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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Eccles" data-source="post: 3147730" data-attributes="member: 5675">I grasped the winch, the others ringing around me. As we descended carefully, Morgan began to use his own spells. Once again, the spectral figure wrapped its arms and robe around the mage, even as he summoned more ghostly energies and breathed them into his lungs, colouring his flesh and energising him.We began to move faster, finally hurtling down as fast as we could safely manage before hurtling into the occupied room beneath us. As we burst into the torchlight, Morgan flung his latest abomination of a spell at the armoured woman. Closer to, we could see that she was heavily scarred and carried a heavy symbol of Hextor. The male figure was a large half orc in similar armour, whilst two undead and a trio of tieflings stood in a ring around the base of the elevator. Transfixed by Morgan’s spell, the woman was surrounded by a hundred gibbering spirits, which began tormenting her and pulling at her hair. The others on the platform with me poured fire into the woman, and as the arrows slammed home the tiny spirits began to pull at the wounds, pulling gashes open and delighting in the flow of blood from her body. On the other side of the room, the half orc quaffed a potion, and his outline became uncertain and blurred. Even as the female cleric hurled a spell at us to dispirit us, I began to chant in encouragement of my comrades. Morgan flung another spell out, this time at the half orc, and we could see the hulking figure’s eyes turn milky white in blindness.Amidst heavy fire from below (mostly slamming into the underside of the platform), we crashed down to within 10 feet of the ground. Niccoli leapt off the platform and stumbled across to the woman and hacked her head off with one brutal swipe of his sword. The orc swallowed another potion, and a black energy surrounded him with its dark protections. More spells and arrows flew as Morgan’s spirits drained the very life energy from the orc, draining it of a huge amount of strength. In response, the three tieflings began to fire their longbows at the wizard, striking him and removing much of the protective spirit energies coursing through his system..oOo.Seeing that the big orc was blinded, I cast one of my minor cantrips, creating a number of voices and noises of swords and armour all around the orc, which caused him to swing blindly around him. As I was casting this, Morgan began to use a cantrip of his own, dazing one of the tieflings; the other two shot at him and missed. Niccolih, meanwhile, came under assault by the two shambling zombies.A light began to blaze above us as gallons of burning oil was poured from hundreds of feet above us to land on the wooden platform. I leapt off the platform, whilst Flynn evaded the oil; Morgan and Torvig weren’t as lucky, taking burns from the flaming liquid as it splattered around them. Now on the floor, I copied Morgan by dazing one of the tieflings with a cantrip. Torvig jumped off the platform and joined Niccoli in battle with the zombies before Morgan cast one of his larger spells; a single large spirit hurtling at the half-fiend, who fled from the ghost, running in fear down one of the corridors.Spending my last spell in dazing another tiefling, I saw Torvig and Niccoli drop one of the zombies and move onto another. I nocked an arrow and started chanting once more. At about the same time, the spell of noise affecting the orc expired, and I began to duck into and then back out of his reach, giving him another target to swing at. Behind me, the second heavy zombie body crashed to the floor.My arrows starting flying in the general direction of the tielfing standing there (the second having been shot by Flynn’s more accurate missile fire), whilst Morgan once again managed to dazzle the half-blood with one of his cantrips. Behind me, Niccoli dropped his shield and dashed across the room; hacking the half-orc from shoulder to hip in one enormous two-handed slash.Arrows flew, sword and spear stabbed out, and finally we were left with one tiefling to defeat – the one which had fled, and was now shooting at us from the far end of the large room with the pool of dark liquid. We began a shooting battle with him as Flynn crept towards the fiend. Most of our arrows went wild, until Flynn fired a single shot which took the tiefling at the throat, and the fight was over.</blockquote>

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