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Message: <blockquote data-quote="HeavyG" data-source="post: 232242" data-attributes="member: 431">Meanwhile, Ivellios starts cutting himself out of that spider web with his swords. * Cut-cut-stab-poke*.  He manages to almost free himself, then the spider near the ceiling drops another one on him, entangling him even further.As he finishes his spell, the party feels a new energy coursing through them.  Their courage is bolstered.  At the same time, the mysterious voice in the dark corridor ahead is heard chanting also.  Then, abruptly, it stops.As Jalon raises his holy symbol on high, he feels a great darkness, a great power of evil around the ghouls.  He puts his whole faith into the attempt, but the ghouls don’t seem to be afraid of him. (rolled a 13, not high enough unfortunately)The voice ahead croaks “Kill HIM.  Kill the priest, my beautiful !”(I’ll also be assuming the others will follow and back him up.)The monk and Kytess both await the undead unslaught.Then, with a shout, hisses and spits, the ghouls charge at the stalwart defenders, claws raised and dripping ichor.One goes for Murhid while the other three go for Jalon, Ubaar and Kytess.  They seem to be ignoring Taz.As the first approaches Murhid, the monk jumps at it, kneeing it in the face and making it fall to the ground.  Murhid hears the ghoul’s skull crunch as he rides it to the ground, ending up kneeling on a kicking and clawing ghoul.  Murhid manages to avoid the venom-dripping claws by deflecting them with a wrist lock, but the ghoul bites him in the leg.  (6 points of damage for the ghoul, 6 for Murhid)Ubaar and Kytess fare better.  As his ghoul approaches to claw his eyes out, Ubaar swings with his greatsword, putting all his strength into the blade, and chops off the ghouls head.  Its body continues advancing for two steps, then falls to the ground like a puppet with cut strings.  Meanwhile, Kytess shreds her ghoul’s leg as it charges, then reverses her chain to slash and crush its neck as it falls forward at her feet, just as Taz buries her small blade in the thing’s shoulder. (16 points of damage for Ubaar, 10 and 7 for Kytess, 1 for Taz)The last ghoul launches itself at Jalon, but succeeds only at scratching his heavy armor.Then, another pack of ghouls jumps down from the corridor and looks at the defenders with murder in their eyes.  One licks its lips with a long black tongue as a different figure arrives at the edge of the corridor and into your light.  It looks like a decayed human corpse, like the ghouls, but with completely white translucent eyes, and wearing tattered rags that used to be black robes.  It holds a wickedly curved dagger in one hand and a pair of pendants hang from his neck.  One is a symbol depicting a laughing animated skull on a solid black hexagon.  The other is a neckchain holding up a fist-sized red gem.  An eldritch energy swirls around its upper body, alternating sickly purple and intense black.Then it speak with a shrill voice “Bring me the heart of the priest !”Ubaar and Jalon recognize the symbol as the unholy symbol of Velsharoon, god of necromancy and undeads.Here's the initiative for next round.IvelliosSollirThe ghoul's bossJalonSpider #1 (the one over the web)TazKytessMurhidUbaarThe Ghoul ArmyAnd the status of the party :(S) Sollir Furryfoot : Hp(21/21) Bless (9 rounds, affects everyone)(M) Murhid : Hp (5/21) 4 points of dexterity damage, poisoned ?(T) Taz : Hp (19/19),       Sheela : Hp (9/9), (I) Ivellios Nailo : Hp (26/35) Entangled in webs (-2 to hit, -4 to dex, can’t move)(U) Ubaar : Hp (26/32), Endure fire (12 hours), 2 points of dexterity damage, enraged, poisoned ?(K) Kytess : Hp (18/28) Endure fire (12 hours) (J) Jalon Odessa : Hp (20/24) Endure fire (12 hours)</blockquote>

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