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Message: <blockquote data-quote="the Jester" data-source="post: 907015" data-attributes="member: 1210">The Temple's Reply"Well, that wasn't so bad," Horbin remarks."Yeah, but- uh oh..." Orbius trails off.  "We're being scried!""Dexter's nadlies!  The last thing we want is an attack here, in Var!" Horbin exclaims.The party acts quickly- Orbius uses Lester's trump to contact him, and the party trumps to him.  He looks disheveled, not quite himself yet; he's afoot, on the road from Var to, eventually, the Temple of Elemental Evil.  He's hoping to run into other adventurers- those he's had a hand in hiring to assault the temple. "What's going on, guys?" he asks.  "Boccob's eye, whoever it is is still scrying us!  Lester, run, you weren't there, take cover for now!" Orbius cries out.  Confused, Lester obeys his cohort, backing away and rushing into the scree on the side of the mountain road they're on.  He's still trying to figure out what's going on, and he isn't at all mentally prepared for combat.  Orbius, meanwhile, quickly casts a pair of far strikes on the Sheva and Horbin's weapons.There's a tremendous grinding, cracking sound.  Something is emerging from within the mountainside- some sort of huge mud-creature, roughly spherical.  It seems to have tentacles coming from it in all directions- why do they always have tentacles? Horbin thinks wildly- as it rushes towards them.  The party's main fighters, Angelfire and Thrush, have already formed up to battle it, however, and their blades flash out wickedly, slicing chunks of wet mud away from it.  The Eye fires a lance of disruption at it, blasting bits of wet earth from it.  "It's some sort of ooze octopus!" Sheva cries as it flails at them.  She strikes at it from afar, her blade dealing a wound that would drop a normal man.  Then the ooze octopus lashes out, grabbing Sybele and jerking her into the air, constricting her, burning her with acid, dealing tremendous damage.  "AARGH!" she cries, trying to break free- and failing.  It's too big, too strong...  Then its tentacles seem to be everywhere at once, grappling Angelfire, Hrobin, Orbius, and the imp!  Angelfire concentrates fiercely, dimension dooring free of its grasp, and Orbius manages to teleport free.  He whips out the Airsword, hoping to use it to get a little distance.  Horbin, miraculously, bursts free of the tentacle holding him.Sheva tumbles away from it, hitting it with clerical magicks, trying to distract it.  "Hey!" she shouts at it.  As it quivers from her spells, Sybele slips out, trying to run away, getting slapped again- though not grappled.  The monster tries again, squeezing them hard while it reaches out and grabs up Horbin and Sybele again and rakes its muddy tentacle across Thrush.  He staggers, then strikes again, unleashing all the smackdown he's got, slicing and dicing, striking true again and again- until the thing finally gives everyone one last great convulsive wring and then collapses into a huge pile of mud.Struggling free, our heroes are rather shaken.  "Everyone alive?" Horbin calls, starting to heal. Lester comes forward.  "Are you all right?" he cries.  "It's probably not over yet," Orbius says grimly.  "We need to get out of here, to some cover or something."  He gratefully accepts Horbin's curative touch, sighing in pleasure.  "Let's trump back to Var."  Even as he shuffles out the trump of Var, the next wave arrives in a flash of light.  Felenga's rebuttal has truly arrived.Next Time: Felenga's Rebuttal!  More trouble every round!!</blockquote>

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