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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Plane Sailing" data-source="post: 877614" data-attributes="member: 114">Dala is being whirled around so fast he cannot concentrate to cast spells, and he can feel his joints being gradually stretched out of his joints. Arilyn casts Magic Missile at the air elemental then ducks further back into the chamber and away from the danger of the narrow ledge. Trajan flies back across the chasm and starts to attack the whirlwind carrying Dala, his magical sword biting into the strange elemental material of the creature.Meanwhile, Anne-Marie has been frustrated in attempting to strike her air elemental as it swept past her, so she takes another tack – readying an action, the next time the elemental sweeps in she runs a few steps and leaps fifteen foot into the air next to it, cutting it with her rapier before landing nimbly back on the plateau once more. The elemental howls with rage and sweeps round again – two, three, four times before it realises that it is in danger of dying at the hands of this spring-heeled adventuress and plummets away into the gorge.Arilyns magic missiles and Trajans scimitar play manage to finally free and destroy the elemental which was whirling him to death, and not before time. Dala is in a bad way and needs a lot of rest. They all retreat and regroup back in the marble chamber and look out across at the plateau, and draw up their plans.They decide that a frontal aerial assault is not a good idea. The arrowhawks diving around the cloud castle could prove very dangerous, and it would alert the inhabitants. The plan, then, is for Dala to enable Trajan to fly once more, so he can ferry everyone across to the plateau, then Dala will make everyone invisible and Arilyn will cast See Invisibility so that she can guide everyone safely up the invisible causeway (the lack of handrails is a matter of some concern for the rest of the party!)Marching up the steep causeway takes about half an hour, and by mid-afternoon they find themselves in the dreamlike situation of standing ankle-deep in cloud-stuff, and seeing the towers of a castle which is constructed on a gigantic scale rising out of the misty clouds ahead of them.Passing through a giant archway into an ornamental garden, the visibility is only 10ft because of the ever-present cloud which the castle dwells within. There is the tinkling of a fountain in the middle of the formal gardens, and black castle walls loom up out of the mist. They make their way to the door, scrambling up steps which are each three foot higher. If the castle is built to the same approximate scale as humans, it must be inhabited by giants who are eighteen feet high! Nervously they check their weapons and spell components.Anne-Marie and Trajan are able to squeeze the main door open between them, and it leads into a vast hall, still on the giant scale, and with a balcony and mezzanine floor high above them. The cloud castle is eerily silent, and they all make a special effort to creep slowly. A side door leads into a giant kitchen, and a spiral staircase under a tower leads to a series of cellar rooms. One of the storerooms is particularly horrible, as it looks like a huge stone face has been carved so that it appears to be pushing out of the walls of the storeroom, contorted in agony. Apart from the scale it is exactly like the dwarves faces on the stairwell in form and tenor?!?</blockquote>

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