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Message: <blockquote data-quote="DND_Reborn" data-source="post: 8054903" data-attributes="member: 6987520">WE ARE OUT OF HELL!!!After bluffing our way past a flight of abishai who were pursuing our party (we using Seeming and some good persuasion/deception rolls!), defeating a pair of pit fiends, and waging battle against a hunting pack of hell hounds, spined devils, and erinyess, we reached the fog banks at the edge of the gates that would return us to the prime material plane.Ambushed by ranks of bone devils, we fought our way through the fog and to the crest of the hill and the gates. Approaching the gates, our cleric/wizard stumbled, looked about, and began babbling nonsense. "Feeblemind!" cried our sorcerer and initiative was rolled.A stench cow from a nearby small herd erupted, its skin tearing open as its form enlarged, growing and growing into a dracolich! The ancient beast blasted our party with a freezing frost, icy shards tearing into our skins and the last remaining survivor of the captives of hell froze solid, his face a mask of terror. Round after round, the party fought bravely. The paladin's mighty blow crushing into the monster. Volleys of magic and heroic charges assaulted the lone guardian of the gates. The titanic battle waged back and forth as heroes fell to the claw, tooth, and lash of the dracolich. Words of unholy divinity wrought terror into the party, pitted against the counterspells of the bard.As the dracolich took flight, the wizard dimension doored the severely injured paladin on top of the dracolich, as the barbarian atop it raged and struck mighty blow after blow. The beast faltered. Using his last remnants of divine might, the holy warrior struck the final crushing hit and the undead creature fell from the sky! Plummeting to the dusty, cracked, and burnt ground below, the paladin lay dying, the barbarian staggered to her feet, as the others rushed forth to their aid.Expending the last of our healing magics, the group past through the mists and through the gates, returning to the elven kingdom, holding fast as the gate slowly closed behind them. Several tense minutes later, we breathed a collective sigh of relief as the gate finally closed, leaving Hell behind us and weeks of recovery and celebration lying ahead.Now, our group will move to our attempt to defeat Straud. It will be nice to play something a little less tense. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /></blockquote>

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