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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Plane Sailing" data-source="post: 1289568" data-attributes="member: 114">Taran quickly ascertains that the door is not merely locked but it is barred from the inside. After considerable debate Arilyn tuts and mentions that she has the secret power to make anyone gaseous for a short while. While she doesn’t believe it would be wise for her to become gaseous herself, perhaps one of the mighty warriors could volunteer for the spell, since they can do some good on the other side of the door?Anne-Marie is still slightly wounded and Trajan is still improved invisible, so Trajan agrees to the spell. It is a strange feeling, having your insides and then your skin transform into mist. Unable to communicate with the others, Trajan knows that he can cause the spell to cease once and once only. Ignoring the strange sensations, and putting aside all that he knows to be true, he attempts to force his body through a tiny crack at the side of the door.To his surprise the spell has apparently worked. His invisible, gaseous body reforms inside a large guardroom. On one side is a huge iron door blocked with a sizeable bar of oak. On the opposite side is a less formidable door. The room is lit by candles in an iron chandelier hanging over a sturdy wooden table. Seated at the table is a troll wearing half-plate armour which has a two-bladed sword to hand.Trajan reforms himself next to the door and starts to slide the bar out of position. The troll sniffs and then snorts hugely, rumbling to itself “Krall smell Intruders”. It leaps to the door and slashes at Trajan’s position – but its sense of smell can’t pinpoint him clearly and it merely scores the door. Trajan yells out “PUSH” and both Anne-Marie and Meliamne burst the door open while Trajan opens up a gash in Krall’s side. Krall the troll is an experienced fighter and he decides to take the fight to his visible foes. Unleashing a full attack with his two bladed sword he snakes past Anne-Marie’s defences and with a critical hit to her chest takes her down! Reversing his strike his blade slices deeply into Meliamne with another critical hit which takes the elvish bard down!Taran remains hidden in cover in the side of the passageway. Arilyn goggles at the ferocious troll. Krall is struck again badly by Trajan – only one of the Jazumai’s blows connect, but it is a critical and opens up another wound in the trolls back. Krall realises that he’s got to get out of here if his regeneration is going to do him any good. He charges away from Trajan, ducking the AoO and guts Arilyn on the end of his huge weapon, hoisting her skyward and then tossing her aside. Taran glides quietly in cover over to Meliamne and attempts to stop him bleeding to death, and then moves over to Anne-Marie who was at deaths door. The severely wounded troll keeps running while Trajan calls to Asura for healing for his friends. But for Arilyn it is too late. Her entrails are spilled across the floor and it would take more powerful divine magic than they possess to return her to life.They all enter the guardroom together, wrapping up Arilyns body and mourning over her death.</blockquote>

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