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Message: <blockquote data-quote="the Jester" data-source="post: 2794404" data-attributes="member: 1210">In one of the crypts near where the party lost Cara, our heroes find the succubus’ lair.  For the first few moments they don’t even know it.  Awkwardly shouldering the bag holding the crippled elf, Kyle opens a door in the crypt they are investigating.  Something shuffles forward and bites him, and he collapses with a cry.  Then the smell rolls over the party, a miasma of death and rot.  A pair of ghouls rushes out from the lower level of the crypt to engage them in melee.  Then, an instant later, the demoness appears from nowhere and smiles at Jorgen.  “Kill her, behind you,” the succubus suggests, and Jorgen immediately whirls and begins attacking Dahlia.  The hermit cries out in fear and pain, and releases the baron’s bloodhounds.  Meanwhile, Me roars and rushes the succubus, slicing her with his sword, and the strength of his blow manages to penetrate the succubus’ damage reduction.  She grunts in pain and vanishes, reappearing near Kyle’s paralyzed form.Immediately she begins to grab at the elf-bag. Me roars again, charging at the demon and swinging with all his might.There is a splash of blood and her head flies free.  The look of shock and surprise on her face is quite fulfilling for our heroes, really.Meanwhile, Cedric and Goer, working together, make short work of the ghouls.  Their blows finish the ghouls in quick succession, and they then rush to check on Kyle.  Jorgen seems to come out of the stupor or whatever force has him attacking Dahlia.  He shakes his head.  “What- why did I do that?”Dahlia eyes him wearily.  “Yeah!  Why did you do that?” she demands.“I don’t know, it’s almost as if I wasn’t in control of my actions,” he muses aloud. “Well, don’t do it again!” she insists.  The sheriff nods sheepishly; if he can help it, he won’t.Sir Cedric bounds to his feet, finding Kyle still breathing but just unmoving.  Goer continues to look him over while the knight cries, “Cara!”  The room that the ghouls were in leads to what appears to be a small bed chamber.  “Cara, my thweet!” Sir Cedric yells again, heading immediately to the room’s only exit.Behind him, Kyle stiffly begins to move again.  “What happened?” he groans.  “The filthy bugger bit me, and then... I couldn’t move!  I could hear the battle, but...”  The others fill him in as Goer hurries forward to back up Sir Cedric, in case more trouble awaits within the crypt.“You stay out here,” Dahlia admonishes Jorgen.  Then she hurries after the Goer.  Still feeling sheepish, Jorgen obeys.Through the last door, our heroes find a row of cells.  From within one, a wavering, female voice calls out, “Cedric, is that you?”“Cara!”Sir Cedric rushes to the cell door and smashes it in.  His wife, five months pregnant, is within!  With a joyous cry they are reunited.  “Oh, Cedric!” Cara cries from the depths of their embrace.“Are you all right, my thweet?” Sir Cedric asks.  “Did the thuccubuth hurt you?”“No- not yet.  But... but she wanted to sacrifice me- and our unborn child!”“Agh!” cries Sir Cedric, aghast.“But that’s not all,” Cara continues.  She squeezes his hands.  “Cedric- where is Jorgen?”“He is thtanding guard back by our entranthe.  It theemth ath though the demoneth had influenthed hith mind in thome fathion.”“Cedric-” Cara hesitates for a moment, but then takes a deep breath and plunges on.  “In one of the other cells,” she says breathlessly, “is Jorgen’s sister.”Next Time: Sir Galadon is in jail, Cara has been rescued- perhaps everything is okay now... except our heroes are still doubting whether they caught the real traitor, and the battle is coming in a few days!</blockquote>

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