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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Eccles" data-source="post: 1506236" data-attributes="member: 5675">"We're being scried again." Halbrinn was aware of the sensor only moments after a slight pause in Aeron's prayers indicated something was up."Should we dispel it?" Rand was looking around, totally unaware of the sensor, which amused Halbrinn's gnomish sensibilities no end."Yeah. Get one of the priests to do it.""Can't. They're still praying. No priestly backup for about another half hour.""Oh. You want to do it?""Not really. I'll give it a shot though."Rand's brow furrowed as he channelled the energies from within himself, and threw them in the direction indicated by Halbrinn."Still there?""Yep.""Damn. What do we do about it then? I could cast another 20 or so dispels, but that would spoil me for the rest of the day.""So we ignore it again?""Yeah. After all, what harm could it do? It's only a sensor."So they left it.---Approximately 20 seconds later, a tiny red-orange pea hurtled up through the hole in the floor, exploding violently amongst the adventurers.Only Rand and Aeron were actually hurt by this, as the other 4 in the group had such incredible reactions that they were able to hurl themselves behind cover and avoid the blast. Aeron's prayers never faltered, although Yvgeny broke off his supplications to his God as a safety precaution.Halbrinn looked down over the lip of the small hole. A roaring wall of fire was springing up where the drop opened up into the cavern below."Uh, guys?"An unarmoured form rocketed past him and plunged down the hole, arms and legs flailing as he skidded and bounced off the walls."Stedd?"Halbrinn looked around, and was rather confused by what he saw. Miles, usually the first to be up and attacking the foe, was still wrapped tightly in his bedroll, fast asleep."Miles?"Rand, meanwhile, was pulling a foot-tall stone statue out of his backpack, and sprinkling powder on it. Within moments, the statue took on colour and started to grow dramatically, finally starting to animate as the man it became drew its sword and looked around for the enemy.Halbrinn shook his head and got back to casting spells on himself. Aeron never even looked up from his prayers.---Down below, Stedd dropped through the sheets of flame, and felt claws rake him as he fell to the ground. Looking around, he saw a enormous winged form clutching a whip and raking at him with huge claws and a long tail which dripped venom."Uh, guys? A little help here?"As Stedd began to exchange blows with the devil, others in the group began to fly (Halbrinn), float (Rand's Feather Fall power) or climb (Yvgeny) towards the wall of flame below them. Many of them were burned by the flames as they fell through, until Halbrinn, hovering in the tunnel, dispelled the Wall of Flame and moved down.---The devil lashed out with whip, claw, tail and tooth, and Stedd was hard pressed to match it. Falling back gradually, he was relieved when Rand's new cohort dropped out of the tunnel above him, and fell to the ground, leaping up and brandishing a rapier.Stedd was grateful for the help, and for the reduction in blows that followed. However, he swiftly realised that his fists (and Rand's duellist cohort's rapier) could not effectively penetrate the creature's tough hide. Stedd swapped to his heavily enchanted nunchaku, and began to flail away with abandon. The devil, meanwhile, stunned and then poisoned Rand's cohort, before being flanked and beaten into oblivion by Yvgeny, Stedd and Rand's magic.When the group climbed back to the cave above, they saw that Miles was still asleep, and that Aeron was still praying.There were many complaints.---Next - the group goes back down that vertical tunnel, and gets into even more trouble! And Miles still doesn't wake up!</blockquote>

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