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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Plane Sailing" data-source="post: 1296304" data-attributes="member: 114">A diversionary assualt starts going wrong...After spending an hour recovering, and with no noise detected from the door which leads further into the complex, it is agreed that Taran will start scouting ahead. The door is opened quietly and he slips silently into the corridor. Making the most of the concealment offered by the flickering wall torches he glides almost invisible down the corridor. Past a door with no sound from behind it. The main corridor proceeds ahead, but he turns down a narrow side corridor. He is no more than twenty feet down it when some creatures up ahead seem to have caught his scent – there is the sound of squealing hisses, and loud bangs as creatures throw themselves against the bars of their cage by the sound of it.A door in front of him opens and Heunar, a minor half-orc wizard in a long coat steps out to investigate his animals. Taran gets the drop on him, but has to move closer and so he only gets in a single sneak attack, which is appallingly poor. Heunar casts invisibility defensively and then runs away from his attacker. Taran returns to the guardroom, gathers the others and they all run down the main corridor shouting “For the temple of Air!”DM note: At first I thought they just weren’t particularly concerned about the possibility of organised resistance and a raised alarm, but it turned out they were hoping to sow discord amongst the elemental temples by pretending to be from a rival temple – they didn’t really have the necessary understanding of the politics to pull it off at this point thoughThey reach a large intersection. Ahead is corridor with additional doors, to the right are double doors engraved with unholy scenes, to the left an arched opening to the outside world, and a hill giant standing at the edge. He appears to be munching on melons…Trajan attempts to taunt the giant into attacking him while Taran takes up a hiding place suitable for a flanking attack when the giant charges up. The giant declines to charge however, and instead throws a ripe melon at Trajan, splattering with some force over his upper body and rocking him back on his heels. The giant then picks up a small boulder and gestures obscenely.  Trajan remembers the pounding he took at the hands of the Ettin and so he puts his new techniques into practice - springing forwards, slashing at the giant and then springing back once more. The giant responds with thrown boulders and Taran starts getting frustrated at his lack of opportunity to take action.Meliamne backs against the doorway and starts using his bow to send arrows into the giant when Anne-Marie, who has been standing rearguard, shouts the alarm as a cloud of darkness blossoms in the corridor between them and their exit.I hate to say it, but watch out for another death coming up in the next installment... </blockquote>

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