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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Plane Sailing" data-source="post: 211985" data-attributes="member: 114">The party make their way down the north side of the river silverlode, taking their normal precautions against the cold. A weeks careful riding brings them to the forest of twisted trees which hides the old temple of elemental evil. Planning their attack more carefully this time, they make their way to the edge of the clearing, then Dala cast invisibility on every member of the party.They sneak past the guards at the outer wall, but as they reach the huge doors into the temple proper guard dogs start barking.invisibly they charge past the guards, jostling past them as the alarm is raised. Dala is last to enter, and he turns around and casts a web across the entire doorway while the others pound up the temple atrium. Trajan and Lysander take the lead, while Anne-Marie veers off to the left to prevent flanking, and K’tan and Dala veer to the right to get a clear field of fire. Syl sneaks quietly towards the rear.On the dias at the rear of the temple is that armoured priest who defeated them before and his lieutenant, armed with a double sword. There is no sign of the Blessed though. The sound of booted feet echo throughout the temple and Lareth the priest starts casting his defensive spells while his bodyguard Grathak takes up a guard position.Lysander is first to reach the altar rail, and he is taken by surprise as a dire ape lunges out from a stairwell at him, guided by its sense of smell and hearing. Luckily for him the raking claws miss, and he dodges past it into the sanctuary.In the left wing of the temple hobgoblin children scatter away from Anne Marie and towards a back room from which a horder of elite hobgoblin warriors erupt. They charge at her with their two handed swords, and move to surround her. Anne Maries combat reflexes kick in, and she wounds several of them as they try to strike her – but between her reflexes, her monkish intuition, her expertise and the mage armour which Syl cast upon her before they entered… they can’t touch her. Then she starts unleashing a whirlwind of blows back with her rapier darting and pricking them.Trajan and Lysander make it into the sanctuary at about the same time, and they become visible courtesy of an invisibility purge which was cast earlier.  Dala casts a lightning bolt at the dire ape which badly singes its fur. The ape charges towards the now-visible mage, but to his intense relief (and my great surprise) misses him. Lareth, the priest, casts a searing light at Dala but misses badly and fatally scorches his own dire ape (!).Anne-Marie is hit by one of the greatswords and recognises that she is in a precarious position, even though she is still holding the attention of the majority of the hobgoblins. She calls out to K’tan “Blast me!”. He responds with a cone of sound which Anne Marie evades completely but which takes down half of the hobgoblin fighters.  “Again!” she shouts and although her teeth are rattled by the next blast the remainder of the hobgoblins go down.Back on the main dias, a tricky fight is underway between Lareth with his enchanted quarterstaff and Grathak who keeps moving to make flanking opportunities against Trajan, the double sword biting viciously when combined with his sneak attacks.Against her better judgement, Syl is persuaded to join in the fight, attempting to work around to a sneak attacking position herself.Casting defensively, Lareth launches a confusion spell at Dala, who is dumbfounded and wanders off into the cloisters for the rest of the battle. Lareths armour is protecting him well from Lysanders assaults, and he joins in the concentrated efforts to take down Trajan. Suddenly there is a couple of well placed blows, and Trajan is down! The ringing sound of a huge gong sounds throughout the temple as Lareth quickly casts “Death Knell” and reaches forward...... to be continued!</blockquote>

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