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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Plane Sailing" data-source="post: 19694" data-attributes="member: 114">nb - I just did a quick calculation and was horrified to see that my storyhour has the lowest amount of viewings per post of ANY storyhour on the boards! Help! What can I do to encourage people to start looking? Rename it to "Meepo and the Return to the Temple of Elemental Evil with ideas copied from Piratecat" <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /><img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />They decide that the first thing to do is to track down the Carnosaur which is reportedly wreaking havoc amongst nearby farmsteads. While K’tan goes off to make contact with his superiors in Cadlan,  Azrin’s research suggests that it is probably difficult to hurt with fire or normal weapons. Lysander, Crail and Azrin decide to hire riding horses and track it down. Gathering information amongst the local farmers quickly identifies the general location, and in the wet mud after several days of light rain it is easy to find the tracks of the huge creature. It is followed to a large grove, and the party wait about 200’ downwind of the grove, dismounting from their horses and readying their missile weapons.Peering into the depths of the grove, Crail can just make out two glowing red eyes - and then suddenly the huge beast charges out of the trees, splintering branches and running straight for them - within the space of a dozen heartbeats it is amongst them and starting to attack, having shrugged off the arrows with ease!Azrin casts “shield other” on Lysander, and then tries to target the creature with a “sound burst”, but succeeds only in damaging every one of his friends and not affecting the creature at all! Lysander slashes at it with the scimitar and causes some damage - but in return it grabs him up with its jaws, crushing him and lifting him off his feet. Next round Crail darts in and strikes completely ineffectually, his rapier skittering off its magically hardened scales. Lysander struggles in the grip of the beast as it chews him, hurting him more severely. He is really thankful for the spell Azrin cast earlier, although Azrin himself is starting to look a little worse for wear. Lysander suddenly breaks free, and drops to the ground ready to continue fighting. Crail is attacked by the creature and grabbed too, and in only a couple of rounds is severely wounded, so he feigns death and is dropped. While Lysander continues slashing away at the creature it viciously bites Azrin, whose vain attempt at a stunning attack fails, and the priests luck at last runs out - the teeth pierce his heart and he cries out and dies.Lysander calls upon Asura to bless his blade, yet still the critical hits elude him, and the creature continues to take its toll of him. Thankfully much of the injury it would have inflicted is still magically diverted into the body of Azrin, writhing like a bloodied puppet on the grass under the vicarious impacts while Lysander’s continued onslaught starts to bite deeply into the fiendish carnosaur.Crail thinks he sees his chance, and quickly whips out the shocking wand and applies it to the creature - but horror of horrors he rolls really badly on his “use magic device” and attempts to use it by the wrong end...There is a shower of purple sparks and then the young rogue is hurled back smoking in the churned up mud, to move no more.Suddenly Lysander manages a killing blow, sliding his scimitar into the groin of the creature which, exhausted and bleeding, crashes down and dies. He immediately goes to the aid of his two fellows and finds them both beyond the help of his bandages or faith. With a heavy heart he tracks down and recaptures their horses, places his dead comrades upon them, and heads back to Knightsbridge.As he approaches the west gate, there is a heroes reception waiting for them, but which goes deathly quiet as he rides past with his silent cargo. Several dozen people follow as he makes his way to the remains of the temple, and acolytes take the bodies inside...</blockquote>

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