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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Nephtys" data-source="post: 4014421" data-attributes="member: 31780">Aeryk, invisible and unmoving, readies himself for facing the monster's next attack while Mystic touches William's shoulder, releasing a spell of swiftness into the Greyguard. (What exactly does the spell do?). Ysande looks in horror at the broken body of her dear and faithful ally and friend lying almost at her feet,  then looks up at the barbed tentacle. "You will regret that. Whatever you are I will make you feel pain." But her tone, even trough her anger and sorrow, reveals her insecurity. She backs away, to be able to cast her spells from a safe distance when the tentacle waves lazily and slaps her hard on her face, sending her reeling, (aoo, -19 hp). She stumbles backwards, then steels herself once more, a wild look in her eyes and sings a spell in a voice beautiful despite its cold hatred. (Haste on everyone)William steps forwards, spinning his staff and landing two resounding blows on the stony limb, smiting it. Yet despite his powerful attack the hard material resists much of the impact, (enemy: -12hp, -10hp). He can sense its anger as it turns its attention to him.The rock of the tunnels wall roils like water when the guardian appears, surging out of the rock like a great underwater monstrosity, bubbling with claws and tentacles cruelly barbed. The massive tentacle that smote Kaj and Ysande sweeps towards William with impossible swiftness, yet he dodges the clumsy attack nimbly. But even his luck and skill isn't enough to avoid the next limb, or the one after that. One attack after the other the concentrated fury of the guardian beats down on William, before the final tentacle takes him in its grasp, squeezing. William, his handsome face unrecognizable under a mask of wounds and bruises, strains against the awesome strength of the monster and against all odds forces its grasp off him. (William: -9, -7, -12, -10, -26)ooc: Mystic recognizes the creature as an inferior copy of an ancient Duergar craft of constructs long thought forgotten. Those ancient constructs, and apparently this one, were crafted in the semblance of various deep-sea monsters and posessed many of the characteristics of earth elementals, including the ability of swimming trough solid rock. Posessed of great strength and speed as well as an inhuman intelligence they were nearly unstoppable engines of destrustion, some of them even posessing a great variety of special attacks and abilities, magical or alchemical in origin. Their ability to strike anywhere, nearly with impunity, made them one of the most feared and hated weapons of the ancient era.Init:BigCanthanEnemies beyond the gateAeryk MysticYsandeWilliamMonster</blockquote>

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