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Message: <blockquote data-quote="DM with a vengence" data-source="post: 155861" data-attributes="member: 1679">Wazzzzzzup!*The adventurers are about 6th level.  While this campaign has been temporarily discontinued, I've discussed restarting it with the players and they expressed some interest in continuing the game.  More updates on that front later.Wazzzzzzzzup!The party reacted with lightning speed.  Nikki drew forth her holy symbol and turned six of the foul creatures towards the side of the room.  Ladinya blasted two others with a lightning bolt.  Milo, Sir Jadael and Kit engaged the three near the door, killing two of them instantly.  The party retreated towards the doorway, Milo taking out the last guardian.  Ladinya coolly fired another bolt of lightning into three ghouls at point blank range, daring the undead to hit her.  Zeebo slipped past the party and jabbed the last ghoul with his rapier, finessing the blade in classic elven style.  The ghoul struck back, but Zeebo was immune to the paralysis effect.  Unfortunately, the ghast that had disappeared at the beginning of the encounter dropped from the ceiling and froze Zeebo like a statue.  Nikki dashed forward, her wand of cure serious wounds glowing with the forces of life, and touched it to the ghast.  A nimbus of light glowed around the ghast, blinding everybody for a second, before its body disintegrated dust.  Milo charged, his final axe at ready, and killed the last unturned ghoul.  The rest of the party made quick work of the ghouls, and after retrieving their weapons, curing their wounds and retrieving some treasure, they exited the room.The made it to the main room before they were jumped, 30 ghouls and two ghasts darted in to form a circle around them, hissing with an unnatural glee.  Zeebo rapidly appraising the situation decided that cowardice was the only part of survival, cast Haste, Expeditious Retreat and ran for the door like every demon in the abyss was chasing him.“Stupid elven coward!”  Milo screamed as he sent three axes spinning into a ghast, killing it in seconds.“Agreed!”  Ladinya shouted over the ghouls as she moved and blasted a ghoul and a ghast with her second to last lightning bolt.“We can take these joker on with our hands tied behind our backs!”  Kit yelled back as she hit a ghoul with her crossbow. “For Honor” Sir Jadael roared as he charged forward, smiting the second ghoul into oblivion. Nikki held her holy symbol over her head, and blasted a half dozen ghouls with the power of Ehlonna.  They scampered away into a tunnel, cowering in fear.8 of the ghouls jumped on Sir Jadael, paralyzing him and then proceeding to flay his flesh from the bones.  The other 15 ghouls charged at the rest of the party, but they all missed with their bites.  Ladinya stepped to the side and fired her final lightning bolt along a row of 7 ghouls, disintegrating the undead in wave of electricity.  Unfortunately, as its dying act, the nearest ghoul hit her and paralyzed her.  Nikki raised her holy symbol, and drove 5 away into one of the tunnels.  Milo slashed with his axe, separating a ghoul’s head from it torso.  Kit dove around the back of the party, and grabbed a scroll from the paralyzed Ladinya.  Milo and Nikki finished off the other two ghouls threatening the party as Kit held the scroll up, muttering, “I hope this works.”It did.  A fireball burst in the center of the remaining ghouls, killing 5 and sending 3 staggering away heavily burned.  The party made quick work of the survivors, and waited for Ladinya to recover.  When she did, the party moved off down the tunnels they had cleared earlier, and made quick work of the few remaining ghouls.After recovering the body of Sir Jadael, the party left the crypts, stopping only to destroy the desecrated alter of Pelor.  As they smashed the dark alter, they saw for a moment a hideous symbol of evil, three upside down pentagrams, inscribed in each other, surrounded by a circle.</blockquote>

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