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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Plane Sailing" data-source="post: 12557" data-attributes="member: 114">Felgar steps into the room, clad in half-plate armour with the other dark-eyed acolyte as her second. She has issued the traditional Jazumai challenge to a duel, a one-on-one fight between Jazumai in which no outside interference is brooked.Lysander replies "to the death, naturally!""Indeed, to the death. You may take a few moments to prepare yourself. I have long looked forward to testing myself against someone of your mettle".Lysander takes a moment to heal himself and cast a sorcerous magic weapon on his scimitar, then the two Jazumai square off in the centre of the room.Disconcerted that he cannot cry "my god is better than your god" since they both serve different aspects of Asura, Lysander launches into the attack and draws blood immediately - but is then surprised as Felgar takes two slashes with her scimitar and then spins around and lands a crushing blow with her foot, nearly knocking him over! Dms note: Felgar is a Ftr1/Jazumai5. She is not as strong, dextrous or charismatic as Lysander, but her base attack bonus gives her one extra attack per round and she has two weapon fighting to enable her to use her unarmed attack alongside the scimitar swipes. The battle rages as standing toe to toe the scimitars whirl. Lysander scores a critical hit! Felgar fails to knock him over with her kick once more. Lysander scores another critical hit! DMs note: I couldn't believe it. It seems clear who Asura really favoured in this battle! Felgar calls upon Asura to heal her wounds and then redoubles her assault on her opponent.Finally Lysander scores yet another critical hit and cleaves the wounded Felgar in two.The remaining acolyte charges across the room and attacks Lysander with his great flail, crying out, but Auriel and the others are able to enter the fight now and despite a couple of awesome blows, he is soon cut down. While the injured tend to each other and somebody remembers Daros ability to raise dead so Felgar is decapitated, Azrin moves off into the west wing on his own to search for Alkanar. yep, you heard that right, he went off on his own into the unexplored area while severely wounded.Azrin quickly runs round the rooms in the east wing of the temple, looking for Alkanar the high priest. He finds damaged books in the library, and the robing room was clearly used by some of the hell hounds as a nest.While the fight with the acolyte continues in the main hall, he runs up the stairs, and peeks into Alkanar’s room - in the process of being desecrated by a foul imp. The imp flies at him and he hobbles  through the doorway that leads to the balcony - and comes face to face with Daros, armoured and glowing with magic. Daros sees his badly wounded condition and quickly casts "death knell' and strikes Azrin! Remarkably, Azrin saves (on a 20) and leaps straight past Daros and over the edge of the balcony - a 25' leap, made possible by the potion of jumping which he had imbibed earlier.Lysander and the others are astounded to see Azrin land amongst them, and all the more astounded when an Unholy Blight explodes amongst them. Auriel is untouched out of range, as is K'tan, Lysander shrugs off the worst of the blast but the others are all mortally injured, and only just save vs dying.Lysander calls out to Daros" Either fight or leave now!" - somewhat of a bluff, since the party are in no condition to take on the high priest - but Daros doesn't know that. He airwalks off the balcony and hangs above the party, before booming out"You have slain my chosen Jazumai. I will have to raise up another. My plans here are ruined, and it seems the voices in my prophetic dreams were mistaken - but I have other eggs a-hatching, and I must tend to them. Beware when we meet again, I may not be so merciful'. He then airwalks out through a hole in the temple dome.Lysander breathes a sigh of relief - he knew that they were in no condition to take on Daros, and he managed to bluff him out of the picture.They party quickly tend their wounds, then turn their minds to the other large problems facing Knightsbridge. Apart from the fiendish creatures currently walking the streets, and un-investigated problems in Southspur, it seems clear that the Baron is under some kind of control. Furthermore, it seems likely that that is where Alkanar the priest is being kept captive...</blockquote>

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