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Message: <blockquote data-quote="the Jester" data-source="post: 1182132" data-attributes="member: 1210">AftershocksBack in Var, at his temple, Horbin communes.Are the Bile Lords actively trying to kill us? Yes.Where are they planning to attack us next?  Yes or no.Huh? thinks Horbin.  That doesn’t make much sense.When?  Yes or no.Who would be good allies for us to seek against the Bile Lords?  Yes or no.Crap, Horbin the Holy thinks.Has the change from Bile Mountain to Mount Angelfire been noticed by far folk of human or demihuman race? Yes.By anyone at least as powerful as the party? Yes.Is Felenga’s phylactery on the plane on which he was killed? Unknown.Are people who’ve noticed the change in Bile Mountain seeking us? No.Are the Bile Lords still in Angelfire Mountain? Yes and no.Does that mean that some are and some aren’t? Yes.Are the ones not there actively seeking to do us harm? Yes.Are there more than one? No.Are they afraid of us? Yes.Do any of them possess qualities that they particularly fear? Yes.Is it a good party member? No.Do they fear the Deleter? No.Are they aware that we have the Deleter? No.Are they afraid of evil party members? Yes.Hmph!  This despite the fact that I dealt the death blow to the Bile Lord that we already destroyed!  Horbin snorts to himself.  Then he reports to the rest of the party.  “Commune in only giving me yes or no answers now,” he says worriedly.  “I wonder how far-reaching the effects of the antimagic field on the device will be,” the Eye muses.  Malford shrugs.  “I did what I had to.  Felenga was ready to act- he was there.  That was the only sure way to render him impotent.”  But I wonder, too, he thinks.Telemundo, meanwhile, seeks out Arion the Archmage at his tower.  Surprisingly, Arion answers almost as soon as Telemundo knocks, but the conversation goes downhill when Telemundo calls Arion drunk and the Archmage slams the door in his face.  Shrugging to himself, the testy old sorcerer returns to the castle, where the group is plotting their next move.“We have to move fast to destroy Felenga’s phylactery,” Lester is saying.  “Otherwise he’s back up in a week or so, and we’ve just wasted our best chance to finish him off.”“But we don’t have even a clue where it is.”  Sybele sighs, cracking her huge knuckles.So a surgical strike team assembles again, ready to make a raid on the Temple of Elemental Evil in the hopes of “We do have a clue,” Orbius answers.  “The Temple of Elemental Evil.  It’s Felenga’s stronghold; it’s our best chance.”“We don’t know what it looks like, either,” says Horbin.  “But we have to try.”“We should make another surgical strike, maybe see if we can kill another of the Elemental Princes of Evil, and if we can find any info in the process...”  The L frowns.  “I just wish we knew more about where it was or what is looks like.”“The Eye of Boccob cannot see this,” Orbius mutters regretfully.  “Its vision is clouded by opposing magic.”“Let’s get ready and go, as soon as possible,” the L urges again.  “We only have so much time; we dare not squander it.”“Without a plan, we won’t accomplish anything,” Malford states.More discussion, and our heroes finally hit upon an idea.  “The nodes!”  Lester exclaims.  “When we brought the Temple low the first time, collapsing the nodes destroyed the whole thing.”“How do we do that?” Horbin asks.“There was a skull, the Orb of Golden Death.  We had to destroy it... I remember we had to expose it to extremes of all four elements and stuff.  I don’t know, it’s been a long time and a lot of pipe weed.”  The Elementalist grins.  “But it’s a starting point.”So a surgical strike team assembles again, ready to make a raid on the Temple of Elemental Evil in the hopes of destroying another Prince or stumbling into a phylactery at random- or at least a clue.Meanwhile, looking into a crystal smeared with the blood of our heroes, taken from the sites of their battles within Bile Mountain, Tamult the Bile Lord smiles grimly and turns to his powerful servants. [color=CCA477] “Prepare yourselves,”[/color] he hisses.  [color=CCA477]“It’s time.”[/color]Next Time: In the middle of an ambush, our heroes are ambushed!</blockquote>

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