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Message: <blockquote data-quote="MadAzolin" data-source="post: 6149983" data-attributes="member: 6747396">As ritual circle slowly picks up sickly glow shifting from shades of purple to deep green, visibility becomes poor, as if darkness is somehow getting thicker. Through this strange darkness, stars shine brightly, their colors vivid and sharp. Martelai's voice seems to be coming from the distance, as if very air dampens sound as well as light and you feel yourself becoming sluggish and tired... [sblock="Martelai"]Ritual is progressing well, you can sense the growing starlight and buildup of power within you, yet you know - the flesh is weak and one tiny wrong step, one touch pointed toward wrong thing might turn you into heap of ground meat... however maintaining proper concentration is easy, easier then you thought it would be and keeping yourself in proper alignment toward the stars, you reach out and peel off these false images of the world your imperfect eyes feed you...[/sblock]While visibility is not good enough for you to see each other, circle and starlight become more and more pronounced and you can hear Martelai's voice from the distance, echoing strangely as if followed by other voices: 'Power! More, I need MORE!'...Vermithrax, Lilly and Cyr focus arcane energy into the ritual circle and its glow gets stronger. [sblock="Martelai"]Attuning your mind to things as they are, you see the world turn into pale jelly surrounded by sphere of Stars. Each of them beckons you, but you know that but few will do... beckoning your thralls for more power, you greedily drink from their life-force and focus on the barriers around you, barriers that separate this puny island of calm from true reality...and find youself frustrated as you perceive barriers between you and truth - countless layers, each twice as powerful as one before it, each determined to stop you from opening the path and letting truth pour into the world of men, turning this world into paradise... [/sblock][sblock="Vermithrax, Lilly, Cyr, arcana rolls"]As you channel into the ritual, you can feel its hunger; it is almost as if some living things drinks hungrily from your energy, your life force and your mind. That strange, sickening glow becomes much stronger and you can see tiny crack opening in the center of the circle, smoking and seething boil in reality. Chorus of gibbering voices echoes in your ears and strange things swim over your field of vision, layers and layers of things... suddenly you realize you are being watched and feel ritual's demand for more but manage to break off your focus and world turns back to normal - if dampening darkness and unnerving whispering coming from Martelai can be called normal...[/sblock][sblock="Martelai"]Somehow you suddenly realize your task is different one... you are not trying to break the barriers, but the barrier... thin one between this world and Fey realms... shutting off beckons from beyond, you turn focus to pair of barriers, these reasonably thin... peeling off first one is trivial, but second one seems much hardier. You channel and blast it with all you can manage, but your power slides off... frustrated, you call for The Star, one that opens the way, that cracks the barriers...[/sblock]Martelai's voice seems to become more and more distant and time itself seems to slow down until shrill cry breaks the dampening darkness - "Allabar, open the way for me!". You can recognize Martelai's voice in the darkness, but there is more to it now, echoes of some distant, twisted Martelais following his voice. Sickly green glow from single star breaks the darkness, bathing everything in strange shadows and sparkling mist, mist in which men cast disturbing shadows, in which branches of trees slither like tentacles wrought of claws and teeth and world seems to spin. Standing in the middle of the circle, Martelai speaks words of power in tongues you have never heard before, glowing crack forming between his outstretched arms. Starlight is focused on him and seems to pierce his skin and flesh, leaving gaping wounds that bleed sludge and rot.[sblock="Martelai"]Allabar's light shines on you, piercing flesh and bone. There is no pain however and resisting urge to annihilate yourself, you manage to deflect its light into the barrier... [OOC] Martelai takes 26 damage [/OOC][/sblock]Urged by Martelai, Vermithrax, Lilly and Cyr focus another volley of magical energy into the growing rift...And reality around you shatters with sound of breaking glass, as if massive wall of glass just broke. You can feel splinters of something hit you, piercing trough armor, flesh and bone and biting into very soul... pain is overwhelming but lasts for but a moment before comforting darkness covers you as your senses are overwhelmed by backlash of raw magical power...[GM]... to be continued <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /> ... in meanwhile if anyone wants to try something, go ahead[/GM]</blockquote>

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