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Message: <blockquote data-quote="LordVyreth" data-source="post: 1703821" data-attributes="member: 9626">The Nightmare Prince: Discovered!Meanwhile, the rest of the party had another setback.  Grockith’s internal battle with his own madness had ended, with him the loser.  He was now trapped in a comatose state, with his soul gone to who knows where.  For now, Tal shrugged.  “We might as well take him with us, in case he comes to.”  Viett and Roryn looked extremely uncomfortable about this, but eventually conceded defeat.  “Just don’t expect us to be so friendly if he comes to and almost gets us all killed,” Roryn warned.  “I’ll make his little nap permanent that time.”    Roryn then worked on the door, which fell after only a few good swings of his axe.  The door opened into a hallway, which turned to the right after only about fifteen feet before turning to the right again.  The path continued in that direction for about seventy feet before turning right again, but there were a pair of doors on the right wall, and curiosity got the better of the party.  Roryn moved to open the first door, with Robin taking point.  He kicked it open, and found a grisly torture chamber on the other side.  There was a terrified and agonized man bound to a table, and a vulture-headed humanoid looming over him.  The room was filled with other horrid creatures, from more of the flame-wreathed demons like the one they fought at TIE’s mountain, to strange demonic hyena-like creatures, to a creature with the upper body of a man and the lower body of a scorpion.    Roryn wasted no time in charging into the room, with Robin cautiously following behind.  The two of them easily destroyed the hyenas, while Viett, Tal, and Danae hurled magic (or at least what they think is magic, in Viett’s case,) at the other demons, and Nether crept into the room from behind.  The demon often called a Vrock responded by seeding Roryn with some painful spores, but he laughed off the pain, while the party easily surrounded and slaughtered the scorpion demon and the fire demons.  However, the Vrock was wearing some sort of black chain mail, which when combined with his naturally hard skin and agility made him much harder to hit.  In addition, he had used his magical powers to create a small army of illusionary clones, which the party often accidentally hit instead of the demon itself.  Roryn and the others surrounded the Vrock to begin the slow process of destroying the strange demon.  Thorrun, meanwhile, waited out in the hallway to guard and heal injured allies as they retreat, which turned out to be a mistake, as there was still the other doorway’s inhabitants to deal with.    Speaking of which, the door suddenly burst open, and a pair of giant apes emerged.  They had strange blood-red fur, and enough strange artificial attachments to clearly label them as more of the half-machines.  The two of them were also moving so fast that they were blurs.  The two of them charged poor Thorrun, and in a matter of seconds, ripped him limb from limb!    While Nathee, Roryn and Robin finished off the Vrock, Tal led the others out to deal with the apes.  They were fierce opponents, but they nonetheless fell quickly to the magical and psionic power of the party.  However, none of them expected that this was the limit of the enemies in the other room, and they ran up to the other door to prevent another ambush.  Inside, there was what appeared to be a chapel.  There also was black-robed cultist, wielding a Morningstar and the miniature holy symbol scimitars, suggesting that he was an actual divine cleric of Bas, and possibly a powerful one.  He was being guarded by another black-robed cultist, but he was more bulky, and had the build of a fighter.  He also appeared to be a trained bodyguard, for he was constantly moving to get in front of the cleric.  The cleric was the first to respond, and with a few simple gestures and an exhortation to his goddess, a wall of incredibly powerful flames rained down on the party’s most fragile warriors!  None of them were killed by it, but they could barely stand up after the attack.     Fortunately, Robin and the other more combative members of the party had finished the Vrock, and were coming to help.  However, even their attacks couldn’t come close to the cleric, for the guard was willingly throwing himself in front of all of their attacks, and the cleric responded to this attack by healing his bodyguard.  Fortunately, Viett had an easy solution to this problem, when he simply concentrated, causing a green ray to strike the bodyguard, reducing him to dust!  With him dead, the party easily killed the vile chosen of Bas, but the damage was already done.  Most of the party was too wounded to survive another fight like this, and now their only cleric was dead.  Danae was especially terrified, for Galeron didn’t get a chance to remove the mechanical parasites from her or her familiar yet!  And to make matters even worse, it was about this time that a loud siren began to blare throughout the building.  It was clear that Khaspar knew the party was in the manor, and it was only a matter of time before they were discovered.</blockquote>

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