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Message: <blockquote data-quote="the Jester" data-source="post: 755178" data-attributes="member: 1210">Bile BeastsThe party has the drop on it, and they use their initiative to good effect: Sheva moves in and whips out a blade, Horbin and Alcar both cast flame strike- though the creature resists Horbin's.  Orbius' magic missiles fizzle against its spell resistance as well.  Polsoon, Lester's conjured earth elemental, charges forward with the L on his shoulder.  And the bile beast is too slow to react until suddenly everyone is on top of it (except for Zeebo, who's moved back and is crouching behind a corner, peeking out to cast buffing spells on his allies (he's already hasted Sheva).Then the things breathes.  A huge cone of wretched, vomit-smelling acid spews from the great reptillian monster's mouth.  The cone sprays over everyone except Zeebo, although Polsoon's massive bulk provides some cover for many of the party.  The pain that burns in on them all is extreme, severe; the acid hisses as it eats hair and flesh.  The screams of the party chill the Mayor, but everyone's still alive... and with the multiplicity of clerics up there, he's hopeful it'll stay that way.  He casts another haste, this one on Angelfire.The creature's desperate for a way out; it's huge, but it's surrounded now, suffering under the hammering blows of Alcar, Lester, Polsoon, Sheva and Angelfire; it's no surprise that it falls before it has another chance to act.  Speed and surprise seem to be the order of the day; the party finds a bile roper and Horbin slays it in a single round with a destruction spell.  Continuing along, the party sees a passage that descends into a bile-filled area.  "No way," Horbin says."We can come back later if we need to," Sheva says, thinking, I could make Habiskis swim down there...Further explorations lead to another chamber with a pool in it.   The party looks around warily, and suddenly the imp's voice cries out, "Master- in the pool!!"A strange, watery, frog-like creature drooling bile from its immense mouth* suddenly rises to the surface of the water, and the party feels a wracking pain as a horrible, dehydrating blast of pain shoots through all of them.  Even wracked with terrible pain, however, they still manage to return fire with a volley of seeker missiles and a flame strike.  Then the thing's tongue shoots out, grabbing Angelfire, and with a startled cry, the fiery priest of Coila is dragged into the bile!  And the bloated monster starts sinking into the bile, dragging him under!*This was a half-water elemental bile froghemoth, by the way.  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />Next Time: The end of the froghemoth fight, and we get closer to the epic battles... yes, battles...</blockquote>

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