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Message: <blockquote data-quote="the Jester" data-source="post: 893217" data-attributes="member: 1210">Attack on the NematodeanOur heroes appear in a burst of unseen teleportative energy in the chamber of the nematodean.  It’s full of rubble, a large cave hollowed by who-knows-what in ages past.A quick glance reveals no obvious signs of habitation, but the worm-thing must be here somewhere.  Carefully, our heroes start investigating- and almost immediately, the Eye spots a huge, wet worm coiled loosely under some of the dirt and rock.  With a silent gesture he indicates it, and the party starts moving into position.  Orbius casts a mass haste, and then Sheva blasts the creature with a flame strike.  With a sibilant hiss, the great worm violently jerks upright- and it’s huge; just its forebody rises almost 30’ into the air!  The color of pale human skin, it’s covered with little follicles of hair and it drips a disgusting yellow slime where it’s wounded.  It shivers as the Eye fires off a blast of mystic cold at it and Sheva blasts it with another flame strike.  Habiskis- returned to Sheva’s grasp late in the night- fires his wand of fireballs at the monster.Then it lunges, snakelike, at Angelfire, trying to bite him; but the scarlet-skinned Coilite manages to avoid its maw.  Not so its coils, however; they loop around him and squeeze."Hey," Sybele says suddenly, "it just occurred to me- if these things split in two, isn’t it possible that some of these previous adventurers that Mabrack sent down here-"Before she has a chance to finish her thought, another nematodean bursts out of the rubble, looming high above the heroes."-might have already... never mind," Sybele trails off.Next Time:  Well, this was the nematodean’s first playtest, and let’s just say that afterwards I decided to bump its CR from 15 to 18....</blockquote>

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