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Message: <blockquote data-quote="(un)reason" data-source="post: 9771987" data-attributes="member: 27780">Everyone was present. The binder activated Rage and continued to shred Xhagevoxhab with even more attack and damage bonuses. Meanwhile the other active players concentrated on saving the two downed PC's. The githyanki summoned a couple of Bralani, placing one next to the drow and healing him back into the positives and the other next to himself on the ceiling. On her turn the priestess also headed that way, soaking up attacks of opportunity from the umber hulk and mold men along the way and brought him back to just under full hp. Since he was still surrounded, his next action was to activate levitate and try to get a bit of height. The sniper blinked out of the mold men surrounding him and reappeared invisibly on the edge of the arena, where he could focus on Xhagevoxhab and ready an action to disrupt it if it tried to cast a spell to escape. On the next round, the githyanki used transposition to get the stunned winged kobold up on the ceiling with him. The priestess wiped out a couple more mooks, the drow summoned a couple of osyluths and placed them next to the fungus lord to further lock him down and the binder continued to shred. The enemy illithid tried to charm him, but it failed against his spell resistance. The fungus lord continued to ineffectually try to attack the binder climbing up his body, while his mooks did the same to the priestess and all the summons, but those were mostly misses as well. On the third round, the githyanki teleported back down to the surface and smacked the fungus lord with his maul, which when combined with the binder's ongoing onslaught was finally enough to bring that second energy bar down to zero. He died messily and with him gone, all the other monsters lost cohesion, dying slowly over the course of the next 10 minutes. (those that weren't finished off prematurely by the still bloodthirsty binder) and then crumbling away as the remnants of the fungus turned to inert powder, (which they collected several sacks of for analysis just in case) leaving only their bones. (or exoskeleton in the case of the umber hulk.) Since pretty much everyone except the binder was tapped out at this point, they retired to the enveloping pit for a good rest while she let out her low level minions to thoroughly loot the place. However, their sleep was interrupted halfway through by another group of githyanki arriving, all dressed smartly in black (mirrorshades optional), led by a cigarette smoking githyanki covered in obviously magical tattoos. They congratulated the group for handling the problem before they arrived in the mildly condescending way of special forces greeting regular army grunts, then told them they were taking over operations in this area, so they could just head on back to Tu'narath for their next mission. Since they had yet to recover their spells, the PC's were able to stall them, but they were definitely waiting around in an impatient manner for the other team to leave while running tests on things with strange magical devices. When debriefed and asked about what happened to the gate though, instead of taking them to the bottom of the lake, our githyanki commander teleported briefly with them to the deep caverns with crushing pressure where the tablets had been kept, lied (41 on his bluff check) and said that the gate was there, but it had closed when they defeated Xhagevoxhab. Since they were taking damage each round, they couldn't stick around there and investigate in detail, so they teleported back and it looked like they'd got away with the deception. Before leaving, the group also went back and investigated the dwarven fortress, checking that they had also died when their master did (leaving suits of armor frozen around the fortress in random places) and thoroughly looting the place. Between Jbulgolboth and the dwarven fortress, they once again have a pretty decent haul, with the single biggest thing being the massive chunk of adamantine the fungus lord had shaped into a horn enhancement, plus enough xp to bring one of them up to 15th level and the others close. Things have definitely moved a step closer to the climactic final confrontation. What will their next mission be? Will they ever find out what lies beyond the still-open gate? Just how long will they be able to keep up the ruse of being loyal soldiers, and what position will they be in when finally discovered? Still plenty to play for next week.</blockquote>

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