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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Eccles" data-source="post: 1560860" data-attributes="member: 5675">Working in close concert, Miles and Stedd continued to hack away at one of the ghouls. But still it didn't fall."Damn it, why won't you die?" yelled Miles.Halbrinn's tiny winged form hovered up a short distance, and then began to cast spell after spell at the foes, each time noting another immunity or resistance. His fireball spell ignited the books but didn't even phase the creatures. Phantasmal Killer did nothing to the undead, and even his favourite Resilient Sphere spell went awry, missing no fewer than three times, and leaving the back of the room crammed with massive globes, bobbing and bouncing whenever one of the fighters nudged them. Eventually, he was forced to resort to his 'lesser' spells; although he had very few, and still his luck failed him. Magic Missiles were defeated by the ghouls' abyssal resistance to magic, and Halbrinn's luck continued to fail him, as both Acid Arrows began to burn holes through the floor rather than his foes.All in all, Halbrinn became very despondent..oOo.Back in the melee, Aeron stepped forwards and laid his hands on Jason, simultaneously curing him of all of his wounds, as well as removing the disease that Jason had caught from one blackened claw. Jason flexed his magically enhanced muscles, and heaved the ghoul off him, before smacking it once again with his Maul. "Get OFF!"And finally, one of the ghouls fell to the floor unmoving..oOo.As if to counter-balance this small shred of success, the ghouls leapt to the attack once more, this time with ghouls managing to overbear both Miles and Aeron, bringing them both down in a tangle of limbs as the long grey tongues slurped hungrily towards their mouths.Miles threw off the ghoul rapidly, but continued to suffer from an onslaught of blows. Aeron, however, struggled to the very best of his ability, but the ghoul was too strong. His head was pulled roughly back, and the long tongue slammed through the roof of his mouth, the smoky immaterial end reaching straight into his brain. His eyes began to roll back as the ghoul began to feed; and as it fed, he could feel his mental fortitude and his connection with his Goddess failing.The adventurers rallied, almost all of them bashing at the ghoul on Aeron. Yvgeny's prayer spell helped the Crusaders, but failed to have much of an effect on the creatures they were facing.Finally, however, attrition began to show on the monsters as well. Two more dropped to the ground, and most of the others looked hurt. Still they came, however. Miles fled back to the corridor, leaving Stedd, Yvgeny and the newly invigorated Jason to fight off the monsters, whilst the assassin pulled out a wand and began to use it to restore his injuries.The ghoul feeding on Aeron was finally dispatched, leaving him grievously wounded and unable to cast any but his very lowest magics. Unfortunately, however, one of the three remaining creatures showed incredible mobility, and tumbled around behind Jason, allowing the other two to stab viciously into both Jason and Aeron, who fell to the floor, bleeding heavily from a grievous wound to his throat.</blockquote>

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