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Message: <blockquote data-quote="the Jester" data-source="post: 1190271" data-attributes="member: 1210">An Ambush Within An AmbushOur heroes teleport in en mass, arriving in the same chamber in which they previously ambushed and killed Imix, the Prince of Evil Elemental Fire.  This time their arrival is immediately met by a quartet of gigantic elementals, one of each type.  Lester’s allied air elemental, reduced in size for teleportation, engages the enemy air elemental.  Lester himself fires off a volley of antielemental bolts, a spell he’d devised over a century ago to do battle with the previous rise of the Temple of Elemental Evil.  Telemundo dodges more nimbly than an old man should, firing a polar ray at the enemy fire elemental even as it joins the attack on Lester’s elemental ally.I wish Thrush was here, Sybele thinks as she manifests displacement.  But he’s not; he stayed behind to babysit.  Kids... the future...She puts it out of her mind as she springs to attack the air elemental, inflicting devastating damage.*The water elemental that the L targeted with his bolts smashes a huge watery fist at him, but he dodges aside.  So far, the party’s doing well; they’re barely hurt and the enemies are already somewhat weakened.  And Felenga hasn’t shown up; that’s good.  Probably he’s still stuck in his phylactery, thinks Lester.  Then he spreads his arms wide and calls on elemental forces, channeling energy to rebuke the elementals!  He feels the forces flow around him and they almost jerk him from his feet as he directs them.  A spasm of energy seems to constrict his chest and for a moment he can’t breathe due to the sheer power of the elements.  But as much as he can direct is not enough to overcome the powerful elementals before the party.  Cursing to himself, the L pulls Felix Optima Maxima from her sheath.Angelfire is hacking at the fire elemental with brutal efficiency.  It’s gradually dimming from white-hot to a mellower yellow.  There’s a sneer on the Coilite’s scarlet-skinned face; he does not fear a thing of fire!  The air elemental that aids the group whips into his flaming adversary from the side, pummeling it mercilessly.  It dances to a low red color.  Finally, as a ray of deadly cold shoots into it, the thing flickers and goes out.Then there’s a soft whump as Tamult the Bile Lord and his two lackeys appear from nowhere, joining the fight to our heroes’ dismay.Tamult looks greatly like Chemnu, the other Bile Lord the party battled; and though his features are notable different, it’s clear he’s of the same kind.  He stands ten feet tall, withered with age; his skin is yellow and drips disgusting yellow bile like sweat.  A few small patches of hair remain on his head.  He’s skinny to the point of gauntness, and just as Chemnu was, he’s surrounded by a cloud of noxious yellow gas at all times.  Even as he appears, the party feels the wrath of his chain lightning.His two freakish companions send chills down the party’s spines.The first is plainly an illithid; though our heroes don’t know it, he is Master Grullbilosk.  He, too, drips with bile, a nasty stench emanating from him.  His tentacles writhe in endless pain as he stairs at the group, and he slowly raises what appears to be a lantern with a brain inside it.The other is plainly undead, also dripping with bile; but it’s of a strange, elephant-like humanoid race with a bifurcated trunk.  A few slabs of flesh remain on it, hanging in ragged strands, the bile falling from them; but there are many places where bone is visible on its grotesque frame.  A cold, hateful light burns in its hollow eyes.  It casts a spell as our heroes realize in horror that it's a lich.And all hell breaks loose....  Next Time: Well, that’s pretty obvious, innit?? <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin    :D"  data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" />*78 points of damage in one round.  Ouch.</blockquote>

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