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<blockquote data-quote="Jon Potter" data-source="post: 4541118" data-attributes="member: 2323"><p><strong>[PLAIN][Realms #459] Up, Up and Away![/PLAIN]</strong></p><p></p><p>"Ow..." Noxin grimaced, spitting blood. There was a cut along the side of the half-giant's jaw, Saelus saw, and from it were sprouting verdent, leafy tendrils. The wizard jerked back his own leg from beneath the big man and saw that fingers of green were poking through a hole torn in his polished boot by the flying barbarian.</p><p></p><p>He quickly looked back up at the elemental and saw its fist going up, up, up... 80 feet in the air at least.</p><p></p><p>"Saelus, don't leave my side," Noxin suggested, brandishing Cloudblade. "I am going to fog up the surroundings and give us some cover!" The wizard held up his hand and shook his head.</p><p></p><p>"My <em>Sandstorm</em> will be much better in laying cover," Saelus told the barbarian.</p><p></p><p>"Cast your spell then!!" Noxin replied and assumed <em>Gaseous Form</em>.</p><p></p><p>Smiling a smile through gritted teeth, the wizard said, "I was about to."</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>"Flor have mercy!" Shamalin cried out and targeted herself with a <em>Dispel Magic</em>. Even as she cast it, however, she felt the magic going wrong. The power in this place - Dridana's power - was overwhelming. It filled every bit of the demiplane, warping the effects of magic, and wrestling it away from the cleric like a bully taking a baby's toy. The delicate matrix of the <em>Dispel Magic</em> exploded in Shamalin's head, sending waves of unrestrained magic pulsing through her body.</p><p></p><p>She screamed and staggered to the side, her mind an unfocused, buzzing, snarl.</p><p></p><p>"Shamalin!" Morier cried out as the Mercybringer convulsed. Huzair gritted his teeth and looked up at the island above.</p><p></p><p>"I am going up!" he announced. "This is a distraction." He activated the <em>Ring of Invisibility</em> and drew forth his <em>Scroll of Fly</em>. "<em>Vola!</em>" he intoned. As Shamalin had, he felt the hands of Dridana trying to undo his magic at the source, but he worked around it on the fly and rewove the spell before it could come unravelled.</p><p></p><p>The scroll crumpled to dust in his hands as the spell took hold.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Saelus kept a wary eye on the elemental's enormous fist as he worked the somatic components for his <em>Sandstorm</em> spell. The threads of magic began to come apart in his mind, but he held them fast and released the magic more or less at the elemental's feet. A raging storm of dirt and grit sprang up around the monolith of stone, completely blocking from view its body from the waist down.</p><p></p><p>The elemental's fist came down on Noxin with the force of a landslide and passed harmlessly through the half-giant's <em>Gaseous Form</em>. The wisps of barbarian parted around the stony fist and reformed in its wake. He grinned a misty grin.</p><p></p><p>"Wow! This is pretty cool," he said and looked down at Saelus. The wizard was hiding at the edge of his magical <em>Sandstorm</em>, hidden for the moment from the elemental. "HEY, SAELUS!" he called, and when the wizard gave no indication that he'd heard him, the half-giant realized that he wasn't actually speaking... which sort of made sense given that his mouth was made of fog or something. He shrugged his gaseous shoulders and looked around. "Well, I guess I can't talk," he thought to himself. insubstantial lips moving out of habit. "Okay... Well... Up seems to be the way to go... UP!"</p><p></p><p>And with that thought he <em>Levitated</em> toward the island.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Shamalin tried to focus on the miracles she'd prayed for that morning and found that she could not. Her mind was reeling from the damage the unrestrained magic had done to her and she could not concentrate enough to cast even an orison. Knowing that her spells were beyond her, she struggled for a moment to push back a rising panic, considering all the while how, not long ago, this would have been a welcome end. The irony of meeting her death at the hands of a Goddess of Good, considering Shamalin's past, was not lost upon her even in her befuddled state. But there was a small task that yet needed to be finished.</p><p></p><p>Shamalin began praying, a desperate appeal to Flor... and Umba... and Shaharizod... and Brogine... and anyone else she could think of. She pleaded on behalf of all those who had sufferred and fallen on the journey to this point - a cry for divine intervention... to make Dridana see the reason behind their purpose here.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Hearing the barely intelligible litany of prayer coming from the Mercybringer's lips, Morier thought that she had somehow been driven mad by the magical backlash he had seen her suffer. He was about to go to her aid when a rope dropped down in front of him.</p><p></p><p>"Come on Morier!" Huzair's voice called down from above. The albino looked up and saw that the rope ended in mid-air 15 or so feet above his head. The wizard's voice was calling from somewhere above that point. "The fate of the world lies with us. Grab the rope! Let us go save the world!"</p><p></p><p>Happily and without reservation of any sort, Morier grabbed the rope and felt an ineffectual tug on it.