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Message: <blockquote data-quote="the Jester" data-source="post: 869130" data-attributes="member: 1210">The Battle of Pesh (wide view)Let's take a look at the big picture here.There are over a million individuals clashing here, with summoned allies clashing across multiple planes.  The Chaos fleet got here first; Pesh closed its doors and was besieged; and the Forinthian Fleet arrived to put some serious hurting on the Chaos fleet.For the past several days the battle's raged hard.  It will continue for several more.Sharp wedges of ramming warships ply down on the collection of freebooters, cannibals, pirates and stranger things.  The Forinthians ram; they fire catapults, ballista, spells, wands at the enemy.  The Chaos ships respond, but not as a unit.  That's Forinthia's strength- organization.  That's Law's strength.Forinthia has already dealt with many of the slaad ships and most of the demons by the time the party arrives, and the central forces are smashing against one another, firing volley after volley of shot and flaming oil at one another.  The waves are high enough that nothing's reliable, but ships are burning everywhere- there's just too much oil in the air and flaming slickly on the water's surface.In the city itself, there are several breaches in the wall and both the Forinthians and the Chaos fleet have established beachheads, but it's pretty much street-to-street fighting here.  And the native Peshans are pretty much caught in the middle.  While the battle is going on, a number of very nefarious things happen, including several unsanctioned assassinations.  One will catch the eye of a prominent merchant who is also secretly a member of the Grey Brotherhood, which will start an investigation by the Brotherhood.The Forinthians are struggling towards a Peshan food storage warehouse when one group of what appears to be elite resistance forces (Horbin, Hank the celestial storm giant, Orbius and Zeebo) swoops in on them and blasts them with spells.  Hank refuses to fight them, and Horbin spends his time trying to talk him into it.  Orbius and Zeebo handle the force promptly, but the Forinthians they defeat were just an advance scouting party; the main force looks much larger.  Zeebo hurls a fireball their way and a chorus of shouts and screams joins rises as it detonates among them.Then a masked figure comes out of nowhere, appearing from invisibility, stabbing Zeebo in the neck, and Zeebo suddenly can't move."Wait 'til you see what I've done to your reputation," the figure says gleefully, and then Orbius polymorphs him into a carp.  The fish flees quickly, flying in hopes of water.  They elect to flee to join their companions at sea.Horbin feels great reservations about it, but he doesn't think he can do much good in the city at the moment either; things are too dangerous.  There's just too much fighting going on, and it's really unclear to him who's side he should be on.  As they head to sea, Horbin attempts to call upon Dexter's blessings- and fails.He stops in mid-air (they're all under a mass flight now), shaken.  "I..." he gasps.  I've always justified the things I've done by the fact that Dexter's granted me his spells for everything I've done.  Now... now he isn't granting me his blessing!Horbin the Holy speaks a word of recall and vanishes.Grim, Orbius pulls out Lester's trump.Next Time:  Lester breaks Galador's geas!</blockquote>

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