"Don't be so humble, you made the lich waste like half its spells," Youmu clapped Rayne's shoulder. "Too bad I don't think your wand can help much, that must have been a<em>cloudkill</em>dealing Con damage."<br/><br/>"I'm quite sure the lich retreated to a prepared fallback position and is now madly casting every buff it didn't have up already," Sylvia grumbled. "We could use a full caster like your friend Starstrike to buff us right about now... but if you're offering, resistance against cold is a safe bet against undead."<br/><br/>Unfortunately<em>shield</em>was a personal spell, but the arcane archer was able to get<em>resist energy</em>against cold up for each of them. The stairs descended into lower levels, collapsed side passages and mounds of debris funneling them into a single path that ended at a large set of double doors. "This must be an ancient dwarven city, with the current one built on top of its runes, like the nine cities of Troy stacked one on top of the other," Sylvia commented with a hint of awe in her voice.<br/><br/>Youmu exchanged nods with Rayne and Sylvia, then pushed the doors open to reveal a crypt with columns rising from floor to ceiling supporting the levels above. Stone coffins rested in recesses in the walls while upright sarcophagi were propped up against the pillars. Prowling between the supports was the skeletal dog, but now it was enlarged as big as a horse with a ferocious temper to match, its bony teeth and claws razor-sharp. If it had lips they would be pulled back in a snarl as it set itself in between the adventurers and its master at the far end of the room. At the back of the crypt, the lich was safe behind a<em>wall of ice</em>that stretched sparkling from one wall across the chamber to the other. The semi-transparent ice distorted the image, but the lich's from could be seen behind the ice.<br/><br/><div class="spoiler_container"><div class="spoiler_header" onclick="hideSecond (this);" role="button">OOC</div><div class="spoiler_body">Same initiative order as before, Rayne &gt; Lich &gt; Youmu &gt; Sylvia.<br/></div></div>