| Alot of action happened as you can imagine
At the Keep in Crossing...........
"Vorclaf says to Burarm, "Your last chance, son. Zoluren can be your fight."
and after much travel we arrive at........
Vorclaf falls to his knees, hands balled into fists at his eyes. A bright flash of light erupts from his crouched form, bathing the area in its bluish glow. Groaning, Vorclaf gets back to his feet.
Vorclaf says, "Do we have anyone after the child? She must not interfere."
Vorclaf says, "Nearly time..."
Vorclaf says, "WE are the diversion."
Vorclaf says, "Iazen. Now is the time."
Vorclaf says to himself, "Yes. It is here."
>look
[Hawstkaal Road, Through the Forest]
A layer of moss along the road adds spring to the traveler's steps and muffles the sounds of footfalls. Beneath the canopy of trees veiling the area, an almost palpable sense of peace seems to hover in the air, enticing many a sojourner to tarry in this green sanctuary.
Vorclaf stares intently at the edge of the woods. With a beat reminiscent of a living heart, a bright orb of light throbs in the distance, illuminating a faint trail that weaves through the undergrowth.
we all follow the faint trail to...................
Ghostly hands come into being and attempt to coalesce around Lyras. As the hands attempt to clench down in a translucent embrace, they are suddenly shredded into thousands of insubstantial pieces by an unknown force!
>Vorclaf begins to advance on a grey skeletal ravager.
>[Wilderness]
A sparse clearing rests at the foot of a rough path leading into the forest wilderness. Savage and untamed, myriad haphazard tracks criss-cross the ground, all avoiding the remnants of a small marble altar. You also see a pulsating deep blue-grey sphere, a stitched cadaverous hulk, a grey skeletal ravager, a grey skeletal ravager, a stark white skeletal archer, a stark white skeletal archer, a nimble cadaverous assassin, a nimble cadaverous assassin, a leathery grey ghoul, an arisen Rakash ranger, clouds of flies, a decaying corpse and a blazed path.
Also here: Ulf'Hara Guardsman Burarm who is surrounded by a luminescent sea-storm green ethereal shield, Guard Commander Solvar who is surrounded by a luminescent sea-storm green ethereal shield, Steel Heart Cyiarriah who is surrounded by a luminescent sea-storm green ethereal shield, Guard Vice-Commander Darkhellegur who is surrounded by a luminescent sea-storm green ethereal shield, Apreta who is surrounded by a luminescent sea-storm green ethereal shield, Commander Worrclan who is surrounded by a luminescent sea-storm green ethereal shield, Commander Jairem who is in a globe of blue fire, Wizard Arteal who is surrounded by a luminescent sea-storm green ethereal shield, Harbinger Mithyl who is surrounded by a luminescent sea-storm green ethereal shield, Notable Paschein who is surrounded by a luminescent sea-storm green ethereal shield, Elise who is surrounded by a luminescent sea-storm green ethereal shield, Caiomhe who is surrounded by a luminescent sea-storm green ethereal shield, Knight Magister Eladrin who is surrounded by a luminescent sea-storm green ethereal shield, Visionist Sionyl who is surrounded by a luminescent sea-storm green ethereal shield, Citizen Naife who is surrounded by a luminescent sea-storm green ethereal shield, Patre who is surrounded by a luminescent sea-storm green ethereal shield, Sir Dakkurn who is surrounded by a luminescent sea-storm green ethereal shield, Scholar Xzean who is surrounded by a luminescent sea-storm green ethereal shield, Ascher who is surrounded by a luminescent sea-storm green ethereal shield, Geometer Kalnean who is surrounded by a luminescent sea-storm green ethereal shield, Court Assistant Celitha who is surrounded by a luminescent sea-storm green ethereal shield, Zozuskar who is surrounded by a luminescent sea-storm green ethereal shield, G'nar Pethian Vansiil who is surrounded by a luminescent sea-storm green ethereal shield, Lawless Ariyan who is surrounded by a luminescent sea-storm green ethereal shield, Onden Andre Ayrell who is surrounded by a luminescent sea-storm green ethereal shield, Elemental Bloodbath Kisuke who is enveloped in a hellish inferno, Marsais who is surrounded by a luminescent sea-storm green ethereal shield, Spirit Healer Legian who is surrounded by a luminescent sea-storm green ethereal shield, Nomad Valcrest who is surrounded by a luminescent sea-storm green ethereal shield, Traim who is surrounded by a luminescent sea-storm green ethereal shield, Lieutenant Heartsfyre, Raider Tsinlee, Warrior Mage Mazrian who is surrounded by a luminescent sea-storm green ethereal shield, Temple Sentinel Liurilias who is shrouded in ghostly flames, Igniter Exiar who is surrounded by a luminescent sea-storm green ethereal shield, Divine Soldier Mordimer who is surrounded by a luminescent sea-storm green ethereal shield, Doctor Tyler, Fateweaver Caelumia who is surrounded by a shimmering shield, Grunt Stoneheart who is surrounded by a luminescent sea-storm green ethereal shield, Zealot Rience who is shrouded in ghostly flames, Prince Vorclaf who is surrounded by a luminescent sea-storm green ethereal shield, Devourer Lyras.
