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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Eccles" data-source="post: 3159486" data-attributes="member: 5675">3 hours later, Flynn tapped on the other side of the door and slipped into the room. He whispered that there was a tall man approaching with 4 more of the tieflings and a man in robes. He described them coming down the corridor and checking each of the rooms as they passed them, closing inexorably on ours.Far too soon, we heard them get to our door. There was a brief push against it, then a muttered conversation. We heard one of them say that he would not risk forcing the door – that they would wait for us to come to them. Later, there was a faint chanting, and checks confirmed that a significant spell had been cast on the door, which would cause it to explode violently if we opened it..oOo.We waited through another night’s nervous and fitful rest before using most of our spells once again to recover to full health. Spells of enhancement were cast, Morgan was wreathed in spirits once more, and Torvig cast spells to make himself hit harder and Niccoli stay up and fight more accurately. I began to chant, and unrolled a scroll. Just before we opened the door, Morgan scrutinised it with magic. On the other side, he announced, was a rune of protection, which would explode (possibly killing several of us) when the door was opened.We all stood back, and let Morgan magic the door open with a cantrip. The door’s explosion sent it hurtling into the room beyond on a wall of flame; and battle was joined. My scroll sent a wall of sound into the room, perhaps not battering the eardrums of the tieflings and mage as much as I might have wanted, but it did leave several of them looking dazed, and my friends were swift to capitalise on the situation.As Morgan cast a spell of fear on one tiefling, the cleric of Hextor we could now clearly see cast a spell of enchantment on his own shield. His spell worked, but Morgan’s was totally unsuccessful. Arrows arced past Morgan from the tieflings, Niccoli and Torvig ran in the other direction, sword and morningstar swinging past the stunned tieflings. My effort was no better; my spell to make the wizard’s speech garbled and mess up his spellcasting failed, whilst Flynn unlimbered his bow once more, muttering “save against this, you #%*&”, and shooting him.More spells flew; Morgan managing to make one tiefling run for its life, whilst the enemy cleric began to summon something. The robed wizard unrolled a scroll, read from in and pointed in my direction – to my absolute horror a roiling, roasting ball of fire leaped from his outstretched finger, filling the entire room I was in with flame, seriously injuring Morgan, causing me considerable pain, and apparently having no effect whatsoever on Flynn. How he’d avoided it was anybody’s guess, but judging from Morgan’s burns then my wizardly friend had probably shielded Flynn from the blast.A heavily enchanted Niccoli ran past the tieflings on seeing this, ducking their swings, and then missing the wizard completely himself. I fired my bow at someone in the room beyond, but then….</blockquote>

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