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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Socrates" data-source="post: 851512" data-attributes="member: 11651">So here we are, on first watch, and, is that Rhuun still awake?That's right, she's wearing an Ever-Ready Ring of sustenance.  She only needs to sleep 2 hours every day.  I just love mine, and I bet you'd love yours as well.  So head to your local magic broker and pick one up today.Anyway, she has a panicked look on her face.  What is she doing?  Is she drinking blood?  I bet those pesky Zorn charmers are at it again.  Looks like Atarax is drinking too.  He's waking up the dark smudge - hey we can kind of see her, a little bit since she's just waking up - and she tries to lay some line on Atarax about already drinking her resistance potion.  It's clear that the Zorn-lovers have her already, and if she wants, she'd easily be able to slip away, and no one would ever find her.  Wait a minute, Atarax isn't buying it.I SUGGEST you drink the resistance potion And she's doing it.  Boy, if Atarax could affect enemies as well as he does his own party, team PHS might survive yet.  We've got another round of potion drinking, and team PHS gets ready for the next day.After some careful scouting, it seems that they've made it safely to the edge of the hellmouth, and it is time for them to start heading back towards Freetown to see if they can free Auntie Em.  Wait a minute, what's that noise?  It seems like the dark smudge just heard some scampering of feet.  I'll bet she's going to slink on back to team PHS so they can organize their battle plan."THERE'S SOMEONE RUNNING AWAY" Boy, that wasn't subtle.  Foeful flies up and sees an unfamiliar goblin flying away back towards freetown.  Everyone starts moving up and casting spells - we have a Foeful on Ibful moving at 65, we have Atarax with Expeditious Retreat moving at 60, then we have the rest of folks running up at normal speed.  And they're trying to chase down the fleeing goblin.  After 30 seconds or so of the chase, we have foeful all by himself up ahead, followed 200 feet back by Atarx and the dark smudge, followed several hundred feet back by Moroku, Ib, Thar and Rhuun.  This doesn't seem like the best battle plan I've ever seen. . .Oh wait, here it comes.  Chains of fire attack Foeful and miss, then he's hit by a magic missile, a glitterdust, and two mind affecting spells.  Are there 4 enemy spellcasters waiting in ambush?  That can't be good.  Now wait, there is an orc with a little bit of drool running down his chin that runs up and punches foeful - just knocked him back 30 feet, and right off of Ibful!  This doesn't look good. . .Foeful throws a solid fog between the casters and the party, leaving us alone with the orc.  Atarax comes charging up behind foeful, and the orc charges forward again and punches foeful, stunning him and knocking him back 30 feet again.  The solid fog gets dispelled!What's this?  A cantrip?  That's right, it's a dancing lights.  Now the enemy casters can see Atarax to target him.  They throw a silence at him (no effect) and a charm of some sort (no effect).  Now the orc takes a swing at ibful and deals him a crushing blow.  Ibful picks up foeful, and that dark smudge just ran through again.  Atarax lets rip with a glitterdust, and catched 2 of the casters in it - looks like they're blind.  I guess they won't be targeting any more spells for a little while. . .While the rest of the party continues to charge up, the orc closes the distance to atarax, but doesn't quite have enough movement left to get an attack off.  Ibful picks up foeful and starts fleeing down the corridor.  Unfortunately, right when he gets to where Atarax is standing,  a readied fireball comes flying down the corridor - killing foeful and ibful, and gravely wounding atarax.  Surprisingly the fireball has no effect on the orc.  That can't be good. . .An arrow comes out of the darkness and thunks into the orc.  Thar casts invisibility and runs.  Uh oh, when the cleric starts running, that can't be good. . .Moroku throws a fireball at the spellcasters and does some damage, and Ib charges the orc in a rage over foeful's death - and misses. (surprise).  Rhuun retreats to catch up with Thar, the orc and Ib are fighting when another fireball comes out of the darkness.  This one comes up short and doesn't hit the party, but the next one has the range and nails atarax and moroku.  Bloody pulp puts another arrow into Ib. . .And it looks like we're just about out of time for this week.  Tune in next week, and see what happens to team PHS.  Will there be a TPK?  Will the rest of the party run and abandon Atarax and Moroku to their fate?  Will there be a miraculous comeback?  Only time will tell. . .</blockquote>

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