In which our heroes ...

Orhan 3 Day 50 TE 6066

We scatter as life has been going on. But then we get reports that in the foothills of the mountains of gold, there's a new necromancer dude ranch. We send some doobies and they don't come back. Then we send the good doobies. They don't come back either.

All right, we finally decide to put the band back together and go deal with the foolish necromancers.

We head out there. Yup, that's a necromancer dude ranch: bone wal,l etc. Except this one has a much larger temple in the middle. Bigger than usual. There's black smoke coming from it and bone lying around.

Imre prays to Eissa for guidance. There's him hurling down a path at breakneck speed and he's hurling down towards it. Behind him, he feels like he's being pursued by the forces of hell. Oh dear.

Haeraan gets dreams too:

1) Nature of the trap: He's a songbird. The four other songbirds are with him. They're in a golden cage with bars made of kregora. Everyone's wings are clipped. Then a cat leaps on top of the cage with claws. The birds panic and run around in the cage. A voice says, "It's OK kitty. You'll get yours soon." The door to the cage slides open and the paw comes down...

2) Who is behind it: He dreams of an empty chamber with nothign but shadows. Deep in one corner in the shadows is a broken skull. The skull shifts slightly and the dust around it swirls. The dust knits the skull together slowly. The skull turns towards him and starts chattering. It rises up slowly and laughs. In an empty eyesocket is the ghostly outline of a gem. Behind the skull is a mirror, behind which are all sort of figures standing back there watching. Priests of Scalu, Akalatan, Orcs, etc.

3) What happend to the doobies: He's a biology grad student in a lab. There are rows and rows of cages of white mice. There's a little mouse guillitine before him. He'll probably chop the heads off soon. Once he chops them off he puts the brain in the brain analyzer and pops out lots of useful information.

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We discuss. Then we go see Veriak. He's unable to renew our life insurance policies. Veriak has indications that things have been specifically aimed at us. If we don't go, our doobies will be killed. If we do go, they may kill us. Lots of chopping of us.

We go see Elor. We ask if we can do something really tricksy and be all differnt yet totally the same. He says no. Then he says he recommends we just charge in there. After all, doobies.

We go see Voorig Kye to try and get some mojo. We wait a day to see if he responds He doesn't.

Orhan 3 Day 52 TE 6066

Imre hires some Changramai. Kyrik gets some mages. Haeraan gets some paladins.

Oathar goes to talk to the temples. He sacrifices the Gold Ring of Purity and the Attack Sphere. Shaal gives him a golden pill. (When you need the power, swallow the gold pill.) Neela gives him a silver pill. (When you've lost something precious and want it back, swallow the silver pill.) they warn him to keep the pills in his mouth. Kyrik goes to talk to Bugsy, his mafia don at his porn temple. Bugsy manages to find AGENT X! Oh no! We can't afford to let him get killed. But, wow. That would be exciting.

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We attack! Imre undoors the main gate.

Cultists poor out. We kill them.

We head in, cultists come out of huts, we kill them.

The temple doors slam shut. We undoor them, and charge in.

We undoor the bronze doors to the inner sanctum. We head in to the big open room

Inside is a giant guy on the left with a staff. On the right is another giant, but in full plate mail and a two handed sword. Oathar lightnings them, but they are hard.

Haeraan engages the metal giant. The bad mage primally laces a spell, and we all go down instantly.

There are now 5 altars and we are all lying on top of altars. We are gagged, we have caps on our head, and are wearing a golden shirt (no power points). Also, all four limbs are gone. There's a box of limbs over to the side. Oathar pops his stumps up and swallows the silver pill. His limbs come back and he hears a "Stop that! Wait for my signal!" Oathar's limbs are ilusioned away. After a few minutes, the doors (which have been replaced) open and a bunch of people file in. All teh people who hate us file in. One has a box with Ascerak's skull in it. Oathar, Haeraan, and Imre notice over in the corner a ghostly eye comes out of the wall, it blinks.

"The time for our revenge has come! You shall be sacrificed to our gods as recompense for our failures." Imre gets an acting roll to chant and cower. Suddenly, the main doors vanish again, and in strides Simon! Floating over his shoulder is Blinky. "Who gave you permission to do this!" "Stop, you may not interfere in our revenge!" "Yes, we will slay you to along with the infidels!" "Really, if you should be so lucky to kill you, then when my tainted soul finds it's dark destination, I will topple the master of that place and from my dark throne, I will fasion a machine of bone and pain...." He goes on like that for a while. Imre is so proud, or something.

Simon's body expands upwards and turns into a billous mass of flesh and blood, and turns green! Two tentacles reach down and grab an evil minion and shoves him into one of his six mouths and devours him whole.

Blinky blinks and Thresh appear and engage the demons that th eevil priests summon! Oathar swallows the other pill and gets his power points back too! Other guys come in behind Simon and start engaging the mob. Imre gets propped up and pointed. The thing that was once caused Simon is an unstoppable and immovable juggernaut of terror. Blinky starts trying to give us our limbs back, but the voice rescuing us tells him to put them back in the box.

The bad guys start losing. They can not stand against that which was once Simon. They start to flee. Oh dear.

Simon transforms back to normal, and Blinky rejoins him. His healer Jenise starts fixing things... Joining True on legs first, then we get our stuff and then teleport back to our villa. Agent X rescued everyone who was put in the prison level. The voice we heard was their thief. WE get a bag of kregors shirts and caps. That's a great set up, "Simon casts this bg illusion, and inside the illusion, the tief subdues them and ties them up." But he wasn't in there, so Simon says don't worry about it, I took care of it. Now that Blinky is free of Lorgalis, he's Simon's familiar.

Simon tells us about their adventuring. They went to visit his great aunt in Galt, and all sorts of other stuff. They tell us that the two guys who took us out were Avatars of Scalu and Atalakan to take us out. Blinky warned Simon, and the rest is history.