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Message: <blockquote data-quote="the Jester" data-source="post: 833294" data-attributes="member: 1210">Everyone Against Chemnu!Chemnu, surrounded by his flickering images, raises a hand to cast a spell- and then, suddenly, Sheva appears from the time stream, unleashing a rain of blows with Chronovestis, the Sword of Time.  None hit the Bile Lord himself, but several of his mirror images dissolve under the force of the slashes.  Sheva's moving supernaturally fast, so she takes a moment to ready a strike against him if he starts casting that spell.  Almost immediately, Chemnu triggers it- blasting a greenish ray of disintegration at Angelfire.  Sheva's blow misses and she curses, but Angelfire shrugs off the blast, taking another wound and staggering, almost falling to his knees.  Chemnu sneers as he starts another spell, one that he's certain will finish Angelfire off- but before his cone of cold blasts out at the fiery Coilite (and much of the rest of the party) Lionel manages to heal him back to full health!  The frigid cone still deals immense damage to Angelfire, who screams in agony, but doesn't slay him.  Habiskis, on the other hand, is frozen solid as a block of translucent ice condenses around him- were it not for his diabolic ability to regenerate, he'd be extremely dead.Lionel and Angelfire both rush in at the Bile Lord, the planetar with a touch spell active that actually hits the real deal despite his images.  Unfortunately for the party, Chemnu ignores the spell as it breaks against his immeasurable will.  Angelfire throws himself at Chemnu bodily, his hand reaching out to grab at the hideous creature, but he gropes through an image instead, dissolving it.  It's like when we fought the inevitable on the moon*, he thinks to himself- we can't really hit him, we have to adapt, to adopt a different approach!  Thrush swings again and again, his skill beyond anyone else in the group's- and though he drops two of the last three images around Chemnu, he fails to connect with the Bile Lord.  Then the fists of force attacking the two of them swing, missing both Thrush and Angelfire by inches.The Mayor knows his magic is too weak to penetrate Chemnu's defenses.  He knows that his best bet is to aid his allies, so he keeps doing it, casting invisibility on Horbin, then enlarging both Thrush and Angelfire.  He's casting some of the same spells on people over and over as they expire or are broken, but he doesn't mind.  His arcane prowess is not as intense as a straight wizard or sorcerer; but he's never run out of spells- and today won't be the day it finally happens either.  He keeps himself moving around, trying not to be a target.  Only his fancy footwork kept him from being in the cone of cold, and he's certain it would've killed him... Why not? he thinks boldly, and aims a targetted dispel magic at Chemnu.  That's why not, he thinks wryly as his spell slides off the Bile Lord's vastly powerful magic like water off a duck's back.Then Horbin ripples into view, losing Zeebo's concealing magic as he strikes at Chemnu from flanking, his holy mace smacking into the last image and destroying it.  The Bile Lord frowns at him briefly, then turns to snarl at Thrush.  "Traitor," he grits, "you will know no end of agony!""I don't think so," says Angelfire.Chemnu's images are down- surely they'll be able to connect a little now- and Angelfire brings his falchion around in a complex weaving pattern that lands three hits on the Bile Lord!**  Chemnu staggers back, shaking his head in a brief moment of surprise, glancing down at the wounds already closing on his abdomen and thighs.  "Impressive," he snarls."Shut up," Thrush says, and he swings a massive cloud of greatsword blows at the Bile Lord as well!  His first blow catches the enemy in the leg, drawing another line of stinking yellow fluid from Chemnu.  Then Thrush growls and reverses his blade, hacking down at Chemnu's left foot, and scores a massive hit!  The sound of the bones of the Bile Lord's foot breaking is clearly audible, and Chemnu gives a strangled scream.  The party cheers!Chemnu staggers back as the two clenched fists continue to assault Thrush and Angelfire.  With a scream of rage he erects a wall of force between the party and himself, and Zeebo and Horbin recognize the spell's gestures and words.  Sheva doesn't, but it becomes quite clear to the entire group in just a moment as she swings Chronovestis and it deflects off of the invisible wall.  "DAMMIT!!" she roars.There's a momentary pause.  Horbin and Lionel rush to heal at least some of the wounds that both Angelfire and Thrush have taken- and are still taking, as the fists keep swiping at them.  Sheva disappears into invisibility with a snarl and a flick of her red hair. As the party watches and prepares, casting spells to buff themselves up even further, Chemnu is healing rapidly.  Unbelievably rapidly.  Faster than any natural healing or regeneration anyone in the group has seen.  And the Bile Lord casts another set of mirror images.  Thrush groans.  "Now we'll never get him," he gripes.And Chemnu sneers from behind the wall, casting another spell.  Horbin shouts curses- "He's just put up an antimagic field!" he cries- and backs away, drawing out his crossbow.  The crossbow he hasn't fired in a very long time- years, maybe?  Zeebo makes Thrush invisible, but with a sinking feeling he knows that as soon as the warrior gets too close to the Bile Lord it'll be suppressed.  Our heroes are weary, low on spells and resources.  But the party has a secret weapon- one that nobody has thought of- one that may just save the day.....*This story is as yet untold- it all ties in to the Hatching Cave where an earlier party guarded the dragon eggs, which has been referred to many times... Perhaps eventually that story will come out here... <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /> **Extremely good luck with the dice graced the party in this round (round 8 of the combat, btw).  Add to that, no power attack, flanking, being enlarged... you get the idea.Next Time: The battle concludes!  Who has the secret weapon, what is it, and will it work in the antimagic field??</blockquote>

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