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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Droid101" data-source="post: 1862841" data-attributes="member: 942">“I’m ready to go back in,” Blaze says emphatically.The Heroes gather.  Bloodthorne is nowhere to be found.“He probably went wandering off again…” The Necromancer says.  “We don’t have time to wait around for him, let’s get going.”The Necromancer casts fly on everybody.  He then casts haste on himself.  Eltharion casts barkskin on himself.  Ogrim casts a shield of law.  Blaze casts righteous might and greater magic weapon.The Necromancer gathers Ogrim, Grog, Blaze, and Eltharion in close, and teleports into the chamber where his fire giant body was killed.They are in a large room with two stories.  A staircase leading up to the second level can be seen, and there is a balcony surrounding them from above.Several forms start moving right away.  Two large metal cats leap at the Heroes from hidden crawl spaces on the first level.  A duergar with heavy adamantium armor peers over the balcony, and casts a spell.  He doubles in size and grows a pair of large red leathery wings.  A light-green skinned angel is standing next to him, and he readies a large silvery greatsword.  His normally white and pristine wings are blackened and twisted.The final form on the balcony is a huge, 15 foot tall red-scaled, horned devil.  It immediately stands and gets ready to attack.“TEMPUS!!” Blaze’s strength grows exponentially, and his now ten foot tall form rushes at the nearest metal cat.  He swings his axe down in a powerful overhead chop.  His axe pierces through the thing’s tough metal skin, and crushes its spinal column, killing it instantly.“Impressive!” Ogrim chimes in.  He flies up to the second level, straight at the duergar.  “May the Hammer of the All-Father smite you!”Ogrim’s axe slams into the adamantium plates, drawing a grunt from the dark dwarf.The pit fiend launches a powerful fireball down at the party.  The flames engulf The Necromancer, Blaze, Eltharion and Grog.  Eltharion dives out the way, The Necromancer and Grog are protected by magical items, but Blaze feels the full strength of the fire.  His hair is singed and his skin burned and peeling.“Imperagon, let’s surround this one…” the fallen angel takes up position behind Ogrim, leaving him bracketed by the duergar and angel.They strike at Ogrim with deadly precision.  A greatsword slash from behind, a greataxe chop from the front.  Ogrim grits his teeth and fights on, despite the considerable pain from the various wounds.Grog and Eltharion fly up and bracket the fallen angel.  Grog throws all his weight and rage into a katana strike, and scores a deep hit to the angel’s flank.  Eltharion similarly slashes into the angel’s opposite side with his Moon-scimitar.The other metal cat bounds upon Blaze’s back, raking and rending its four metal-clawed paws into him.  Blaze grits his teeth and falls to a knee.The pit fiend flies down and bites into Blaze; its teeth dripping vile greenish venom.  Blaze is unable to dodge due to the metal cat bearing down on him.  His vision becomes blurry and his body burns.  He can feel the caustic venom coursing through his veins.  Strength leaves his arms.  He can feel his insides becoming liquefied.  His eyes roll back in his head so he can’t see himself hitting the ground.  He hardly feels the hard iron connecting with his head, only the searing poison inside of it.  His world and his senses fade to black.The Necromancer’s eyes flare an evil and vengeful glow.  He hefts his drow-skull topped staff with rubies for eyes, and lowers his gaze upon the pit fiend.“Now you die…” The Necromancer weaves a horrid wilting spell.  It affects the pit fiend, metal cat, fallen angel, and Imperagon.  All four of them feel the moisture in their bodies evaporate; their skin shrivels and becomes dry and brittle.  The pit fiend begins a slow and deliberate stalk toward The Necromancer.“I’m coming Nekky,” Eltharion disengages the fallen angel and flies down to meet the pit fiend head on.  He crashes into it and stabs it deep in the stomach.Grog and Ogrim both focus their attacks on the angel.  Ogrim’s overhead axe chop causes the angel to call out in pain and grasp his shoulder.  In that moment of letting his guard down, Grog swings with all his might and cleaves the thing’s upper torso from the rest of its body.  Both pieces fall quite unceremoniously to the unyielding iron floor.  Grog flies down to help Eltharion.Imperagon sets his gaze upon Ogrim.“You think you can stop me from taking over this and all other planes of existence?” the dark dwarf mutters in a deep and draconic voice.  He swings at Ogrim, who blocks a few quick greataxe strikes with his shield.  Ogrim retaliates by pushing his shield into Imperagon’s face, then chopping with his axe low, below his shield and out of Imperagon’s field of vision.  The blade of his Orc-Killer axe weaves perfectly through the plates of Imperagon’s adamantium armor, and send Imperagon to his knees, and finally to another Hell altogether.“The Hand of Moradin guides me axe.”Ogrim looks down at The Necromancer, Grog, and Eltharion, and he starts to fly down to help.The pit fiend, watching both his comrades die, decides upon another course of action.“This isn’t over…” its dark and evil voice whispers.  With that, it vanishes.“Teleported,” The Necromancer says as he puts the last metal cat into a forcecage.  “Let’s get out of here, we’ll come back to plunder the place later…”Grog and Ogrim heft up Blaze’s large body, and The Necromancer teleports them all back to the formian complex.“Damn, just five more seconds and he would have been able to heal himself…” Eltharion says while healing up his and the others’ wounds.“Tomorrow, we finish that devil and steal that sword that they are building.  Tomorrow, we take our revenge,” The Necromancer sums up.  The Heroes nod.One on four… this should be easy, right?  Nothing unexpected, right?  The Heroes prevail, right??  Find out this and more, next time!</blockquote>

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