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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Seule" data-source="post: 646408" data-attributes="member: 407">Spoilers: Madness in FreeportCase 3266A Assault on the Lighthouse    We rowed out to the light house narrowly avoiding the many patrols meant to discourage just our sort of visit.  When we arrived at the island we quickly discovered that all the doors were barred from the inside and so Constable Fenaik decided to climb in a second story window and unbar the door from the inside.  Constable Fenaik was unfortunately discovered by the guards inside and a fight quickly broke out.  Constable Fenaik managed to unbar the door and when the rest of the team entered the lighthouse we quickly subdued the guards.  We then discovered that they were all members of the Cult of the Yellow Sign (which we had suspected all along), and so we quickly proceeded to stop what ever dastardly plan the Cult was trying to put into motion.    We climbed the stairs to the second level of the lighthouse whereupon we discovered several more cultists including a priest who called down the curses of his Unspeakable God upon us.  Led by Constable Endrin (a priest of the God of Retribution) we countered with our own faith in the God of Retribution and quickly subdued the Cultists and their foul priest.  There was an alter to the God of the Sea which had be defiled with the symbol of the Unspeakable One. Upon searching the second floor we discovered the body of a local thief whom we recognized from having arrested her on petty theft charges in the past.  She was dead not more than an hour ago from a crossbow bolt in the back.  We also discovered 2 large statues of the Gods of the Sea and War.  We found that the arms on the statues moved and when we pulled them down a secret door opened to reveal a set of stairs leading up to the higher portions of the lighthouse.  Fearing what the Cult was about to do we quickly ascended the stairs.    We entered the third level of the lighthouse and came into some sort of sacrifice room.  The floor was littered with Thick Debris including the carnal stench of many dead bodies.  [Note: Thick Debris is gaming code for 'Feel free to search this room.'  Thin Debris is 'There is nothing to find here, don't bother'.]  We found another set of stairs going up but before we could use them a horrific creature from our nightmares attacked.  It was a fleshy blob of many eyes and mouths and made a cacophonous wail that could drive a person insane.  As we steeled ourselves for combat it spat out a glowing ball that exploded in a blinding flash.  Luckily we were all holding our ears and looking away due to its gibbering and were unaffected by the flash.  [Note: All 6 characters made both Will and Fort saves of 13 to avoid being confused and blinded.  They were very lucky.] Constables Endrin and Winterborn moved to slay the beast but quickly started to sink into a sickening morass surrounding the creature.  Not wishing that fate onto my teammates I dropped my weapon and proceeded to pull the Constables out of the mire.  Meanwhile Constable Fenaik, using the long reach of his chain kept the creature busy while my partner Constable Lyran used her mastery of her psychic abilities to end the beasts miserable existence.  We then regrouped and took the stairs to the upper levels of the lighthouse.    Upon entering the upper reaches of the lighthouse we found a set of stairs running up the side over a hundred feet to the very top of the lighthouse.  At the top of these stairs we could barely make out the forms of several more cultists as well as that of Milton Drac the very Sea Lord of Freeport.  Lord Drac proceeded to tell us that we would not stop him from summoning the Unspeakable One and raining destruction down on Freeport.  Since Lord Drac just admitted to a felony we had no other choice but to climb the stairs and arrest him.  He however fled to the very upper reaches of the lighthouse and his cronies attempted to impede our progress.  We informed them that aiding the escape of a felon is also a crime but they persisted and we were forced to subdue them as well.  [Note: There was no actual due process here, Benton is inserting it after the fact to make them look good.  They just killed them.]  One of the Cultists which Mr. Drac called by name used some strange abilities to fly into the air and conjured a wall of raging fire between us and the Cultists.  We later discovered that he displayed something called Arcane Magic but I am still unclear what this is.  I await the report from the Temple of Knowledge before I can fully complete this report upon the use of Arcane Magic.  In the mean time, while using bow fire to pin down the cultists, Constable Fenaik and myself braved the wall of flames and subdued the cultists behind it.  It is worth mentioning that Constable Fenaik was grievously wounded in this assault and came close to death.  I would like to recommend Constable Fenaik for the Purple Heart medal for valor under fire.  While I was subduing the rest of the Cultists, my teammates were using bow fire and Constable Lyran’s considerable mental abilities to subdue our flying adversary.  At this time I would like to recommend my partner Constable Lyran for the Golden Brain medal, for effective use of mental powers in a combat situation.  [Note: This is an entirely made up medal.  Cool nonetheless.]  We surely would have fallen to the Cultists were it not for her timely and effective application of mental force.    Having a felony suspect escaping we quickly brought Constable Fenaik back to health and continued up the stairs in pursuit of Lord Drac.</blockquote>

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