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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Hairy Minotaur" data-source="post: 2680717" data-attributes="member: 11574">Dem BonesKorg and Gronar part to allow the two elves, Finrod and Luciann, to inspect the massive double doors. The elves note that for as long as this door must have been here, it looks to be in excellent shape. There is a relief of a wide tree that spans both doors, in fact the seam between the doors splits the tree in half. Elven lettering, arches over the top of the tree on the doors and small glints of gold peek out here and there on the letters."In service of the World Tree." Luciann reads aloud."No, I think it's more like Church of the World Tree, It's an ancient dialect." Finrod notes"Hmm, you could be right, and Church of the World Tree sounds better." Luciann replies"Only an elf would plant a tree in the ground and call it a miracle." Omar chimes in"And only a dwarf would stop shaving and call it art." Lothred comments, as he, Paquito, and Sillaqui catch up to the rest of the group."Well, Korg have good feeling shiny things behind door." The hill giant interjects and turns to raise an eyebrow at Gronar.Both giants grasp a door handle apiece and slowly drag open the double doors, as they do dozens of bones spill forth from the room beyond to fill the newly opened space. The party sees in the room beyond, that the floor is covered about four feet deep with bones of all shapes and sizes. The room itself is mammoth in scope, over one-hundred feet long and nearly as tall. Near the back of the room floats a sphere of bones twenty feet in diameter. The center of the room is dominated by a depression in the bone level, that Gronar and Korg see ending in a black as void hole in the floor. To the right of the hole, standing upon a mound of bones is a gaunt green skin colored humanoid creature wearing full plate that seems at least two sizes bigger than what it should be wearing. That creature held a sword almost twenty feet in length.To the left of the hole stood a troll-like creature, yet bone white and scaly, with a scorpion tail. Directly in front of Korg and Gronar, stood a headless troll. The troll's body pivoted silently atop the bones it stood on. Gronar gave a yell and leaped up atop the bone pile and stood just out of reach of the headless troll.Luciann mouths the words to a spell, and touches Finrod. Instantly the elf grows to over ten feet in height. Finrod then assails the bone pile and moves off to the right of the doorway and stands facing the sword carrying creature.The headless troll aims his bleeding neck stump at Gronar and a stream of thick blood shoots erupts from the troll and splashes into the chest of Gronar. The hill giant feels a little twinge from the fluid but it quickly passes. The rest of the party hang back to let the fighters clear a path away from the door. The scaly tailed creature takes a step towards Gronar and then shimmers and fades from sight, the sword wielding creature steps up and motions for Finrod to step up to face it.Gronar switches to his spear and jabs at the headless troll, tearing off a chunk of flesh from it's left hip. Luciann scurries up the bone pile and enlarges Gronar as well, making the hill giant nearly twenty feet in height. Korg surveys the battlefield and notes the absence of the tailed creature, the hill giant then casts invisibility purge , however the creature does not appear. Finrod moves up to face the sword wielding creature, he miscalculates how far the creature's blade can reach however, as the creature swipes out at the incoming Finrod and cuts a gorge across the elf's abdomen. The attack causes Finrod to pull up early, too far away from the creature for him to get a swing on it even enlarged.Lothred climbs the bone pile and braces himself along the back wall of the room as he makes his way to line up with Finrod and the sword wielding creature. Paquito aims a scorching ray at the headless troll and burns away the flesh of his right arm."The stinger tailed creature, he should be found. No?""I have something that will help." Luciann says as he skids down the bone pile back into the hallway and stands in front of the minotaur.Luciann mouths the words to another spell and places his hands on Paquito's arm."Huh? Nothing happened? I was trying to make you invisible." Luciann bewilderedly comments, as he did not hear Korg cast his spell seconds before."No matter, The Triumphant Paquito the Merciless shall stride bravely into battle and defeat his enemies upon a field of bones. No?" Paquito says puffing out his chest and posing slightly for effect."Right after you cast bear's endurance or bull's strength or both on me. No?" Paquito says softly to LuciannGronar switches weapons to his greatsword and brings the hurt down upon the headless troll, in two swings Gronar has reduced the unnatural thing to a gooey pulp. Korg moves in and gets within touch distance from Finrod and sends a cure moderate wounds spell into the elf to staunch the bleeding.Omar decides he wants to see some of the action and begins to clamber up the bone pile. Finrod moves up to get a swing on his combatant yet misses with his sword. The sword wielding creature slashes down with his mammoth sword, the blade bites into Finrod's shoulder and appears to grow in size relative to his shoulder. Only after the blade is withdrawn and Finrod looks up does he realize the creature has dispelled the enlarge  spell Luciann had placed upon him.Lothred takes aim at the sword wielding creature with his staff, then notices out of the corner of his eye that there are three goblins perched perilously atop the black hole in the center of the room. All three appear to be bleeding profusely and are probably near death if not already there. Lothred takes a step to his right and readjusts his aim and lets fly with a corrupt acid bolt from his staff. The vile stream strikes the sword wielding creature and continues on to slam into a bleeding goblin, causing the creature to collapse and fall backwards into the black void. A brilliant flash of light