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Message: <blockquote data-quote="tariff" data-source="post: 1823918" data-attributes="member: 18635">Session 14:  Solom & DorinaWherein the party continue down the left hand corridor.  It opens out into a hexagonal room with another spiderlike ladder leading up into the roof.  Morise uses his boots of levitation and a ring of invisibility and ascends up the hole.  It comes into a cramped crawlspace that stretches off.  He returns to the party and informs them.  They decide to keep searching the ground area.  The come into another corridor that has double doors set in the south wall.  Mortise steps forward and detects for magic on the doors, he detects none.  Mr Brownstone steps forward and checks if the door is trapped.  It appears not.  They open the doors.Enormous, lurid tapestries featuring grisly deaths and walking corpses line most of the walls of this large room.  Near one wall stands a massive stone block draped with black silk and adorned with silver candelabras, silver bowls, and a silver handed dagger.They enter the room.  Mortise strides forward his huge black skull tipped wand (Wand of Orcus) is pointed at the alter, the desecrate spell hits.  Brownstone and Judas meanwhile pull down the tapestries and burn them.  Thein silently looks on.They exit this room and continue down another corridor, they find 3 bedrooms, two sparsly furnished, one lavish.  They search these areas.  They come to another set of double doors.  Brownstone steps forward and begins to study the doors, suddenly he is hit by a column of flame.  Luckily his resistace spell is still in affect and absorbs most of the damage from the glyph.  Brownstone swings open the doors.The ceiling of this octagonal room rises 30 feet off the ground, and a pillar in the center stands fully half that height.  On the pillar rests a throne made of bones, with a gaunt drow woman draped casually across it.  The walls of the room are covered with majestic dark tapestries, and several long tables of gleaming black wood stand along the walls.  The drow woman looks up and howls at the party.  Standing just inside the door is a Dretch wich moves to attack the party.Suddenly out of the ground rubbery tentacles spring and entangle the party.  Mortise and Brownstone, who are at the front of the party,  in the doorway, stuck fast by the tentacles, both react instantly.  Mortise casts spell turning on himself and Brownstone reaches into his backpack and retrieves a potion of gaseous form.Thein manages to break free from the tentacles and moves into a room 40ft away, opposite the chamber with the drow woman.  Judas also reaches into his backpack and dons his ring of freedom of movement, he also follows thein into the other room, out of the area of the tentacles.  The Quasit Vander the Wicked hisses as he fails to break free from the grasp of the tentacles.Evards black tentacles, thinks Mortise, nice wizard spell, so wheres the wizard… ahh there he is….he spies Solom hovering invisible next to the pillar on top of wich is perched the vampire/drow/cleric Dorina.  I can see youu…Suddenly out of the ground, spanning the corridor at the entrance to the room springs a blade barrier. Separating Mortise and Brownstone from Thein and Judas.The strange creature (dretch) lets off a stinking cloud at Mortise and Brownstone.  Though smelly, they are not unduly hurtBrownstone feels himself begin to dissolve, into a gaseous mist.. he wafts into the room.  Free of the tentacles.The conjurer Thein brings his hands together and begins to summon aid to the party, in the form of a celestial polar bear.  Judas, standing next to the wizard, also summons a creature to the parties aid.  A chain devil appears.Vander the Wicked squeals in delight as he eventually frees himself from the grasp of the tentacles, he flys into the room where Judas and Thein stand.Solom snarles and releases a twin lightning bolt towards Mortise, a lot of the damage is absorbed by resistance spells already cast on the necromancer, the rest reflects back toward Solom, however the spell fizzles out causing no damage to the Arch mage of sith morcane.   “Spell turning?” says Solom, “haha, fool, you wont be able to reflect ALL of my spells, and your spells will prove useless on me”  Mortise smiles as he dons his Ring of spell turning.  Dorina snarls from atop the piller and cast bestow curse on Mortise, but the necromancer resists the effects.  “why do you attack us” says Solom to the Necromancer “all I wish to do is set up a mageocracy, surely you can understand that?, I have no time either for these gods and cults” “You treacherous scum Solom, I will have your head once these surface dwellers are destroyed” screams Dorina.  “where is the body of Chandos” states Mortise “let us recover his body and we will leave” “He was utterly destroyed” barks back Solom.  “Then so to will you be” whispers MortiseThe creature called a Dretch manages to hit Mortise, but causes little damage.Brownstone, wafting through the air studies Dorina perched atop the pillar.. Somethings not quite right thinks the assassin.  Suddenly, he notices, at the base of the pillar, no, IN the pillar, is another drow.. Hang on a minute..the pillar, bone throne, and dorina pertched atop is a illusion..  The real Dorina stands in the middle of the illusion, firing out her spells at Mortise.  The problem with gaseous form is.. You cant speak!Thein looks on as his celestial polar bear rises up on its hind legs and claws at the Dretch, both claws strike, and the viscous bite from the bear finishes the Dretch off.Judas instructs his summoned chain devil to attack Dorina, it attempts to climb up the 15ft high pillar to hit her, but fails.  Brownstone looks on gaseous and sees the Chain devil standing right infront of Dorina, attempting to hit a illusion of her 15ft above.  That’s the problem with gaseous form, you cant be heard giggling!.Mortise, still restrained by the tentacles stands vulnerable in the doorway to the room, he recognizes the thin green ray as it hits him.. Disintegrate.. he opens his eyes, still here..  Solom’s eyes widen.  Mortise casts grease on himself, which enables him to move.  He moves out of the room and shuts the doors.  Behind him is a spinning wall of blades.  Down the hall, approximately 40 feet away he can see Judas, Thein and Vander in the other room.  Suddenly next to him wisps of smoke begin to solidify into the shape of Mr Brownstone.  “The pillar and Dorina…it’s a illusion..its not there!, shes inside it!!” states Brownstone..Inside the room the Polar bear still cannot climb up the pillar to attack the foe his master had instructed him too.  The chain devil manages to climb up and strike at the Drow.  Inside the piller Dorina permits herself a small smile.. Good, the stupid pets have fallen for the illusion.. at least your good for something Solom.Suddenly the door swings open and Mortise is hit by a chain lightening spell, it hits him then Brownstone.  The bolt that hits the necromancer is reflected back onto Solom, striking the wizard hard.. Solom, hurt, looks back in amazement..  Brownstone ducks his bolt effectively.  Brownstone casts true strike upon himself and rushes forward into the room.  And into the pillar he knows not to be there.  He strikes true at Dorina, but she does not die.Thein mutters under his breathe and a celestial owl appears.  “Attack the female” instructs the conjurer.Vander the wicked let loose with his masters wand.. out shoots magic missiles.  They scream through the barrier of whirling blades and hit Solom.  But they seem to do no damage.  Solom spits out a curse and fires magic missiles back at Mortise “you can have no more spell turning left”… Mortise smiles as the missiles are reflected back and slam into the rival wizard.  He hits the floor dead.  Mortise brings his hands together and casts another spell turning spell upon himself.  Now aware of the illusionary pillar Mortise can see the real Dorina, the drow vampire cleric is attacking Brownstone.Brownstone is hit by Dorina, but manages to shrug off the slay living spell, and he avoids the negative energy of the vampire.  Breathing a sigh of relief the assassin quick draws his other weapon.From the other room Thein looks on happily as his pet owl and bear tear up the drow atop the pillar.  He mumbles a few words and fires off a magic missile at the drow.  This may finnish her he thinks.  The missiles seem to impact, but something is not right.. infact, he can see now that this is a illusion!Brownstone avoids another slayliving spell and manages to strike back at Dorina, the drow is covered in flickering flames, but Brownstones buffs afford him protection.  Thein and Judas begin to shout from the end of the corridor.  “we can’t get to you, the blade barrier, and the tentacles prevents us”.  Mortise casts transmute rock to mud in the ceiling above the blade barrier, a large chunk of rock falls down, revealing a gap above the blade barrier.Dorina casts harm on Brownstone, but the lucky rogue manages to avoid its effects.Vander the wicked flys over the blade barrier into the room.  Judas also flys, carrying Thein over the barrier.  Mortise attacks Dorina with his dagger, but he misses.  Thein fires magic missiles at Dorina and they hit.  Dorina casts dipelmagic at Mortise but he resists.  Brownstone and Mortise both miss Dorina in melee, and she herself fails to hurt either of her foes.  Thein launches a lightning bolt at her, but it appears not to affect her.  Suddenly she is knocked to the ground by several missiles.  Vander, hovering nearby cackles with glee.</blockquote>

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