Jeremy
Explorer
Speed Demons
"Shhhhh.. You hear that?" Tylette asked. One of the things that her meditations and far reaching senses had brought to her was a superhuman sense of hearing. Faintly in the distance she could hear scrapings, and the clanking of heavy chains, hard impacts and shiftings of stone. "What is that?" She asked.
Frederick shrugged, but being invisible the effect was lost. Over the mindlink he said, "Back up, this might get messy." Concentrating on the staff Frederick began turning the now granite-filled cavern in maleable mud. When he was finished he began concentrating on the softened earth through the staff. I washed away from him in waves and Tylette mentioned she thought she heard screams.
When the way before them was finally reopened they saw much of the excavation gear that had originally been being used to keep the collapsing entrance of Terraj's Breath open. Well, they saw some of it anyways. Most of it was buried in mud with the odd booted or clawed foot sticking out here and there. But Collin and company did not stop to investigate, in a blast of wind from the chimes, their air walking, invisible forms were blown past the confused scene and up the massive central column of Terraj's Breath.
All the way up they saw giaks and gourgaz lazing about, whereas before the cavern had rung with the sounds of metal upon metal and wood and muck, now only the gutteral grunts of the giaks filled the air. They sat about on now stone steps encircling the massive hollow column, they sat in mined caves dug straight into the walls of the earth, they sat on mining gear, scaffoldings, and supports. They sat confused and inactive.
The huge gust of wind out of Terraj's Breath didn't seem to help their confusion as many jumped up terrified and looking around. But still, Collin's Illusion protected them from sight and they exited the huge cylinder without event. When they navigated the last few twists and turns and emerged stunned into daylight it took them awhile to accustom themselves to the surface world once more.
When they finally could see, the images their eyes showed them brought them joy, triumph, startlement, confusion, and laughter.
Instead of emerging from a massive collapsing wound in the mud and muck, they had stepped out into the air aside a mighty mountain of titanic proportions. The immensity of it was astounding but the sounds of battle quickly drew all attention.
Far below the party, all up and down the slopes of the mountain were scattered giaks and gourgaz fighting with huge massive worms of immense size that burrowed through the earth and errupted in fountains of stone and dirt around the giaks' feet. Additionally there were several scorched craters where the charred remains of other giaks lay scattered in pieces. These were quite distant from the worm battles, much further up the mountain but they apparently had the same effect. Many dead giaks.
Freed from the confines of the earth and out in the open air with no twists or turns or ceilings or rock formations or even kraan riders, strangely enough, Collin let loose with the Wind Key and blasted them through air so fast it began to hurt. In almost no time at all the party stepped down from the air onto the deck of their tropical island and stood about staring at each other stunned as the the invisibility faded.
Still young and wide-eyed at the world it still amazed them what they were capable of sometimes. Out of Terraj's Breath from its deepest bowels in a little over an hour.
Then they rocketed through the water to arrive back in New Galdomond in less than ten minutes.
"Shhhhh.. You hear that?" Tylette asked. One of the things that her meditations and far reaching senses had brought to her was a superhuman sense of hearing. Faintly in the distance she could hear scrapings, and the clanking of heavy chains, hard impacts and shiftings of stone. "What is that?" She asked.
Frederick shrugged, but being invisible the effect was lost. Over the mindlink he said, "Back up, this might get messy." Concentrating on the staff Frederick began turning the now granite-filled cavern in maleable mud. When he was finished he began concentrating on the softened earth through the staff. I washed away from him in waves and Tylette mentioned she thought she heard screams.
When the way before them was finally reopened they saw much of the excavation gear that had originally been being used to keep the collapsing entrance of Terraj's Breath open. Well, they saw some of it anyways. Most of it was buried in mud with the odd booted or clawed foot sticking out here and there. But Collin and company did not stop to investigate, in a blast of wind from the chimes, their air walking, invisible forms were blown past the confused scene and up the massive central column of Terraj's Breath.
All the way up they saw giaks and gourgaz lazing about, whereas before the cavern had rung with the sounds of metal upon metal and wood and muck, now only the gutteral grunts of the giaks filled the air. They sat about on now stone steps encircling the massive hollow column, they sat in mined caves dug straight into the walls of the earth, they sat on mining gear, scaffoldings, and supports. They sat confused and inactive.
The huge gust of wind out of Terraj's Breath didn't seem to help their confusion as many jumped up terrified and looking around. But still, Collin's Illusion protected them from sight and they exited the huge cylinder without event. When they navigated the last few twists and turns and emerged stunned into daylight it took them awhile to accustom themselves to the surface world once more.
When they finally could see, the images their eyes showed them brought them joy, triumph, startlement, confusion, and laughter.
Instead of emerging from a massive collapsing wound in the mud and muck, they had stepped out into the air aside a mighty mountain of titanic proportions. The immensity of it was astounding but the sounds of battle quickly drew all attention.
Far below the party, all up and down the slopes of the mountain were scattered giaks and gourgaz fighting with huge massive worms of immense size that burrowed through the earth and errupted in fountains of stone and dirt around the giaks' feet. Additionally there were several scorched craters where the charred remains of other giaks lay scattered in pieces. These were quite distant from the worm battles, much further up the mountain but they apparently had the same effect. Many dead giaks.
Freed from the confines of the earth and out in the open air with no twists or turns or ceilings or rock formations or even kraan riders, strangely enough, Collin let loose with the Wind Key and blasted them through air so fast it began to hurt. In almost no time at all the party stepped down from the air onto the deck of their tropical island and stood about staring at each other stunned as the the invisibility faded.
Still young and wide-eyed at the world it still amazed them what they were capable of sometimes. Out of Terraj's Breath from its deepest bowels in a little over an hour.
Then they rocketed through the water to arrive back in New Galdomond in less than ten minutes.
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