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Message: <blockquote data-quote="the Jester" data-source="post: 708756" data-attributes="member: 1210">The Wasp GolemThe party returns to the elder brain chamber.  Sheva's imp cohort scampers to the dead and dying tadpoles in the pool and starts gorging itself on them, smacking its lips in delight.  The party searches for a few moments, then finds the trigger to the secret door that Alcar had previously gone through.  "Don't forget that key we found," says Sybele, but the secret door doesn't require it.  They find a room with two disgusting altars of evil aspect, one squirmous and wormy and the other shaped to accomodate a head, with a brain atop it.  "Foul evil altar!" cries the L, drawing Felix Optima Maxima and swinging wildly at the squirmous altar.  Both he and his sword cry out as one as they strike, and the elementalist groans as a dark and terrible curse settles over him, lowering his wisdom.  He staggers away.  "I don't think that was such a good idea," he moans.The party passes by the altars without further tampering.  They enter another room- and find themselves in battle!  There are a dozen ogre zombies and four illithids!  The battle is fast and furious, and despite stunning most of the party initially, the illithids and undead drop before the combination of Sybele's rapid shots and Orbius' devastating magical prowess.  When it's over the two of them exchange a look of proud triumph- not bad, for the two of them.  Lester grabs Norman, who now has some fuzz growing back on his previously shaved head, and cries out, "We won!"  -to which Norman replies, "Don't pick me up."  Lester also apologizes to Felix Optima Maxima for dropping her when he was stunned, and fashions a loop that ties her to his wrist so it won't happen again.  She seems mollified by this.Exploring further, the party stumbles into a room with one end cut off by a glowing green wall of energy- they've seen this before, from the other side, when they found the books!  But on this side, there's some sort of swarm of wasps forming a vaguely humanoid shape- coming at them!  Norman throws a dagger but misses it; Sybele fires a shot and Lester swings his sword at it.  Then it's on Lester, and it engulfs him!  Wasps surround him, stinging and biting everywhere!  "I've got it distracted!" he shouts, "Kill it!"  He can feel the stinging of their poison on him, but his powerful system is fighting it off so far.Sybele pours on a steady rain of arrows, some hitting but many missing.  Norman keeps hucking daggers at it until it swoops him up as well, and now he and Lester are tumbled together inside the thing.  Horbin hits it with a searing light but it doesn't seem to harm the thing.  The creature moves towards him, buzzing angrily, and drops Norman as it grabs Horbin.  With a gruntthe halfling scrambles back and hurls a dagger, hitting the wasp golem.  Sybele's backing away from it frantically, continuing to fire arrows even as it smashes at her with its terrible fists.  Her arrows are inflicting telling wounds on it, and as it turns to drop the already-wounded Norman unconscious with a mighty blow the archer's bow sings again as it fires a trio of arrows at the golem, all of which hit.  The wasp golem stops buzzing and all the wasps fall to the ground, dead, as one."This is the other side of the wall," Sheva says.  "Reth died on the other side.  Maybe she made it?""Or someone else did, to keep her out?" suggests Lester, dusting himself off."What do we do now?" wonders Orbius.  "We don't really need to explore all this area, we may know enough to be able to get where we need to go once I can teleport us again tomorrow.""Where do we need to go?" asks Horbin."Up," says the Eye.  "To penetrate the hidden secrets."  He frowns.  "Where's the highest point we've been?  We're on the mind flayer level, but we went up from the other side of that glowing wall before to the beholder level, so that's where we should be.  We'll [/i]teleport without error[/i] up there tomorrow.""Well, for now, let's keep exploring," says Lester.  "I haven't turned any bad guys to stone today yet."Next Time: What will Lester turn to stone next?</blockquote>

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