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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Eridanis" data-source="post: 651499" data-attributes="member: 275">Session 36 - Oh, bee HIVE!Garret’s Journal:The group finalized our plans on the continued assault of the firegiant fortress and we began separating into the two separate teleport parties. Rodrigo used his arcane talents to make me invisible and much healthier, while Drake magically enhanced my agility. Once the group was prepared Rodrigo teleported Gizmo, Jorie, and myself into the altar room, while Drake teleported Nicoli, Kellan, and Nahktibastet.  Still unaccustomed to magical travel, I was slightly dazed when we appeared in the room filled with giants, trolls and gnolls. Luckily the two arcane casters seemed to be unaffected as Drake began weaving his magic so that the entire party began to move faster than humanly possible. Rodrigo instantly began calling forth his magical powers to summon forth a storm of fiery death that rained down upon the gnolls and trolls. In the span of seconds we seemed to have vastly swayed the battle into our favor as only a handful of disoriented Fire giants were left standing.   The rest of the party began to quickly move in and take out theremaining giants before they could warn anyone else. The two giants guarding the stone doorways seemingly began to retreat as the opened the doors, however unknown to our group the giants were just allowing the true enemies to join into the ensuing combat. Out of the doors stepped that largest lizard I had ever laid eyes on. The beast's scales were the color of lava, and it was both beautiful and horrible to look upon. I had barely come to my senses as the beast opened his mouth and breathed forth a mighty cone of fire directly at me. Luckily my lightning reflexes allowed me to avoid any harm.    The party faced this new challenge with no fear as the entire party surged forth to meet this new challenge. However the giants had one more surprise for us this day. From behind the dragon a horrid creature, later identified as a Mind Flayer, fired forth a column of psionic energy stunning Kellan, and Gizmo. Jorie quickly summoned forth a giant ape that began to attack the dragon as Drake, Nicoli and Rodrigo began casting spells trying to damage and disable the beast. I was faced with a tough dilemma and decided to focus primarily on the Mind flayer. Using my trusty Slave Driver I unleashed a flurry of strikes at the armored foe. The Mind flayer brushed off my attacks and seemed content with directing his pet Displacer beast to eat the stunned Kellan.     The next few moments passed in a blur as the party struggled for its life against the great foes. Slowly we began to make progress, since my attacks were useless against the dragon and the mind flayer I diverted my attention to the two remaining fire giants. Too bad for them, they noticed my whip but were unable to respond to me since I was invisible. Finally the initiative swung back into our favor; the combined assault on the dragon was too much as it collapsed under the barrage of attacks. Seeing that the tide was swaying the Mind Flayer teleported away, much to Nicoli's surprise, leaving a single Fire Giant and a wounded displacer beast to be dispatched.   After doing a quick survey of the party we decided it would be best to press forward since we didn't want to let the fiends regroup. The group continued through the doors and began searching for the mind flayer or the queen bee. We moved through the giant complex until we came upon an area that seemed to be where the mind controlling mead was made. Further investigation revealed a huge cavern filled with millions of bees. This obviously was the location of the extra dimensional bees. A quick scan revealed it was not going to be an easy task to find the queen bee or even exterminate these bees. This left the party lost as to what to do next.    That was when Rodrigo suggested we look for the Dragon's horde of treasure. It is common knowledge that a dragon has a horde, and since we killed the dragon we should definitely go find it. Nicoli began praying to his deity for the location of the treasure and we headed off deeper into the giant fortress looking for treasure.From the Collected Letters of Sir Kellan Evershar:We arrived in two separate groups, hoping that we could dispatch our enemies more quickly from two sides. Rodrigo made short work of the humans and trolls with his powerful new small fireballs, leaving the giants for the rest of us to deal with. As we moved to engage, the double doors opened, revealing another red dragon, a mind flayer, and a swarm of bees that immediately filed the room, attacking those who were not with the field of Jorie’s Repel Vermin spell. I ran towards the far wall near the doors, hoping to flank the dragon and the illithid, but part of the way there the tentacled one turned his eyes toward me.. and the rest was swirling darkness.As I lay stunned on the ground, Nahktibastet had the presence of mind to fly into the battle and drag my body out of the line of combat. Having no way to revive me, my companions were able to defeat the remaining two fire giants and the dragon (mostly due to Drake’s lighting bolts), while the mind flayer was able to use his plane shifting powers to escape.We went through the double doors, and found the hives of the bees. After some discussion, we decided to leave them alone – they offer a threat to no one as long as they are not controlled by an evil force, and we destroyed the supplies of mind-controlling mead to end that portion of the plot.Rodrigo insisted we try to find the dragon’s hoard before departing, and Nikolai cast find the path as we slowly made our way back to the giant’s stronghold.</blockquote>

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