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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Demetrios1453" data-source="post: 9440186" data-attributes="member: 6801060">Curse of the Azure Bonds (Part 18): The Cave of the Dracolich (Part 5)After we rest, we move one square, and...[ATTACH=full]377312[/ATTACH]Patrol #8, but this time we have to fight.[ATTACH=full]377313[/ATTACH]We quickly aim at the mage, who, after being hit, moves forward to melee.  With, again, predictable results.[ATTACH=full]377314[/ATTACH]The battle is soon over.[ATTACH=full]377315[/ATTACH]We head south, and soon barge into another room full of drow.[ATTACH=full]377316[/ATTACH][ATTACH=full]377317[/ATTACH]We do not retreat.This time, it's all mages. Now, that might seem as bad as all clerics, but (a) they have lower HP and AC, and (b) they don't have any "fail your save and you can instantly die" spells. Yeah, they'll throw the random lightning bolts around, but with everyone's hit points (other than Akbar's) being pretty robust, they'll probably not be too bad to deal with.Buffy gets us started with her necklace:[ATTACH=full]377318[/ATTACH][ATTACH=full]377319[/ATTACH]Brin with a fireball...[ATTACH=full]377320[/ATTACH][ATTACH=full]377321[/ATTACH]Bragir follows with his own fireball.[ATTACH=full]377322[/ATTACH][ATTACH=full]377323[/ATTACH]Already we've thinned out their ranks quite a bit.[ATTACH=full]377324[/ATTACH]As my melee run up, Akbar gets a fireball off as well.[ATTACH=full]377325[/ATTACH](Oops! Aimed poorly, and Brother Baltor will be in the radius! Should have chosen one square down)[ATTACH=full]377326[/ATTACH]One of the few that hasn't been hit in that barrage retaliates...[ATTACH=full]377327[/ATTACH]But at tihis point, my melee is up there taking down the by-now low hit point survivors. But one still gets a spell off...[ATTACH=full]377328[/ATTACH]But the battle is over soon after that.[ATTACH=full]377329[/ATTACH]Brother Baltor took the brunt of their lightning bolts (and an inadvertent friendly-fire fireball) and is in pretty poor shape.[ATTACH=full]377330[/ATTACH]At least there were a lot of XP for that bunch![ATTACH=full]377331[/ATTACH]Enough that Buffy (as seen in the previous screenshot) how has enough XP to level up![ATTACH=full]377332[/ATTACH]First to level 10! And her thief skills are looking very nice now.We rest, mainly to get Brother Baltor healed up.[ATTACH=full]377333[/ATTACH]We leave the room and head south again. As we near the southern edge of the cavern complex, another patrol blocks our way.[ATTACH=full]377334[/ATTACH]But this is patrol #9 (Nowhere near as fun as Mambo #9, for which I've just dated myself), so after this we won't meet any more random patrols and can rest freely on the map![ATTACH=full]377335[/ATTACH]Oh, a mage and a cleric. This one is going to be a bit more work than the previous eight!And the cleric goes first. That sucks. Especially for Brin.[ATTACH=full]377336[/ATTACH]Luckily, she's protected in the back row, so she can't be reached for an insta-kill. The rest of the party starts to wear the patrol down. So much so that they start to run away (which is what this screenshot was supposed to show, but I was a moment to late to catch the text). Note the cleric facing away and trying to head south. Brother Baltor will get a hit on him from behind.[ATTACH=full]377338[/ATTACH]The last fighter tries to run as well, and Bant takes him out.[ATTACH=full]377339[/ATTACH]The last patrol is down! We're free to roam and rest where we will (other than set encounters).We head towards the southeastern corner of the complex, where we soon meet a decidedly not-random patrol.[ATTACH=full]377340[/ATTACH][ATTACH=full]377341[/ATTACH]Two drow fighters and four efreet. Look at them all nicely lined up! Brin has a spell just for this situation![ATTACH=full]377342[/ATTACH][ATTACH=full]377343[/ATTACH][ATTACH=full]377344[/ATTACH]Bragir follows suit.[ATTACH=full]377345[/ATTACH][ATTACH=full]377346[/ATTACH]That causes a couple to drop. Akbar gets in on the action as well. He doesn't have the ability to cast cone of cold, so he does the next best thing...[ATTACH=full]377347[/ATTACH][ATTACH=full]377348[/ATTACH]This pretty much leaves the drow, who go down quickly.[ATTACH=full]377350[/ATTACH]I wonder why they were blocking this passage? We continue on a bit.[ATTACH=full]377351[/ATTACH]Hey, that's unfair! We so wanted to visit the drow city! We move forward a few more spaces, and...[ATTACH=full]377352[/ATTACH]Well, there's nothing more to see this way I guess. We turn around and head towards the southwestern portion of the map.We've got some pretty major battles coming up, so this is a good place to stop. Next time, we'll finish this zone and finally meet the long-awaited and much-anticipated dracolich!</blockquote>

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