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Message: <blockquote data-quote="gfunk" data-source="post: 539074" data-attributes="member: 1813">Session 10 “The drow return the favor” Joachim awoke suddenly in a cold sweat. Just a few hours ago he had returned from Dante's stronghold in Silverymoon. With the help of the Priest of Oghma, High Inquisitor Joachim had tried to scry upon his drow opponents. However, some form of magic kept them from successfully seeing into the Underdark. In addition, they were unable to glean any useful information about Lolth's silence despite communing with their respective deities. Exasperated after two days of fruitless labor, Joachim bid Dante farewell and wind walked back to the Temple of the Triad in Homlet.When he arrived, late at night, Joachim was utterly exhausted. Without even stopping to remove his Mithral Full Plate he flopped onto his bed for a restful night's sleep. Or so he thought . . .As he rose from the bed, he heard the sounds of combat on his floor. He could hear acolytes screaming in pain and calling out to Tyr for aid. As quickly as he could he grabbed his sword and shield. Before investigating the disturbance he enchanted his sword with the divine might of Tyr and called on his patron for divine power.Stepping outside the door, Joachim saw an eight foot tall insect-like humanoid wielding a massive longspear. Littered on the floor were the corpses of various clergy, mostly acolytes. As the beast turned to regard the Inquisitor, Joachim could see that it was wrapped in an aura of darkness. "I am not a mere acolyte for you to toy with fool. Prepare to die!"As Joachim rushed the devilish creature, it calmly began to concentrate. Before the Inquisitor could reach his foe, he found himself running straight into an extremely thick wall of ice. He began hacking away at it in frustration. Almost immediately after the wall had appeared, the beast appeared directly behind Joachim, ready to strike. The Inquisitor felt a twinge of fear, but ignored it, cutting into the creature with his holy longsword. Screaming in pain, the creature retaliated with its longspear but found that it could not pierce his foe's armor. Instead it stepped back and unleashed a freezing wave of cold directly at the High Inquisitor.Joachim suddenly felt numb as the inhuman cold gnawed at his exposed flesh. He could feel the chill despite his heavy armor. Undaunted, he launched another attack at the beast landing several viscous blows. The insect-man responded by striking Joachim brutally with his longspear. In addition to the numbing cold of the blow, Joachim felt a bit of his strength being sapped by the creature.Realizing that a protracted battle would not favor him, Joachim called to Tyr to smite his foe with the might of Justice. The beast, considerably resistant to magic, tried to fight against the massive wave of divine energy but could not. Immediately, he dropped his longspear, and grabbed his head, utterly stunned.Taking advantage of this opportunity, Joachim finished off his foe. As its body hit the ground, it immediately disappeared as did the ice wall directly behind Joachim.The High Inquisitor immediately ran to the foyer where he saw various members of the church tending the wounds of his comrades. Joachim approached a very sober and outraged High Justice Thorreson."What has happened here High Justice? An infernal creature had entered the upper levels slaying many of the clergy. I managed to slay it but not before it did considerable damage," Joachim reported"It is worse than that Inquisitor," replied Thorreson, "many of our finest paladins and clerics have been killed by the Gelugon. It seems that it did not randomly choose its targets. All of those it attacked took part in the expedition to Szith Morcane to destroy the drow outpost there. This attack was obviously premeditated by the drow in retaliation."As the two powerful clergy members spoke, they were approached by a Paladin of Ilmater. Though he stood proudly, he had obviously suffered grievous wounds from the intruder. He introduced himself, "Well met High Justice! High Inquisitor, my name is Dwillian, a paladin in the service of Ilmater. I was among the leaders which directed the assault upon Szith Morcane. I fear that this carnage was the work of a powerful drow wizard or priest."Frowning, the High Justice addressed the Paladin, "Did you not tell me that you destroyed all drow and sacked the compound?""Yes sir, I did. However, a few may have escaped the carnage unnoticed by us. Or perhaps they were not there at the time.""Summoning a Gelugon from the depths of the Nine Hells is no minor sorcery," offered Joachim. "The foe we face is exceedingly powerful and canny as well. High Justice, I will rejoin my comrades in the Underdark immediately. We will see with our own eyes what the wretched dark elves are up to in Cormyr."Joachim returned to his chambers and brought a picture of the sorcerer Entropy to his mind. He sent a message to her, "Temple of Triad attacked by Gelugon. Must meet with you. Will accompany you to Tilverton. Please give me your position. Please teleport me in."Meanwhile, in an extradimensional space in the Underdark, Entropy heard the priest's call and replied, "Sucks to be you! We are somewhere in the Underdark. Teleportation not reliable, you must find an alternate route. We will wait a day for you.""How could she be so flippant when the stakes are so high," thought the Inquisitor. Joachim began to cast one of his most powerful divinations. A spell that could locate a creature anywhere, even on the Outer Planes. With the exact location of the sorcerer, he cast another spell which would lead him directly to her. Assuming the form of wind, Joachim quickly made his way into the Underdark.</blockquote>

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