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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Eccles" data-source="post: 3476909" data-attributes="member: 5675">Reaching the top of the stairs, we paused a short distance away as Flynne produced his tools and ran his hands over the massive stone door. Abruptly, there was a huge red-hot explosion which blossomed from inches away from his nose. A scream tore through the air, as we witnessed Flynne, hair ablaze, hurtling backwards across the room before he slammed into the wall.Igmut slapped out the flames, and then he, Malachite and I produced wands which we tapped to his scorched flesh to restore him to full health before pushing him back towards the door.A few seconds later, and he was finished. The door at the top of the stairs opened into a grand chamber, 80 feet in height. The far side of the circular room was marked by a colossal jet-black octagonal inscribed with jagged runes. At the foot of this monolith was a green-coloured pool. Perhaps 50 feet above the pool floated the dark-cloaked creature, which turned its rubbery purplish tentacled face towards us.“You dare enter my sanctum?” The creature’s voice rang out both in the air and in all of our minds. “Fools! I shall finish what Talakin could not. Your weak minds will be a sumptuous feast, your terror a pleasing garnish!”The creature gestured, and from either side of him there came a pair of twanging sounds as unseen assailants fired crossbow bolts at both Flynne, who was silhouetted in the doorway, as well as at Igmut’s bulky form just behind his shoulder. Clearly, the two drow who had escaped us some hours ago had fled back to their master and would also have to be dealt with.Before we could spring into action, however, the illithid’s gestures became more precise, and it chanted briefly, sending a tremendous bolt of lightning surging through us all, causing our limbs to jerk and spasm as the electricity crackled between us, leaving almost all of us badly hurt. All of us except Flynne, who had avoided the bolt by taking cover behind the stone doors.Endo moved up to the doorway quickly, casting a spell which sent Igmut spiralling into the air on unseen wings. Igmut therefore flew across the threshold into the room towards the illithid, but as he did so he was struck from both sides by familiar-looking claw-tipped tentacles.Singing, I tossed down the statuette of the bronze griffon we had found in the preceding room, which burst outwards and took flight up and off towards the side of the room, where I could hear it clawing at one of the two drow archers atop a high pillar. Suddenly, the tentacled octopins acted again, and a series of tentacles lashed down again and again, grabbing and tearing at Endo who stood in the doorway. They snatched and shredded his already lightning-seared form, before two claws from each side latched onto his body and each pulled at him. There was a bloody tug-of-war between the two creatures, as they fought over the bloody, screaming rag which had so recently been my friend. Abruptly, the screaming stopped, and his body was simply torn in two and dropped to the floor in a bloodied pile of damaged limbs and exposed viscera.</blockquote>

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