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Message: <blockquote data-quote="fireinthedust" data-source="post: 5547948" data-attributes="member: 51930">[ooc]Dang.  Foxglove really isn't coming!  Ooookay, that sucks.  Well, the show must carry on!  Anyone know someone who could fill in as a wizard PC?  I'll NPC Thaddeus for a while, then swap him out until/unless Aldern comes back to play him.[/ooc]Thorn waves her wand and is encased in shadows, disappearing with a large arm of the swarm inside with her.  The shadows seem to have no effect ont he swarm, who you may guess don't need light to see on the Astral Plane.  However, the magic of the shadows embrace protects the shadowdancer.Thaddeus casts his spell, just as the rest of you slice and hack and arch and smite.  Yet Thaddeus is affected by the power of the swarm, a power that even he seems to have never encountered before.  In a brief moment while most of the party is destroying tentacles or shattering skulls, Thaddeus used his incredible intellect to contact the swarm directly.  It's a hive-mind!  Controlled by some... giant mind.  The parts... less than the sum...  I can hold them, but you have to destroy... their great brain!With a super-nova of Quickened Spellcasting he lets loose with a fantastic bolt of energy to sear off several of the creatures attempting to grapple Thaven, then a curved wave of scintillating flames to burn all those about to descend upon Xanfire, and finally one spell to affect the swarm itself.  Space seems to warp in the Astral plane before Thaddeus' head.  It's as if space was a sheet and he was pulling something through.  An image made of thought-light is just visible in the miniscus of the warp, like a malignant brain of immense size.  Thaddeus reaches through with his grip as if to grab the mind on the other end, and seems to electrify it with his touch.  However, there is a backlash of energy, and everyone (Thaddeus, you, the Broken Eagles, the Swarm) are shocked through space in different directions.The hive mind of the swarm is stunned or dead.  Many of the creatures simply float there, either charred by Xanfire's Smite, or your weapons, or stunned by the effects of Thaddeus' spell.START OF THE NEXT ROUNDYou find yourself floating in space, surrounded by unmoving bodies of the swarm creatures.WHAT DO YOU DO?</blockquote>

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