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Message: <blockquote data-quote="James McMurray" data-source="post: 236865" data-attributes="member: 743">Kargur’s (a.k.a. he of the one track mind <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":-)" title="Smile    :-)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":-)" />) only response is, “He stole my shield.”Al’raktal says, “And this is your only problem with him?”Kargur tells him that he has also caused troubles for the group and other people, but that the shield is his primary concern at the moment. After a few more pleasantries, Kargur, Galrond, and Lo’ser bid farewell to Al’raktal. When they return to the party, the group decides that without more information, they would prefer to search more towers and come back later to attack the guardian of the key.After resting for a night and preparing spells to protect against the cold, the party decides to first search out the tower where the party turned a zombie into a dessert cart. With the group staying a room or two behind Lo’ser, the search begins. Many rubble-filled rooms are searched and found empty. Then, Lo’ser enters a room and does not return. He has found the room of final games, where Moilians from ages past would play the highest stakes card games. The master of the game sat in the chair at the head of the tables, and the loser of the game was forced into the ceiling’s Mirror of Life Trapping. They were generally freed shortly thereafter, with a service pledged to the winner. Unfortunately for Lo’ser, there is no one to free him.After he fails to return, the party investigates. Entering the seemingly empty room, Kargur looks up and is pulled into the Mirror himself. The rest of the party manages to avoid its snare, and Galrond casts Greater Dispelling, momentarily deactivating it. As the mirror shuts off, Lo’ser and Kargur drop from their cells back into the room, along with two Moilian zombies and a Human female.“Darash? Latark na’tal?” says the woman, and then moves back tot he corner of the room to draw a shortsword and stand confused. Meanwhile, as the zombies' life draining auras begin to take effect, the party springs into action. They quickly pummel the two into submission with spells and blades. One of the two is disintigrated by Billy, whil the other is turned to dust by William’s Mace of Diruption. The party is a bit weakened, nut no one is seriously hurt.“Sati. Dal’tok?” says the woman.Kargur, drawing upon his skills learned in the Middle Circle, activates his tongues ability and asks, “Who are you?” while simultaneously detecting evil. The woman turns up positive for the taint, with a moderate strength aura.“I am Tsaerext. Who are you?” she replies.“We are explorers. Do you work for Acererak?”“Who?”“Do you work for Orcus?”“No. I work for myself. May I leave now?”“Why should we let an evil witch such as yourself go free?”“Pardon me? I am neither evil nor a witch. Is it your peoples’ custom to accuse others without grounds? How rude.”Further discussion leads them to believe that she is from the city before the curse. When Kargur tells her that the city is extremely cold because they are in an extremely cold place (the Negative Material plane) she laughs at his obvious logic.The party decides to take her to her home so that she may get warmer clothing. When they take her outside, they learnt hat a large portion of the city is no longer here. The group discusses amongst them what to do with her, and decide to take her back to the tower of Portals, where it is warmer, and will grant her freedom if she tells them what the portals lead to. She takes them around the ring of portals and explains that one leads to the outer edge of the city, another to the Tower of Health, still another to the Periphery, and one to the Tower of Discipline, where criminals were held and punished. As they come up to the last of the gates, Tsaerext says, “Ah ha. Moil may have fallen, but surely Kainrath stil stands. Goodbye fools.” With that she activates the portal and the mists which fill it are immediately sucked away. With Moil’s move and the time passed, the gate now points to a spot deep in the heart of the plane of vacuum. Tsaerext, Kargur, Oskar, and Lanis manage to grab the sides, but the remainder of the group are sucked into the gate, and the air leaps from their lungs.Billy, who had previously cast fly upon himself manages to get back out, and he places a wall of force behind the group to prevent them from travelling deeper into the plane. Oskar attempts to strike Tsaerext’s hands off of the portal to revenge the group against her mistake. His attempt sends him hurtling into the gate. Moments later, Billy puts off saving his friends for a moment to blast her with a silent stilled disintegrate. His lapse causes the death of Lo’ser by suffocation.With a combination of walls of force for bridges and flying, the party manages to get out and deactivate the gate. William has passed out and Lo’ser is dead, but Kargur revives William, who then Resurrects Lo’ser. However, as Lo'ser has not previously acquired a large enough gemstone, a True Resurection by William is not possible.</blockquote>

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