NOW LIVE! Today's the day you meet your new best friend. You don’t have to leave Wolfy behind... In 'Pets & Sidekicks' your companions level up with you!

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Message: <blockquote data-quote="the Jester" data-source="post: 739268" data-attributes="member: 1210">To Breach the Resonating Fields"We can just push through the first field," says Horbin.A little experimentation reveals that the field is slightly elastic.  Angelfire puts his back into it and pushes through the field, leaving a barely-visible hole still in place.  Alcar scurries through, glancing momentarily at Angelfire, but the rest of the party is not quick enough- the hole closes.  "Crap," says Horbin.  "Well, the next field needs to be overcome by channeling sufficient energy at it."  Upon hearing this, Alcar extends his hand, holy symbol presented, and begins channeling.  In a few short seconds a hole tears open in the field- again it's visible.  Alcar passes through it."No sweat," Lester tells the rest of the party.  "Here, I'll just push a hole through-"  As Lester tries to push another hole into it, he realizes that it isn't going to be easy.  With a grunt, he fails to penetrate it- and then both he and Horbin, too close to the field, suddenly dance with electricity."Ow!" cries Horbin.  "That sucks!""I could try again," Lester says dubiously, but from the other side, Angelfire grunts and throws himself at it again.  He's enhanced by both psionics and magic, and his strength is enormous.  The field tears visibly again and the party moves past it, through the hole.Now that they know they have to move quickly, the party works efficiently to try to work their way past the fields.  The third field must be unraveled by skilled spellcraft; Orbius takes the challenge and defeats it.  The next field has a very narrow gap that can be squirmed through; a perfect mission for Habiskis, Sheva's imp.  The final field must be talked into letting them past; Zeebo handles it with his customary aplomb.  (Boy is he horny.  Extended dungeon adventures try him sorely due to his enormous fertility.)At the top is a strange magical circle.  It's got hundreds of runes in extremely complex configurations scribed in it; even at first glance Orbius can tell that this is far beyond anything he's ever seen before in terms of magical complexity and power.With the sort of faith in the ultimate fairness in life that tends to kill cocky parties of adventurers, our heroes all pile into the circle without even examining the runes beyond that cursory glance or anything.  And they all vanish, teleported to the highest level of Bile Mountain of all.Next Time: Enter- Axon and Axel!  (I originally thought I could get one of their threat ranges down to 6-20...)</blockquote>

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