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Message: <blockquote data-quote="the Jester" data-source="post: 686105" data-attributes="member: 1210">The Battle of Five Armies (cont.)Angelfire and Alcar clash for a moment, then each backs off to heal himself somewhat.  Spells and eye rays are flying everywhere, the ice creatures are attacking, things are suddenly much messier than before...Sybelle whips out her greatsword, shouting, "Sorry!" to the beholder as she strikes at one of the ice giants attacking her.  Then a ray from the beholder hits her and the blade drops from her fingers onto the ground.  She's been knocked unconscious!  She hangs from the ceiling, her arms reaching halfway to the floor.  "Call your men off!" shouts Sheva.  She quaffs a potion an instant later and disappears.  Moving quickly, the invisible priestess of Coila strides up the air to Sybele and shakes her back into consciousness, handing off a bow to her.  The archer tries to draw it, but its pull is too strong for her without magical augmentation.  "Oh no!" she cries.  Meanwhile, Alcar cracks the undead thing a blow so hard that its head pops off and bounces away with a shriek as its body collapses into a heap.  Alcar and St. Vitus turn their attention to the inferior beholder, both simultaneously inflicting terrible wounds.  With a groan the eye tyrant expires, a fountain of blood pouring from its mouth.Horbin's frightened on the ceiling, trying to stay away from the combatants- especially Thuurgen.  He must be some kind of evil priest, the cleric of Dexter thinks, he cast desecrate.  I'll just bet the undead was his, too.  His panic drives him into the herb room where the party rested.  He's as far away from the battle as he can get, and it isn't very far, and he's terrified-And, hardly even thinking about it, he casts remove fear on himself.Alcar, meanswhile, is under a blistering assault from the imp (who keeps sneak attacking from invisibility), the ice creatures and Red-Eye.  He's taking horrible blows on his arms, legs, wings, body- but his incredible vitality is keeping him going.  Even the poison that has hit him isn't slowing him down.  He blasts Red-Eye with a flame strike, but the beholder just gives a loud growl.  Angelfire drinks a potion and then vanishes, and the imp turns invisible too.  Vitus drops two of the stinging giants.Then Horbin charges in. He's fought evil priests before- one of the worst shattered his holy symbol*- and he doesn't like them at all.  He barrels into Thuurgen with all his armored weight behind him, his face set in a grim frown.  His holy mace smacks out and catches the "human" in the side of the head.  Thuurgen grunts in surprise, then turns to face him.  "You should help me, not attack me," Thuurgen says, looking Horbin in the eye, and his words seem to echo in the cleric's mind.  Yes, help him, not hurt him- it makes perfect sense.  Help him...  Horbin starts telling Thuurgen all about the miracles of Dexter- how, even though he was blind, he could see; about his self-sacrifice in Bleak's Maw for the good of everyone else; about his driving out of the demons...Then Red-Eye's antimagic stare sweeps over Thuurgen, suppressing his magical disguise- for the first time a few of our heroes begin to realize that he isn't exactly on the same side as Red-Eye- and he is revealed.*Those of you who've read my old story hour may remember <a href="http://enworld.cyberstreet.com/showthread.php?s=&postid=357997#post357997" target="_blank">this encounter.</a>Next Time: Thuurgen revealed!  The Battle of Five Armies concludes- but who wins, who loses, who lives and who dies?  Find out soon!</blockquote>

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