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Message: <blockquote data-quote="the Jester" data-source="post: 689443" data-attributes="member: 1210">Attack on the Elder Brain!!Orbius mass teleports the party in to attack.  They're fully prepared, buffed up, magical defenses active, totally ready to go.  But the elder brain detected their scrying and has looked back at them- there won't be much in the way of surprise.The party appears in a large dark room, shadows dancing from their own glowing and flaming items only.  There are enemies all around, but the elder brain is the important one.  It rests at the bottom of a 20' deep pool of briny liquid that squirms with tadpole-like things.  Orbius moves fastest as the party appears, snapping off a lower resistance at it.  He's already hasted, too, so he surrounds Alcar with a forcecage as well.  Angelfire steps in on a large creature made of greyish fleshy pulp that's swirled like a brain; he slices it with his new falchion.  Grey matter sprays out from it, and briny blood drips down his blade.  Angelfire grins; it feels good to have his type of weapon back.The elder brain dominates Sybele easily, but is disgruntled to find the control suppressed.  One of the party clerics has a magic circle against evil running!  The three brain golems move forward, bludgeoning with their terrible fists.  One of the "humans" in the room turns out to be an elf; he disintegrates the cage of force holding Alcar, then blasts the party with a chain lightning.  Another of the humans starts frothing.  His eyes are red and his skin is pale.   He rushes forward, charging at Angelfire, and swings an orcish double axe.  A tremendous blow hits Angelfire, and though his armor turns the worst of it it still deals a stinging wound to him.Lester casts a chain lightning back at the enemy.  The bolts don't even hurt one of the brain golems, the illithid, or the elder brain itself.  Then the elementalist blasts Vaarsh (the elven wizard) with a flame arrow.  Sheva casts control water and lowers the pool around the brain; now it's going to be much easier to attack it!  She grins fiercely; everything is going according to plan.  She slashes at a brain golem nearby, scoring a hit on its back.  Sybele shouts, "It did something to my mind!  Watch out!"  She's firing arrows at the elf, and hits him a couple of times.  She stays close to Horbin, who's casting his most powerful spells at the brain.  Unfortunately he fails to penetrate its spell resistance- even lowered- with his feeblemind and it survives his destruction.Orbius blasts a volley of seeker missiles into Vaarsh.  They hit the elf with tremendous concussive force and he screams- then turns into mist!  The mist flies out a crack in the wall and vanishes.  The entire party resists an attempt at mass domination by the elder brain, and now the battle is turning into a churning mass of chaos as the undead mixes it up with them as well.  Zeebo's casting spells to aid the party, enlarging Sheva and Angel, casting protection from evil on Sybele to give her more freedom to stray away from Horbin.  Hasted, he's trying to keep counterspells ready too.  The brain golems and Lord Ryce, the raging half-orc, are striking with great fury at the party.  Sheva and Angelfire are taking most of the blows, and Angelfire is starting to wilt a little under the barrage of huge meaty fists and double axe blows.  Things get worse as Alcar, a dazed look on his face, steps in on Angelfire, swinging his mace directly in the Coilite's head.  A spray of scarlet blood splatters from his chin and nose as he staggers with a whooof!And then Lester channels the furious power of elemental earth, the unstoppable juggernaut of a rising mountain of granite.  He casts with a roar- and the elder brain quivers once and turns to stone.Next Time: Whooah!  Who'd have thought the elder brain battle would go so well?  Watch our heroes finish the battle in only twelve more seconds!</blockquote>

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