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Message: <blockquote data-quote="the Jester" data-source="post: 1172252" data-attributes="member: 1210">He may be an old man, but Telemundo can move when he has to.A lot of this is because of the fact that he's got Marius' sidestep already in effect.  In any event, he vanishes from the party's location and reappears thirty feet from the door to the vital room.  And there's Felenga, at the door.   The old sorcerer unfurls a scroll and his voice shakes as he reads it off- I'm alone against him! he thinks wildly.  Then the horrid wilting from the scroll scorches out, blasting at Felenga- No effect.*And the Dark One returns the favor with a quickened horrid wilting at Telemundo, surely more than enough to destroy him- except he sidesteps away, saving his life.  Shaking, further away down the hall, Telemundo casts Marius' sidestep again- the quick-save expended his previous one.  He dreads returning to face Felenga, but- He hears a loud blasting sound, and knows in his heart that Felenga's got that damned door open.  Suddenly things are even more critical.Lester flashes past him, bat-wings beating furiously.  He swings Felix Optima Maxima, under the effects of Orbius' far strike spell as soon as he rounds the corner and can see the lich, but it glances harmlessly from Felenga's magical protections.  A quickened searing light shines out from the L's outstretched hand, burning into Felenga's shoulder.  With a sneer the arch-lich shrugs it off. And he's already got the door open.  Beyond it, there's something huge, but Lester doesn't have time to take it in.  The rest of the group appears, carried by the Eye's teleportation magic, and Malford casts true strike and then uses a limited wish to mime a dimensional anchor on Felenga.  This time he succeeds!  The air elemental moves in, grabbing the lich, and Angelfire springs forward to attack; and Telemundo reappears and starts firing heedless disintegrates at Felenga.  The lich roars in anger, and escapes the grapple with a double extended, quickened ghostform.  Laughing evilly, he moves into the room.  Behind him, a huge device seems to balance the entire universe on its gears and fulcrums.  Some huge chunk of nature that strongly resembles a moon that he helped destroy in the prior universe is in there, too- probably millions of tons of rock- it's huge.  But there's no time for that now!  Felenga's in there, the clock's run out, it's now or never!The dreaded arch lich turns to the device and raises his arms.  The rust monster tentacles that writhe from his shoulders spasm gleefully.  He hurls his ghostly form half into the device and turns to face the party.  Will they dare attack him now, with his very form half within the device they're guarding?Drelvin the archer, wearing the Deleter, cries in a firm voice, "You are a mistake and I am here to correct you!"  The blast from the weird glove-like device arcs out and hits Felenga square in the back.  The lich gives a horrible scream and, to the party's amazement, the tentacles start to shrivel and turn to ash!  So too his horn; they shrink and draw back into his forehead!  Whatever it's doing to him, it's working, Drelvin thinks grimly.  His throat is tight; the Deleter is taking its toll on him as well.  Malford flies forward as Felenga reels, and the gnome king yells out, "I just wanted you to see the face of the gnome who organized your downfall!"  -And he casts antimagic field.  Felenga howls as he's blown out of the device as he becomes corporeal, and his form flies across the room to land, motionless, on the ground in a smoking heap.  The lights in the room flicker and dim.Dead.  At least, his body is...As the antimagic field intersects the great device, all of our heroes feel their stomachs plummet.  Something feels... weird... wrong... different...Malford immediately dismisses the antimagic field once Felenga's demise has been confirmed, and the lights in the room steady.  "It's not over," Orbius states.  "We still have to get his phylactery.""Hopefully we've weakened him significantly," says Drelvin, just as the Master of Darkhold hurries in.  He rushes to the device and examines it carefully.  "What happened?"  His face is expressionless as he turns to the party.  Does he glance longer at Lester?  Who can say.  Regardless, the party tells the tale, and the Master of Darkhold turns back to the device and spends a few moments making adjustments.  Finally, he walks away from the device with a pensive look on his face.  "There may be... repercussions to your action," he tells Malford, "but I will strive to minimize them.""I didn't have much choice," Malford says.The Master of Darkhold takes Drelvin away for a time.  When he returns, the archer is wearing dark gloves, but the Deleter is no longer on his hands.  He's not sure exactly what the Master did to take the damn thing off, and he doesn't even really want to know.  And from how his hands feel, he's afraid to take the gloves off.  The Master returns the Deleter to the group as well, and Telemundo glances over at it lovingly more than once.The group divides up Felenga's items.  The important divisions are-Telemundo gets a ring of protection +4 and Felenga's staff +5, ghost touch, mortalbane;Lester gets Felenga's helm of knowing movement, which allows the user to use their teleportation magic more often, and gives it to Orbius.  He also takes a wand of dispel magic.Angelfire takes a wand of fireballs, even though he can't use it, and a Daern's instant fortress.Maflrod receives a wand of magic missiles and a ring of earth elemental command.Thrush ends up with Felenga's rod of terror.Horbin gets the cloak of resistance +5 that the arch-lich wore.Finally, Drelvin takes Felenga's bracers of armor +8.The group leaves Darkhold to return to Var and plan their attempt to obtain the phylactery...*Living targets only, alas.Next Time: After the phylactery!</blockquote>

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