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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Eccles" data-source="post: 1521983" data-attributes="member: 5675">Miles awoke in the pitch-dark cavern, and rubbed his eyes before putting on his Goggles of Night. His body ached after sleeping once again in his enchanted chain armour, but he stretched his muscles and looked around.The cavern was empty, apart from the statues of frozen humanoids left by the beholder. His companions had all disappeared, and the walls and statues were covered in a fine layer of soot.However, the loot had also disappeared along with his companions, and so Miles incanted a swift spell of climbing, and scrambled down the tube-like entrance.At the foot of the tube, he washed the soot off himself, and headed out into the neighbouring cavern, trying to find some trace of where his companions had gone.The cavern was spattered with blood, and a single stripped corpse lay face-down in the ox-bow lake surrounded by mushrooms. Miles looked closely at the body, but left it largely untouched before moving on to find the body of the Mind Flayer near its pool.Squeezing past the enormous statue of a petrified fire giant, Miles headed out in the most likely direction for his comrades to have gone; towards Maermydra.Several hours later, he marched straight through the first group's campsite he came to, and then walked on into the propert camp itself. {The group has a habit of casting illusory campsites to deflect attackers}.He sat down heavily in front of the others, and glared at them."You ba***rds".Miles had rejoined the group.---3 days of travelling later, and the environment had changed once again. The narrow tunnel had begun to open out into a wide network of caverns, most of which had signs of cultivation in them. Mushrooms of varying sizes had been torn up and removed, leaving only a few roots and dishevelled ground to indicate that they were ever there. Miles' best guess indicted that many of the mushrooms had been taken or devoured by a group of goblins and giants that they had met several days ago. The goblins and ogres had been almost negligently annihilated by Halbrinn and Rand, before others had leapt in to finish off the fire giant travelling with the creatures.Suddenly, a tiny blossom of light shone in the darkness. Growing suddenly, the tiny dot of light hurtled towards the group, blossoming outwards in an enormous ball of fire, scorching a couple in the group, (although many in the group had some form of fire-proofing magics cast upon themselves which reduced the damage) but failing to touch the majority, whose reactions were near-superhuman in speed. {DM's note - how boring is it when 5 out of the 7 members of the group have evasion?}Then, almost immediately, dark and greasy clouds began to materialise around the group. Twisting and dodging to their very best, many of them were nonetheless unable to avoid damage from the draining magics. Miles, strangely, was left completely untouched, whilst Rand and Aeron once again took the worst of the effects.The group looked around for the source of these sorceries, but saw nothing. Drawing inwards, they prepared to repel an invisible assault, but almost immediately, an enormous ring of fire leapt up around them, almost touching the ceiling as it locked them into place.Casting a daylight spell on an old coin, Halbrinn began to fly for the top of the Wall of Fire, whilst Yvgeny sprouted wings from his new cloak and flew straight through the top of the Wall (taking some terrible burns in the process), and Miles simply leapt, wincing, through before turning invisible. Stedd turned and ran towards Rand, swirling his cloak over them both. Rand, not understanding what Stedd was trying to do, resisted, and then stood there in confusion when Stedd simply disappeared. Rand, his cohort, and Aeron were left inside the blazing wall. Aeron began to cast his preparatory 'suite' of combat spells, prompting Rand to shout at him to do something else.Rand, hasted already, threw several dispelling sorceries at the Wall, but all were totally ineffectual. Halbrinn also failed, before shooting over the top of the Wall and gazing about him into the darkness; his keen gnomish eyes picking up sight of a pair of devils in the distance. He began to prepare one of his favourite spells, the Phantasmal Killer.A second fireball streaked across the cavern, exploding within the circle of fire and adding further insult to injury for Aeron and Rand. Then, a stretch of the wall flexed, and a large elemental creature stepped forth, swinging flaming arms at Rand's cohort.Rand and cohort tried unsuccessfully to tackle the elemental, but finally the heavily enspelled Aeron strode forwards and swung his mace through the creature. He frowned at it, squinting. "Illusion", he sniffed.Outside the blazing circle, Halbrinn's spell leapt towards the Cornugon devil, which bellowed in fear and surprise, before dropping dead to the stone floor. Encouraged, Stedd and Miles leapt on the Hamatula devil, smashing sword and fist into it until it fell to the ground seconds later.Halbrinn's next spell caused the Wall of Fire to disappear, and a second Hamatula could be seen beyond it. The devil squinted at the adventurers, muttered something in its own foul language, and then disappeared.{Next! The Clearwater Crusaders finally reach Maermydra, and a furious fight with the creatures on the gate leaves 2 adventurers dead!}</blockquote>

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