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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Jfdlsjfd" data-source="post: 9583956" data-attributes="member: 42856">Yep. If we had tried the all-in attack, even with the traditional defend tactics, Trixie would probably have died. Anyway, time of using the lore that has been dripping from the book. Remember when we heard about the local law enforcement/military caste, Armiger, far back near the beginning of the book? And the Sage commenting that they must be out of shape since there is no recorded attempt to invade Wyrd for centuries since the last attempt made by the Selentine Empire? Yes, Thanatos was there, and fought the invaders. In the crypt behind him rests the skeletons of the first selentine legion that failed to kill the Warlock-King back in the day, as Thanatos did a "You shall not pass" stand. Of course, we loot their body and find their battle standard, an archeological relic of immense value. We continue onward. Salvia loses 5 HP trying desperately to heal Winny over the next few sections, ina series of rolls averaging 2.We climb up the stair in the main dungeon of the castle, and our Sage recognize that our way is barred by the summoning of a shadow demon. Which can be dispelled by pouring milk on the summoning circle. Remember that starving woman with the baby we saved earlier? Yes, accepting some goat milk and a cloak was a the only way to <s>make sure she kept starving and got frozen on top of it</s> acquire some milk.If we didn't, to be honest, there was another option, involving Shadowcleaver, which conventiently has the power to cleave shadows. If we hadn't one or the other, tough luck: every party member would have had to roll under psychic ability with 3d6 or die, defenseless against the Shadow Demon. On a successful save, they would steal be forever diminished by their encounter with the Shadow, losing one in each stat permanently, before the Demon, sated, takes its leave.But, rejoice, you heartlessly took the milk, so we can pour it on the summoning circle and cross unscathed.Or we could have used our magic carpet to fly over the danger?Finally, we complete our ascension of the keep's stair and reach the throneroom of the Warlock-King.At this point, reality dissolves and we find ourselves in an arena, with a ghoulish crowd chanting with glee as they'll witness our destruction. [ATTACH=full]396110[/ATTACH]The Warlock-King of Wyrd.He engages into a long evil monologue, reminding us that for century he has ruled this land and defended it against evil invaders who comes to assassinate a rightful ruler of the land, and how he'll show us how all the former would-be assassins ended. He then cast Mass Raise Dead and countless skeletons wearing rusty armour starts to raise, as all the people who died here are turned into undead until a countless horde stands before us, one we have no hope to survive alone.</blockquote>

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