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Message: <blockquote data-quote="the Jester" data-source="post: 770226" data-attributes="member: 1210">Attack on the Crux CrystalAs our heroes come to the stair that leads down into the stinking frothy bile within which lays the Crux Crystal, Orbius warns them, "There's some sort of guardian- I saw it in a vision earlier.  Unfortunately, it was shadowy- I couldn't see what it was.""Well, we'll find out," Sheva says tersely.  Horbin begins praying to Dexter, his hands making lowering motions at the bile, and slowly the holy powers he represents do as he asks, and the yellow liquid starts bubbling as it drains away, leaving little bits of pale foam dancing momentarily in the air.  The bile drops significantly- and as it does, more of the stair becomes visible. Angelfire leads the party down to see more.  Then the Crystal itself comes into view.  It's huge, dropping into the bile pool and rising all the way to the chamber's ceiling.  It must be 10' in diameter, and the whole thing is covered in a layer of bile.  Worse yet, bile seems to be bleeding out of it from a multitude of places.  The stairs our heroes are descending lead to a torus-shaped 20' wide walkway that goes all the way around the wall about 20' down from the ceiling; a platform leads to directly around the crystal.And they can see the guardian.  It's a golem of some kind, bile dribbling off it everywhere, and it seems to be made out of mithral.  It isn't moving yet."Well, you weren't lying," Thrush says quietly to Sybele.  She smiles nervously.  Angelfire doesn't even hesitate; he rushes into the room, down the wall and at the golem, sending a ringing blow at it.  And his blade fails to penetrate its tough plating.  I hit it hard, he thinks grimly, and tries again, several times, without success.  There's a sweet chiming sound to the ringing of the mithral plating.Sheva steps in, too- but she's all about the Crux Crystal.  She certainly doesn't like the look of the golem.  She swings as hard as she can and her blow lands square on the crystalline surface, sending cracks into it.  Bile starts flowing from them.  But the crystal's huge!  It's gonna take quite a bit of punishment to destroy it.  She sets to it with a will, and Thrush, Horbin and Sybele follow her example.  Orbius and Zeebo are trying to buff the party; Lester tries to turn part of the huge crystal to flesh, but fails, and Polsoon, his earth elemental ally, moves to block the walkway right above the mithral golem. As the party starts assaulting the crystal, the golem awakens.Ignoring Angelfire's agressive attacks completely, the mithral golem starts clambering up the wall.  The comined breath weapons of both dragons doesn't even mark it- doesn't even slow it's climb.  "Trouble!!" Angelfire screams.....Next Time: Against the mithral golem!  Angelfire has hit once but failed to penetrate it's DR- how will our heroes fare??</blockquote>

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