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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Carlo-One" data-source="post: 8496251" data-attributes="member: 7015827">Impatient, Darrow tried one of the doors and was zapped hard by some force, although the stoneskin absorbed most of it. Turning to using their brains (for once --R), Dermot and Shanni worked to recall the colors on the misty door in the entrance corridor – yellow, orange, and blue – which they noted matched orbs held by certain of the statues. Having finished his study of the walls, Aerikoth interjected that the colors that predominated in the deliberate, repeating pattern there were black and red.Shanni again observed that the doors by the statues with yellow, orange and blue sphere led to other places – unlike some they had found that were false – but did not offer a way out. Aerikoth meanwhile had approached the statue with the black sphere and touched it, causing it to disappear, as it had merely been an illusion. The wizard repeated the trick with the red statue.Dermot at this point got an idea and retraced his steps through the secret doors and corridors back to the room with the chest that gave off a flash of light when opened. The ranger, followed by the others, slipped on the gold ring he had found in the room and opened the chest. The flash of light appeared again, but nothing else happened. Dermot repeated the action after placing the ring in the chest, with the same result. Aerikoth studied the chest and declared that it had an aura of illusionary magic, but he not could tell its purpose.The four adventurers made their way again through the stone corridors, but this time they heard something up ahead. Dermot whispered to the others that someone was there and Shanni hugged the walls in response, as a group of vampires came into view ahead of them, moving quickly. Darrow let out a war cry and leaped forward into their midst, trusting in his armor and the axe Haelgrim. The dwarf nearly disappeared under the assault of several vampire warriors, however, while a pair also broke away to go after Dermot and Shanni.In the rear of the vampire ranks a coldly beautiful female mage cast multiple spells into the swirling combat, at first sucking life from the party. As blood continued to spill from Darrow and the others, however, a frenzy came upon her and a storm of fire shot forth from her hands, engulfing everyone in the corridor ahead of her. Darrow expired and his companions were hurt badly, but so were the vampire mage’s allies, who were quickly finished off by Dermot, Shanni and Aerikoth. Seeing that she was now alone, the vampire mage hissed her frustration and disappeared into the darkness.</blockquote>

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