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<blockquote data-quote="Hairy Minotaur" data-source="post: 2986531" data-attributes="member: 11574"><p><strong>Another stoned party member....</strong></p><p></p><p>The party races after Paquito, through narrow passages and slippery terrain. Emerging in a huge cavern deep under the maze, over one-hundred feet across and twice as deep, the ceiling stretched beyond normal vision, as the floor seemed aglow with an eerie green light.</p><p></p><p>To the left, about half-way down was a wide passageway leading away from the cavern, the back of the room held large upright glass tubes where a bubbling liquid sound could be heard. </p><p></p><p>Interposing themselves between the party and the equipment at the rear of the room was a gaunt hunched over man in tattered garb. It may have once been a grand outfit hundreds of years ago and the age and wear of the garments easily gave away what type of creature he was even without a visual facial confirmation.</p><p></p><p>With him stood a dull gray, stone-like minotaur and an obsidian minotaur, it's reflective surface playing tricks with the low light beneath it.</p><p></p><p>"Your intrusion here is too soon, I cannot make an effective assessment of my work without it being complete first. Leave now and I shall allow you to return when I am fully ready." The gaunt man spoke with a grave inflection.</p><p></p><p>*Ha! you've surprised him, take him now while he's weak. Don't let these fools dictate to you what you can't and can't do. Seize the power for yourself*</p><p></p><p>"I think we've stepped too far into the latrine on this one. No?" Paquito whispers</p><p></p><p>"Korg not know what latrine is, but Korg know undead when smell it." Korg says under his breath</p><p></p><p>"Charge!" Lothred's voice shatters an uncomfortable silence as the magister closes the gap and launches an <em>acid bolt</em> into the lich's frame. The bolt dissolves away some of the filthy outer robes, but fails to do anything further.</p><p></p><p>Gronar watches the apprehension upon the faces of those behind him, turns ands sees the little elfy rush headlong into the enemy. gripping his sword tight his forces his blood to seethe with an ancestral desire as he too charges the stunned trio of enemies.</p><p></p><p>The smell of courage fills Gorfine's nostrils as he watches Lothred and Gronar engage the enemy on their home soil, he too waves off the rest of the party and runs to the battle. Omar, his dwarven blood calling to him from a far off place, brings a ringing to his ears like that of a hammer struck anvil and it rouses him to action as well. "For the mountains!" </p><p></p><p>Ratchet blinks to Gronar's shoulder and hears the puffing plodding of the dwarf behind him. Ratchet hears an arcane chant ahead of him as a spell, more ancient than perhaps this cavern, is ushered from the skeletal jaw of the lich. </p><p></p><p>Before the rest of the party, a pained moan echoes from the ground in front of them, just prior to a wall of near insubstantialness erupting from the pained earth. Ghostly visages and auditory warnings powered by the negative material plane and driven through the ethereal plane seem to dance slowly across a surface that is at once non-existent and very real.</p><p></p><p>The appearance of the wall of spirits causes Gorfine to pull up just short of the minotaurs and fires off two arrows from his longbow, the attacks bounce ff the gray minotaur as if it was actually made completely of stone. </p><p></p><p>The attack draws the gray minotaur's attention to Gorfine and the beast lumbers towards Gorfine, stopping about twenty feet from the black minotaur and opening it's mouth in a wide "O" shape as a green gas escapes from the gray minotaur and envelopes Gorfine. Once the gas dissipates a statuesque form of Gorfine remains, eternally posed for all to see.</p><p></p><p>As Gronar charges passed the gray minotaur, he arcs his sword at the beat's head and clips it's neck, thick gray blood pours from the critical wound as the minotaur bellows a painful cry into the cavern walls. Korg watches as Gorfine is rendered useless and resolves to protect his friend from this undead most foul. </p><p></p><p>The hill giant takes a step back and leaps through the ghostly impediment. An unimaginable cold licks at Korg's skin as his vision is assaulted by a myriad of death scenes most of the unpleasant violent variety. Landing on the far side, Korg shakes off the bitter cold as his skin has turned a deathly blue-white, the hill giant makes his way for a close distance to launch his artillery of faith at the undead monstrosity.</p><p></p><p>Paquito, wary of the wall, tries to fire <em>magic missiles</em> through the apparitions, only to have the spell disappear through the ether once it comes into contact with the wall. Dismayed, Paquito looks over to Finrod and Luciann.</p><p></p><p>"You'll have to jump through like Korg did, or we're going to need reinforcements from upstairs. No?"</p><p></p><p>"Jump, through that? That's crazy, you saw what it did to Korg, that's not natural. I'll go get reinforcements." Finrod yells back.</p><p></p><p>"Wait! We can do this, getting reinforcements will take too long anyhow, one side going to be dead long before you would get back with anyone." Luciann spoke reason to Finrod</p><p></p><p>Finrod looked Paquito and Luciann up and down, swallowed his courage and stepped up to the spirit wall. The faces within coalesced in front of a terrified Finrod, void filled bottomless eyes peered back at the elf from every imaginable race, they each silently screamed out in pain and horror attempting to entice the elf into the wall. Finrod reached out a hand to touch the ethereal surface and a deluge of suffering and torment washed up his arm and into his soul. Finrod screamed and twisted his body violently from the wall and ran for the cavern entrance.</p><p></p><p>Luciann ran to intercept his fellow elf, but Finrod bull rushed him over at the entrance and began to head into the tunnel beyond, he only had to go ten feet before he found reinforcements, unfortunately they were of the umber hulk persuasion and definitely not friendly towards the party.