precedes the nauseating smell of burning goblin blood.Gronar turns his attentions to the sword wielding creature and slams his blade into the thing's armor twice, both times his sword manages to dislodge a plate and send the piece of metal careening across the bone field. Luciann casts bear's endurance on Paquito and then turns to climb back up the bones. Paquito leapfrogs the struggling Omar and takes his place to the left of the doorway, and squints his eyes looking for any indication of the whereabouts for the tailed creature, such as bones shifting or a slight shimmer in the air. Finrod withdraws from the sword carrying creature and makes his way to the right wall of the room. The sword wielding creature makes a pulling motion in the air with his left arm and blood leaps forth from Finrod's wounded shoulder and splashes across the armor of the sword carrying creature. Finrod howls in pain and drops to one knee. The creature then turns to face Gronar and shoves his left palm out at the hill giant. Gronar's brain is assaulted with the knowledge of how to build traps, but the sudden influx of information causes the giant's brain to shut down momentarily as it tries to process this new information. The creature uses Gronar's dazed status to pummel the giant with it's sword. It's blade slashes across Gronar's chest, it snaps the giant out of his dazed moment and Ratchet loses his grip with one hand and dangles helplessly from Gronar's back.Korg moves back to steady his friend and in doing so moves close enough to the tailed creature, that it's form blinks into sight. Prepared for such an unveiling, Paquito sends a blistering attack of magic missiles into the thing. Ratchet yelps in terror, and Gronar turns slightly to see the new foe present itself. The hill giant gives this new threat a good backswing with his greatsword, tearing it's right thigh open in the process.Omar reaches the top of the bone incline finally and calls forth an innate power given him by his deity, a small flame appears in his hand and Omar throws the flame at the sword wielding creature. The flame alights on the creature's head before flaring up and burning the creature's head. Lothred sends another corrupt acid bolt into the sword wielding creature which causes the thing to fall forward dead face first into the bones. The tailed creature strikes out with it's stinger into Gronar, the strike causes a small explosion on the hill giant's skin which echoes through the chamber. Gronar staggers back into Korg who with the help of Ratchet heal Gronar to near full health. Paquito pulls out his longspear and tries to jab at the tailed creature, but his effort is knocked away harmlessly by the creature.Luciann casts his last remaining spell at the creature, and sends a barrage of magic missiles into the creature's scaly chest. Omar throws another flame at the tailed creature, burning a dark spot into the creature's left arm. Finrod pulls himself to a sitting position and props himself against the wall behind him. Lothred moves out to line himself up with the two remaining goblins and the tailed monstrosity, he then sends out another corrupt acid bolt at the creature, burning his right arm and sapping some of it's wisdom at the same time.Korg and Gronar bring their full attack to bear against the creature, and send it reeling. Bleeding and in pain the creature looks for a chance to escape, seeing the tentativeness in the ears of Paquito, the creature lashes out at the minotaur and tears into Paquito ripping open his chest with exploding force. With it's path to the doorway now free, the creature dashes for the exit. Gronar and Korg both take a final swing at the creature and their combined might bring the beast down.Korg and Omar rush to the bleeding Paquito's side, as Finrod is helped up by Ratchet who heals him as best he can. The party begins to take a concerted look around the room forgetting about the floating ball of bones until it begins to silently creep up towards the party.Gronar steps up and slices his greatsword vertically down through the ball of bones, the sphere ends up being hollow as his blow shatters bones at the top and bottom of the sphere.Gronar steps back and shrugs his shoulders, "Maybe bone bubble not dangerous?" His words end and hundreds of bones from the pile in the vicinity of the bone sphere rise up and shoot forth in all directions shredding armor, cloaks, and skin of every being in the room.Omar tries to throw another flame at the bone sphere but the flame seems to pass harmlessly through the sphere and fly out the other side. "Retreat!" Gronar shouts as he turns and attempts to flee the room. Two steps into his retreat, something rough rakes across his back. Turning around to face the attacker, Gronar watches as a dark mass within the sphere quickly fades to nothingness.The rest of the party make their way to the hallway just outside the room and join Sillaqui as spectators. Gronar, Korg, and Paquito remain behind to try to ward off the creature. Korg picks out shards of broken bone from his skin and watches as a black oily tentacle lashes across the back of Gronar, then fade away like smoke. Gronar swings his blade twice more through the sphere yet only manages to knock off a few bones making up the exterior of the sphere. Korg watches helplessly and the bones surrounding him rise up once more and rip into him like branches in a tornado. Korg fights through the pain trying to find a weakness this creature may have. His faith leads him to the answer and his casts dimensional anchor  on the sphere.Gronar watches as the dark form reappears inside the shell of bones. He calls forth his primal side and swings with every ounce of anger he possesses, his rain of pain sunders the ethereal creature and the sphere explodes into thousands shards that pelt the party even as they stand in the hall. The giants cheer and howl, then Korg notices Paquito slumped over near the door he rushes to his side as another cry rings out."She's bleeding to death, I need a medic here!" Lothred shouts</blockquote>

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