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Message: <blockquote data-quote="MadAzolin" data-source="post: 6228451" data-attributes="member: 6747396">After moment of silence, earth rumbles and fetid water spray up from cracks in the ground. With sound like breaking bones and dying men, thing rises from the ground, surrounded by cloud of foul mist and stench of hundred rotting corpses. It surfaces just beside Martelai and utters low roar:[sblock="thing from below"]Size of an elephant, horrific half-mummified thing is mostly resembling massive deformed head. Monstrous combination of bestial and humanoid features is dominated by enormous maw that drips bile and rot and leaks fetid mist. As the maw opens, smaller maws are visible inside it, yawning between rows of jagged teeth size of shortswords. Monster's maw is surrounded by circle of gauged eyes crying tears of blood and decay and vine-like appendages many feet long erupt from its mummified flesh, whipping air like hungry snakes. While it is uncertain how much of the horror is still buried beneath the surface, more snake-like things of decaying vines and mummified flesh erupting around the clearing are probably connected to the beast.Erupting from the soft earth with unnatural ease, horror drools, roars and cries as it whips its snake-like appendages and grinds teeth of its maws...[/sblock]With muffled roar sounding halfway between fury and pain, thing opens its segmented maw. Rotting appendages composed of decaying vines and crunched bones whip around it, sniffing the air as if they are things with life (or unlife) of their own. Moment later they whip toward Cyr, Martelai and Kane.[sblock="action"]  Attack (vines): Martelai: 36 vs AC, hit; Cyr: 36 vs AC: hit;   Martelai: 8 damage (-2 from protective aura), total 6; Martelai is grabbed  Cyr: 12 damage (12 total, Cyr is outside the aura); Cyr is grabbed[/sblock]Hissing vine-like things coil around Cyr and Martelai, jagged shards of bone and venomous thorns trying to bleed and squeeze life from them, while pulling them toward monster's gaping maw. Third of whipping things fails to reach Kane and retracts back to monster's deformed body. While things' pull is not strong enough to move companions much closer, monstrosity snaps its gaping maw toward Martelai: [sblock="action"]  Attack (maw vs Martelai): 24 vs AC, hit: 35 damage (-2 from protective aura), total 33[/sblock]As jaws close around Martelai with bonecrunching snap, Monstrosity open another, smaller maw resembling deformed mouth rather then monstrous maw and utters single syllable in some foul, long forgotten tongue. Air around it hums and boils and blast of magical energy tears through the area; Disturbance that deforms vision and puff of darkened smoke leaps from monster's smaller mouth toward Lilli, detonating with barely a sound. Lilli flickers for a moment as if she is not totally here and while obviously unhurt, she remains well transparent, as if made from pale mist.[sblock="action"]  Attack (phasing blast vs Lilli): 30 vs Will: Lilli is phased (save ends): when phased, character is fully concealed and insubstantial to attacks done by subjects which are not phased. All healing done to him by characters who are not phased is reduced by half. All subjects who are not phased are fully concealed to him, suffer half damage from his attacks and gain only half healing from his powers.[/sblock]More fetid water splashes around the creature as several rotting tendrils of vine and mummified flesh erupt around the area; two of those are shimmering, half transparent things, two are fitted with jagged blades and one is thicker then the rest and especially thorny.[sblock="action"]  Five thorned vines surface in the area (bladed vines: N7, I17; Phasing vines: I8, S12; Thorned vine: E17)Note: phasing vines are phased: they are attacked at -5 by non-phased characters[/sblock]</blockquote>

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