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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mistwell" data-source="post: 6384974" data-attributes="member: 2525">Session 36September 4, 2014Present: John, Jason, Noah, Matt A.Hoping that the Flesh Golems would reset and return to their platforms, the group closed the door (remotely, thanks to Slink's handy new Mage Hand spell), and took an hour rest to plan.The decision was to check out the door with heat radiating from it, down to the south. On arrival, Slink had a great deal of trouble with the lock (Jason gave Matt his inspiration die, and that with Bless was enough to do it, barely).Behind the door was....another door!But this was was familiar. The grim, rictus face of the demon in the walls peered back at them from it's copper plated visage, in a door virtually identical to the one seen in the first room of the first floor of the dungeon."We beseech you, speak to us," said Father Rivers."I am amazed you've gotten this far. Yes, please, come in, come in.""What will we find behind this door?" asked Rivers."Oh, nothing you can't handle," said the door, leaving no doubt in the minds of the party that something dire lay behind the door.Some discussion was had at this point, but it lasted but a moment as Slink said, "Well open then!"And it did, with a wide grin on the door's face.Behind the door was a very large chamber, split in two between fire and ice. The entire fire was covered in a glass-like substance. Beneath the western half was roiling flames and lava, and beneath the eastern half was turbulent icy air. Slight heat radiated from the western half, and cold from the eastern portion.In the middle of each half, stood an elemental creature. To the west was a Fire Elemental, flames roaring from the faint outline of a giant humanoid shape. To the east was an Air Elemental, though with icy undertones, whirling like a tornado but with a giant face billowing from within the form.The two creatures did not seem to move with the opening of the door, however.Also in the room were two more doors, one to the east which apparently led back to the Medusa lair, and one to the west leading to an unknown locale.Slink created an illusion of himself walking into the room, to see what the elementals would do. They did not react, so Bear tossed a coin into the room.That got their attention!The fire creature charged into the party, smashing into Luther and Hollin and lighting them on fire. Hollin chopped at it, his magic sword doing damage but the flame appearing to add nothing to his powerful hits. The creature then smashed at Luther and Hollin, as Luther backed up and Bear and he tried to strike at it. Their strikes did some damage, but each time they attacked from near it the flames overcame them and they inhaled hot air enough to sear their lungs. Luther backed up further and swiped with his glaive, and that seemed to help.Meanwhile, the air elemental went flying past Luther, Hollin, and Bear. Holling and Luther each took swipes at it as it passed by, and it finally arrived at Milo and Slink. It smashed into them both and spun like a tornado, tossing milo into a nearby table, knocking him prone and harming him. Slink however was even worse off, as most of his blow was absorbed by his body slamming against a nearby wall, and he fell to the ground almost like a rag doll, clearly badly wounded by not out for the count just yet.Father Rivers raised his holy symbol and chanted the breath of life back into his allies, and every suddenly felt quite a lot better. Unfortunately for Rivers, he was standing right next to the air creature, and the thing took two massive slams into him. Rivers screamed in pain under the barrage of attacks, and was even more wounded than Slink had just been, as blood oozed from a dozen wounds.BOOM! Milo set off a fireball, sparing Slink and Rivers in bubbles of safety from the explosion. The air creature reeled back, wounded by the flames, and angry.Back in the southern portion of the hallway (all of this taking place in the hall outside the elementals room), Bear, Luther, and Hollin continued to hack away at the fire elemental. None of the three opted to try and suppress the flames spreading across their armor, and Bear and Hollin continued to take additional damage from being so close to the thing as they attacked from right next to it, but they did make progress in ripping chunks of fiery mass off the creature with their magical weapons.Back to the north, Rivers limped away from the creature, as Milo and Slink stood up and assailed it from range. Slink tossed his one magic dagger at the creature, followed by another...BOOM! As Milo let loose with a second deadly fireball attack, flames deadening gusts of icy wind across the creatures surface, though it still stood.Slink, out of magic items and spells, shot an arrow at the thing, lightly wounding it but mostly deflecting the attack. Milo followed with three bright beams of flame centered on the mass of the tornado, and that finally brought the creature low, as air was briefly sucked from the area while the mass of the tornado disintegrated.The battle in the south raged on however, as Hollin, Bear, and Luther continued to chop at the fire elemental. Flames continued to lick across all three, but finally their focused attacks brought this elemental down as well.Hollin, Bear, and Luther began to pat each other's flames out, as Slink coughed up some blood and marched into the elemental lair with little fanfare and much courage or stupidity, depending on one's perspective.The ground turned out to not be glass, but instead the surface seemed a bit tacky to the touch, and quite warm but manageable provided one did not stand in place for too long a period of time.Slink made his way to the eastern door, and found it to also be identical to one of the doors in the entryway to the dungeon, this one being the large unusually locked door which he had failed to open weeks earlier despite his best efforts, and which contained unusual writing.Slink returned to the party and let them know what he had found, and they all returned to the nearby library to rest and recuperate. Slink tried to check out the Golem room first, but Milo convinced him to rest for am evening before continuing on.The next day, Slink drank a potion of spider climbing, and marched into the golem room walking on the ceiling. Fortunately, the golems did not trigger. He walked north, to check out the door to the east, which abutted the northern wall. Using his mage hand, he picked the lock on the door. Carefully listening to the door, he heard the sounds of growling, roaring, and rending and crunching sounds.He then, perhaps foolishly, opened that door while he also remotely closed the door to the rest of the party.His hope was that the creatures within would rush out and try and attack him, triggering the golems symbols on the ground, and the rest of the party would be spared the golem attack as he would remain safely on the ceiling.However, behind the door was a pride of unusual, unexpected creatures. With bodies of lions, but bat-like wings, four manticores could be seen ripping into some dead bodies and meat in their lair. One walked to the door and spotted Slink on the ceiling. Growling, it's wings started to move."Ah damn, they can fly...I wasn't expecting that" said Slink, perhaps for the last time.Roll Initiative everyone, though only Slink and the Manticores can act this first round, as the rest of the party is effectively surprised due to the closed door.[Everyone thinks they are available next week]</blockquote>

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