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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Plane Sailing" data-source="post: 226965" data-attributes="member: 114">Where do little fiends come from?Carefully the party creep into the empty hall at the base of the tower, and slowly move up the stairs. Even though some of them are not particularly skilled at moving silently, the screams from the torture chamber easily cover their movement. Reaching the top of the stairs, Lysander takes in the situation with a horrified glance and leaps towards the half-fiend bugbear – only to come crashing down as its whip curls around his legs and trips him up. Then a wave of blackness sweeps out from the creature and engulfs the room.Lysander struggles to his feet and swings out in the darkness, guessing the location of the creature, but it catches him with its whip once again, and once more brings him crashing down before following up with a heft blow from its spiked morningstar. The others cluster on the stairwell, wondering what do do as they hear the sound of oaths and fighting from within the wall of pitch black. The darkness prevents Lysander from dodging properly, and he is clearly being hit regularly by the fiend which has no difficulty in seeing in its own darkness.Suddenly there is an unearthly scream as one of Lysanders blows strikes home, his blessed scimitar biting deep. The fiend moves back from straight melee combat and starts using its whip from range again to attempt to trip or disarm.Anne-Marie decides that she can’t let her companion fight alone, and dives into the darkness, guessing by sound roughly were the creature is – and then unleashing her whirlwind attack to strike at all of the space around her (DMs note: I decided that this was a smart move, and that the hard-won whirlwind attack was a good way of making an attack into every surrounding square, even though the 50% miss chance still applied). Lysander readies an action to attack wherever the sound of impact comes from, and between them they score a couple of lucky hits and the creature dies, with curses still on its frothing lips.The darkness fades away in wisps, and over the ever present moans and tears of the tortured villagers comes the cries “help us, please help us”, “in the name of Asura please help us!”, “it hurts, please make it stop”.Then one of the women starts screaming shrilly, and as they turn and look at her in mounting horror her flesh starts to crack and fall off, and a half-fiend levers itself out from within her body!</blockquote>

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