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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Shayuri" data-source="post: 3829642" data-attributes="member: 4936">Shard reels, her composure slipping when, for the first time, she feels actual pain * from the creature's attacks. Now they rise over her like towers of tainted flesh...beaks and claws poised to strike her down. Even the ice sculpture that had been a third is little consolation.She opens her mouth, and the gem on her forehead flashes just as she starts to scream, "N..."There's another flash from a point to the west...just over ten yards away. Shard reappears, her interrupted cry resuming without pause. "...OOOO!"For a moment she looks around, as if not sure where she is, then looks at her hands. When she looks back at the demons, her chin lifts defiantly."You can endure fire and ice...if not without scar. I'm through playing with you though."She places her hands palm to palm over her heart...and her skin, already pale, starts to glow softly, with an inner light. In seconds, that light has swelled to where she's hard to look at, even in daylight. A rushing sound like wind surrounds her, whipping the sand at her feet into a dancing circle.For those watching, the moment has some of the same feeling as watching a bird emerge from an egg. The wonder of birth and rebirth. It looks as if she's about to shed her skin and become something else...something wonderful... The sound of wind changes, becomes more like a chorus, ethereal voices in harmony rising...And then it all goes wrong. Her expression changes from one of righteous fury and triumph to one of pain. The chorus becomes discordant, and fades. The light building up inside her suddenly seems to find release prematurely...it gushes out in a torrent,' a river of the purest, whitest brightest radiance imaginable, engulfing the two demons as it goes.And then it's over. Shard stands there with a stricken expression...the face of someone who has experienced a terrible and heart-destroying loss. Someone who has stood at the gates of paradise...only to have it snatched away at the last moment. Except for the clear stone in her forehead, she seems so young...so vulnerable...it's impossible to equate her with the woman who had brought storms of ice and fire against three demons without flinching.The sand where the light had hit is bleached white...or if not bleached, then scrubbed of all impurities...made clean. Where the light touched the unclean demonic flesh though, it had burned with all the wrath of heaven itself.* - Shard had been hit earlier, but casting Greater Heroism on herself means that she had 15 temp HP. Thus, this second strike was the first real damage she's taken.(Quickened Dimension Hop to H1 (quickened spells don't incur AoO). Then Celestial Lance! Using a 7th level slot to power it. Does 7d8 damage in a 60' line that includes both remaining vrock on her, Ref save DC 23 for half. Damage is untyped, but doesn't affect Good creatures. It's an Su ability that isn't subject to SR.)</blockquote>

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