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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Stone Angel" data-source="post: 499253" data-attributes="member: 5630">"Fire" Mason blurted out.Nothing happened. The party pondered the riddle a bit. "Push it again" said Lucas "I want to hear it, to see if we missed anything"  Mason pushed the button again.A golden key appeared on top the altar. "Hmm...perhaps the answer is light" said Fulrik. Still nothingCaber was busy searching the rest of the chamber. Mason said "Sun" aloud and a scroll appearred on the altar this time. "Over here" Caber shouted "A hidden door".No amount of tinkering would help the party pick the lock, so they tried the key, it fit. The door opened to a small room containing a water basin made of marble, and another door across from the entrance. The tested the water discerning that it was nothing more to it. Traveling down the passage past the door, they were met with another door, this one made of stone. The checked for traps then decided to open the door. Stone grated on stone as Fulrik pulled the door open. The room they looked upon was circular and there was a door opposite of the one they just opened. A spell of some sort kept the room lit from it's domed top. Four statues flanked the door they had just opened with there arms outstretched to two larger statues on the opposite side of the room. No one notice the man hiding in the smaller statues shadow."What was that " said Caber motioning towards the other side of the room."Where" asked Fulrik as he drew his Kings Sword. Then the shadows lept to life moving towards the party with incredible speed. One struck Fulrik with full force. Fulrik stumbled feeling weak. Caber lept to Fulrik's aid trying to hit the living shadows with his fist but they went right through. Lucas cast a spell on himself. The other shadow tried to slam into Caber but the half-elven proved to nimble. A third form, moved towards Fulrik, this one however had discernible features and looked as if he carried a sword. His attack fell short as Fulrik regained his bearings. Fulrik shot out the flaming end of his wicked double sword and the creature let out an inhuman whail of pain. His sword had missed he was sure, but the creature acted wounded. "I a servant of the cudgel, invoke the power St. Cuthbert and in his name I command you to return to the darkness from whence you came.BACK !!" Mason shouted whose eyes were glowing with divine energy. One of the shadows retreated behind one of the larger statues. Fulrik struck out again with the other end of his Kings Sword. The creature reeled again, it was not his weapon but the shadow of his sword that it had been injured by. Lucas charged to the shadow by Caber his rapier piercing the shadow some of it's essence seemed to disappaite. Caber again tried to hit but to no avail. Mason cast a spell on himself. The shadow slammed into Lucas and he too felt weaker. Fulrik hit the strange creature with the shadow of his weapon again and this time it fell and lay still. Two bolts of energy slammed into the shadow that was still cowering from the awesome display of divinity of Mason's, they came from an unknown source. Mason struck the creature with his now enchanted mace. The shadow blinked into nothing. Fulrik charged the remaining shadow making short work of it. "I swear I saw a spell cast at the last shadow" said Mason"That you did my boy, I call that one McDougal's Missle" said a voice from behind one of the smaller statues to left. Everyone turned to see an overweight, middle aged man with a monocle and a thick dark goatee."Charles McDougal, at your service"</blockquote>

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