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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Edena_of_Neith" data-source="post: 2034673" data-attributes="member: 2020">The Wrath of Lady ShadowConfronted by Eilistraee, Al'Akbar, Daoud, Azor'alq, and an attacking host, the Apparition is forced to flee.  When he does, his control over the elven spirits breaks, and they fade away, their wounds disappearing, their multilation undone, a look of peace coming over their faces.  Lolth does not appear.  As an Intermediate Power, she could not have been in the Sphere when it was sealed, as Kalanyr pointed out.  Kalanyr spoiled Lady Shadows' master plan!  (cries)  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />  Lady Shadow - safe in Doraaka - glares furiously at her scrying device, then shuts it off.  'Iuz curse them.  Someone's always helping those elves.  But Al'Akbar or no Al'Akbar, the traitors will pay for their crimes.  Sooner, rather than later!'  Lady Shadow withdraws the remaining Dark Drow to Doraaka, where they are protected by the power of Iuz from scrying.  The Dark Drow report many cities are burning, that the Dark Raids killed over one hundred thousand people, but that Al'Akbar and his allies are putting up strong defenses.  -  Lady Shadow smiles an evil smile.  'It is time to show Al'Akbar that we are not to be trifled with.'  A Sphere of Annihilation is moved covertly by magic into the center of Veluna City.  Now, normally a Sphere of Annihilation does not affect the atmosphere around it.  But a few well worded Wish spells quickly change THAT.  And, then the atmosphere starts being pulled into the Sphere.  As in glass breaking in a space station, at first - for a few seconds - there is nothing but a gentle breeze.  In a few more seconds, that gentle breeze becomes a super hurricane with winds of well over 200 miles per hour.  The hurricane rapidly expands outward, and in the space of minutes has enveloped all of Veluna City.  The people, buildings, and even the streets of Veluna, along with every last tree, bush, animal, and bird, are all flung kicking and screaming into the Sphere of Annihilation.  The hurricane expands rapidly into the surrounding countryside.  In a matter of a few days, Oerths' atmosphere would be gone in entirety, were it not stopped.  Meanwhile, the ground where Veluna City used to be, is sucked into the Sphere down to the bare bedrock.  Lady Shadow is sure that those meddling goody-goody demipowers will stop this before it sucks away Oerths' atmosphere.  Until then, she watches the show, laughing, giggling, and applauding as a hundred thousand people and all the glory and beauty of Veluna City is swept into oblivion.  The message comes:  The Dark Drow are here.  The Dark Drow are the rulers of this world.  Bow to the Dark Drow, or face our wrath.  With her surviving 1 Epic Army, 11 Elite Armies (half strength), and 8 Regular Armies (less than half strength) Lady Shadow awaits the response.  Of course, those silly Surface Dwellers will threaten and prance.  They will never see reason or logic.  That is why they will all have to die.  Along with the elves and all the traitors, of course.</blockquote>

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