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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Wraithdrit" data-source="post: 837399" data-attributes="member: 10820">Session Five (Part 2 of 3)Durgaden swung his axe back and forth, set himself to recieve a charge and growled, "The dwarves are back, we are here to restart the forges and repopulate the mines!""Weee haaaave beeeen enslaaaaaved heeeere foooor huuuundreds of yeeeeears! Weeee wiiiiiiill kiiiiiiill yoooooou!" The elementals swarmed forward toward Durgaden. Tanerus braced behind the burly dwarf, ready to aid him. Amador lowered his bow and muttered prayers to Corellian. Energy surrounded the first of the Elementals, swirling around him as Amador's prayer reached a crescendo, the elvish words finally audible to all, "... and go back to where you come from!"Beneath the elemental a tear in the fabric of reality was opened. Beyond could be seen nothing but fire. Heat lashed up from the Elemental Plane of Fire. The elemental raised it hands and was sucked through the rift. It howled with pleasure as it finally returned home. The rift closed quickly, leaving the other two elementals looking between the rift and the party. With angry shouts they lept toward Durgaden. The first one swiped out at the dwarven warrior, slamming into him. He cried out in pain not really noticing that his surcoat and backpack were on fire. He exchanged blows with the thing. Each time his axe flashed bits of flame were ripped from the elemental. It seemed to care little for his attacks, choosing instead to focus on slamming its flaming fists into him. Tanerus slipped out and lashed out at the second one, cutting it deep. From behind the front line, Amador's prayers once again rose to an audible level, the elvish words calling forth. "Cover my friend in your cloak of protection, my lord. Let him resist the fires that burn within these beasts!" He touched Tanerus on the back and a soft blue shimmer passed over him.Just in time the shimmer covered the small halfling as the elemental he faced turned to slam him. It hurt to get hit by the large flaming fist, but it didn't burn him. The resistance held, allowing none of the flames to harm him.Meanwhile Durgaden was growling out curses as his axe bit again and again into his foe. The flames continued to burn his hair and clothing. He ached all over, and his right shoulder throbbed. One of the elementals attacks had slammed into the shoulder and he knew it was dislocated. It would not take long at this rate for him to fall. "Amador!"The elf responded quickly to the calls for aid. His hands glowed as he called forth his best healing prayer. He gently touched Durgaden, and the dwarf was quickly healed. He laid into his opponent with renewed vigor. Meanwhile, Tanerus was barely holding his own. He had found his attacks ineffectual so he instead concentrated on attempting to annoy Durgaden's opponent. He lashed out at the things fists, trying to aid his companion. With the elemental distracted, Durgaden slammed his axe into its chest and fell apart, turning into a smile smoldering pile of coal. Amador lifted his bow and shot an arrow, but it burned up upon impacting the remaining elemental, seeming to do nothing. He decided just keeping Durgaden healthy was going to be the best way he could help this fight.Durgaden shifted his focus, and began carving chunks of flame out of the last of the elementals. The elemental quickly turned its attention on the new threat, but each time he slammed the dwarf, Durgaden merely stumbled back into the healing touch of Amador. Amador became a bit concerned after using three very powerful heals on Durgaden.Tanerus once again tried to distract the elemental, swiping at its fists.Finally the last elemental fell to Durgaden's axe. Durgaden shook his head, not relishing having to kill the servants of the forge, but they had obviously been driven mad by hundreds of years of useless bondage.They set about searching the area. Soon Durgaden called Tanerus and Amador over, "There is some sort of false plate here. See! Look how this forge is slightly thicker than the others here."Tanerus nodded and examined the secret compartment. "No traps, no lock." He tapped it and the compartment fell open to reveal a pair of gaunlets laid atop a large stone brick carved with dwarven runes.Tanerus handed the gauntlets over to Durgaden. "These are... Mithril!" Durgaden seemed almost childlike with his glee. He quickly donned the gauntlets. "Very nice! They fit like a glove!" Tanerus opened his mouth to say something then decided against it, just smiling and shaking his head. He turned and tried to read the runes on the stone. Durgaden helped him. "This is the word 'the'... this is the word 'stone'... thats all I recognize." They placed the stone safely in Durgaden's pack to examine further later. Having gone as far as they could in this direction the party double back and soon entered a massive entry hall of some sort. Pillars line the room and a huge pair of metal double doors were at the far east end. Runes were carved onto the doors with fine craftsmanship. Either side of the doors were other carvings, but these hand been hastily marked into the stone."Whomever added these did so in a hurry." Amador voiced the obvious.Tanerus and Durgaden put their heads together, deciphering the runes slowly. The inscription on the door read:  The inscription to the left of the door read:The inscription on the right hand side of the door read: With the knowledge of these runes in hand they pulled out the stone and examined it further. They finally made out what the inscriptions on the stone said:Tanerus grinned, "So you can only go through if you have dwarf blood, and if you don't you carry the stone, and are thus blooded? Seems the answer to me."Durgaden nods, "Aye. But these doors... these are gateway doors. This goes to somewhere, like outside... but this place is further down than the entrance, we are thirty or fourty feet lower than when we started, and beneath a hundred foot tall cliff. It means that if these doors leave this city... there is only one place they could go."Amador and Tanerus both said, "The Underdark."</blockquote>

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