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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Silver Moon" data-source="post: 1759853" data-attributes="member: 8530">Chapter Five, “Into the Lair”, February 17th, 1020:They decide to move on in two teams.   Lannon will turn invisible and bring Mark and Cassie with him in one bag of holding while Luekia will try to move unseen in her dark burka with Alton and Timothy in another bag.   This will give each trio a rogue, a high-level cleric, a person who can transform into an animal, and a person in semi-aquatic form if an emergency water exit is required.  Luekia continues to control the wolves, sending them down the far entrance to the ledge with the hobgoblins and instructing the wolves to attack whoever or whatever they find there.   This catches the attention of the other humanoid creatures within the room.   Lannon continues to scale the wall without being detected and makes his way forward, bypassing most of the humanoid wolves and bugbears in the room.    He makes his way towards the staircase leading up to the leader’s chamber, finding it blocked by two giant humanoid wolves and a half-dozen bugbear.   He decides to try to pass them by climbing the ceiling about their heads.  Lannon passes most of the creature, noticing that the ceiling appears to be moist in this region.  He reaches a spot where part of the ceiling crumbles in his hand, dust and rock falling below.  This catches the attention of the guards, one of which comes over to where he is to investigate.  Lannon remains still and waits until the guard concludes that nothing out of the ordinary is happening and returns.  Lannon continues and more of the ceiling comes off in his hand and falls.   This convinces all of the guards that something is indeed going on.   Several of the guards head up to and unlock the door to the chamber, entering to alert and guard their leader.   This actually helps Lannon, as he scampers into the room while the door is opened.   The room has some furniture in it and Lannon moves to behind a large trunk to let Mark and Cassie out of the Bag of Holding.   Realizing that the animal-creatures will soon detect their scent, they waste no time in attacking.   Cassie is restricted from using her most lethal spells due to small size of the chamber.  Mark directly attacks while Cassie tosses Magic Missile spells into the fake deity to prevent him from using spells.   Lannon tries to sneak across for a backstab but the creature detects him.   Cassie then shifts to tossing spells into the creature’s bugbear bodyguards while Lannon and Mark drive their magical swords into the creature.  The fake deity then polymorphs into an oversized spectral wolf, which causes Lannon and Mark some pause as Lannon says “That’s the same thing that big Mojo and caused him to start dissolving.” The momentary respite is all the time that the creature needs to make a break for the doorway, at speeds faster than the other three can stop him.   The main alarms have now been sounded in the primary room.   As the spectral wolf charges into the main chamber other humanoid wolves flock to it.   The large hairless and tattooed humanoid wolf rushes to the pit and casts a spell, causing the empty robes near the pit to fill up with ghost-like creatures.   From behind the hiding area Luekia calls back the wolves she has sent away while Timothy charges out with his holy symbol and successful turns the undead, causing them to return to the pit.  Alton tosses Heat Metal spells onto the weapons of the creatures in the room.    The wolves that Luekia controls return followed by a dozen goblins riding upon worg wolves.    Cassie is now in a large enough chamber to let loose by massive Fireballs from her crown, which has the effect of cutting down roughly half the opponents in the room.   Alton and Cassie then work out an effective tag-team maneuver that they had planned.  She casts Rock to Mud beneath the fake god’s feet, turning the floor under his feet into quicksand, which the wolf form cannot move through.   He polymorphs back into his humanoid dog form only to then be hit with Alton’s Detect Magic, which turns the mud back into rock, encasing him in the floor.   Cassie the skewers the trapped creature with a Lightning Bolt, by which time both Mark and Lannon are upon him.   Lannon stabs into the creature’s heart as Mark drives his sword into its skull.   Once the leader is dead the remaining animal creatures come out of a daze.  The hobgoblin leader negotiates with the party, stating that they were controlled and requesting permission to leave rather than fight.   Cassie agrees to these terms only after receiving the promise that they would leave the Kralt Lordholding.   The remaining monsters quickly depart. A quick search of the leader’s room finds a chest with coins, mostly copper but enough of other metals to be worth taking.   The bags of holding are filled.   The group teleports back to the Monastery and reports their success.  The Kralt Lordholder orders up that a celebratory meal be prepared and insists that they spend the night as his guests.  The End (for now)</blockquote>

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