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Affirmative.

Fortunately, Voshrelka is the one person present who isn't going to be inconvenienced by the mass of grasping plants. So, naturally, she dives into the center of them where she's safest, then heads underground. There's a lot going on, which makes it hard to tell where one lone little lich is in all of the noise, but she can at least give basic directions and set the paladin on her.

Inside the fort, forward from your current position, then up and to the left. She's prone and guarded - at least one dire badger next to her, doing... something? Applying a potion or buff, maybe.

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Thank you, he said, and directs - 

- There's the vulnerability, there's the great double-thickness wall of iron, and now Skybreaker charges and he and Mateu don't even need to smile at each other any more, and with all the spells cast their lances strike the iron and it bursts upwards, erupting in a shower of sharp-edged shards right next to Eriape.

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And boiling out of that new hole in her castle are a big axeman in green - 

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- And Feliu with his holy sword.

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(Below, clods of dirt rain down on the archers who dance away from it, dust obscuring their vision as they try to get a good shot -)

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Heroism is only sometimes glamorous; a lot of the time it's avoiding dirt raining down on you in a hole in the ground. Nevertheless, he's still casting; with the first likely discharged, it's time for another Moment of Greatness.

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Some enemies are now in sight; she prepares for the archer's counterspell, or if any of them come barreling down the new tunnel they just crafted.

(And she's much more graceful about getting out of the dirt's way, but who's keeping track?)

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Lisandro is enjoying her clever tricks, the illusions and the decoy. Kind of curious about what she decided to use her contingency for, it’s got to be something creative. But they doesn’t mean he’s going to let it happen. 

Dispel magic, prioritizing contingencies. 

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Eriape's contingency (a fireball, centered on her necklace of fireballs) peters out as she wakes up in her own body.

"Is this a Lawful Arrest under the Laws of the Queen of Cheliax?" Eriape speaks very clearly and rapidly, and then attempts to cast a spell. It's hard to see which one it is, because it immediately gets counterspelled.

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Clarabella has her little emergency scroll of Teleport spread out on the floor, and is carefully reading it.

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Several nonsapient zombie dire badgers (their little name-tags say Alamanda, Sibilla and Francina) die to massed missile fire. They collapse to the floor, the dull spark in their eyes ending. The sapient wizard badgers rapidly go through their spells, and then prepare to evacuate. One of them, Montserrat, is destroyed by a stray sword-swing, unseen by anyone, and is disembodied with a little whimper of sadness. 

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That badger has a scroll! Melina takes the shot.

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The arrow rips the scroll just as Clarabella says the final words, and the spell goes with it, sparking and fizzing, small sparks of purple lightning passing along her yellowed teeth. 

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'Is this a lawful arrest?' is not a surprising question from a lich who's already tried to call for an axiomite ceasefire. It's a question liches have asked him before; It's not a question liches have sincerely asked him before. It's always been a trick, a gambit to buy time or a lead-in to an attempt to convince him that they're a law-abiding benevolent lich. (They are never actually a law-abiding benevolent lich.)

Nonetheless, there is a process for liches that ask that sort of question, which is slightly different from the normal process for liches. "I will accept your unconditional surrender." he says, equally quickly, as he grabs hold of her and prepares to disrupt anything that even slightly sounds like an incantation or command word.

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Eriape glances at Clarabella next to her, who will be destroyed if she manages to detonate her Necklace of Fireballs with her remaining fire spell. The other Badgers dying to save her. Thinks of the the Contact she's signed, and the fact that this is Clearly a Paladin, and can actually be trusted with Law.

"I surrender unconditionally," she says, loudly and clearly, and turns off her [Aura of Terror]. 

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Well this is a kidnapping so that changes absolutely nothing on their end. Almost nothing. He keeps hold of her.

Remove her equipment and bring up the bag.

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Feliu is surprised to hear the lich is surrendering but will do what his senior paladin and mission commander tells him to! Cloak is easy to spot and headband, what are the other things that need to be removed?

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On the magic item front, she has a ring, a vest, sandals, and a pair of elegant bronze vambraces done in sophisticated curlicues.

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They will also remove everything that is not obviously a magic item, because many liches know Nystul's Magic Aura.

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Those magic items are being removed very quickly and very forcefully. Which is reasonable, but be careful about damaging the loot!

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Is the fight over? The lich may have feigned surrender but that doesn't mean the badgers are throwing down their arms.

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The fight does appear to be over.

The animated zombie badgers have stopped moving. The remaining wizard badger and alchemical badgers had already retreated into their tunnels. Clarabella is carefully not doing anything, just looking up at Eriape with her tiny little arcane sparks wavering in her eye-sockets.

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Once the lich has been stripped, she and Alex and Jair and Puig can go in the bag of holding.

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The shooting is over? It was just getting to the good part!

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It is, yes.

She suspects that the various nobles are going to get to slaughtering the various reanimated badgers sooner rather than later, but: the badger that was near the lich was casting from a scroll. Which means its been Awakened. It is now definitively druid business to know the specifics of what the Hells is going on there.

Voshrelka rises up out of the ground near the awakened badger known as Clarabella. "I'd like to request custody of this badger," she says loudly, to the various nobility around, before any of them shoot it.

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