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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Droid101" data-source="post: 1886113" data-attributes="member: 942">During their flight, The Necromancer and Blaze frantically cast several spells on themselves and Blaine.  Protection from elements, spell immunity, spell resistance, spell turning, and holy aura, among others.As they continue their flight to the southwest, they start to see a lot of dancing and flashing lights in the distance.“Pretty powerful spells going off down there, be on your guard,” The Necromancer says.“I’m going to charge any casters, you guys come in from the sides…” and Blaze casts a righteous might and magic weapon, growing in size and barreling straight in at a dark elf wizard.The Necromancer and Blaine fly off the the sides.  The Necromancer readies his component pouch, while Blaine pulls out his rapier and main-gauche.“TEMPUS!!” Blaze bellows as he closes in on the wizard.  His muscules bulge and grow under his armor, and his axe cleaves through the wizard in one fell stroke, and swipes on into a nearby demon.  The black skinned, red-ooze dripping demon staggers back from the hit, but does not fall.The Necromancer, from off in the distance, casts a horrid wilting spell on the group, devastating their ranks.  Another cloaked dark elf falls, clutching his mouth as the moisture in his body evaporates away in an instant.  Two dark elf females in plate armor stagger to their knees, and another cloaked dark elf stumbles back but does not fall.  The black skinned demon shrivels up, but two other demons remain……a fifteen foot tall balor, complete with flaming sword and whip, and a ten foot tall marilith, with six shining adamantium blades.Blaine flies in from the other side and barrels into the marilith.  A quick stab of his rapier in its back and it lets out a shriek of pain.“Kill them!” one of the females calls out as she steps up to Blaze.  She wields a sturdy adamantium shield and a flail with five snake heads.  Each one biting and snapping out at Blaze, drawing deep and burning bite wounds.The marilith turns to face Blaine.  He swings at him, the six longswords coming in at every angle at once.  Blaine is fortunate enough to dodge them all, but has his bell rung by a final tail slap.  He shakes his head and can see clearly once again.“Not exactly a fair fight, I only have two arms…” Blaine quips as he spins, an elegant dance of perfection and skill.“STUN!!” the air around the balor seems to grow even darker as he lets out the arcane word.  The spell, however, fails against Blaze, too powerful to be affected.The other priestess and cloaked elf step back and cast some defensive spells.“You should have run…” Blaze’s teeth grind together as he brings his battle axe down once, twice, three times into the armored priestess in front of him.  The sheer strength of his attacks pierce through her adamantium plates.  After the second hit to the shoulder, she falls to one knee.  The third hit sends the blade of his axe entirely into her back, and with a slight toss, he sends her limp body flying a full fifteen feet toward the balor.  “You’re next…”“Call back the others!” the remaining priestess says in undercommon, backing off in a defensive posture.Blaine spins once again, and with some lightning quick strikes, draws six gaping wounds just below the marilith’s adamantium corset.  Each hit piercing with an unerring accuracy.The marilith retaliates, and this time does a little more damage.  She scores four hits on Blaine, small lines of blood and tears in his black cloaks begin to show.The Necromancer casts forcecage on the priestess and wizard, trapping them both inside.The balor closes in on Blaze, slashing out with his flaming vorpal blade.  It cuts into Blaze deeply, blood beginning to stream out of the seams in his armor.“I can’t take much more of this…” Blaze says, still gritting his teeth.  He slams his axe out at the winged demon, striking it twice and drawing roars of pain from the thing.“Me neither…” Blaine says as he slices into the marilith a few more times.  Both demons were very resilient, however, and were still fighting like they were at full strength.The Necromancer took that as his queue, and casts wall of ice, separating the demons from Blaze and Blaine.The wizard disintegrates the forcecage around he and the priestess.“Come here, I’ll enable you to fly,” the wizard says in undercommon to the marilith.Blaze and Blaine begin to fly away, along with the Necromancer.  They fly to the northwest, hoping to draw the demons away from the castle.  Sure enough, the demons can be see behind them, flying and both looking quite angry.The Necromancer hears something in his head…Send one to castle if you can spare.  Discussing contingency plans.“I’m going back to the castle to report, you guys keep luring them away,” and with that, The Necromancer teleports back to the castle rooftop.  Adlai is standing there, not exactly calm.“What’s going on?” The Necromancer asks.“Wow, you got here fast,” Adlais says.  “I’m going to show everyone a contingency exit, and make sure it works.  Just in case we can’t evacuate everyone from the castle, or if you need to use it for any other reason.”“The portal to Sigil in the Oubliette?” The Necromancer says.“Exactly.  If we need an escape route, we need to check and see if that still works.  It seems that the dark elves have amplified a dimensional anchoring spell that stops teleporting out of the castle.  The gate will be the only way out if it comes to it,” Adlai says.“Does that mean I have to fly back out there?  Damn… I’ll never find them…” The Necromancer curses under his breath.The summoning was thwarted… somewhat.  What of the stone-chucking storm giants?  Or the kobold-chucking mountain giant?  Find out next time!!!</blockquote>

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