Dungeons of the Sorcerer King
"You fools!" cried the cornered sorcerer, "My minions are numberless!"
The paladin smashed the zombified ogre backwards, cleaving its misshapen head from its shoulders in a flash of steel. The druid, in bear form, leaped through the air and tackled its counterpart, bearing the ogre to the ground and rending it limb from limb until the disparate pieces ceased their unliving struggle. Into the gap stepped the cleric, raising her holy symbol high over her head and intoning words of banishment. White, holy fire blazed into being from the rotting limbs of the skeletal horde as one by one they were consumed in a vengeful inferno. The ranger stepped up beside her and bent his longbow, sending the obsidian point of his arrow deep into the left eye of the demonic beast that had been sending spikes at them. As the line began to disintegrate, the warlock waved his hands at the infernal cultists besides the throne. Her eyes blazed as she called down a hex on them, and the wicked men broke and ran.
"Is that so?" replied the cleric as her party mopped up the remaining undead, "It seems you're down to four - no, make that three. And two...and there's the last one now." The battered, bruised, and bloodied adventurers gathered into a grim line before the sorcerer's throne. The druid shifted back into his stout dwarven shape, taking up his staff to brandish at the evil mastermind, and the ranger unstrung his bow, drawing out two slender blades for the final confrontation. The sorcerer only smiled, a sinister grin which did not touch his eyes.
"All according to plan, my good heroes!" The sorcerer cackled, "But I assure you, this is not the last you've seen of the Sorcerer King, Boonskiies!" Mad laughter echoed around the heroes as the sorcerer threw a lever on the arm of his throne and vanished down a trap door, the passage sealing behind him. The door to the chamber slammed shut, and the weary adventurers could hear similar bangs and clicks throughout the vast dungeon as traps reset, accompanied by the roars and chitters of fresh monsters being released to terrorize them on their doomed escape attempt.
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