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Message: <blockquote data-quote="talien" data-source="post: 4684886" data-attributes="member: 3285">And Madness Followed: Part 3b – Sweet SavonaThe bulbous head of what might have been a jellyfish crested the waters.  A huge sac, rippling and throbbing and flecked with light, moved squid-like, pulling itself through the air by long, groping tentacles that sawed on the wind.  “Run!” shouted Kham. “But—“ Sebastian didn’t finish as Kham turned him and shoved hard.“RUN!”Beldin turned to face it.  Tentacles lifted him like a rag doll and tossed him through the air, smashing him into seats in the audience.  Sebastian ran.  They ran right through the small doorway, out of the alleyway.  The thing blasted through the wall, floating without any means to support itself.  It drifted forward, smashing aside buildings as if they were irritating scrub.Kham turned and fired two pistols at it, but they did nothing.  He slipped in the waters that had spilled out into the street.  The thing loomed, pulsing with a sickly green color, its translucent tentacles reaching for him…The water that was flowing around Kham suddenly reversed.  It streamed past him, a reverse waterfall sloshing its way back towards the Legion Playhouse.  “The portal!” shouted Sebastian, somewhere behind him.  “It’s reversing!”The thing dug its tentacles into the earth.  Great mounds of cobblestone exploded as it anchored itself.  It was not leaving without a fight.“Skiz!” shouted Kham.  “Pistols!”Two pistols shoved their way out of Kham’s satchel.  He pulled them out and aimed at each one of the tentacles.“Say hi to the King for me!” Both pistols discharged.  The severed tentacles twitched wildly as ichor sprayed from the stumps.  The sac-like thing was yanked back with a force that even it could not resist.  It was dragged back through the alley, back to the stage, and back to the portal that had formed from Anulee’s mask.  With a slurping pop, the entire thing was sucked back to whence it came, water and all.Beldin came limping up the stage as Sebastian and Kham, caked with mud and blood, made their way back into the Legion Theatre. “What the hell was that?” asked Beldin.“You don’t want to know,” said Kham.</blockquote>

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