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Message: <blockquote data-quote="DoctorB" data-source="post: 5030" data-attributes="member: 903">The story continues...As the warrior types (Bacha, Alexander, Toiva) held the front door, the others went into the center of the library where Luan had all of the magic items in the place brought.  This was the senior loremasters’ study and already had in it a strange orrery and a large box with mysterious writing on it.  Liana went exploring and Galena and Joy got down to the business of figuring out what was going on.  Galena had detected that the force that sent them to this chaos plane came from somewhere inside the building but not where.  She found that the large box had abjuration magic on it and the writing was old draconic giving warnings against opening it so she decided not to.  At the same time, Liana had discovered some writing on one of the stairwells saying “The Door is Open” in some form of Khal.  She, Galena, and Joy went upstairs and detect magic found that one of the cells on the second floor had magic in it.  When Liana opened the door, a man appeared and cast a Magic Missile into her.Meanwhile downstairs, the gibbering mouthers (the other things Toiva saw) had burned through the stone on each side of the door.  Something big gray and humanoid with a froglike head ripped the weakened doors away and the battle started in earnest.  Three of the worm things and several mouthers entered the Library.  Toiva, Bacha and Alexander started a fighting retreat intending to defend the narrow corridor into the main reading room.Upstairs, the battle was over pretty quick.  Liana did not attack right away.  Joy cast a searing light that killed the guy where he stood.  This was the first living creature she had ever killed.  Searching the guy showed he had some kind of spiral symbol and burned into his left arm were seven strange symbols, which Lux said were not language.  Galena ordered “bring that arm” and rushed downstairs again to continue the examination of the items in the study.  Galena quickly discovered that the symbols were the same as the ones on the strange orrery which had seven faintly glowing symbols.  Touching one of these using prestidigitation brought up about twenty similar signs to choose from.  The party quickly figured out this object was what had brought them here and that the symbols were somehow linked to this plane.  If only they knew the combination for their own plane!  Luan offered that there was a room of works no one could read.  Maybe something there would be useful.  Galena went with him to see while the others went to aid with the combat.In the main entranceway, barricading the narrow passageway into the main reading room had bought them some time but they found the gray thing was nowhere to be seen.  Bacha held the barricade against the strength of one of the strange wormlike things and the others used missile weapons against it.  Suddenly, the door to their right burst open and the missing monsters came through.  Seeing themselves flanked, the three fighting at the front door retreated to the doorway leading toward the loremaster study.  Using the narrow corridors to their advantage, they set up ambushes at four-way intersections.  Joy and Cobb showed up to help with healing.Galena looked through the scrolls Luan showed her and found she could read them.  Several were in Celestial, some in Infernal and others in elemental languages.  She looked at the Celestial ones first.  One of them had a symbol she recognized from the set above one of the symbols on the orrery upstairs.  Looking through it, it was an account of someone who had journeyed to the Heavens and returned.  He had found these symbols in various places and had just copied them down, not knowing what they were.  There were seven.  Running back to the study, she lined up the seven symbols from the scroll on the orrery and cast spells into it to power it.  With the seventh spell level, everyone felt the library shift.The fight continued in the corridors as the chaos beasts slowly gained ground.  Suddenly a blinding flash went through the building blinding many of the Champions and others.  The creatures were gone.  Going downstairs, they saw a beautific landscape outside.  Galena had transported them to Heaven.</blockquote>

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