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Message: <blockquote data-quote="DoctorB" data-source="post: 134106" data-attributes="member: 903">A Long-Hidden TruthIn the morning, Karl scouted out the entrance to the drow cavern and discovered that the dark elves had returned in the night.  Two of the massive three-armed giants stood guard beside the entrance.  The Champions made their plans.Drinking her darkvision potion, Joy ran past the guarding giants into the main part of the cavern as the other Champions and their dwarven allies attacked the guards.  Even as Joy arrived at the side of the pit and prepared to call upon the Lady’s power of daylight, she saw that she was in trouble.  Two more of the giants moved to attack her even as arrows came from beyond the limit of her vision to strike her solidly.  Ignoring the pain, she cast the spell and looked around for a way out.  Three of the giants now had her surrounded near the pit, striking her with their massive clubs.Meanwhile, the other Champions discovered that they guards were anything but pushovers.  They dealt out massive damage with their greatclubs and took Toiva and Cobbe’s mightiest blows.  As the Daylight spell filled their half of the cavern with light, everyone saw how much danger Joy was in.Liana tumbled between the legs of one of the giants to run to the priestess’ aid.  As the others forced their way into the edge of the cavern, a third giant joined the others in the melee.  Rolf finally called upon the strength of the Mountain and set his feet, determined not to be moved from that spot.  Meanwhile Arina and Liana covered Joy as she retreated back toward the cavern entrance as arrows continued to whiz around and into her.  Galena could just make out a couple of drow at the edge of the light, and centered a fireball there.  She was rewarded with crys of pain and at least one of the enemies fell there.As Joy fell back to the others, Rolf died in combat against two of the giants, but his sacrifice had bought the others valuable time.  They retreated into the entrance cavern again where only two of the giants could reach them at once.  Fearing the unseen drow beyond the daylight, Onyx pulled out an ancient scroll and read a spell from it.  A wall of fire sprang up near the edge of the pit, forcing other attackers to run through it to get to the heroes.  Two of the giants did so in addition to the two the Champions now fought in the passageway.  Galena summoned a horde of smaller foes to confuse the giants and allow Liana and Karl to find vital places to strike as Toiva and Cobbe threw all their strength into their blows.  Finally, three of the giants died in the corridor and one other fled rather than face the same fate.Unsure about the fate of the remaining drow, the party slowly worked their way out into the chamber as Onyx continued to concentrate on the wall of fire.  The Champions considered how to get into the pit where the “god” was supposedly waiting.  Finally, they arrived at a plan.</blockquote>

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