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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Plane Sailing" data-source="post: 6721" data-attributes="member: 114">Amidst the black-painted walls there is a chamber of horrors - a tall robed figure is visible in the far corner of the room, chanting a spell - and between her and the top of the stairs is the escaped cabalist and a series of horrific, slimy be-tentacled creatures. Two of them are small aberrations which ooze noxious acidic vapours which harm everyone within 10’, and a third is a medium aberration with grasping tentacles surrounding a sucking, lampreylike mouth. Ynnsfeardh moves first and strikes at one of the small aberrations with his kama - which promptly disintegrates in the acid body! Mentally he resolves to *not* use his fist on these creature! Lysander draws his spare dagger and strikes it into the same beast, killing the creature at the cost of a dagger. Crail moves to engage the cabalist and K’tal attempts to shoot the creature with his crossbow, since he no longer has sufficient psychic energy to perform concussions.The lampreylike creature attacks Lysander and quickly latches on to him, and an awful sucking sound starts. Crails’ opponent concentrates on casting defensively and starts peppering Crail with magic missiles. Ynnsfeardh makes a magnificent tumbling leap over the heads of all the combatants and attempts to strike the leader of the cabal (who must be the one known as “the Blessed”) who responds by scorching him with firebolts - one of which is evaded but the second one strikes home, seriously wounding him. Lysander wounds his attacker, but it then sucks huge mouthfuls of his blood, seriously weakening him (DMs note: in my campaign blood drain attacks reduce Str first, and when that is all gone they reduce Con. Having them reduce Con straight away is too nasty for my liking ) .Although K’tal is not being terribly effective with his crossbow, the odds don’t look terribly appealing to the Blessed, so she runs up onto the ceiling with her magic slippers and spends a round opening a trapdoor onto the roof. Another crossbow bolt misses her and she ducks out. Ynnsfearth moves to give Crail a flanking attack on the cabalist, but the cabalist hits Crail with another brace of magic missiles, seriously wounding him (and with the blood loss he sustained from the gibbering mouther, he falls unconscious). Lysander manages to kill his creature just before it sucks him dry, and the remaining acidic aberration disappears in a puff of summoned smoke. The final cabalist falls to the company and they take stock of the situation. Lysander is drained and wounded, Crail seriously so and Azrin is hovering on deaths door.</blockquote>

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