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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Patlin" data-source="post: 3350831" data-attributes="member: 17264">Charlarn lifts the hammer high overhead, bringing it down on the large, dark gemstone with a thundering roar.  Goruksblain's cold iron hammerhead easilly pushes aside the energies warding the stone as Charlarn yells out for guidance from his god, and the impact is massive.  Time seems to slow as the gem shatters, and then suddenly you are all once more bathed in a milky white light.Once more, you see the vision of the sharks leaving the lake and walking across the land, but now you can see more clearly the effect of the shattering gemstone.  The sharks still in the lake begin to shrink and the corruption leaves them, they become nothing more than normal lake trout.  No further sharks leave the lake to walk on land.  Those that have made their way free of the lake, however, remain in their fearsome shape and continue their rampage, spreading chaos.The Ogre Mage appears in your vision.  You see him fall against you in battle, and as he dies you see the metaphorical webbing connecting him to the skeletal hand snap.  The stray piece of webbing returns to the Lich's web, but if the web is weaker from this strand's snapping it's not enough to notice.*** DARKNESS GATHERS! ***A flash of images, possible futures, storm through your mind.  Dragons burning villages, undead armies on the march, massive enchantments sowing chaos in the cities, strange orbs with many eyes reaking havoc as they throw energies in all direction.  An elf lord in some distant prison throws massive forces against the walls that entrap him, and they buckle but do not yet break.  Your consciousness receeds until you see all the known lands as if from a great distance, and shadows threaten to swallow the world.*** HEROES MUST RISE! ***Lights flicker amidst the darkness, and in some few places the shadows do not take hold.  Light rises, and pushes back against the darkness.  The outcome is very much in doubt.*** REWARD/OPPORTUNITY/DANGER ***You see the vision of a garden shrowded in silver mist.  In the center of the garden is an apple tree.  You see a hand reach out (your hand?) and pluck the apple from the tree, and you sense it contains great power, and that you are invited to eat it.  You sense the tree is far away on a strange road, and that whether you walk that road is entirely up to you.  There are many ways to fight the darkness, but with the apple you can be a stronger force for the light...The milky white light draws away from you, forming up into an oval gateway on the north side of the room, and everywhere else your perceptions return to normal.</blockquote>

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