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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Grendel_Khan" data-source="post: 9531543" data-attributes="member: 7028554">LIEF hurtles down the crumbling stairs, absently touching the sun-shaped scar on his forehead. Pelor's symbol isn't raw or painful—it's smooth and old, like his skin was embossed with the mark of the lord of sun, summer, and harvest years ago. Maybe it was? Lief doesn't remember. Time isn't what it used to be for him.As he leaps, ducks, and rolls, through the wave-buffeted tower, he glances at Starn beside him and sees him decades from now, in his dotage, surrounded by books, Rooter snuffling at embers in the study's fireplace like a pig hunting for truffles. Nimozoran is nowhere to be found—dead, Lief hopes, for the mad wizard's own sake, but well remembered, having finally given Starn what he needed.Vorn is just behind them in the staircase, having waited to cover their escape with another arrow at an Acamarspawn. Lief sees the accomplished killer years from now, in a near-pitch-black alley, loosing pairs of arrows at once at the small army of pitiless thugs tumbling toward him. He's giving a group of boys, escapees from the syndicate, time to flee. Vorn probably won't make it, but they will.Then sees another future: Starn imploding in midair as he's sucked into Acamar's wrenching Orbit. Vorn twisted like a toy during a tantrum, coming apart in pieces. And his own feet lifting off the stairs, his sense slowing, then smearing, as Acamar's event horizon holds him for what will feel like years of time-collapsed suspension before his mind and body compress and stretch into the infinite maw of the Corpse Star.This last possibility Lief dismisses—his steps are sure, and blessed by Pelor Himself. The walls are splitting, gravity is contorting, the frantic escape a fate-looped bookend of the first time he met Starn, and the falling tower they escaped together. Lief will live, he believes. Will his friends?-----------------------------Acrobatics r(18)+18 = 36 vs. Group check DC 18. That's one success for Lief, one failure for Starn. What's going to happen with Vorn?!-----------------------------</blockquote>

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