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Message: <blockquote data-quote="James McMurray" data-source="post: 267046" data-attributes="member: 743">Here ya go. <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=":)" />The group continues their exploration, and finds a massive vault door. As Mist begins to search it for traps, a glowing symbol appears upon it, and its power strikes him dead. The party cautiously investigates, and Galrond detects necromantic and enchantment magic upon the door. Both auras get dispelled, and the party debates what to do with Mist. Oskar offers up his resurrection gem, telling William to use it if Oskar does not need it, and the group decides they will resurrect him tomorrow.They continue examining the door, and Galrond Gates Cristoph in to pick the lock. A confused Cristoph is pulled through the gate and after he picks the lock returned to his home. The party does manage a brief explanation of what happened to him, but there is little time for father and son to catch up.As the door swings open, Oskar sees a humanoid figure stand up from a chair and sheathe itself in metal. The party feels the familiar drain of the Moilian undead, and battle is joined.Lanis fires several arrows into the creature, and it reels back, but then it slams its fists together and a shimmering column of blue force assails those in the doorway, knocking Lanis down and injuring Oskar and Billy. The party charges in and rapidly knocks it down. Billy steps up and an antimagic field stops its drain while they decide how to remove its gear while it is sheathed in metal. They finally decide that William’s mace would be best, and the field is dropped with everyone but Alzaran (Galrond’s lantern archon familiar), Oskar, and William near the thing. Oskar pounds on it to ensure it stays down, while Alzaran touches the metal wrap and teleports it away. Moments later the creature turns to dust, and the group collects its gear.---------The party decides to return to Lopolla to revive Mist and identify the items. The next day, they again head out of the city and Billy casts Disjunction at the Tome. The second time he does it, he feels a gut wrenching tear at his insides, and fear fills him as all of his knowledge of the workings of magic is stripped from his mind. He also feels a sibilant and ancient anger deep in the back of his mind, but it fades seconds later. However, there is little time to deal with that, as all hell breaks loose. The creatures trapped in the tome begin to pour forth, crushing Billy and each other in a tidal wave of scales and flesh.The rest of the party, standing back a hundred feet or so is soon swept up in the wave as well. Tossed and turned as voices cry freedom and vengeance. A foot manages to find its way into Lanis’s belly, while Galrond is crushed to the floor under the weight of a 12’ tall demonic looking figure with six stalks on either side in place of its arms. Oskar instinctively takes his stance and it is that alone which allows him to hold his ground as humans, elves, dwarves, and indescribable beasts hurtle through his field of vision. Everyone is swept back and separated by the crush of beings being freed.And then the big things start to come out.</blockquote>

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