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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Silver Moon" data-source="post: 544923" data-attributes="member: 8530">Chinese Take-outChapter 64, “Morgarth on the run”, September 28, 1018, 12:15 A.M. On the Astral Plane, Serita casts a Cure Serious Wounds spell on Hiroshi’s injured hand.  After checking the hand she  suggests that he also borrow a Ring of Regeneration for an hour or two.   “We’d better get back to the others,” Aradyn comments.   They form a circle, with Serita and Aradyn each taking a hand of the other two, and Hiroshi projects them back.  Their four bodies regain consciousness, and Narg asks “What happened?”   Lono replies “Hiroshi’s silver tongue saved our butts.”  Serita states “Morgarth now thinks that Hiroshi is a very pissed off Li-Tak.”   Aradyn says “Yeah, Morgarth is packing up to leave, let’s go get him while we can.”  Hiroshi suggest that he get back into the Bag of Holding before Morgarth detects him, and discovers it was all just a bluff.   Hiroshi borrows the Ring of Regeneration from Mark, and returns to the bag along with Lono.   The party charge down the hallway, in the direction of the room above the front gate.  Mojo wastes no time is smashing the door lock, and pulling the door open.  Aradyn, Mojo and Narg charge into the room.   The large eighty-foot square room has no Morgarth inside, but is instead occupied by ten of the elephant footed giants and Barthrock.   Barthrock charges towards the party, yelling for the giants to attack.   Cassie lets loose a Fireball, which drops nine of the ten giants. Barthrock and Narg begin fighting each other with their swrods and it becomes obvious to Narg that the half-dwarven fighter is only faking it.  Charge in close to Narg, and gesturing with his head towards the large mirrors on the north and south walls, Barthrock softly mutters “Block the mirrors,” and then pushes Narg back.    Meanwhile, Mojo tosses his hammer into the remaining giant, which Aradyn also hits it with a few arrows.  Narg pulls back, instructing Fiona and Timothy to block the mirrors.   Timothy throws a Darkness spell over the mirror on the south wall.   Fiona tosses a Sunburst in front of the mirror on the north wall, to blind anyone who may be scrying through it.   Fiona then uses her Wand of Force to create a cage around the remaining giant.   Barthrock pulls over alongside the north wall, to be out of the line of sight of the mirror, and gestures for the party to join him.   “Where’s Morgarth?” Serita asks.   “He teleported out a few rounds ago,” Barthrock replies, “but there are only a few places in the castle he might have gone to.”   “Where?” Cassie asks Barthrock.   The half-dwarven fighter answers “He was in a big hurry to get out of here, and teleported away with my cleric and druid.  Because of the Anti-magic shell he couldn’t have left the area, so probably went to get a vehicle to transport him away.   The fastest vehicle is a metal flying device that uses a metal swirling blade above it to make it go.”  “A helicopter!” Serita yells out.  “Yes, I believe he called it that,” answers Barthrock.  “It’s in the back courtyard, I’ve seen it,” answers Lannon.  “What! You knew that there was a helicopter here and didn’t tell me!” Serita yells at the dwarf.  “OK, what other vehicles?” asks Aradyn.   Barthrock answers “There is another large device in the lowest sub-basement, but it is almost the size of the room that it is in, so I don’t know how Morgarth would get it out of here.”  There are also some four wheeled overland vehicles in the gatehouse below this room, and another down by the outbuildings.”  “They would take too much time to drive out,” says Serita, “He’s going for the copter.”  “Let’s get there fast,” Narg yells as the party piles into the Bags of Holding again.  Barthrock stays in the room. Lannon teleports to the well-lit courtyard, alongside the building and thirty yards from the helocopter.  The helicopter is now surrounded by a dozen bugbears, who spot Lannon, and draw shortbows.   Using his Boots of Spider Climbing, Lannon scampers up the wall sixty feet to the roof, dodging arrows as he goes.   He gets out of the sight of the bugbears, who stop firing at him, and then lets the others out of the Bag of Holding.   “Why are we on the roof!” Narg yells.   “Peer over the edge and you’ll see” answers Lannon.”   Narg does so, and a volley of arrows are sent towards him, striking the wall just below the roof.   Narg says “So? A few bugbears, what’s the big deal?”   “Twelve-to-one odds,” answers Lannon.    Serita speaks up, saying “This range will do just fine for my Call Lightning.”  “Start casting it now,” Narg replies.  Meanwhile, the Hengeyokai ranger Ebony Shadow, in cat form, has made managed to sneak into the castle.   She followed a group of bugbears through the front gatehouse and into the great hall.  She then slipped down a side hallway leading to the grand staircase, all the while avoiding being seen by the bugbears who are now rushing around the first floor.   Not knowing where to go from here, she descends the staircase a few steps, sitting in the shadows cast by the staircase wall.</blockquote>

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