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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Wraithdrit" data-source="post: 1191879" data-attributes="member: 10820">The gloom of the deeper darkness spells overlapped over the bright globe around Kalan. While the gloom could not penetrate the protective barrier around Kalan, the area outside of the barrier was plunged into darkness. Plickit skittered out into the middle of the room, using the shadowy darkness to help conceal his movements. When he got there, he stopped and peered around, trying to locate the drider in the darkness.Mytrym spun beside Kalan, looking back at the drider descending from the corner of the room. Leaping into the air the paladin cried out, his cloak forming into wings to send him aloft. As he closed on the drider he could see that a rippling globe of magic protected the monster. Mytrym had faced plenty of driders in his time, but this one was different. Instead of the fang like teeth most drider had, this one had disgusting mandibles jutting out of his mouth, monstrous teeth and four impossibly long canine teeth. That combined with the drider’s pale skin made Mytrym sure that this drider had succumbed to the vampires as well.Kalan chuckled as the vampiric guard backed down the corridor, rubbing at his eyes. The leonal lifted one hand and called a sheer wall of force into existence between him and the vampire. Confident that it would keep the guard out of the fight, he turned to look back at where the driders were. A few bounding steps took the leonal within reach of the closest drider.As the celestial got close to the drider his bubble of protection enveloped the monster and all the drider’s magical enhancement spells began to flicker and fail. The vampiric drider angrily lashed out at the celestial, slamming him with one hand. Kalan grunted at the force of the attack, but was able to resist the sucking pull of the dark energy that fueled the vampire’s touch.Meanwhile, the other drider pointed towards Plickit and cast a quick spell to try and hold the insectoid ranger. Plickit hardly noticed the spell, the protection from evil that had been cast on him, easily protecting his mind from intrusion by the drider’s spell.Delorian rolled into the room, and lashed out at the spellcasting drider, but the drider’s protections were too powerful. The monk rolled back from the beasts reach, knowing to stay in combat with a vampire was foolish at best.Amador strode in between the two combats, and pulled forth his holy symbol. As he stepped into the room, he could feel that there was a dark presence here. The room was some sort of temple, and evil energy had been concentrated on the altar. He lifted his holy symbol high and called upon the power of his god. Though light began to project from his holy symbol, it did not reach far enough through the gloom of the room, and did not effect the twin driders at all.Backpedaling away from the drider that had tried to enchant him, Plickit began to throw chatckas at the undead fiend. The enchantments protecting the drider were just too powerful though, and all but one of the throwing wedges failed to connect. Even as the one throwing wedge that did hit fell from the moving beast, the wound was already closing.From the doorway, a flaming crossbow bolt, fired by Marcus, ripped into the same drider, sizzling as it impacted. The drider turned that direction and started forward, then saw Amador standing with his holy symbol held high. A look of rage crossed the beast’s face, and it ran forward smashing one fist into Amador. The cleric cried out in pain as his life force started to drain from his body. He stumbled back, weakened from the dark blow.Meanwhile the trio of combatants locked in combat in the other corner continued to do their best to rip each other limb from limb. Mytrym was not able to connect, but his swings definitely got the attention of the drider. As it pulled to one side, Kalan clawed it, yanking it into his hug bear like hug. The drider was quickly pulled in, despite its size, and sensing the strength of the mighty leonal, the drider shivered and exploded into a misty form that blew around the other combatants.Again Delorian zipped into to meet the other drider. The monster’s protections were still too strong though, so the monk vaulted back, landing behind the altar. Coughing and sputtering in pain, Amador looked up at the drider nearly on top of him. He raised his holy symbol, practically between the drider’s huge mandibles, and cried out for his god’s wrath once again. This time the vampire threw up his hands and began retreating from the light of the holy symbol.Rolling over to the corner where his chatka’s lay, Plickit snatched a particular one up and spun, sending it ripping through the gaseous vampire. As the magical weapon sliced through the gas, trails of gas followed it and the entire mist seemed to ripple. Seeing the effect the weapon had on the gaseous vampire, and that the other one was fleeing, Mytrym leapt up, his wings carrying to the mist. His bastard sword arced twice through the mist cutting huge swathes of the mist away. Kalan narrowed his eyes and assessed the situation. He lifted a hand a small gout of flame flew forward. When it impacted the back of the room it exploded in a large fireball, enveloping the single turned vampiric drider. As the flames cleared it was obviously the fireball had done little damage.The gaseous drider floated to beside Delorian, then turned solid. It reared back to lash out at the monk, but Delorian was not about to stick around. He leapt up, kicking the drider in the chest, and using it as a platform to leap back. When he landed, he rolled to one side, toward where the rest of the party stood.Will had watched most of the fight from the doorway. The opportunity he had been waiting for finally arrived. Both driders were on one side of the massive chamber and his friends were all on the other side. He grinned and began a quick and familiar spell. As the pea shaped ball of fire arced toward the other side of the room the elemental savant muttered to no one in particular, “You might find this a little harder to resist.” The room shook with the explosive force of the blast. Heat enveloped the entire group, the sort of heat that pure elemental fire exudes. When the flash cleared, one drider had been forced into mist, and the other was quickly fleeing from the group.It never made it to the door. The group ran it down and forced it to mist form as well. Both driders were headed to large webbing nests in the corners of the room, nests that were soon destroyed by the heroes.Will strode into the room and nodded toward the wall of force blocking the way into the inner temple, “How long till it drops?”Kalan shrugged, “Any moment.”Marcus nodded at Kalan. “The guard got away… they know about him now.”Amador stepped up and nodded, “I still have a dismiss prepared, when they try to dismiss him, I will attempt to counter their spell.”Will nodded and a moment later the wall of force disappeared. “Lets go.”The group quickly moved down the hall. There was a doorway, halfway down on the left. Mytrym strode forward with Kalan, but noticed at the end of the hall that there was a drow woman peering around the corner at them. He nudged Kalan and the leonal nodded and threw up a wall of force between the doorway and the end of the hall. The drow quickly pulled back from the corner, and the group stepped through the open doorway.Behind it they found a trio of bedchambers, two of which were obviously being used by the cult. Small altars had been set up, with brazier, incense and various religious fetishes sprinkled atop. Marcus moved from room to room, quickly looking for anything they might need in the coming fight. Though he did not find anything particularly useful he did recover some valuables. The markings on the coin denoted them as from the dales, probably stolen in the latest raids. Marcus turned to the others and showed them, “We found the ones raiding the surface.”Mytrym frowned, “My people should be living on the surface, not attacking it. We must put an end to this.” Everyone nodded and the group prepared to move down the hall further.Kalan was watching the hallway. When the wall of force fell he and Amador strode around the corner. The drow at the end of the corner peered out and it was obvious that she was a priestess of Kiaransalee. Worse, she had taken a drider form. She quickly began to cast a spell.Amador tried to follow the intricate patterns of the spell, but he just couldn’t make out the words the drow was saying, or the symbols she was using.Kalan felt the energy of the dismissal bathe over him, trying to force him away to his home plane. Amador shook his head, too late to call forth his dismissal to counter the spell.</blockquote>

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