The remaining high priest decides to capitalize on the wall that separates his soldiers from the fire elf, the dragonkin and centipede. With a deep breath and a low supplication, the muscular dwarf raises his gauntleted arms and brings forth another manifestation of the wrath of his god.

Renatus is in the middle of unentangling his chain from the mandibles of the giant, fiendish arthropod, when he feels the sudden wind of an igniting firestorm, and is then blinded by the cascading sheets of white-hot flames that envelop him. The centipede releases the dragonkin from its poisonous grasp as the fires sear its exoskeleton and roast its flesh beneath.

Renatus and Shek feel the staggering heat of the fire (make yer reflex saves for half: (18d6)[56] and then apply your resistances). But that is only part of the fire's effect; throughout the cavern, the combatants find themselves short of breath, as the roaring firestorm consumes the breathable air in the enclosure. Though the fire is contained wholly on the dragonkin's side of the razored wall, even the fiends and their allies stutter-step at this unexpected occurance. Only the dwarven soldiers seem prepared for such a tactic, and as their enemies lose momentum–even for the smallest fraction of a second–they are quick to press the attack. One of the rukanyr falls, swarmed by vengeful gray dwarves. One of the barbazu is staggered and nearly brought low by the hammer blow of a raging duergar sergeant.

The fires disappear in an instant, leaving only guttering flames, floating embers, sizzlingly hot, blackened stone, and acrid smoke. The fiendish centipede collapses against the dragonkin, smoke and steam rising from its boiled insides, armored plates cracked and seared with fire. Many of its legs have fused together with the heat, and the near-mindless creature seems to be out of the fight, though it is not dead yet.

The other gray dwarf caster is attempting to fully gain the momentum of battle, and sends a branching arc of lightning through his foes, a tendril of brilliant energy that races through his allies without even singing the hair of their heads, and then explodes into the remaining rukanyr and the two barbazu with a deafening roll of thunder. One more of the rukanyr falls, corpse charred and twitching, too far gone to even begin death-throes.

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kuru-hit by antiaircraft guns
levi-tumbling away from foes
shek's rukanyr-sonic scream
kuru's #2 rukanyr-DEAD
kuru's #1 rukanyr-moving for renatus
hamatula-zapped the dragon
erinyes-sapped the dragon
baatezu/rukanyr squad (vs. duergar)-decimating the duergar ranks.
shek-killed rukanyr
high priest in formation-firebombed the west side
centipede-roasted on an open fire
ugrot's rukanyr-DEAD
duergar casters-chain lightning
renatus-combat w/ centipede
high priest at altar-DEAD
elemental-playing tag with shek
duergar meleers-skewered ugrot
duergar cultists (leaving ceremony)-attempted to kick levi back into wall
ugrot-gutted some duergar

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