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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Milo Windby" data-source="post: 70435" data-attributes="member: 202">Temple of Elemental Evil - part 18 (session 9)Jeremiah entered the room first, straight into the four gnolls.  They descended on the oblivious barbarian like a pack of hyenas.  Thanks to his armor Jeremiah was only marginally wounded.  The room they found themselves in was a plain square chamber.  A table with some mugs and cards sat in the middle, the chairs thrown back in the gnolls' haste to attack the intruders.  A single door led from the room.  One of the jackal-like creatures ran out of the door, probably to gather reinforcements.  The others circled Jer, flanking him and inflicted another light wound.It was not long before Jeremiah fought back.  His sword followed a well-placed arrow fired from Mazi's bow.  Three dead gnolls were left in the wake of the greatsword.Brigit and Milo took after the fleeing gnoll.  They found four more gnolls in the next room along with the original.  This room was much as the last.  Weapons lay in one corner next to a table with flasks lined neatly along its edge.  Another closed door led out next to the table.  Brigit made short work of the first two gnolls, felling them like young trees with her enchanted axe.  Milo rolled into the room past Brigit and tagged the fleeing gnoll with one of his axes.  Mazi was close behind, an arrow already knocked to her bow.  Just as she entered a single gnoll in the corner pulled a rope attached to the ceiling, trapping she and Brigit under a heavy net.  Mazi was able to loose her arrow before the net came down, killing the last gnoll from the other room.Jeremiah came charging in behind the others, with one mighty leap he cleared Brigit and landed in front of the startled gnolls with a snarl.  The gnolls seemed to cower towards the table near the rear of the room.  Seconds later they surged back, with the flasks brandished high.  One lobbed a flask at the trapped heroes, poorly aimed, the oil splashed on the net and flamed to life, burning not only Brigit and Mazi, but Jeremiah and two of the other gnolls.While Mazi and Brigit struggled free Jeremiah advanced on the gnolls.  He cut one down with an offhanded blow and stalked on.  The gnolls seemed to falter before four more figures burst through the door, two gnolls and two hobgoblins.  The leading gnolls attacked Jer but were repulsed by his bladework.Brigit and Mazi were able to struggle free from the net by then.  Brigit charged the gnoll that Milo was fighting, easily bringing its life to a close.  Closer to the door Jeremiah's sword claimed another victim while wounding the other.  Milo tumbled forward and finished it off, preventing Jer from being flanked.One gnoll made it past Jer's defenses, wounding his arm.  Before he could retaliate a swift arrow from Mazi's bow struck the gnoll right between the eyes.  Jeremiah instead moved forward and attacked the last gnoll and the two hobgoblins.  They lasted no longer than any of Jeremiah's other foes.  Soon the room was empty of any threat.  Milo felt almost dizzy from the whirlwind battle.  Everything had happened so quickly it was hard for him to come down from the adrenaline rush of battle.  He practically bounced as he walked around the room, full of nervous energy.  Trying to occupy his attention, Milo set himself to searching the room beyond.  He found ruined chambers, obviously quite nice at one time.  They had been through rough times since then though.  Nothing in the room was intact.  The gnolls and hobgoblins had cleaned out anything of value long ago.  In his searching Milo found a catch in the stone wall.  He recognized it as the opening of a secret door.Milo returned to the other room to tell the others.  He found that they had been busy as well, searching the other two rooms and the bodies of the fallen.  "Well, anything else guys?" Milo asked his friends after they had gathered in what he referred to as the 'net room'."Nah, nuthin but tha oil.  I think it'll come in purty handy tho'." Brigit said, hefting a flask in one hand."Easy Brigit, I don't need any more of that splashed on my nice shiny armor." Mazi said, shying away from the dwarf."Oh, an' I did find this purty," Brigit said as she lifted a silver chain set with a bright green gem.  Mazi's eyes lit up at the sight. "I'll hang on to it if you don't mind, Brigit." came her predictable request.Brigit snorted and tossed the necklace to her.  She caught it and spent the next few minutes staring at the necklace, testing the quality with her hands and teeth.  "I found some coins on the bodies back there." Mazi said absentmindedly, flipping her head in the direction of original room without taking her eyes from the necklace."Me too." Jeremiah spoke up."Well I found something a little more interesting." Milo told them. "There's a secret door in the other room.  Probably leads to a secret cache of some sort."  A particular gleam creeped into his eyes at the idea of valuables tucked away in a secret vault."A'right, ya know Milo won' be happy 'til we check it out.  Let's go." Brigit said.</blockquote>

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