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Message: <blockquote data-quote="the Jester" data-source="post: 871211" data-attributes="member: 1210">Lester Breaks His Geas (and suffers)Lester's reeling.  His head feels funny, his arm feels weak, and he has a cough.  He cast an earthquake when they dropped the Mayor off- and suffered for it.*Unseen, a certain alienist waits until our heroes are heading at full bore towards the fleet of Law, then summons up a horrible creature from far realms of madness.  He hits it with a quickened fly spell and then hangs back to watch the fun.The creature seemingly appears out of nowhere to attack the party, and none of them have seen its like before.  Overall, it's almost worm-like- but in a horrific fashion.  Two dead white human torsos meet in a single navel; instead of heads and arms, however, 4’ long orange tongues protrude from each torso’s upper section.  Unseen claws seem to rip at the sanity of our heroes, and before anyone can react each tongue pronounces a power word, leaving Lester blind and Sheva stunned.The L falls back.  Maybe I can at least mess up the fleet, he thinks, enthusiastically forgetting all about the divine geas laid upon him by Galador in exchange for finding the scroll he used to true resurrect Orbius.  He casts control winds and then suddenly cries out in horror, gibbering madly for a moment.**Almost a dozen tentacles flail out from the tongues of the monster of madness, springing forth as if from nowhere, battering Thrush and Sheva intensely.  Then its eye opens- the bellybutton right in the center looks like an old wound on the pupil- and everyone feels themselves jerk in the air.Then, shaking her head clear, Sheva strikes and lays a deadly series of blows to the monster with Chronovestis.  Thrush rallies and strikes it as well; and a series of attacks from the rest of the party leaves it open for one more blow from Sheva.  She splits it in two.Just then, Lester starts to shimmer as Orbius contacts him by trump.  "Ahh!" he cries out to Orbius, "I've gone stupid!"  At their request, he pulls Orbius and Zeebo back to the rest of the group.  In the heat of the moment, nobody questions Horbin's absence.  Most of the group pauses to collect itself for a moment, but Sheva and Angelfire race towards the Forinthian flagship.  In the larger sense, it is pretty close by.  It's also heading more or less towards the party; and with a tremendous Crack! it fires a sunpowder cannon at them.  A ball whizzes past.  Several of our heroes duck or flinch.  They can see Angelfire reach the ship (Sheva's gone invisible) and move in- the ship's deck is crowded with what looks like hundreds of elite troops, many obviously spell casters.  There's a roar from the ship as the melee begins."All right," Orbius cries, "up here we're just targets!  If we're attacking that ship, let's get there right now!  Gather around, I'll dimension door us in!"The group hurriedly clusters around the Eye, and in a flash the battle with the flagship gets messy.  *Poor Lester!  Breaking the divine geas drained six points of each ability score.  Ouch!  And yes, Galador interpeted it very strictly.**Boom!  Another six points.  Don't make God tell ya again.Next Time:  The battle at the Forinthian flagship!</blockquote>

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