Obvious paths: none.
Vorclaf whispers a few quiet words.
>Jairem gestures at Lyras.
A crackling stream of energy flies at Lyras.
Tiny red and purple shafts appear within the black mist surrounding Lyras and writhe in frenzy.
A rapid string of tiny bubbles rolls beneath her abdomen.
>You see Devourer Lyras Maorgwelder, a Human Necromancer.
Severe features highlight this tall woman's face. Thick strands of ash-blond hair, marred by a single streak of black, hang behind her and reach just below her shoulders. She appears as neither beauty nor beast, yet her gray eyes sweep constantly across the area to survey all with a frozen gaze and pursed frown.
Concealed from neck down by a many-layered deep purple cloak, she almost seems to float around as she moves.
Lyras appears to be of middle-age for a Human.She is in good shape.
She is holding an ebony-hafted scythe of polished steel inset with a deep red blood ruby in her right hand. She is wearing a voluminous deep purple cloak arrayed with myriad folds and inscribed with a single stark-white sigil across its back.
>Apreta gestures at Lyras.
Tiny red and purple shafts appear within the black mist surrounding Lyras and writhe in frenzy.
>Vorclaf gestures at a grey skeletal ravager.
A brilliant stream of pure white light jumps toward a grey skeletal ravager from Vorclaf, warping into a hammer-shaped force that slams into it!
A grey skeletal ravager shrugs off the the strike.
The hammer-shaped light silently explodes.
>You close to melee range on Lyras.
>Cyiarriah gestures at Lyras.
The naphtha Cyiarriah is holding suddenly combusts into flames, igniting her as well!
Lyras seems to smirk slightly.
Rience's silver glow flares momentarily.
Lyras lands an apocalyptic strike (So that's what it felt like when Grazhir shattered!) that explodes the heart and lungs with a bone-shattering blow to the chest.
- * Rience was just struck down!
>Vorclaf closes to pole weapon range on Lyras.
>Apreta stares intently at Lyras.
>Eladrin lands a light hit to Lyras's head.
The large stone fist falls to the ground!
>Dakkurn lands a light hit to Lyras's left arm.
The light spear falls to the ground!
>Kisuke traces an arcane sigil in the air.
>Liurilias seems to be concentrating intently on something.
Worrclan lands a light hit that nicks Lyras's left forearm. Lyras falls down!
Lyras's in shock and dying!
>Lyras shrugs off her afflictions.
Lyras returns to an upright position.
>Celitha lands a light hit to Lyras's neck.
>Heartsfyre rests her hand on Liurilias's arm with a soft smile.
>Dakkurn lands a light hit to Lyras's abdomen.
The light spear falls to the ground!
>Eladrin lands a light hit to Lyras's abdomen.
The large stone fist falls to the ground!
- * Lyras was just struck down!
- * Lyras is slain before your eyes!
Lyras's steel scythe falls to the ground.
The black mist floats away from Lyras's flesh.
>A brilliant flash of light erupts from an ebony-hafted scythe of polished steel inset with a deep red blood ruby, stunning Stoneheart!
An ebony-hafted scythe of polished steel inset with a deep red blood ruby slides into Lyras's hand.
The ghostly laughter of Lyras echoes through the room, sending a shiver down your spine.
>Lyras's corpse appears to float back into a standing position, her appearance swirling as wounds fade from existence as if they were never there. As the last wound vanishes, her frozen smile returns once more.
>Lyras says, "Fools."
>A grey skeletal ravager lands an earth-shaking strike that rips through muscle and organs, cutting the foe cleanly in half.
- * Mordimer was just struck down!
Appearing to have lost sight of her target, Apreta stops advancing.
>Lyras leaps from hiding and ambushes Liurilias!
Liurilias's silver glow flares momentarily.