</p><p></p><p>"You are going to need to use the <em>Levitation Dust</em> I gave you!" Huzair's annoyed voice told him. "I do not know how someone so small can be so damned heavy!"</p><p></p><p>Morier concentrated with all his might, managing to <em>Levitate</em> off the ground and was immediately pulled toward the floating island by Huzair's tether.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Saelus backed away from the <em>Sandstorm</em> as quickly as he dared. The elemental was still visible from the waist up, which left its two enormous fists free to crush him like an insect. It didn't do so, however. Instead it raised those fists and emitted a thunderous sound like stone breaking against stone. A web of cracks rose up its body from some point inside the <em>Sandstorm</em> and then it fell apart. Slabs of rock ground away from its torso, amid a torrent of raw earth and gravel. With a ground-jarring thud it dropped into the whirling cloud of sand and vanished.</p><p></p><p>Mouthing a prayer of thanks for his good fortune, Saelus concentrated on the <em>Levitation</em> spell active upon him and rose upward.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Huzair quaffed a <em>Potion of Cure Light Wounds</em>... his last such elixir... and felt a moment's reprieve from the greenery splitting his wounds open from the inside. The sense of relief passed quickly however and then he could feel the plants working their terrible work again.</p><p></p><p>Dangling below the <em>Invisible</em> wizard, Morier did not have even that much respite and he winced as the tendrils of green sprouting from his forehead forced their way down over his eye to brush against his cheek, threatening to block his sight. He shook his head, parting the vines and allowing him to see clearly.</p><p></p><p>He regretted it almost at once.</p><p></p><p>He could see Saelus floating slowly upward, thirty feet or so above the ground and at least twice that from the bottom of the floating island above. Noxin was harder to spot, but their was a humanoid-shaped cloud of fog three quarter's of the way to the island that seemed of the proper bulk to be the half-giant. Below them the <em>Sandstorm</em> churned, and rising from the center of it was a vast misty shape that Morier immediately recognized.</p><p></p><p>"Air elemental!" he called up to Huzair.</p><p></p><p>"Crap!" the wizard called back.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>"Most holy Dridana, goddess of nature... do not fear us," Shamalin prayed aloud. "We've come to rescue you from your prison tomb. Hear me!"</p><p></p><p>She did. And she came.</p><p></p><p>The glowing smoky face materialized before the cleric, eyes glowing with divine agony and madness. The Mercybringer looked into those eyes and was immediately struck blind, sap exploding from empty sockets that had once held eyes. The demiurge opened its mouth and spoke a word. Shamalin stiffened and fell to the ground, dead.</p><p></p><p>A gore-slicked creature of wood and leaf, vaguely humanoid in shape, tore itself from the half-elf's corpse, adding its own cries of torment to those of the demiurge.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Jon Potter, post: 4541118, member: 2323"] [b][PLAIN][Realms #459] Up, Up and Away![/PLAIN][/b] "Ow..." Noxin grimaced, spitting blood. There was a cut along the side of the half-giant's jaw, Saelus saw, and from it were sprouting verdent, leafy tendrils. The wizard jerked back his own leg from beneath the big man and saw that fingers of green were poking through a hole torn in his polished boot by the flying barbarian. He quickly looked back up at the elemental and saw its fist going up, up, up... 80 feet in the air at least. "Saelus, don't leave my side," Noxin suggested, brandishing Cloudblade. "I am going to fog up the surroundings and give us some cover!" The wizard held up his hand and shook his head. "My [i]Sandstorm[/i] will be much better in laying cover," Saelus told the barbarian. "Cast your spell then!!" Noxin replied and assumed [i]Gaseous Form[/i]. Smiling a smile through gritted teeth, the wizard said, "I was about to." "Flor have mercy!" Shamalin cried out and targeted herself with a [i]Dispel Magic[/i]. Even as she cast it, however, she felt the magic going wrong. The power in this place - Dridana's power - was overwhelming. It filled every bit of the demiplane, warping the effects of magic, and wrestling it away from the cleric like a bully taking a baby's toy. The delicate matrix of the [i]Dispel Magic[/i] exploded in Shamalin's head, sending waves of unrestrained magic pulsing through her body. She screamed and staggered to the side, her mind an unfocused, buzzing, snarl. "Shamalin!" Morier cried out as the Mercybringer convulsed. Huzair gritted his teeth and looked up at the island above. "I am going up!" he announced. "This is a distraction." He activated the [i]Ring of Invisibility[/i] and drew forth his [i]Scroll of Fly[/i]. "[i]Vola![/i]" he intoned. As Shamalin had, he felt the hands of Dridana trying to undo his magic at the source, but he worked around it on the fly and rewove the spell before it could come unravelled. The scroll crumpled to dust in his hands as the spell took hold. Saelus kept a wary eye on the elemental's enormous fist as he worked the somatic components for his [i]Sandstorm[/i] spell. The threads of magic began to come apart in his mind, but he held them fast and released the magic more or less at the elemental's feet. A raging storm