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Message: <blockquote data-quote="the Jester" data-source="post: 383408" data-attributes="member: 1210">Final Battle Against BlethOnce again, the four companions are plodding through a disgusting smelly sewer.  Once again they go back to the place where the shrine to the Faceless Lord was.  And this time, the creature has sensed them before they’ve spotted it.  It rises from the morass in a half-humanoid, half-ooze form, roaring praises to its dark Lord, and Blunder’s bow shivers and shatters in his hands.  He gives a deep-throated cry.  Droidi reacts first, conjuring a flaming sphere near Bleth- the Juiblexian- who screams as it appears right around him!  Vito calls upon Boccob to strike out at the strange ooze-like cleric with a spiritual staff, and he has a little more good luck, landing a solid blow.   With a cry of rage, Bleth charges Blunder, smiting him and paralyzing him in a single deadly blow!  The half-orc gives a single strangled cry as he drops onto the sewage- unfortunately, there’s no water walk this time!  Horbin moves to save his ally, while meanwhile Droidi hurls a dagger into the evil cleric’s body.  The spiritual staff swings again, narrowly missing the monster’s head, but Vito’s sound burst explodes right next to it.  Even though Bleth isn’t stunned, it’s damaged enough that it drops back under the surface of the sewage.  Vito and Droidi assume their guard.  Vito’s prepared for this tactic this time; he casts deathwatch, and even though he can’t see its exact location he knows roughly where it is.  The entire group- except for Horbin, who’s busy keeping Blunder from drowning, and the half-orc mercenary- makes ready to attack it as soon as it pops up.  And a moment later, as it rises, they get there chance.  Vito hurls an enchanted rock at it, Droidi stabs it with his dagger, and with a horrified shriek the creature dies, spilling foul-smelling ichor in the river of sewage.Forty minutes later they are at the sea, rinsing off.  Then more baths, beers, and an exhausted sleep.  Horbin sleeps well for the first time in days.And Captain Clambake doesn’t sleep at all......Notes: I was actually quite disappointed, the party did almost maximum damage against Bleth in this fight right out of the gate.  He didn't do as well against them in the final fight as I'd hoped; but the next two sessions taxed the party to their limits, between the return of some old friends, the resolution of Captain Clambake's... issues, and the first time in 3e (and it wasn't even close to fair) that I've gotten to use... well, you'll see.I posted Blunder in the Rogues' Gallery thread if anyone's interested: <a href="http://enworld.cyberstreet.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=23482" target="_blank">http://enworld.cyberstreet.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=23482</a>Next Time: Investigating the caves on the land the party bought; and oh yeah- who won the election?</blockquote>

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