night's sleep before waking finally refreshed, with the memory of Heaven fading like wisps of a dream, leaving him with the sense that he's lost something irreplacable that will only come back to him upon his true death.Alcar stays awake to guard the rest of the group while they nap.  He stares at Angel, sleeping next to the Mayor.  Frowning, he casts a spell and concentrates.  Yes... not the Mayor, but Angel... evil.  Another spell reveals Chaos emanates from both of them.We're gonna have to talk about this when he gets up, Alcar thinks, his lip setting in a hard line.*A rules gaffe on my part- he died from a death effect, this should have required resurrection.  By the time I realized it, however, the deed was done and I try to avoid "do-overs."Next Time: Angelfire vs. Alcar!</blockquote>

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