Lyras lands a heavy strike that etches a light cut into the right side of the chest, barely stunning him. Lyras lands an extremely heavy hit that tears the left leg from the socket when the steel scythe gets jammed between thigh and hip.
>Mazrian assesses his combat situation.
>Stoneheart traces an arcane sigil in the air.
>The flames surrounding Kisuke blaze high in a hellish inferno!
>Liurilias blinks his eyes momentarily.
>Fractals of pale light materialize in a cascading pattern around Liurilias, outlining the faint beginnings of a complex gyre. With a bestial moan, shafts of brilliant white light erupt from the ether, illuminating the pattern as if it were lifeblood sustaining the vein.
The wall of light echoes outward rapidly, leaving a misty halo of white light to shroud Liurilias in its wake.
The ring of light smashes into Lyras, causing her to stumble as it forcefully pushes her from melee to missile range, away from Liurilias.
Lyras is stunned!
>Mazrian inhales sharply, then violently spits a bolt of churning flame toward Lyras!
The incendiary spittle blasts Lyras in her head!
>Lyras shrugs off her afflictions.
>Kalnean gestures at Lyras.
A crackling stream of energy flies at Lyras.
A rapid string of tiny bubbles rolls beneath her abdomen.
>Jairem gestures at Lyras.
A crackling stream of energy flies at Lyras.
The stream grazes her head, leaving a string of blisters across the face.
>Lyras asks, "You think to strike at me, Meraud?"
>Legian begins to focus on Lyras!
>Liurilias is unable to retreat from Lyras.
Lyras closes to pole weapon range on Liurilias.
>The skeletal ravager closes to pole weapon range on Ayrell.
>Liurilias looks healthier and Tyler appears to weaken.
>The skeletal ravager closes to pole weapon range on Arteal.
>A blunt tip bolt lodged in Tsinlee comes free and falls to the ground.
>Liurilias's silver glow flares momentarily.
Lyras lands an apocalyptic strike (So that's what it felt like when Grazhir shattered!) that pierces clean through the abdomen and out the back (Shiskabob!).
- * Liurilias was just struck down!
Valcrest gestures at Lyras.
A crackling stream of energy flies at Lyras.
Lyras manages to get out of the way of the stream!
>Arteal fixes Lyras with an intent stare.
The piercing screech of tortured air assaults your ears, punctuated by a sharp **CRACK!**!
Lyras grunts as a deep black bruise appears on her chest.
>Vansiil says to Lyras, "You, madam, are a tottering crutch!"
>Vansiil closes to pole weapon range on Lyras.
>
A very loud voice intones, "In approximately one minute, I am returning to this spot and picking up everything I find on the ground. If you leave it there, it's MINE and I won't give it back!"
>Lyras asks, "See how the priests fall?"
>Mazrian inhales sharply, then violently spits a bolt of churning flame toward Lyras!
The incendiary spittle blasts Lyras in her chest!
>Celitha lands a light hit to Lyras's chest.
>Jairem gestures at Lyras.
A crackling stream of energy flies at Lyras.
The stream grazes her head, leaving a string of blisters across the face.
>Mazrian inhales sharply, then violently spits a bolt of churning flame toward Lyras!
The incendiary spittle blasts Lyras in her neck!
>Ariyan gestures at Lyras.
A flash of silvery-blue light envelops Lyras!
Lyras stops dead in her tracks and rapidly blinks her eyes.
>Lyras shrugs off her afflictions.
Vorclaf says, "You are done. This WILL be your end. "
>Lyras leaps from hiding and ambushes Caelumia!
Lyras lands a powerful strike that bites deeply into the fleshy part of the cheek, dealing her a vicious stun.
>
Caelumia falls down!
Caelumia's in shock and dying!
Lyras lands an extremely heavy hit that tears flesh and cartilage as the right leg is ripped clean below the knee (Better order that peg leg!).
- * Caelumia was just struck down!
Burarm flashes with a brilliant white light and lands a powerful strike that turns the assassin's insides to putrefied jelly with a massive shot to the chest.
A nimble cadaverous assassin crumples to the ground with a painful yip!
With a pitiful sigh it expires.
>Lyras says, "Fate cannot save you either."
>Vorclaf begins to advance on Lyras.
>Lyras holds one hand in front of her chin and begins to take a slow, deliberative breath. An eerie blackness can be seen within her mouth as the air is struck with a sudden, intense chill. A malevolent radiance exudes from her now gaping maw, and tendrils of purple and black form in the air, swirling and writhing before coalescing into a funnel-like pattern that is continuously being dragged into Lyras's mouth. A feeling of immense hunger washes over you as the funnel quickly expands to envelop the area.
