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Message: <blockquote data-quote="diaglo" data-source="post: 2730013" data-attributes="member: 2885">Party perilThe party decided on visiting the cave outside of Maerimydra. Sully gave them darksight and then dropped off Fiddle, Fextor, and Alya. He went back for the Vlad, Vern, and Chloe. Darian stayed in Tilverton. And Dunnin was... well off spending 2000 platinum pieces Fiddle guessed. That was a lot of Ale and Whores by his reckonin'. They waited a few moments and no sign of the others. Fiddle started to worry. Perhaps they had been shifted into one of the walls by the weird change in magic. He poked around a bit. Finally, Sully appeared."Uhm," Sully blushed. "This is the wrong cave. The others are back near Maerimydra.""Yeah, I just discovered that," Fiddle whispered. "We are in the territory the dracolisk calls home."Sully popped them back to the others. They quickly decided on Goblin forms for the next visit to the gate. A little while later they found out it was unnecessary. The Giant Guards were gone and the gate lay in ruins. From this vantage point it was clear the Giant's Army was losing. There were very few fires now burning. And those were mostly clustered around the Coliseum and the Castle. Luckily it was still foggy and hid most everything in the air. The party scrambled down to the city proper. Fiddle covered their tracks with a spell. They crossed in secret as best they could. They stayed near the buildings and avoided the open roads. There path took them thru the heart of the city. Under the terraced nobles lands. Passed the destroyed Temple to the Spider Queen. And up to the Main Street. It was here that their bad luck turned worse.Three figures leapt from the rooftops and surrounded Fiddle. They struck with precision and malice. The Ghoul gang. Smoke trailed from their long tongues. Vern screamed and flew away. Fiddle tumbled and ran for cover to draw them out. Unfortunately, there was another one behind him too. The party reacted too slowly. Chloe backed into a building. A great pillar of flame descended into the area of one of the ghouls. Vlad ducked the flames while Alya scrambled for safety.  Alya cast a spell to hide. Fextor hacked into the nearest Ghoul. Three of the ghouls pulled Fextor limb from limb. The fourth chased Fiddle. Sully fired off his strongest spell. The ghouls took note. Vlad moved aside, sprang into the melee and then ran. Vern fired off his only weapon. A blob of ooze. It hit the pavement. Fiddle sliced his foe. Chloe called on some more magic inside the building. The ghouls surrounded the gnome and ripped him apart. Alya bent down touched the body and vanished.  Vlad sprang forward again, attacked, and retreated.Vern ducked down and tried to call a friend. Fiddle broke and ran. As fast and as hard as he could back for the exit."Bad luck, bad omens," Fiddle thought. "I shoulda stayed in Tilverton this morning."He ran so long and far he forgot to keep track. As he reached the top by the gate he looked back. A flying creature descended and landed next to him. In its claws it held Fextor. Chloe in bird form also landed. The flying creature vanished. Chloe became human. Alya appeared a few moments later wtih Sully. The party hurried back to the cave. Vlad caught up to them and helped Chloe with Fextor."We need Sully back if we are ever going to see the light of day again," Alya said."He said he didn't want to come back," Fiddle reminded them. "But would as long as his quest wasn't complete. I guess it's time to test that."</blockquote>

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