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Message: <blockquote data-quote="CPaladin" data-source="post: 8510486" data-attributes="member: 7030144">[Session 83 cont'd]There are a pair of loud booms, and turquoise runes appear in the room, while a silvery barrier appears over the door.  A disembodied voice speaks.  “Attempt to breach outer palace defenses has failed. Damage to palace superstructure in third quadrant has been noted. Golem response has been initiated. All inhabitants are secure.”"What is the nature of the attack?" asks Dame Brionna“Double blast using a combination of portable holes and bags of holding.  Perpetrator using a bow, special arrow heads, vanished immediately after the attack. No detection of teleportation.”"Where is the safest place for the Archduke?"“The catacombs.”Dame Brionna and Kit prevail upon Alistair to go to the catacombs.“The taint of the Unspeakable was detected upon the perpetrator; it cannot currently be located.  Crystal golems are sweeping the area in advance of dropping the force walls.”Grandmaster Farsensor is contacted.  "I think we know where the greater one is now. It failed to gain entry, because it cannot enter directly against the wards. It will have gone to ground. There is no way to detect it psionically. True sight would only do it if you had a viewer who can see the nature of the paths a person can take. It will never stay where it was when it fired the arrows. It will retreat to an area with a great many people—the market in the lower city. You will need someone who can face it.""Lord Davion?""Lord Davion, with my assistance should be able to. He is the only one who could."Alistair speaks to Prince Moriquendarim, asks him to find the creature, but stresses that he must not engage it—that he must just find it and pass the information on to others. They plan an expedition with Dame Brionna, on her flying horse, with greater invisibility over all of them.The Council dresses Prince Moriquendarim in heavy armor to make him look more human; he leaves the pendant that declaims his status to all present.Dame Brionna flies a “patrol,” not directly to the market, but that leads her over the eastern market. When she arrives there, Prince Moriquendarim lights up a target—“that one.”The battle is joined. There are a couple of dragons that were not asleep yet; there are also several things that we do not even recognize. In about a minute, the battle is over. The first 40 seconds has a lot of back and forth; then it begins fleeing, changing forms more than a dozen times in the last twenty seconds, while the Prince keeps on identifying. Finally, it dies, and turns back to burning protoplasm. (Dame Brionna sends for holy water to douse it with.)Lord Davion leans on his sword. "You know, I’m going to have to recollect some of those—they were rare. I hope they haven’t been able to bring many of those through."“We’re pretty sure only one.”“Good. The last time they brought many more through. It took a great deal to stop them—they were too advanced. That was in the Second Age. But their entry was denied, and the footholds disappeared.”Casualties were incidental—some injuries, but the only deaths were two shopkeepers who had shops fall on them.The Council discusses its route in—we conclude that it likely came in through the City of Gates, traveling from there into the Underdark, then through a major aquifer in the Underdark, into the water feeding the eastern farms around Canberry City.One of the places where he was is one of the shops in the high city—a shop that sells extremely rare magic items and antiquities. "The young noble from the northlands, purchased four of my most expensive items. Two ancient bags of holding, and two portable holes. He paid in platinum coins—from Gates."[End session 83]</blockquote>

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