Mazrian collapses in a heap!
Patre's corpse suddenly spasms in place!
Burarm collapses in a heap!
Solvar collapses in a heap!
Cyiarriah collapses in a heap!
Darkhellegur collapses in a heap!
Apreta collapses in a heap!
Worrclan collapses in a heap!
Jairem collapses in a heap!
Arteal collapses in a heap!
Mithyl collapses in a heap!
Paschein collapses in a heap!
Sendithu collapses in a heap!
Momus collapses in a heap!
Elise collapses in a heap!
Caiomhe collapses in a heap!
Eladrin collapses in a heap!
Sionyl collapses in a heap!
Naife collapses in a heap!
Dakkurn collapses in a heap!
Xzean collapses in a heap!
Ascher collapses in a heap!
Kalnean collapses in a heap!
Celitha collapses in a heap!
Zozuskar collapses in a heap!
Vansiil collapses in a heap!
Ariyan collapses in a heap!
Ayrell collapses in a heap!
Kisuke collapses in a heap!
Marsais collapses in a heap!
Your vision blanks out, replaced by nothingness. You feel your spirit, your vitality, all that you are and have been, slowly dragged mercilessly towards a gaping hole that you can suddenly feel even amidst the sheer darkness. Devouring hunger surrounds your very being as it starts to wither away and be consumed. Before your self erodes away entirely, the abyssal hole closes, and the mercy of simple unconsciousness greets you.
Legian collapses in a heap!
Valcrest collapses in a heap!
Traim collapses in a heap!
Heartsfyre collapses in a heap!
Tsinlee collapses in a heap!
Exiar's corpse suddenly spasms in place!
Mordimer's corpse suddenly spasms in place!
Tyler collapses in a heap!
Caelumia's corpse suddenly spasms in place!
Stoneheart collapses in a heap!
Burarm shakes off his stun!
>You are still stunned.
>Vorclaf lands a good hit to Lyras's chest.
>Ariyan leaps to his feet!
>Mithyl leaps to his feet!
>Traim throws his head back and lets out a fierce roar of pride!
>Heartsfyre stands up.
>Lyras says, "Fools. All of you."
>Worrclan reaches out toward Lyras with his left hand.
Three blasts of luminescent sea-storm green electricity arc from Worrclan to Lyras!
The lightning crackles harmlessly against Lyras's body.
The lightning crackles harmlessly against Lyras's body.
Tendrils of smoke rise from her scorched chest.
>
Worrclan reaches out toward Lyras with his left hand.
A blast of luminescent sea-storm green electricity arcs from Worrclan to Lyras!
Lyras gags and coughs as sparks chase each other around her neck in an electrifying dance.
>You rise to your feet fluidly, like a large, graceful cat.
> * Everlasting Crounchmeyer joins the adventure.
Vorclaf lands a good hit that nicks Lyras's left forearm.
>Vorclaf lands a good hit to Lyras's left arm.
>Lyras glances at Vorclaf.
>[Wilderness]thereal shield, Devourer Lyras who appears blinded by a veil of shadows.
>Lyras spins around to face Vorclaf!
Vorclaf growls ferociously!
>Vansiil offers Lyras a fresh whole dill pickle of a dark green hue.
>Vorclaf lands a good hit that nicks Lyras's left forearm.
>Lyras asks, "Hmph. You attack, then try to cease the battle?"
>A grey skeletal ravager lands an apocalyptic strike (So that's what it felt like when Grazhir shattered!) that slices through the neck and sends Marsais's head flying through the air.
- * Marsais was just struck down!
>Vorclaf lands a good hit to Lyras's right leg.
>The spiders renew their efforts, and Lyras is quickly webbed once more!
>Lyras says, "Come, Meraud."
Several bolts of flashing silver flame flare into view, churning around Lyras. With surprising speed, they swirl upward into the sky with a wailing shriek!
Bolts of flame begin to fall from the sky like fiery fists of Everild, punching savagely into the ground as collateral energy sprays outward!
A bolt of holy fire strikes Lyras in the abdomen, lightly singing her flesh.
>The cadaverous assassin closes to pole weapon range on Eladrin.
>Liurilias appears downtrodden.
A pure white light glistens over Jairem's corpse.
>Lyras shrugs off her afflictions.
>A shower of blazing silver fire pounds down from the sky!
A bolt of holy fire strikes Lyras in the chest, scorching her flesh.
>Burarm lands a light hit to Lyras's abdomen.
