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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Plane Sailing" data-source="post: 236638" data-attributes="member: 114">Following the stairwell up some 60 feet, they enter a circular room with siz doors leading off it. Listening carefully at each door, Anne-Marie can hear sounds of sleeping or low talking in hobgoblin accents behind four of them, two seem clear. Picking one of them she opens the door – and surprises two half-fiendish hobgoblins inside! They howl with glee and leap forward with fangs bared, and she starts a defence against them in the doorway.The rest of the company start running up the stairs to back them up, leaving Dala and Syl to guard the villagers while they sleep. Meanwhile, half a dozen extra fiendish hobgoblins appear from the other doorways were noises had been heard. K’tan unleashes an excellent cone of sound which severely wounds all of them, and although Anne Marie is critically hit and wounded she manages to hold them off until the others arrive, whereupon short work is made of them.After a short period of bandaging, Anne Marie who is still critically wounded retreats downstairs to help look after the villagers, replacing Syl and Dala who come up to help with exploring the tower. The last door of this room leads up, up, up within the tower about 150ft. Moving cautiously, they overhear a voice talking inside a room on the next level above them. It is cursing and blaspheming regularly, not apparently about anything in particular but just as it is talking to itself. Dala understands the Infernal language it is using:“My latest **** plans are starting to  ***** come to **** fruition; now I’ve worked out how to ******* impregnate humans without killing them in the initial process! I’ll ****** build a fiendish ***** army to take back with me into the great game.” “But first I’ll check on my ******* troops.”Then there is a flash and a stench of brimstone – and silence.Creeping up and peering through the doorway they see a room, once richly furnished but now desecrated and with blood and excrement smeared everywhere. On the table in the room is a roughly drawn local map, and leaning against the wall is a blackened steel glaive. To Lysander the feel of evil in the room is palpable.They make some attempts to damage the glaive, but don’t have any success. Then they decide to set an ambush – guessing that it will be returning soon they array themselves around the room. Dala prepares his lightning bolt, Arilyn one of her special spells (static cling), and K’tan his Cone of Sound. Lysander draws his scimitar, blesses it, and takes up a martial stance.They wait for a few minutes – and then with a flash of smoke and a smell of Brimstone the fiend covered in horrific horny barbs appears in front of them! Lysander strikes and cuts it badly, before stepping back. Lightning flashes, a Cone of sound shouts and a sticky ball of lightning fly across the room and unerringly strike the creature – and one by one dissipate against its spell resistance...To be continued...</blockquote>

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