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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Plane Sailing" data-source="post: 64474" data-attributes="member: 114">The Gnolls dispatched, Lysander runs up the stairs, rounds the corner and gets stuck trying to work out how she opened the secret door at the top of the stairs. By the time he and others have finally opened it the priestess seems to have made her escape.Another anteroom is discovered, containing skeletons which are soon reduced to powder by the mighty power of Asura.Back in the room they find a strange assortment of things laid out on a white blanket: an iron torch with three black cones. A black sceptre with violet gems, a small black sphere and a black metal tube. The tube contains instructions in some unknown language, which when magically deciphered turns out to be instructions for accessing an extraplaner node of utter darkness, called the Black Cyst. The ritual requires multiple wish spells, living sacrifices and years of work. The company put it to the torch, and stay awayfrom the oddly writhing smoke which results.They cautiously open the secret door which they know opens into the gnoll corridors - but careful investigations show no sign of the gnolls other than empty chambers and cold beds. Can it be that the gnolls have left. They find the human bedchamber (which is as far as they penetrated before), and Juma tells them that only one of the exit doors have any tracks going to and fro, so they take that one. Crail scouting ahead, they find a slimy archway andsteps which lead deeper into the earth. Trying to hold his breath against the foetid stench, Crail sneaks down the stairway - and is suddenly jumped by another Ghast, hiding in an alcove. Crail quickly succumbs to its paralysing venom, and just as the ghast is about to start chewing his arm Lysander calls upon the power of Asura to banish it. DMs note: I lost track of the number of times Crail got paralysed during this adventure. Poor bloke!. The ghast turns and flees. and seconds later comes charging back into their circle of light to attack them!While Lysander starts to fight the ghast, a crackle of magic surges past him and strikes Juma - who suddenly acts randomly, dropping the paralysed form of Crail and swinging his greatclub at the back of Lysanders head! Crash! Probably the nastiest blow which he's taken all night staggers Lysander.</blockquote>

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