Ancient Dread: The Lizard Temple Pt II

Continued:

After a rest, we begin to move down to the next level. Blackness surrounds us along w/ a feeling of reverence. Two statues stand in alcoves to each side. We move down a thin corridor, no lizards in sight. Turning the corner, we find the entrance to a gallery. Red carpeting lines the floor. On the walls are a procession of works. Masterpieces all. Transitioning from time immemorial to modern. All relating to the hunt. Farther in we find pedestals. Reliquaries topping them. We guess they are trophies and the remains of ancient lizard heroes. On the wall, one item, a skin of some legendary beast, radiates magic. On the advice of my fellow fighters, I leave it where it is. Inside the gallery, three pedestals stand out. A heft of a spear. A giant reptilian hand, large enough for a glove. An eye, onyx, following us wherever we go. Rod senses evil and collapses on the floor. When she awakens, she tells us the eye is that of the hunt god. Evil and hungry. As we leave, stomping proceeds us. The statues ensuring we have not violated the temple.

The lower level beckons us. I turn invisible to scout ahead. Four pillars. Four braziers. In a recessed area in the center, the lizard leadership stand. I make a small noise, alerting an acolyte. Attempting to contact Echo via telepathy, we open ourselves up to the hunt god. It hurts. Rod prays for strength and Kym Nark Mar pushes the thoughts from our heads. The lizards alerted, still aren’t entirely prepared for our assault. My first arrows fly, hitting the priest, others hit the fire warlock. The fire warlock retaliates w/ a cloud of smoke, blocking my view. Before Echo can engage, the Earth warlock puts up a wall of earth, blocking one of the entrances. The priest disappears. The lizard snipers pepper the area I’m in w/ arrows, hitting me several times along w/ a fireball from the fire warlock. More of my arrows fly, killing the fire warlock and towards the earth warlock. One of those is blocked, apparently by an invisible Rod. Echo enters the fray, killing the acolyte and wounding several others w/ her powerful lightning balls. Rod savages the earth warlock w/ a cut to the gut. King and Ackdor engage the lizard lord and prince. I see the invisible and note the priest growing to the size of the behemoth. With the last of my ISP, I give the evil eye of death to the priest, killing him as my companions eliminate the remaining lizards.

We are all hurt severely. We find our third item. A large clawed hand. Time to return to Alta.

Brady Campaign: The Criminal's Best Apologist

Chicago sees a near doubling of homicides and violent crime in 2016. What does the Brady Bunch think is responsible?  Out of control gangs?  Collapse of the family unit? Ill advised social,economic, and political policies?

Nope.

It's all the fault of federally licensed gun dealers not even located in the city.

The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives, which Trump's administration oversees, has the power to crack down on the gun dealers flooding Chicago streets with crime guns… and they even know who those dealers are. The first 100 days of a President's term sets the stage for what they'll do and so far, Trump has only tweeted about gun violence.

Now is the time for the Trump administration to act. Join us to call on the President to crack down on the people supplying dangerous criminals with guns.

They have only one goal and has nothing to do w/ 'safety'.

Illinois Hearing Protection Act Witness Slips UPDATE

Update 2: Slip entries closed for the nonce.  It has been noted that there are more than a few multiple entries under the 'opposed' tab.  I saw one person w/ four alone. 

Update:  Hearing was cancelled. Guessing things are going on behind the scenes.  Keep the witness slips going.  Various anti groups are putting out their own alerts. Most of theirs are reported to be from out of state. 

From the ISRA :

Witness Slips Needed - Support SB50

Witness Slips Needed

SB50, the Suppressor Bill, has been posted for Criminal Law Committee on Wednesday, January 25, 2017, at 9:00am, in Room 400.

SUPPORT SB50

Log on to the ILGA Dashboard at my.ilga.gov

Click on "Senate", click on "Committee Hearings"

Under the Scheduled Senate Committee Hearings, click on "Week"

Click on the "Criminal Law" button (under view hearing details)

Click on the Create Witness Slip Button

I. IDENTIFICATION: Enter your personal information. Enter "NA" for the Firm/Business or Agency and Title fields unless you are officially representing an organization.

II. REPRESENTATION: Enter "Myself" unless representing an organization.

III. POSITION: Unless instructed otherwise for a particular bill leave the description field at its default value "Original Bill". Indicate your position by selecting the "Proponent" or "Opponent" radio button.  Please select the "Proponent" button for SB50.

IV. TESTIMONY: Select the "Record of Appearance Only" radio button.

If filing manually, complete the Captcha challenge and agree to the ILGA Terms of Agreement.

Then click Create Slip.

Ancient Dread: The Lizard Temple Pt I

Continued:

We are a few feet from the entranceway. Orange light spills out. We move into the entranceway. Strongbow, Ackdor, Rod, Echo, King. 4 guards are in the opening. I take a serious hit while parrying another. Ackdor puts his trident through its head. Another manages to hit itself in the head w/ a mace and entangling itself. It is dispatched by Strongbow. The others follow shortly. Echo lays down a sheet of ice on the steps tripping up several. One escapes down the back steps. After some quick healing, we head down.

At the bottom T, two giant snake statues. Strongbow reacts, almost striking it. He hears about half a dozen lizard men in the room. The group decides to charge decimating the front rank of lizards. The rest follow suite although King takes a serious cut that Rod struggles to heal.

 Our battle lust is still upon us so Strongbow, Ackdor, and Echo continue down to the next level. Two lizards, one in a red robe, one in brown are surrounded by another half dozen guards. Strongbow turns invisible and shoots the robed ones, wounding them. Rod flies down after healing King, missing a guard. King joins us. Echo puts up her electric field on the robed lizards. One drinks a potion, seeming to recover a bit as they fall out of the field. The brown robe, an earth warlock, puts up a wall of earth as Strongbow drops the red robed one. Ackdor charges into the fray but gets stabbed in the stomach. A dust storm engulfs us and the lizard guards. Strongbow, invisible, moves out of the storm, getting range on the brown robe. The melee continues in the sand storm, confused and blinding. Strongbow takes down the brownrobe then begins dropping the guards while the rest of the group continues to engage them. Ackdor is hurting badly, having been on the losing end of a fight w/ a guard. Finally they all are dead. We use a few minutes to catch our breath and heal Ackdor. Strongbow finds a potion on the body of the dead brown robe.