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Message: <blockquote data-quote="the Jester" data-source="post: 691096" data-attributes="member: 1210">Attack on the Elder Brain, pt. 2With the petrification of the elder brain, Sybele and Alcar are both freed from its domination.  There's a lot of opposition left, but none of it can really stand up to our heroes.  Sybele peppers the illithid with arrows.  Horbin blasts Lord Ryce (the half-orc barbarian) with a searing light and is surprised at how much damage it does, so he does it again and the barbarian turns to mist as well.  "Some of them are vampires!" he shouts.  Zeebo tries to blast the mist before it can escape, but his attempts fail to harm it.  The mind flayer drops as a volley of seeker missiles blasts into him; all in all, things are working well for the party.Alcar, Sybele, Horbin and Lester lay into the golems.  Angelfire slices at Alcar even as the celestial of Galador strikes the golem!  Then the red-skinned cleric of Coila vanishes into the timestream.Lester's blows drop one of the brain golems.  He cleaves onto another, and it drops, as well!  Sybele finishes off the last one.  Sheva, meanwhile, lays the undead creature low and drops the last remaining human- who looks like he is, indeed, a human- with a spiritual weapon.Alcar heals himself, regaining his full strength and looking around with wide eyes.  "St. Vitus!" he shouts.  "Where are you?!"  Orbius decides that a better question is where are the vampires' coffins, so he casts greater scrying to track them down.  He can see the misty form going through what looks like a secret door in a hallway.  The only possible enemy still staanding is Alcar.  Angelfire reappears and assesses the situation instantly: Alcar's fully healed, but there are no more distractions.  "Are you ready to die?""I'll tell you what," says Alcar.  "I'll duel you.  Tomorrow at noon.""Why not now?""Forcecage deathmatch!" someone shouts.  "We should advertise- we could make some money that way!""Deep inside Bile Mountain isn't the place," Sheva interjects cooly.  "Settle this now.  From where I stand, you owe us an apology- especially since we just saved you from the mind flayers.""You didn't save me," Alcar protests."Whatever," snorts Sheva.  "Then go off on your own and get killed.  We won't save you next time.""I don't need saving."Horbin casts calm emotions and tries to talk out a settlement.  Several party members push for a promoted fight in Pesh City with expensive tickets, but neither Alcar nor Angelfire are in the mood for that kind of crap.  Finally, when it becomes apparent that Angelfire is not going to be mollified by anything less than an apology and Alcar isn't going to apologize, the celestial says, "I don't have time for this!  I have to find St. Vitus!"He finds a secret door where the mist went through the wall.  On the other side is a room with a pair of dark altars- and in front of one of the altars, mounted on a spike, is the head of St. Vitus.  Worse, it's empty.  They took his brain.  Alcar sheds a tear for him, then plane shifts away in despondancy.Orbius maintains concentration on his scrying spell until the party can find the vampires and stake them in their coffins.  Then the party loots.  They find a number of magic items- they'll identify them when they have a moment with Sybele's dorje of identify.  They also find a strange-looking orichalcum key in the pool of tadpoles that still twitch around the elder brain.  It's end is about the size of the last knuckle of Horbin's thumb, and it's strangely shaped."Well, we should probably go figure out what to do next," says Lester.  "We've probably stirred up a hornet's nest here.  Let's trump to Var, then we can teleport back here later."  The party agrees and they trump away.Next Time: Strange things are afoot in Var!  If Lester doesn't have a brother, who's the one-armed man looking for him?  And one of Lester's favorite old stories- how he's responsible for Boccob's existence!</blockquote>

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