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Message: <blockquote data-quote="the Jester" data-source="post: 557263" data-attributes="member: 1210">To The Hive!The creature is a lot like a frog, but pinkish-white, humanoid and 6’ tall.  As it dances through the brush it’s breaking things- in an artful way.  “Lululululululu!” it yells.It stops when it sees them and starts making funny faces.  “Blah!” it cries.Sybele looks at it and smiles.  So does Lester.  The various members of the group have all encountered things somewhat like this before, and they all recognize it as some sort of slaad- an agent of Chaos from the plane of Limbo.  “Hello there!” says the L.“Hello,” the things responds, sticking its tongue out and pulling at its cheeks with its hands.“Uh- what are you doing here?” asks Sheva.“Watching the formians,” says the slaad with great gravity, picking up and breaking a stick.  “The formians!” exclaims Zeebo.  “Then you know where they are?  Will you show us?”The creature nods and whoops, then spins in a circle and ululates again.  “Sure I’ll show you!  My name is Jibber!”Sheva asks, “Have you seen a woman, scarred by fire?”  She is, after all, trying to find this Reth Fire-Scarred person.  The slaad stops and looks at her, its eyes bulging out.  It makes a face at her, deeply furrowing its brow.  “Yes.  She came and left.”“Came and left!” Sheva exclaims.  “Where’d she go?”The slaad stops, looks thoughtful for a moment, scratching its chin with a long white finger.  It opens its mouth as if to speak, then shakes its head and closes its mouth.  Then it raises a finger, widens its eyes, and acts as if about to speak again, but stops abruptly and shakes its head forlornly.  It looks to be pondering again, then finally says, “Nope, I wasn’t paying attention.”A disappointed Sheva grits her teeth.  Lester says, “So show us to the formians then.”“This way!” the creature cries, and ululates again.  It bounds away into the forest and leads the party to an area sharply demarcated by a lack of vegetation.  There is no cover for the last 60’ around the hive, and the hive itself is quite large.  There are walls surrounding the place, made of chewed up wood pulp, and there are towers thrusting up into the sky with bugs keeping watch.  It’s clear that the party has been spotted.  Only seconds from when our heroes reach the tree line, dozens of formians are pouring out of the towers, and the battle is joined.  Some sort of strange diabolic wasp things lift off from somewhere within the walls’ confines.  The formians are pouring over the walls and Sybele can hear something whinny from within the walls... something that smells of brimstone.Next installment: We'll see the beginning of a furious battle with formians and their allies, including a death knight!  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin    :D"  data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" /></blockquote>

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