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Message: <blockquote data-quote="the Jester" data-source="post: 1212834" data-attributes="member: 1210">Ambush Within an Ambush!The loxo lich’s spell zarks out, catching most of the party in a chain lightning!  Then, before anyone else can react, Orbius, the Eye of Boccob, pulls the serious guns out and casts time stop.  To everyone else, it seems as if there’s an explosion of color, a puncture, and a maze, taking the enemy earth elemental out of the fight, at least for a while.  His lower resistance at the Bile Lord goes unseen but fails to penetrate Tamult’s resistance itself. Telemundo acts boldly, casting finger of death at the illithid.  The creature hisses in pain as it staggers back, clutches for a moment at its chest, and then falls!  “First blood!” the aged sorcerer shouts gleefully, turning towards the Bile Lord.Angelfire smiles grimly, concentrating on de-grafting his falchion from his hand.  A Bile Lord!  I guess it’s time...  He pulls forth the Deleter, tingling with both anticipation and dread.  The Deleter itself feels an unholy greedy lust at this point, but that’s another story.The battle rages!  The L and his allied elemental attack the Temple’s evil air elemental as Horbin the Holy casts a feeblemind at the Bile Lord, to no effect.  In return, Tamult the Bile Lord fires an eerie ray of disintegration at Horbin, which the cleric manages to survive.  Nobody really wants to engage Tamult at close range; they remember how nauseous the cloud of bile vapor made them when they fought Chemnu.  More disintegration beams shoot through the air from Telemundo and the loxo lich, and then Tamult fires another one himself, this time at Telemundo- and in a burst of light, the sorcerer is gone!  An acidball* explodes within the group from the lich, and the sizzling green liquid brings a chorus of screams from our heroes.  “We’ve got to finish these guys fast!” Lester cries, and he casts a spell he created himself years ago to oppose the Temple of Elemental Evil: Lester’s antielemental bolts.  Bolts of earth-powered energy fire out at the party’s air elemental adversary, counteracting it, dealing it great damage!  There’s a howling sound, like a hurricane tearing the ground apart, and the elemental dies.  Angel gingerly inserts his hands into the Deleter.  It feels organic- as he pulls the glove-like thing over his hands, he can feel it settling in around him, pressing in.  There’s a definite pressure on his fingers... With a grin he points at Tamult.There’s a purple crackling bolt that blasts from Angelfire, almost knocking him from his feet, and into Tamult.  The Bile Lord turns with a cry, his gaze settling on Angelfire with almost physical force.  The scarlet Coilite grins.  “Bring it!” he crows.Then Lester’s elemental ally swoops in, smashing into Tamult.  The Bile Lord struggles for a moment, but he’s grappled! “Here you go!” cries Horbin.  “This is for Telemendo!”  Full of anger and sorrow, the holy man casts a spell of destruction at the grappled Bile Lord- and, to everyone’s surprise, it succeeds.**  Tamult gives a terrible, high-pitched scream, and then he withers to blackened bones and ash in mere seconds!“Ahh, thank you!” the dire loxo lich cries.  “You have freed me, to resolve my own problems!”  With that, he teleports away and the fight’s over.  Our heroes, shaken by the assault and the loss of Telemundo, debate leaving for a moment.“No way!” declares Lester.  “We’re still in good shape, we have most of our spells still, let’s go kick some butt and do a little damage while we’re here.”“Sure, why not,” says Sybele, easily persuaded as always.“Let’s wait for the mazed elemental to return and kill it, then see if we can take and question a prisoner,” Orbius suggests....*Which is to say, a fireball modified with the Energy Substitution (acid) feat. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />**Natural one on the save after Horbin rolled well enough to penetrate his SR.  Curses.  Horbin’s had more instant-kills, I swear. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f61b.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":p" title="Stick out tongue    :p"  data-smilie="7"data-shortname=":p" />Next Time: Sybele’s idea of how to deal with prisoners!</blockquote>

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