</p><p></p><p>Pulling up short as the tunnel walls around him collapsed, Finrod tried to take it all in before the floor beneath him collapsed as well, sending the elf tumbling down a pit trap neatly dug by a waiting umber hulk at the bottom of the fall.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Hairy Minotaur, post: 2986531, member: 11574"] [b]Another stoned party member....[/b] The party races after Paquito, through narrow passages and slippery terrain. Emerging in a huge cavern deep under the maze, over one-hundred feet across and twice as deep, the ceiling stretched beyond normal vision, as the floor seemed aglow with an eerie green light. To the left, about half-way down was a wide passageway leading away from the cavern, the back of the room held large upright glass tubes where a bubbling liquid sound could be heard. Interposing themselves between the party and the equipment at the rear of the room was a gaunt hunched over man in tattered garb. It may have once been a grand outfit hundreds of years ago and the age and wear of the garments easily gave away what type of creature he was even without a visual facial confirmation. With him stood a dull gray, stone-like minotaur and an obsidian minotaur, it's reflective surface playing tricks with the low light beneath it. "Your intrusion here is too soon, I cannot make an effective assessment of my work without it being complete first. Leave now and I shall allow you to return when I am fully ready." The gaunt man spoke with a grave inflection. *Ha! you've surprised him, take him now while he's weak. Don't let these fools dictate to you what you can't and can't do. Seize the power for yourself* "I think we've stepped too far into the latrine on this one. No?" Paquito whispers "Korg not know what latrine is, but Korg know undead when smell it." Korg says under his breath "Charge!" Lothred's voice shatters an uncomfortable silence as the magister closes the gap and launches an [I]acid bolt[/I] into the lich's frame. The bolt dissolves away some of the filthy outer robes, but fails to do anything further. Gronar watches the apprehension upon the faces of those behind him, turns ands sees the little elfy rush headlong into the enemy. gripping his sword tight his forces his blood to seethe with an ancestral desire as he too charges the stunned trio of enemies. The smell of courage fills Gorfine's nostrils as he watches Lothred and Gronar engage the enemy on their home soil, he too waves off the rest of the party and runs to the battle. Omar, his dwarven blood calling to him from a far off place, brings a ringing to his ears like that of a hammer struck anvil and it rouses him to action as well. "For the mountains!" Ratchet blinks to Gronar's shoulder and hears the puffing plodding of the dwarf behind him. Ratchet hears an arcane chant ahead of him as a spell, more ancient than perhaps this cavern, is ushered from the skeletal jaw of the lich. Before the rest of the party, a pained moan echoes from the ground in front of them, just prior to a wall of near insubstantialness erupting from the pained earth. Ghostly visages and auditory warnings powered by the negative material plane and driven through the ethereal plane seem to dance slowly across a surface that is at once non-existent and very real. The appearance of the wall of spirits causes Gorfine to pull up just short of the minotaurs and fires off two arrows from his longbow, the attacks bounce ff the gray minotaur as if it was actually made completely of stone. The attack draws the gray minotaur's attention to Gorfine and the beast lumbers towards Gorfine, stopping about twenty feet from the black minotaur and opening it's mouth in a wide "O" shape as a green gas escapes from the gray minotaur and envelopes Gorfine. Once the gas dissipates a statuesque form of Gorfine remains, eternally posed for all to see. As Gronar charges passed the gray minotaur, he arcs his sword at the beat's head and clips it's neck, thick gray blood pours from the critical wound as the minotaur bellows a painful cry into the cavern walls. Korg watches as Gorfine is rendered useless and resolves to protect his friend from this undead most foul. The hill giant takes a step back and leaps through the ghostly impediment. An unimaginable cold licks at Korg's skin as his vision is assaulted by a myriad of death scenes most of the unpleasant violent variety. Landing on the far side, Korg shakes off the bitter cold as his skin has turned a deathly blue-white, the hill giant makes his way for a close distance to launch his artillery of faith at the undead monstrosity. Paquito, wary of the wall, tries to fire [I]magic missiles[/I] through the apparitions, only to have the spell disappear through the ether once it comes into contact with the wall. Dismayed, Paquito looks over to Finrod and Luciann. "You'll have to jump through like Korg did, or we're going to need reinforcements from upstairs. No?" "Jump, through that? That's crazy, you saw what it did to Korg, that's not natural. I'll go get reinforcements." Finrod yells back. "Wait! We can do this, getting reinforcements will take too long anyhow, one side going to be dead long before you would get back with anyone." Luciann spoke reason to Finrod Finrod looked Paquito and Luciann up and down, swallowed his courage and stepped up to the spirit wall. The faces within coalesced in front of a terrified Finrod, void filled bottomless eyes peered back at the elf from every imaginable race, they each silently screamed out in pain and horror attempting to entice the elf into the wall. Finrod reached out a hand to touch the ethereal surface and a deluge of suffering and torment washed up his arm and into his soul. Finrod screamed and twisted his body violently from the wall and ran for the cavern entrance. Luciann ran to intercept his fellow elf, but Finrod bull rushed him over at the entrance and began to head into the tunnel beyond, he only had to go ten feet before he found reinforcements, unfortunately they were of the umber hulk persuasion and definitely not friendly towards the party. Pulling up short as the tunnel walls around him collapsed, Finrod tried to take it all in before the floor beneath him collapsed as well, sending the elf tumbling down a pit trap neatly dug by a waiting umber hulk at the bottom of the fall. [/QUOTE]
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