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Message: <blockquote data-quote="AbdulAlhazred" data-source="post: 9531089" data-attributes="member: 82106">As the tower shudders and begins to crack, Starn reaches into the, now dissipating, Vortex surrounding Nimozaran and the cyber-pig. Feeling his way, he rapidly withdraws Rooter's magical core memory crystal, another body can always be built! Unfortunately, he'll have to bring all of Nimozaran, as humans are not nearly so easy to reconstitute! He yanks Nimozaran down off the launcher's pintel and over his back, ditching his own pack in the process. Starn turns his attention to the question of escape, as Lief appears next to him, having emerged from somewhere in the chaos, and hands him a flask. Starn glances at it and recognizes it, Spectral Form! Knowing the effects are fleeting he nods and starts towards the exit, at which point he sees it plainly for the first time, the Orbit of Acamar. Dread enters Starn's mind as he sees the symbols dancing around the room. This is what Acamar planned for! An entity beyond time, beyond mortal comprehension, an order of intellect as far beyond Starn as he is beyond an ant. Nenglamir was wise! "Flee! We may already be too late! Flee or be worse than destroyed!"Burdened as he his Starn leaps ahead, bounding down the first turn of the stair, just as another giant blow sheers off the top of the tower above them, and the stair ahead plummets upward into the abyss of the unfolding Orbit. Turning to his left, Starn quaffs the potion lief gave him and steps off the stair, aiming to cross the central shaft to a point below where the stonework still miraculously stands. As he crosses, half in some other time and space, he can see the very fabric of reality around him is fraying. Strange angles jut around him, and suddenly Starn is not sure if he's moving towards the tower exit, or deeper into some terrible alternate reality! Group Acrobatics check, +4 (level) +3 Potion, roll(2) = 9 vs DC18, failure! Starn fails his part of the group check!</blockquote>

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