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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Droid101" data-source="post: 1844887" data-attributes="member: 942">Ogrim initiates a shield of law around him, drops his staff and readies his shield.  Bink quickly casts haste on himself, and then haste again on Grog.Grog screams and charges at the half-demon preacher, slashing into its side hard.Bloodthorne saunters toward the slaad.“You filthy piece of swamp-dwelling rubbish!” Bloodthorne exclaims.  The creature is shocked by the insult, and doesn’t move right away.  That affords Bloodthorne enough time to cut out its throat.Balophan charges at the hand-headed creature, cutting deeply into it.  The hand-thing slaps him back with a strong palm, dazing him slightly.Eltharion tumbles and runs directly at the golden-armed half-demon.  He slices into him with his Moon-scimitar.“Let’s take him down!” Eltharion says.  His elation is cut short, however, as Vecna weaves a spell……and four meteors streak toward Bink and Ogrim.They both close their eyes and grit their teeth, prepared to die……but they don’t.  As a matter of fact, they don’t feel a thing, not even an uncomfortable warmth.  The flames from the huge explosions wrap up around them harmlessly.“What… happened...?” Ogrim asks hesitantly, but nobody affords him an answer.The demon preacher slashes with his Ashblade, cutting deeply into Grog and Eltharion.  The blade itself exudes ash all around them.Bink quickly casts fly on himself and Ogrim.  Ogrim flies directly at Vecna, and takes up the ancient dwarven defending stance; twenty feet in the air!“Moradin guide my axe!” and Ogrim strikes Vecna, his axe tearing into his dried flesh and bone.Bloodthorne tumbles over to the githzerai and tiefling pilgrims, facing them head on, and doing his best to keep them away from Vecna and his preacher.Grog and Eltharion strike at the gold-limbed demon-preacher with deadly precision.  After six seconds and a flurry of eleven attacks (four scimitar, three sickle, and four katana), the demon falls in a heap of sliced and ribboned flesh.“You’re in trouble now…” Eltharion raises his gaze to Vecna’s.Vecna responds by hasting himself and true resurrecting his part-demon follower.Grog and Eltharion’s jaws drop.The preacher slashes violently with his Ashblade bastard sword again.  This time two powerful hits send Eltharion to his knees, and he is forced to retreat.Ogrim slams into Vecna again.  Balophan slashes the hand-headed creature one final time and sends it down.The eye-headed creature has been focusing on Grog for a while now, but to no noticeable effect.Bink flies up, and with two empowered fireballs, the pilgrims fall hard.“Thanks mate, but I think I could ‘andle ‘em myself,” Bloodthorne says, approaching the eye-headed thing.Vecna’s huge form turns back to Ogrim, and swings with a powerful fist, colliding and knocking the wind out of him; but he stays afloat.Eltharion falls back and heals himself, staying away from Vecna and the preacher.Grog lays into the preacher once again, slicing him deeply several times.  The preacher retaliates, cutting into Grog, drawing several wounds that would be mortal ones to any normal person.Bloodthorne slashes into the eye-creature, taking it down.Eltharion charges back in, slashing into the preacher’s back, killing him a second time.And so Vecna true resurrects him a second time.  He also attempts to turn Bloodthorne, but to no effect.“Is that all you’ve got?  Aint you a God??” Bloodthorne says.The preacher slashes into Eltharion and Grog once again, and once again Eltharion is forced to fall back.Ogrim cuts into Vecna again.  Balophan engages the bariaur – the otherworldly centaur-type creature.  They exchange blows.Grog ignores the preacher completely, his rage building fast.  He steps toward Vecna, slashing again and again into his legs.Bloothorne does the same.  Soon, everyone is surrounding Vecna.  Balophan continues to fight with the bariaur.The preacher slashes into Grog’s back repeatedly.  Grog grits his teeth and continues to cut into Vecna’s legs.Vecna tosses out another couple of powerful spells, a prismatic spray and a power word: kill, but both have no effect.  He then resorts to melee, and slams into Ogrim a couple of times.  Ogrim sees stars, but stays stalwart.The Heroes lay into Vecna hard.  After another few back-and-forth bouts, Vecna’s huge skeletal head lowers.Grog reaches back as far as he can, and slashes toward Vecna……and cleaves right through his leg.Vecna’s head jerks back, and his whispering voice streams from his mouth.“You will pay… you mere… you…” Vecna never gets the chance to finish, as a swirling void of deep black and darkest gray energies springs up behind him, and sucks him most unceremoniously through.  An ear-popping wrench and bursh of blinding, multicolored lights sends everyone to their knees.When their vision returns, Eltharion spots the preacher flying at full speed out of the chapel, too far to follow.  The bariaur is on the ground, writing in agony, as its gold hand and eye are gone.  Only a bloody stump and socket remain.All the corpses of the gith and tiefling pilgrims are similarly missing their golden hands and eyes.The walls of the chapel start to bend and break.“Time to go…” Bink quickly casts fly on everyone, and they fly out of the Armory at fully speed.The Heroes emerge from the Armory, and a huge cheer erupts from the army surrounding the place.  The walls continue to sag, and Vecna’s holy symbol fades off the front of the building.  The smoke starts to clear, and the Armory collapses under its own weight.“Maybe next time…” Bloodthorne mutters.“What was that?” Eltharion asks.“Nothing mate, nothing.”The Heroes fly toward the lady and her floating minions.  As they approach, they are already crafting a floating-glyph message.Life is in your debt, as is Sigil.  No reward could ever be sufficient.  But Sigil does not forget its friends.  Thus, accept these gifts.The first is a promise from the Lady of Pain that Vecna, the Failed God, will be denied his vengeance on you, even should you dispose of his protective relics.The second is a key to the City of Doors, which will turn any bounded space into a portal to Sigil, though it will do so only three times.The last is the deed for permanent accommodations in Sigil, which you may use whenever you find yourself in the city.  In your absence, these accommodations will be maintained for you.The floating figures immediately turn and escort the Lady of Pain away.  A messenger halfling gives the Heroes a note with the deed and address of their new property.“Your Key will be delivered to your accommodations when you arrive,” the halfling leaves.“Wow… a house in Sigil, that’s pretty good!” Eltharion exclaims.“Time to relax,” Balophan reasons.“Agreed.  First, let’s get rid of these relics,” Bink and the Heroes head toward the address listed on the paper.They find a huge four-story building near the main market square.“Wow… this is even bigger than I thought it would be…” Eltharion is amazed.  The Heroes head in.Another grisly scene of self-mutilation later, and the Heroes have removed all of their profane relics.  Bink, with his Vecnan molar still in place, summarily eats all of the relics (except the Hand, which must be destroyed some other way, it seems).  Bink then removes the molar, and puts it and the Hand in a safe place.“We’ll destroy these ones later,” Bink says.  “It’s time to party.”</blockquote>

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