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Message: <blockquote data-quote="James McMurray" data-source="post: 1371515" data-attributes="member: 743">The two giant statues move to pound on Toshiro and Ru Ton Pe, who return suit with their blade and fists respectively. The giant fists of the golems hit hard, but Farlight’s magic keeps them alive with ease. Seeing the combined might of the golems, Bumtin separates one of them from the rest of the room with a wall of force, and the unintelligent golem just pounds on it with its fists, trying to reach its target.With their combined might, the two warriors quickly pound the statue into oblivion. But as they do so, a door on the far side of the room (behind the wall of force) opens, and several Duergar pour in. Two squads of crossbowmen take up firing positions, while another two squads move to protect them. The wall of force is dropped by Bumtin once the golem is destroyed, and as it does so, Farlight’s invisibility purge stretches outwards, revealing eight black-robed duergar at the far end of the room, behind the crossbowmen.The battle commences, and the infantry soon fall. The duergar priests fare somewhat better, being able to silence Farlight, but Bumtin’s ability to ignore silence at the expense of mobility soon drives them off. As they try to run, they create a wall of stone partially across the room and head for the exit. But the supernatural speed of Ru Ton Pe blocks the exit before they can all escape. The remaining 5 priests meld into the stone at their feet, hoping to escape, but are rapidly dug out and killed by the monk’s adamantine fists.With Farlight low on healing magics, and the party injured, the group turns to leave. Bumtin’s first teleport is stopped by the Forbiddance, and they party leaves the temple. Back outside they are able to teleport away, but not before a burst of the chaotic magic turns the walls of the front temple to air, dropping th huge golden door onto the ledge in front of the temple. The group returns to Greyhawk City and Farlight excuses himself for what he believes wil be a prolonged meditative period. Fearing another assault without a healer, the party invests in  few (a very few) healing potions. They then prepare to head back out, and are pleasantly surprised when Farlight returns. His meditations to create a new epic prayer were going to take longer than he’d hoped, and he knew the mission had priority.The group teleports back to the ledge outside of the temple, and as soon as they enter they hear the sounds of combat up the stairs. Running that way, Ru Ton Pe finds himself blasted by fire with every step of the stairs he passes. His sanctified righteousness protects him from the brunt of the bursts, and when Toshiro follows he goes around the staircases, avoiding all but the top few stairs. He is not protected from fire, and so manages to take the brunt of the blasts, arriving at the top thoroughly scorched. Bumtin’s ring protects him, and Farlight calls forth a protective prayer to render him immune to these small gouts.At the top of the stairs they see a large brassy scaled half dragon fighting approximately 50 duergar elite guards. He is completely unhurt, but his foes are not faring as well. His scythe has struck down more duergar then are currently standing.Ru Ton Pe charges up and strikes one down, and Bumtin follows, his Chain Lightning killing almost half of the remaining duergar warriors. As Farlight steps up, his invisibility purge again reveals several hiding duergar, and they only get off one shot before Toshiro charges and kills them all with one massive cleaving blow. It turns out to have been a good thing that one of the preparatory spells went awry and cast enlarge person o him, as the increased reach allows him to destroy the small band of deep dwarves.Erebus, the half-brass dragon warrior kills 4 more of the dwarves, and he remainder flee. The party let them run, and turns their attention to the large ornate double doors at the end of the hall. Introductions are made, and it is learned that Erebus has come to this temple searching for the Pool of Vengeance. The party is also aware of a pool in the area, and explain that their true goal is to stop Orcus’s minions, but that they would not be averse to finding the Pool.Stepping through the large doors, they find themselves surrounded on three sides by curtains of noxious and acidic vapor pouring from the ceiling. Erebus’ source for the Pool’s location told him about several trials he had to go through. One of them was a room filled with curtains of acid, some of which were illusory. The party uses limbs from the dead duergar to find the illusionary curtains and fully explores the room. Several doors are found, but only one of them opens, and the party steps through into the next test.</blockquote>

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