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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Calinon" data-source="post: 1438266" data-attributes="member: 13737">Under the FreewayRaisa charges up the ramp with Kevin shortly behind.  She makes it about half way when, with a rumble, the walls collapse.  Kevin turns and flees back down ahead of the collapsing walls, but Raisa is trapped, buried alive in gravel, dirt and mud!  Dust and moisture fill the air in the sewer, making it hard to see or breathe. Reflex saves Raisa 19 (fail), Kevin 20 (success) RaisaYou quickly realize that perhaps this wasn't the best course of action.  The weight pushing down on you isn't too painful, but your arms and legs are pinned and you can barely move.  If it was solid, you'd have no trouble getting out, but the loose composition of the soul and gravel make it impossible to get good purchase.  Still, there is the ramp at your feet.  You move terribly slowly, maybe a foot a second, and realize there are at least forty feet between you and the street. And you can't breathe. You start to panic and lose your bearings quickly.  You are about to lose consciousness when you feel a rumbling, and something clamps down over your back, yanking you upward.  You find yourself vomiting dirt, then gasping in breath as sunlight filters down from above.  You open your eyes and find yourself face to snout with the Mole, one of his massive clawed hands clamped about your body.  You are dangling some 25 feet from the ground. "Are you stupid?" he growls, giving you a shake.  "You could have been killed," he growls again, shaking you once more.  "I have done my best to keep you and your companions from serious harm; a small price to pay for the continued services of Anithos.  But you seriously *shakes Raisa* try *shakes Raisa* my *shakes Raisa* patience!"  He shakes you again, and you are beginning to feel like a rag doll. "Come on, Mole," a smooth voice says beneath you.  "She's exhausted and if you keep shaking her she'll come right apart.  Just let her down and lets get away.  She's in no condition to follow anyway." The Mole grumbles, gives Raisa one more shake and sets her down next to the wall of a building.  As he does so, Raisa sees Anithos standing there.  "Just sit down here," Anithos says, guiding Raisa to a sitting position.  He puts a bottle of water in your hand.  "Wash out your eyes with this.  And then get back to your friends.  I'm afraid you've lost this round, and if you insist on angering my boss, I doubt I can keep convincing him to not hurt you."  He runs his hand through the tangle of your hair, and all the dust and dirt falls out, returning it to its natural shining glory.  He gets up, smiling at you.  "See you later, Amazon princess," then turns and heads for the final truck. "Small price, huh?" he says to the Mole, who is shrinking down and hopping in the truck as well. "You have no idea," the Mole grumbles.  "What of your other selves?" "Oh, they're working on getting away from that remarkable woman with the magnetic control and her insect controlling friend." The trucks speed off. Raisa, you are exhausted, half-blinded and have just taken 6 stun damage from the shaking and 1 lethal from the cave in.  You are no longer slowed or suffocating. MichelleAnithos laughs.  A gentle laugh like soft music. "Oh, I'm pretty sure EPIC would love to get their hands on me.  Merlin would flay me alive if he could," he says warningly.  "I try to be heroic and kind, and keep people safe from the harm my companions could inflict, but it is not something Merlin and the others appreciate.  I fear Merlin's handling of me would be far more dire than that of M-Tac.  He truly does not und...." He pauses a moment, and his eyes glow white.  So does his counterparts.  He smiles in relief.  "Your Amazon friend is quite brave.  She was nearly killed by a cave in after being warned back.  I convinced the Mole to pull her to safety.  She's battered, but resting in a nearby alley." Tara lets out an excited squeak.  You glance over and see the gathered roaches making a pyramid out of themselves.  It is rather remarkable.  "I can really control them!" she says excitedly, then spins and wraps her arms around the Anithos behind her. "Oof," he says, stroking her hair.  "Of course you can.  You always could.  I just gave you the control to do it easily."  Her wings thrum on and off. "I cannot allow myself to be captured," he says, smiling appologetically at you.  "I'm going to leave.  Stop me if you must, but I will not be placed in prison willingly.  I am sorry to put you in such a position," he adds sorrowfully, bringing your hand to his mouth and kissing it once before letting it go and retreating back the way you came, walking backwards.  His counterpart gently pries himself free of Tara's grasp, kissing her briefly on her lips, and joins his other self.  Both of him pause, smile at you, shimmer slightly, and continue to move back. "Nooo, don't go," Tara whispers.  "We can... we can let you get away!  Michelle can open that door, really she can!"  Tara grabs your arm.  "You can do it.  We'll just say... we got lost and nobody has to know," she says to Michelle pleaeingly, on the verge of tears.</blockquote>

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