of dirt and grit sprang up around the monolith of stone, completely blocking from view its body from the waist down. The elemental's fist came down on Noxin with the force of a landslide and passed harmlessly through the half-giant's [i]Gaseous Form[/i]. The wisps of barbarian parted around the stony fist and reformed in its wake. He grinned a misty grin. "Wow! This is pretty cool," he said and looked down at Saelus. The wizard was hiding at the edge of his magical [i]Sandstorm[/i], hidden for the moment from the elemental. "HEY, SAELUS!" he called, and when the wizard gave no indication that he'd heard him, the half-giant realized that he wasn't actually speaking... which sort of made sense given that his mouth was made of fog or something. He shrugged his gaseous shoulders and looked around. "Well, I guess I can't talk," he thought to himself. insubstantial lips moving out of habit. "Okay... Well... Up seems to be the way to go... UP!" And with that thought he [i]Levitated[/i] toward the island. Shamalin tried to focus on the miracles she'd prayed for that morning and found that she could not. Her mind was reeling from the damage the unrestrained magic had done to her and she could not concentrate enough to cast even an orison. Knowing that her spells were beyond her, she struggled for a moment to push back a rising panic, considering all the while how, not long ago, this would have been a welcome end. The irony of meeting her death at the hands of a Goddess of Good, considering Shamalin's past, was not lost upon her even in her befuddled state. But there was a small task that yet needed to be finished. Shamalin began praying, a desperate appeal to Flor... and Umba... and Shaharizod... and Brogine... and anyone else she could think of. She pleaded on behalf of all those who had sufferred and fallen on the journey to this point - a cry for divine intervention... to make Dridana see the reason behind their purpose here. Hearing the barely intelligible litany of prayer coming from the Mercybringer's lips, Morier thought that she had somehow been driven mad by the magical backlash he had seen her suffer. He was about to go to her aid when a rope dropped down in front of him. "Come on Morier!" Huzair's voice called down from above. The albino looked up and saw that the rope ended in mid-air 15 or so feet above his head. The wizard's voice was calling from somewhere above that point. "The fate of the world lies with us. Grab the rope! Let us go save the world!" Happily and without reservation of any sort, Morier grabbed the rope and felt an ineffectual tug on it. "You are going to need to use the [i]Levitation Dust[/i] I gave you!" Huzair's annoyed voice told him. "I do not know how someone so small can be so damned heavy!" Morier concentrated with all his might, managing to [i]Levitate[/i] off the ground and was immediately pulled toward the floating island by Huzair's tether. Saelus backed away from the [i]Sandstorm[/i] as quickly as he dared. The elemental was still visible from the waist up, which left its two enormous fists free to crush him like an insect. It didn't do so, however. Instead it raised those fists and emitted a thunderous sound like stone breaking against stone. A web of cracks rose up its body from some point inside the [i]Sandstorm[/i] and then it fell apart. Slabs of rock ground away from its torso, amid a torrent of raw earth and gravel. With a ground-jarring thud it dropped into the whirling cloud of sand and vanished. Mouthing a prayer of thanks for his good fortune, Saelus concentrated on the [i]Levitation[/i] spell active upon him and rose upward. Huzair quaffed a [i]Potion of Cure Light Wounds[/i]... his last such elixir... and felt a moment's reprieve from the greenery splitting his wounds open from the inside. The sense of relief passed quickly however and then he could feel the plants working their terrible work again. Dangling below the [i]Invisible[/i] wizard, Morier did not have even that much respite and he winced as the tendrils of green sprouting from his forehead forced their way down over his eye to brush against his cheek, threatening to block his sight. He shook his head, parting the vines and allowing him to see clearly. He regretted it almost at once. He could see Saelus floating slowly upward, thirty feet or so above the ground and at least twice that from the bottom of the floating island above. Noxin was harder to spot, but their was a humanoid-shaped cloud of fog three quarter's of the way to the island that seemed of the proper bulk to be the half-giant. Below them the [i]Sandstorm[/i] churned, and rising from the center of it was a vast misty shape that Morier immediately recognized. "Air elemental!" he called up to Huzair. "Crap!" the wizard called back. "Most holy Dridana, goddess of nature... do not fear us," Shamalin prayed aloud. "We've come to rescue you from your prison tomb. Hear me!" She did. And she came. The glowing smoky face materialized before the cleric, eyes glowing with divine agony and madness. The Mercybringer looked into those eyes and was immediately struck blind, sap exploding from empty sockets that had once held eyes. The demiurge opened its mouth and spoke a word. Shamalin stiffened and fell to the ground, dead. A gore-slicked creature of wood and leaf, vaguely humanoid in shape, tore itself from the half-elf's corpse, adding its own cries of torment to those of the demiurge. [/QUOTE]
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