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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Satin Knights" data-source="post: 6248850" data-attributes="member: 6666968">"Little girl commands one beast.  Ha!  I command two hundred holy warriors!  BE SILENT!"  The people around you that were scoffing and laughing at your bickering with the well known hero flinch at his commandment.   People were dutifully following his orders and marshaling according to skills already, but his flaring anger has lit a fire that seems to be speeding everyone up just a bit more.  "Unless... someone has tampered with the Demonscope!  Our order protects an ancient artifact.  It keeps a planar gate closed. The power of the Shield comes from the Demonscope and the trapped essence, but without a complete triumvirate of Holy Sentinels, the Shield is weakening.  Gebidinger is getting old and frail of body for a warrior.  That is why he was being replaced with Allbright."  THUMP! Another of the reverse gravity fields fall, finally being dispelled by someone in the crowd.  The dead vrock that had been floating in it crashed down rather loudly.  The old priest moves to the next demon and starts stripping the rings off of it as he continues talking.  “We need to act quickly to strengthen the Demonscope and prevent the demons from reaching it.  Judging by your quick reaction and competence in the battle against the demons, you have twice the courage and four times the brains of anyone else in this room. These fools will stand around and debate the particulars of the assault and attempt a frontal seige until you’re all as old as me, but the truth is, we don’t have the time. If there’s any chance of salvaging this situation we have to act now, before the Demonscope is destroyed and the Shield fails.  Once that happens, all the demons here would be loose and free upon the world.”"Gather a strike force together of about a dozen people.  There is a back way into the keep.  It is too tight to march an army through, but a quick strike force could get through in time." Monks and paladins have been piling the crispy remains of the dretches in the front corner.  One of them brings over the only thing that they had that looks of value.  It looks like a cargo net, but it survived the fire snake without a bit of singeing. [sblock=Bren and Kalinn (being up by the messenger)]Through a neutralize poison, breath of life, remove curse and probably more, the head priest and a close paladin are able to keep the messenger alive.  You overhear,  "The keep has fallen.  It started several hours ago.  Many demons have infiltrated and taken us by surprise.  There are pockets of troops that are still fighting, but they are cut off from each other.  We have not been able to mount a unified front.  Normally, we could feel something like this coming, but no, we sensed nothing.  I think it still is safe and protected, but I don't know."[/sblock][sblock=Status]117/117 AC 19 AT24 ~ Daylily ~ Fly 38r, good weapon, See Invisibility, ~ ..83/83. AC 18+4 AT25 ~ Relic ~ MA 1h,..82/82. AC 17 AK24 ~ Sylvain ~  ..99/99. AC 24 AL23 ~ Orlando ~ 105/105 AC 30 AL25 ~ Borric ~ +2 Heroism 987r ~..65/65. AC 17 AT26 ~ Anaerion ~ MA/OFl/4hr/DS/16h/MC987r/4 MI/~..74/74. AC 18 AR28 ~ Elenka ~ Magic Circ f/Evil 10', ..65/65. AC 21+4 AP26 ~ Drevezh'Korol ~ MA 8h, Gr Magic Fang 9hr, Large 79r ..82/82. AC 18 AR26 ~ Arianna ~ MA/4hr ~164/164 AC 28 BB38 ~ Kalinn ~ ..74/74. AC 18 BB39 ~ Breninyr ~ (will ask for MA when in position) 105/105 AC 26 AQ25 ~ Aradra ~ Gravity Bow 99r, Good Weapon, Adaptation 98r  101/101 AC 22 AP25 ~ Shadow ~ defend Orange AU27 ~ Old Priest examining demon and talkingGreen BD37 ~ High Priest, tending to messenger paladinLight Yellow BD31 ~  Kalton Gebidinger, barking ordersG 0 1 F A D G D  Inside Red circle, Magic Circle vs. Evil 10'Yellow-Green circles: Inspire Courage +2Cyan circles: Channel Positive Energy burstsPurple shaded state: ConfusedBlue square shaded area: Reverse GravityGreen diamond state: WeakenedGreen dot state: HasteMagenta Triangle state: FlyingBlue Circle: ProneRed X state: deadGrey X state: Paralyzed/unconsciousBalls around Demons: Mirror ImagesGreyed Area: Stinking cloud, no visibility beyond 5'[/sblock]link=<a href="http://lpf.coloredpixels.com/Allbright/cathedral24.jpg" target="_blank">cathedral24.jpg</a>[sblock=inline map]<img src="http://lpf.coloredpixels.com/Allbright/cathedral24.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " data-size="" style="" />[/sblock]</blockquote>

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