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Message: <blockquote data-quote="the Jester" data-source="post: 1747650" data-attributes="member: 1210">The Gruesome Wedding, pt. 27:22 p.m., 9/30/368 O.L.G., the Bile King’s DemiplaneHorbin stumbles as he catches his footing on the far side of the portal.  He sees four fat walking corpses start moving towards them, slavering and gnashing their teeth.  Their jaws seem unhinged.Horbin the MFKG Holy hesitates not even an instant.  He lays a protection from acid on himself, then casts a quickened searing light at the nearest creature, burning its flabby chest. “SSSOO HUNGRY,” it moans, and the four of them rush forward to devour him.Horbin channels the sacred might of Dexter, trying to turn these monstrosities back- but to no avail.  He sets his stance, hefts his shield and braces himself-Then Angelfire is there, slashing and hacking.  The nearest undead creature staggers and turns to flee.  Angelfire slices it viciously across the back, but it just keeps going, running out of sight.  Then the other three are on our heroes, keeping them rather busy.  They fall upon Angelfire.The jaws of the terrible monsters are able to open wide enough to bite a man in half.  Angel blocks several bites, but several more penetrate her defenses.  Still, she stands firm, screening Horbin so that he can unleash more of Dexter’s might in the form of a flame strike that burns all three remaining monsters.  Angelfire slices through the skull of one of them and cleaves onto the next nearest.  A moment more and our heroes have defeated the remaining undead. Breathing hard, Angelfire glances behind them.  The portal is faintly visible from this side.  “Where are the others?” Horbin asks after a moment.“They don’t have any bile,” Angel remarks.  “Well, crap.  That can’t be good.”How right they are.  ***7:23 p.m., the Inner Sanctum of Bile Mountain“Thrush, no!  Run!” screams Jezebel as she blasts out with a maximized scorching ray.  She’s moving backwards rapidly, as rapidly as she can while still keeping the horrible chuul in range of her spells.But Thrush does not heed her.  Roaring in rage, he charges forward and hacks at the monster with all his might, dealing it a tremendous wound.  The four-headed monstrosity hisses loudly and strikes out, and though he parries its first claw, the second tears at him.Biting her lip in fear, with only a glance to her mother’s corpse, Jezebel casts another maximized scorching ray.  Her pulse quickens as she sees her would-be stepfather slash it again and again, inflicting grievous damage on it.  And then it catches him in first one claw and then the other; and as it squeezes him in both, he screams one final time before it tears him in two.“NOOOOOO!!!!” the half-dragon shrieks, and she fires another scorching ray and flees.  But she can hear it pursuing her inexorably, and as it slays her, her last thought is Orbius- where are you?***7:25 p.m., the Inner Sanctum of Bile MountainAngelfire and Horbin emerge from the portal back in the Crux Crystal room.  They are greeted by a grisly sight: the terrible four-headed lobster-thing devouring Jezebel’s body.In an instant Angel is upon it.  She deals a telling blow to it, but its wounds have begun to heal already.  It turns and tears at her to incredible effect, forcing Angelfire to retreat for one of the few times in her life.*  As it pursues her she timeslips and vanishes, leaving Horbin, cursing, on his own against the monster.  As it lumbers towards him, it shrugs off a destruction, and Horbin takes a deep breath and readies his mace.Where are the others? he wonders desperately, and shouts, “Hey!  There’s trouble over here, if anyone can hear me!”Next Time: The conclusion!  Gutlings, Bile Lords, the King of Bile... and the Queen of Guts!!!*We’re talking, according to the notes from this session, 248 hp of damage in one round.</blockquote>

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