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Message: <blockquote data-quote="the Jester" data-source="post: 908817" data-attributes="member: 1210">Felenga's RebuttalOrbius stares intently at the trump of Var.  It takes a fair degree of concentration to make contact*, and he's a little flustered...Before he can finish, Felenga begins making his rebuttal.  The ooze octopus was a distraction, to give him time to prepare his minions.There's a flash of light and three visible creatures appear. One of them is a deathbringer.  It wears intricately worked full plate armor over its death-pallor skin.  The breastplate sports an obex symbol, as do the greaves.  The undead monster whirls two black flails, moving extremely quickly.  The party fought a deathbringer <a href="http://enworld.cyberstreet.com/showthread.php?s=&postid=822748#post822748" target="_blank">before, when Chemnu attacked them,</a> and it was no picnic.  There's another one there, too, but he's cloaked by improved invisibility.  Our heroes don't yet realize he's there, but that will change almost immediately.Just behind the deathbringers are two whirlwinds of flame.  Lester recognizes them as living holocausts- elementals composed of equal parts air, fire and evil.  The winds around them immediately start moving with startling speed, checking the party and heating up with burning intensity.  Small dry grasses on the side of the road burst into flame.  Angelfire smiles, enjoying the wind.  Habiskis shrieks, blowing away, barely catching himself on a tree.Before the enemy can move, Orbius throws a barred forcecage around them.  They're too far apart to cage them all in a solid box, unfortunately, for the deathbringers immediately cast area dispels at the party, dropping one defensive or buffing spell or another from everyone, almost all of them cast by Orbius.  The Eye curses, but he finally gets trump contact with Var.  "Come on!" he shouts.  "Let's get out of here!  You, too, Lester!"Horbin tries to move forward to Orbius, but the winds are too strong.  He is blown off-course and must grab Sybele to avoid being blown away.  He's being scorched by the superheating air, too.  He grits his teeth; this already looks ugly.  Then things get worse, as the living holocausts shoot out of the bars of the forcecage and whip tails of flame out at Lester.  Then there's another flash of light, and four weird-looking creatures appear.  They're strangely troll-like, but to those knowledgable about the planes, they look like tarry demodands.  With loud screams of rage, the four monsters rush at Horbin and Thrush, clawing wildly at them.  "Come on!" Orbius yells over the screaming winds, but the deathbringers cast more dispels, and one of them is targeted at Orbius.  He loses many of his magical wards and buffs, and worse- the trump contact.  Another dispel hits Lester, taking away much of his magical enhancement as well.Angelfire leans against the wind but can't progress against it.  Zeebo is blown almost into him, and he manages to grab the Mayor with one strong arm just as a dispel hits him.  Zeebo is terrified.  Horbin is meleeing with one of the half-troll demodands, missing his strike, as is Thrush, who hits but almost loses his sword to its sticky slime; but nobody can move against the winds towards Orbius- and the contact's been lost, regardless, Angelfire notes.  But the fight against Elemental Evil is Lester's specialty.  He is an elementalist, after all.  Gesturing strongly at the holocaust winds, he uses his powers to control one!  "Counter your brother's winds!" he commands, and the air grows still- but it remains deadly hot.  The ground itself seems to smoulder, and the half-demodands are clearly protected against it.Zeebo hastes himself and Horbin, and Sheva hastes herself as well.  The half-trolls keep attacking, duelling deadly with Thrush and Horbin, and they're now starting to heal the gashes that our heroes have inflicted!  Arrows spring into one of their sides and it roars with pain and anger.The uncontrolled living holocaust is attacking Orbius, hasted itself.  It strikes him, searing across his chest with burning razor winds.  Thrush and Horbin are both suffering wounds, and the deathbringers- hasted as well, curse it- keep throwing more targeted dispels from within the bard of their forcecage.  I should have only caught one or two of them and made it solid! Orbius thinks wildly.Live and learn... maybe.Angelfire tumbles in next to Horbin the Holy, moving with uncanny speed, and swings his falchion in a deadly arc.  He knocks one of the half-troll demodands to the ground, then turns to face the next and strikes it in the head with cunning force!  Horbin, meanwhile, brings his holy mace down on the one on the ground, finishing it.Lester turns to the issue of the deathbringers.  "You can cast out," he yells, "so I can cast in!"  And he brings an incendiary cloud out, a rolling reddish vapor full of sparks and fire.  Then he jerks a potion from his belt and tosses it to Thrush.  "Drink this!" he cries, and the warrior does so, some of his wounds closing.We're not doing so badly, the Eye thinks as Sybele drops the uncontrolled Holocaust, accidentally hitting Horbin in the process.He might think differently if he knew that Turfi and Lendivo had arrived unseen and were about to slay a party member... much like before.*Activating a trump is a full-round action that requires a successful Intelligence check, DC 15; it also draws an attack of opportunity.  Fortunately, Orbius has ultimate concentration in effect, which allows him to concentrate on multiple things at once.Next Time: Turfi and Lendivo kill again!  The battle continues!  The next wave is coming!!</blockquote>

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