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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Plane Sailing" data-source="post: 697098" data-attributes="member: 114">The dwarfs gleaming black chainmail deflects some of Trajan’s blow, and it strikes back at Trajan with a clawed, chill hand and then backflips 10ft away and down from Trajan, landing again on the air as though it were solid ground.The choir continues singing, and the sense of longing, the sense of calling grows stronger and stronger. Dala casts Spider Climb and peeks round the top of the door, and starts summoning a celestial ape while looking to find a target. Anne-Marie dances into the room to attack one of the musicians directly and summons Padfoot to also attack the singing wights.Thorsted catches sight of Dala’s conjuring and catches him with another blast from the lightning wand he was using as a baton, spoiling the spell. Trajan continues to trade blows with him, but can’t manage to pull off a full attack on the dwarf as he tumbles through the air.Dala moves more fully behind cover and works again to summon a celestial ape which he sends in to start attacking wights alongside Anne-Marie. They don’t fight back, and they each are able to down one and start on another, but there is a clear sense that the horrendous song is building to a conclusion, and there is an awesome rumbling coming from deep within the earth beneath their feet, and a tangible chill starts to fill the air. Thorsted takes a moment to gloat and Trajan seizes the opportunity and with a mighty blow removes the dwarven wights head.The sudden silence is deafening as all the remaining wights stop their song, dazed by the death of their creator. “Quick” shouts Arilyn, “leave now”. Trajan flies straight out, and Anne-Marie backs out summoning Padfoot. The celestial gorilla remains in place and is suddenly swarmed by five wights which rapidly drain it of all life. As the other wights start to surge towards the auditorium exit, Trajan cries out “Turn, in the name of Asura!” and channels divine power through the holy symbol he carries. A few turn back, the remainder press on. Again he cries out “Turn!” and all but the last two flee from him… but now the wights which had finished off the gorilla seek new flesh to tear, so Dala casts a web across the inside of the auditorium to seal it off.As the heroes back into the grand hall they can see the wights tearing their way through the webs, and soon the ones that had been turned join the throng… There are still a dozen of the foul creatures and Trajan and Anne-Marie have both already been weakened by the chill touch of the undead. Magic missiles and static bolts are cast into the wights, dropping a couple of them but suddenly they are through the webs and charging into the room. Dala polymorphs himself into a gargoyle, recovering some much needed health and taking to the air to get out of their reach. Padfoot leaps once more into the attack and draws off some of the creatures while Anne-Marie and Trajan fight a desperate defensive retreat, aware that a solid blow from any of the wights could easily finish either of them off. One wight is downed, and another one, but a couple are moving up round the flank. Arilyn flees out the main door, hotly followed by Dala. Padfoot is down, his energy drained away and he returns to his figurine form. Trajan is struck again and both he and Anne-Marie tumble away from their attackers and race down the entrance hallway, bursting out into the evening air. Dala has been waiting, and once more summons webs to fill the corridor, delaying the remaining wights who start fighting their way through these webs. Trajan and Anne-Marie stand back from the doorway, side by side and with their bows drawn fire arrow after arrow through the webs and into the wights, felling one, and then another. The last remaining wight just manages to break free of the webs and charges into their midst in one final attempt to bring them down, but the heroes manage to cut it down without receiving any more serious harm.The cold night wind howls around them, the lights burn behind the shutters of the houses down the way and a faint sound of wholesome singing can be heard from the rest of the town. It seems like normality has returned to Moradin’s Call, and whatever fearsome creature was being summoned from the depths has returned to its subterranean haunts. Their look round at each others haggard faces, Anne-Marie and Trajan are particularly white of complexion and hollow cheeked, having lost much of their vitality to the undead foe. By Asura’s grace the price had not been higher.One strange thing that they all notice – the potions which they had been carrying with them have all be spoiled, becoming rancid and useless. I wonder why that was?They return into the hall, back into the main auditorium and start hauling the bodies out so that they can be burnt in the night air. From Thorsted’s body they recover the enchanted black chainmail shirt which Trajan dons (+2 chainmail of invulnerability), a magical cloak which strongly enhances ones personality and self esteem is given to Dala and it opens new gates to his magical power (Cloak of Charisma +4), along with the boots of air walking which the dwarf was using. Arilyn takes the lightning wand and Anne-Marie the magical gauntlets which the dwarf was wearing (gauntlets of arrow snaring).During their search they find two teachers and five young students who had managed to hide in a music storeroom during the initial attack when all their colleagues were transformed into wights. They are relieved and full of praise for the party who have saved them, although distraught at the doom of their friends. They vow to spread the word of this victory while attempting to rebuild their College and its reputation.(next: meeting the dwarves, and the Door in the Air)</blockquote>

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