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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Plane Sailing" data-source="post: 346371" data-attributes="member: 114">K’tan shouts with alarm as Tully runs towards him and attacks him viciously, thankfully K'tans savant training has given him the health to survive two of the blows. Tully’s attention is distracted as the wounded Trajan swoops down behind her and strikes a mighty critical hit upon her. Staggered by the blow, Tully tumbles away from them and then just seems to vanish in the long morning shadows.Anne-Marie starts to move towards where Tully was last scene, but a cloud of purple smoke announces the arrival of a fiendish dire gorilla. It’s long arms reach out as she tries to duck past it, and just snag on the back of her tunic. With a roar it reels her in and starts to rend and bite...K’tan launches a concussion at the dire gorilla, and Trajan charges it, both determined to distract it from Anne-Marie - they succeed, but it is a badly bleeding form which is dropped unceremoniously to the ground.Meanwhile, Arilyn has a premonition, and casts her other fly spell, carried aloft by a swirl of winds and to better keep an eye on the top of the tower Dmnote: just in time - she had been spotted by Tully, who was making her way across to hurt her badlyOn the tower top, Dyson makes a calculation. He doesn’t want to risk catching the wounded Tully in a fireball at the other wizard, so he launches his empowered fireball at Trajan and the fallen Anne-Marie. Trajan saves, but is still badly burnt. Anne-Marie didn’t stand a chance.The door at the base of the tower suddenly opens and closes as the wounded Tully slips out of the shadows and into the security of the building.The company calls a retreat; Arilyn and K’tan are virtually out of arcane power, Trajan is sorely wounded and Anne-Marie has been killed. They run for cover and out of the stone circle surrounding Ossington, regrouping in the woods outside.What can they do next?Unbeknownst to them, Dyson has also scarpered at this point, after the hidden Tully rejoined him. He is virtually out of spells, he knows that Henwen and Cuckoo are out of the equation and his plans here have been ruined. He gathers some of his most valuable possessions and then Dimension Doors with Tully out into the surrounding forest, the opposite way to the heroes. He will have to start a new plan for fiendish dominance, but at least he got away this timeIncidentally, Dyson was up on the top of the tower, improved invisible, hasted, with see invisible running. He used a 10th level wand of vampiric touch to attack Trajan with (touch attack, does 5d6 damage and heals him/gives him temporary hp for the same amount) and the two hits he scored nearly doubled his hit points.It was a really tough fight, and I was sorry to see Anne-Marie fallnext: Closure.</blockquote>

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