>A bolt of holy fire strikes Lyras in the neck, lightly singing her flesh.
>Vorclaf lands a good hit that etches a light cut into the right side of the chest.
>Vorclaf fakes Lyras and moves into a better position.
>Legian gestures at Lyras.
>Kalnean raises his arms skyward, chanting.
>Heartsfyre waves her hand.
>Burarm lands a light hit to Lyras's right leg.
- * Lyras was just struck down!
- * Lyras is slain before your eyes!
Lyras's steel scythe falls to the ground.
The veil of shadows blinding Lyras falls away.
>Vorclaf slowly circles Lyras.
>You hear the ghostly voice of Lyras say, "It seems this is not enough.."
she is up again!!!!.....................
>Lyras says, "If I must.."
>Burarm exclaims, "You will not prevail!"
>Lyras withdraws a veined iron dagger from the depths of her cloak and smoothly stabs it into her own chest! Twisting the dagger around for a moment, her frozen features betray no hint of pain over the whole ordeal.
An unintelligible whisper escapes Lyras's lips as she withdraws the dagger and holds it above the ruined altar.
Blood from her ruptured, unbeating heart oozes across the flat of the blade and then dribbles down onto the marble. A shockwave blasts through the area, emanating from the altar and forcing everything backwards.
Everything except the wolf-masked Prince and the guard standing behind him.
You are stunned by the sudden wave of force!
>Vansiil exclaims something, but his unconscious babble is too faint to be heard.
>Something is happening above and behind Lyras, but it is impossible to nail down. Attempts to describe it, even as you stare at its formation, involve paradox. It is a center of massless gravity. It is a hole in thin air. It radiates unseen light. It emits a fearful keening which you cannot hear.
It is getting bigger.
>Your mind is filled with an angry buzzing... somewhere between a hornet, a pipe organ, and a seizure. Your eyes grow dim except for the strange spectacle. Your ears go deaf save for the demonic sound. Your skin grows cold, warmth and life oozing from it, as the light resolves into an organic, milky-white surface. Before your mind can fully comprehend the shape, a concussive blast pushes against your numb flesh and the world goes dark.
[Hawstkaal Road, Through the Forest]
A layer of moss along the road adds spring to the traveler's steps and muffles the sounds of footfalls. Beneath the canopy of trees veiling the area, an almost palpable sense of peace seems to hover in the air, enticing many a sojourner to tarry in this green sanctuary. You also see a pool of black shadows, a black bear that is sitting, a pool of grey shadows and a small fiery fissure.
Also here: the body of a stunned Marsais who is sleeping, the body of a stunned Elemental Bloodbath Kisuke who is sleeping, the body of a stunned Onden Andre Ayrell who is sleeping, the body of a stunned Lawless Ariyan
who is sleeping, a stunned G'nar Pethian Vansiil who is surrounded by a luminescent sea-storm green ethereal shield, the body of a stunned Zozuskar who is sleeping, the body of a stunned Court Assistant Celitha
who is sleeping, a stunned Geometer Kalnean who is surrounded by a luminescent sea-storm green ethereal shield, a stunned Scholar Xzean who is surrounded by a luminescent sea-storm green ethereal shield, a stunned
Citizen Naife who is surrounded by a luminescent sea-storm green ethereal shield, a stunned Visionist Sionyl who is surrounded by a luminescent sea-storm green ethereal shield, the body of a stunned Knight Magister
Eladrin who is sleeping, the body of a stunned Caiomhe who is lying down, a stunned Elise who is surrounded by a luminescent sea-storm green ethereal shield, the body of a stunned Notable Paschein who is sleeping,
the body of a stunned Wizard Arteal who is sleeping, the body of a stunned Commander Jairem who is sleeping, the body of a stunned Apreta who is sleeping, the body of a stunned Guard Vice-Commander Darkhellegur
who is sleeping, the body of a stunned Steel Heart Cyiarriah who is sleeping, the body of a stunned Guard Commander Solvar who is sleeping, the body of a stunned Temple Sentinel Liurilias who is sleeping, Grunt
Stoneheart who is surrounded by a luminescent sea-storm green ethereal shield, Momus who is surrounded by a luminescent sea-storm green ethereal shield, Zealot Rience.
Obvious paths: north, southeast.
Nausea pierces your gut! The air around you feels thinner, slightly dimmed of color, and the earth less sturdy than it was before. Worse still, only the nausea is going away. Something very bad just happened.
>Xzean exclaims, "Vorclaf! Meraud must have shown you how! Do it!"
it continues in the mirror
Wishin I was Fishin
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