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    Crimson Menagerie

    Crimson Menagerie: Act 3 The floor rushed up, becoming visible a mere moment before they would hit- splat and smear of blood and bone on the cold grimy stone. Elim brought his waiting will to bear, activating the minimal manifestation all of his people had. With a flash of blue light that...
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    Crimson Menagerie

    Crimson Menagerie: Act 3 Act 3 The Great Stair opened before them, a shaft at least a hundred feet in diameter and stretching below them into darkness and above them into darkness. The immediate area was lit, marginally, from dim sphere of magic floating near the walls and the wide...
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    Crimson Menagerie

    "Help us! Help!" They heard a cry and failed to recognize the voice, which could be either good or bad. "Someone, anyone- help us!" There was the sound of a great strike and the cry of a woman, and off went Adama, charging around the corner. "Damned goat!" Elim cursed and with a head motion...
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    Crimson Menagerie

    Crimson Menagerie: Act 2 "Hmp," Elim muttered, "Human-magic. We'll be walking into a trap, I'm sure of it." "You have something a-a-against Humans Elim?" Adama asked, a little dangerously. "Humans did this to us after all Adama," he gestured to the goat-man next to him. "I'll bet it was a...
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    Crimson Menagerie

    Crimson Menagerie: Act 2 In the end Thuzzar's cloth-clout, carefully turned inside out because of what he found in it, girded Elim's loins. Until he could bathe properly, he wished to have a covering that was at least slightly cleaner than he was. Kilmor remained simply furred, though with a...
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    Crimson Menagerie

    Crimson Menagerie: Act 2 "You cou-ou-ould be right," Adama stuttered out. He blinked in what appeared to be frustration and shook it off, his nostrils flaring. "I am Adama, of Cormyr. Where are you from?" "Pandemonium," Elim replied simply. It wasn't where he was most-recently from but it was...
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    Crimson Menagerie

    Crimson Menagerie: Act 2 "My name is Elim," he said as he nodded, a type of formal bow. He held the crossbow ready, reloaded already, the case of bolts hanging on a belt at his side. Like the rest he was naked and had been for some time, modesty had been burned away a long time ago. He took...
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    Crimson Menagerie

    Crimson Menagerie: Act 1 Kilmor and Elim heard the humming song not consciously but their limbs felt renewed and their hearts gladdened, though they knew not why. Elim drew up and turned his head to that his white pupiless eyes stared straight into Donni's, speaking with his most horrible...
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    Crimson Menagerie

    Crimson Menagerie: Act 1 Ignoring the scratch for now, he still marked the human and kept a wary eye on the sword. Still, the Gnoll was standing which was in itself rather remarkable. He had to do something about that. Against he launched into a blinding series of blows, dropping the Gnoll...
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    Crimson Menagerie

    Crimson Menagerie: Act 1 Elim danced back from Donni and tried to fire the corssbow, the telling 'click' of the safety sounding loud to him. Donni, on the other hand, had heard it over the din and turned to attack. The slashing attacks with his sword found not a scratch on the humanoid, for his...
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    Crimson Menagerie

    Crimson Menagerie: Act 1 Donnil realized something was amiss as he heard Thuzzar react to the attack from Adama and yet, he was uanble to move. Things were happening too fast, they were under attack by the beasts. And that meant- ********** Elim crept around the corner of his enclosure and...
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    Crimson Menagerie

    Crimson Menagerie: Act 1 Adama looked up at the sound, feeling something strange wash over him. Or rather, he felt like a heavy weight had been lifted. ********** S'lanneneth crouched and began to hum to himself quietly, understanding immediately that something strange had happened to the...
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    Crimson Menagerie

    Crimson Menagerie: Act 1 Thuzzar, Donnil and Gurnar strode down the corridor laughing, discussing the sport they were about to have. The Gnolls laughter, a hyena's counterpointing cries, echoed through the long corridor as the token-stone the Master had given him led them to their intended...
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    Crimson Menagerie

    Crimson Menagerie: Act 1 Adama moved through the postures of war, practicing with an imaginary sword only he could see, his awkward legs bent to give him space and to keep them strong. This work kept him focussed, kept him strong, it gave him purpose so one day- oh yes, one day.... Dimly he...
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    Crimson Menagerie

    Crimson Menagerie: Act 1 Kilmor sat where he had sat for the last day. He had been placed against three ogres and had won, killing the others. But it had come at a cost. They'd been armed and he had not. They had managed to tag him a few times before they fell. He smiled and flicked his ears...
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    Crimson Menagerie

    Crimson Menagerie: Act 1 S'lanneneth dragged his feet, resisting the enchantments that held all of them fast in obedience and allowed them to do whatever they wanted. He sighed slightly, not even able to sigh heavily for the enchantment kept him from being disrespectful even by himself. His...
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    Crimson Menagerie

    Opening Act ~A day, or night, like any other~ he considered as he lay, seemingly asleep, motionless except for faint breathing as his body did it's work. He lay where he had been tossed, the bruises and cuts of the combat mending as his supernatural constitution worked its magic knitting him...
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    Creature Fest: Who's up for playing a critter?

    The Crimson Menagerie Setting: Forgotten Realms, Plateau of Thay. Mirrisun Bloodtwist's Menagerie. Premise: Mirrisun Bloodtwist, an up and coming Tharchon and Warper, has for many decades held a small citadel in which he nurtures his own plots, his own amusements and his own menagerie...
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