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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Plane Sailing" data-source="post: 888212" data-attributes="member: 114">A Chill runs down each of their spines. As one they think “We can’t afford to get captured here – it will eat our brains!Trajan can see the mindflayer standing behind the giant and runs up, tumbling through the giants legs - but 20ft tumble doesn’t get fully past its 15ft reach and it reaches round and tags him as he passes out the other side. Trajan maintains his focus and deals a mighty critical blow to the mindflayer before the giant unleashes a full attack on him. The second blow is a massive critical (61pts) and Trajan is flattened. DMsnote: the limitation on the distance you can tumble came as a very nasty surprise to Trajan... The huge giant had 15ft reach either side of him, and when Trajan stopped tumbling he was still moving within that threatened area. Whammo!The giant then takes a step towards Anne-Marie and just misses her with another huge swing. She tries to tumble through it too and fails, falling over and being hit and seriously wounded by the giant. Dala launches a powerful lightning bolt at the giant and then ducks under the bed. Arilyn notices a scar near the illithids tentacles, and realises that this creature could be Ghaerlith, who had been behind all the horrors which she had been told about in Knightsbridge! She casts a spell at the mindflayer which completely fails to penetrate its spell resistance. Ghaerlith hisses with suppressed pleasure and mindblasts her and Arilyn reels, floating in mid air.  Dala casts an empowered magic missile and punches through the illithids spell resistance, eliciting a hiss of anger. Anne-Marie bravely rolls across the floor in front of the giant and up onto one knee, extending her rapier in a lunge and impaling the mindflayer!Ghaerlith looks down, laughing hideously as its body dissolves into a bubbling mass of goo. There is perhaps a faint twinkle behind it, a line of silver for a moment. Then it is gone. And a giant boot stomps her into unconsciousness. Dala becomes invisible and hides beneath the bed once more. The giant examines the stunned Arilyn then bats her into the wall, knocking her out. Then it starts sniffing for Dala, and lifts up one end of the bed. Dala flies out and into the study. The giant mis-hears and chases down the stairs.Everyone is Knocked out! What to do? Dala keeps calm and summons Boswell the Lantern Archon who uses "aid" to bring his companions round, then Trajan calls on the power of Asura to heal each of them a little more.Anne-Marie casts around, looking for the body of the mindflayer; she doesn’t understand where it can be. Once Arilyn hears her account of what happened she pales a little and explains that Ghaerliths real body wasn’t killed today… he was astrally projecting to this plane of existence from some other plane, and killing his “body” on this plane was just an inconvenience to him. Anne-Marie resolves to travel to the mages of Cadlan, to find out how she can take the fight to this evil enemy in such a way that they stay dead.The sound of the huge cloud giant searching around downstairs is still loud in their ears, so they quickly take the stairwell up to the rooftop garden of the castle – and are astonished to find themselves looking down the eye of a whirling vortex of air into which the castle is jammed – and through it is a plane of existence comprised of emptiness – and in the near distance a tower standing at a crazy angle on a floating chunk of rock.This must be the entrance to the elemental plane of air...</blockquote>

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