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Session 25: Set a man on fire and he'll be warm for the rest of his life
Session 26: Travel the World, Meet Interesting People, and Kill Them
Session 27: Terrible Pain in All the Diodes Down His Left Side
Session 28: Into this they slipped the guinea-pig, head first, and then sat upon it
Session 29: Sheets to the Wind
Session 30: Insufficient Ground for Comprehension

And in a fit of dedication (and because the last session was short):

Anyway. Adosar finished the modifications he wanted to make to the stone sword he'd made out of the hill outside of Xenecal's fortress, and we went back through the portal.

There was something there this time. It looked like the skeleton of a snake, all done over with rocks and gems and things. It snapped at us, and shook the floor of the room to throw us off balance, and Renn stepped up onto the air above the vibrations and just shot it. And we fought it, and eventually whatever spirit or whatever it was that was making the bones move came unstuck or died or something, and it was done.

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We picked over the parts of it because it was interesting and probably had useful magical things to it, though. Then Adosar called the little earth elemental and asked it to show us the way to Tagatal, but said that it was okay if it went straight rather than through the crevices, we could handle it now.

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The little elemental stared at the sword a lot. Eventually it started off, and we followed it; I opened passages with the magic in the sword, through the stone, so we could keep going straight. It opened them chunk by chunk in big squares, which was sort of odd; the walls and floor were smooth like only magic does.

Eventually when I opened a passage, it opened out into a big empty space. The earth elemental said that Tagatal was in the building in the middle of the space. We looked around -- there were gargoyles flying around in the space there, and the building was up on stone stilts in the middle of the space.

Adosar made another stone bridge that reached up to the wall of the building, and we started off along that. A couple of the gargoyles tried to fight with us, but they didn't really have much success at it. We got to the wall, and I opened a space in it with the sword's magic, and we went in, and we closed it behind us.

A little bit after that, some people came trooping in, gargoyles and a dark figure that was mostly shaped like a human, more or less. He wasn't sure how we managed to get into his house.

While Adosar was arguign with him and trying to convince him to give us the stone that the lizard wanted, I sort of leaned up against the wall to see what the building had to say. It was very old, and it sort of mumbled along like really old people will sometimes, about the things that it had seen in its time, not always in a sensible order, just snatches and bits and pieces of what it remembered. (Session Quote: "So I'm having a long conversation with an ancient Terran livejournal randomiser.") It was hard to figure out what it remembered, but I got a sense of the stone it had, a little. Meanwhile, Kher'ra was following the guy around hiding up against the ceiling to see whether he could spot it.

It got to be clear that the guy wasn't going to trade us the gemstone, and so we'd have to take it and get away. We found where it was, and we went invisible, and we managed to get it and not get too badly hurt by the gas traps, and we opened portals up and down and went the unexpected direction, and eventually we managed to get away from the place. I wonder if we'll find anything else shiny; maybe if we do I'll figure out how to go back and sneak it into his place. That would be kinda amusing.

So we started off towards the lizard to give him the rock. And on the way we got attacked again, by three shadowy figures who always moved at the same time. Each of them had a differently glowing weapon, but aside from that they were all the same. We fought them for a good long while, but the damage that we did to one of them spread out to the other ones which made it harder. Eventually they ran away.

We got the information from the lizard and gave it the rock, then we started off to the place where Grshrondigond was trapped. We found the place; it was full of lava pits and sulphur-smells, and there was a globe of stone off in the distance that was supported by a few bits of stretched-out stone. We started to go that way, mostly creeping along the walls so as not to have to worry about the melted rock.

Some sort of lizard thing with lots of heads came at us, and we had to fight it without falling in the lava. It didn't seem to have a problem with it, though, which made it harder. Eventually we killed it, and it sank. (Session quote: Burned down, fell over, and sank into the swamp! -- everyone, in unison) We had to deal with some more of them, and Renn summoned a water elemental which started to steam crankily in the heat (Session quote: "Aaaaah! I'm melting. Aaaah. . . oh, I'm water." -Shane), and eventually we made it to the globe.

The elemental in there was very weak; it started to shape itself into a form, pulling away at the stone, as we explained what we were doing. It said that it would help us if we promised to destroy Istane, who had imprisoned it when it had fought with her to keep her from taking over the Plane of Earth. We said that we were planning on doing that. It stopped trying to take a normal elemental form, and started weaving itself into a thick stone staff; when it was done, the staff fell down and there was no life left in it at all.

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