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Message: <blockquote data-quote="the Jester" data-source="post: 906585" data-attributes="member: 1210">Assault on the Champion of Elemental Evil!The party appears in a chapel devoted to ultimate evil.  There's an elevated dais on which the Champion sits in his throne; a hideous altar of squirmous stone seems to writhe.  What appear to be human viscera are spread upon it, perhaps for divination.  Lareth, the Champion of Elemental Evil, is muttering dark prayers under his lips.  He's completely insane, beyond redemption; and he is not alone.  Also in the chamber are the Prince of Elemental Fire himself, Imix, a huge roaring column of white-hot flame, and his bodyguard- Maliska, a half-fire elemental medusa. As soon as she sees Maliska, Sheva turns to stone.The party cries out in dismay, but before they can so much as move, the Prince of Evil Fire Elementals hurls a ball of flame at them.  It explodes, searing them all with its heat.  All, of course, except Angelfire, who rushes forward, his falchion singing as it slices into Imix.  Thrush steps up to join him and engages Imix with deadly ability, slashing with his greatsword again and again, dealing scarlet wounds that seem to drip molten flames.  Sybele fires a rapid volley of deadly arrows at Lareth, peppering him with shafts.  He screams as he sees the assault come; perhaps he has foreseen it?  The fourth arrow to strike him sinks deep in his face."I've got the medusa!" the Eye shouts, casting a maze upon her.  Imix's huge greatsword whips at him as he does, missing only because Orbius had the foresight to displace himself.  Maliska vanishes.  The Eye fires a volley of seeker missiles at Lareth, blasting him into unconsciousness, but an instant later the medusa reappears, having dispelled the extradimensional cage. Sheva's imp flits over to Lareth's slumped form and whips out his unicorn-horn dagger.  Laughing with glee, he slits Lareth's throat.  Then  he squeals in pain as Imix's roars and stabs him.  "Boss, I got 'im!" Habiskis yells as he tumbles and jumps back away.An efreet appears in a burst of flame, and he summons a wall of fire directly upon Thrush, who roars in pain and steps out of the wall, suffering another blow as he moves to Imix's side and away from the wall, and Angelfire, who laughs wildly and continues his assault on the Prince of Elemental Fire.  Imix emits a high-pitched scream, the blows against him beginning to tell.  Thrush is laying into him again as well.  Sybele fires an arrow through the wall, but it's incinerated on the way.  She cries an obscenity and rushes into and through the wall, yelping as she burns.  Orbius maneuvers into position, then fires a cone of cold that passes through Maliska, Imix, and the efreet.  The genie screams in agony, barely withstanding the damage; the medusa crumples to the floor.  Then the Eye fires a lance of disruption at Imix, and the Elemental Fire Prince, falls!  The efreet starts to reach out, but vanishes as the summoning keeping it present gives way."That's it!" yells Orbius.  "We're out of here before they can respond!"  The party gathers to him and they trump away.Next Time: The Temple's Reply, part one!</blockquote>

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