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Message: <blockquote data-quote="TerraDave" data-source="post: 6078055" data-attributes="member: 22260">Even as Nar’s magic and Buckthorns gunners rained down death on the last standing Badders and Hogers, and Forge seemed on the verge of taking over the Badder’s fire spitting tank…. …it emerged. <img src="http://pinktentacle.com/images/10/ultra_kaiju_8.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " data-size="" style="" />The Abomination! And it proceeded to devastate the remaining mutant infantry before turning its attention to the shooters, nicking at it with a wave of arrows, slugs, and psi-shots. Buckthorn decided to take on the knight’s bus that was still on the battlefield. It kept running him over. Forge was fighting in the cockpit of the tank and get getting shot by the badder sergeant. This left Nar to try to stop the Abomination! He managed to use one of his mutations to try and confuse it, and succeeded! It attacked him instead of the troops, so was something of a success. Buckthorn managed to break away from the bus and Forge seemed to finally take care of the badders. Then, in a chariot of his own, the Prophet emerges.One sleeth guard leaps onto the tank, soon followed by another. The fight for the vehicle is on again! The Prophet proceeds to wrack the minds of Kan’Ka and Buckthorn…and eventually reveals the truth to the Halfling, putting Buckthorn under his control. The abomination proceeds to decimate the shooters. <img src="http://images1.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20120722093709/ultra/images/thumb/7/7f/Garamoncolor.jpg/185px-Garamoncolor.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " data-size="" style="" />Soon, almost all the troops led into battle by Buckthorn and Forge are dead or down. Robot 1 struggles to keep the party members alive.However, the party finally gets reinforcements of their own. As the devastated survivors of their side watch on, a band of Orlens, bickering two headed giant-men emerge and start firing on the abomination.They have a hard time hitting it.<img src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-8IrYEPeoOAs/TslclENevOI/AAAAAAAAAUQ/SCojnJqcukg/s1600/orlens.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " data-size="" style="" />Even as Buckthorn fires on his own side, Tak Ha’Sssth does the same, inadvertently torturing his own warrior. The badder sergeant, playing dead, covertly pops the hatch in the bottom of the tank and escapes! But this allows Nar to join Forge and attack with his venomous spines. Soon the tank is firmly under their command and being driven into the abomination. Kan’Ka stands toe-to-toe with his former master, and Buckthorn finally shakes off his domination. The Orlens charge into melee! They drop the (many times hit) over-sized mutant!The Prophet makes his exit. Survivors cheer. The badder sergeant quickly emerges and surrenders to the Orlens “what have we done. What have we done.”The massive casualties make it a harsh victory. The 3 aliens hope to get help in their search for the “third base” deep in the deadlands. But Lord Dillard reminds them that the prophet survived, as did his potentially devastating weapon.With Kan’Ka and 20 or so sleeths now freed from their mental control, they journey to the stronghold of Tak Ha’Sssth. They are surprised by how little resistance they face. Though not admitting it to the others, Kan’Ka fears for his fellow sleeths, and has them stand guard as the 5 head into the heart of the stronghold.The Prophet is waiting. He tells of his change and meeting the demilich. “A being of pure energy…like so many before, I sought to touch its mind”. A touch that led to the revelation that death and devastation are the greater glory. He knows little of the greater plans of Acererak but commends his ingenuity and sadism, to which he can only aspire. Forge charges in. Evasive with precognition and bolstered by the Prophet, who brings pain to the party and healing to his allies, the sleeths put up a fierce fight. Buckthorn again turns and fires on his allies. Forge is dropped, more then once, holding down and eventually defeating the guards. But again Kan’Ka stands strong, Nar transforms into a being of fire, and Buckthorn, also periodically wracked with pain and down when not controlled, finally shoots the right way with full strength.   The Prophet meets the end that, in his twisted heart, almost certainly craved.  The party and the sleeths fan out to find the deadly weapon. <img src="http://historywarsweapons.com/wp-content/uploads/image/BGM-109G_Gryphon.JPG" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " data-size="" style="" />Connected to a terminal, Robot 1 quickly determines it is about to launch! With the Robot’s guidance, Buckthorn attempts to disarm it……and it starts to launch. Forge lays into it, joined by Kan’Ka, and its not able to fly after they gash into it. But it might still explode. Now Buckthorn…manages to disarm it.Surprising the others, Forge insist the weapon be destroyed. Its is buried, with explosives, deep in the stronghold.They are greeted as heroes, and within a few weeks, receive their reward from Lord Dillard and Dar Tenibor. But first…They watch a recording of Lucian. Uncontrollably fading into his shadow for extended periods of time. His planar origin and this strange world are just not working well together. And he is ever more distraught. The reward brings more joy. (see attached). An airship, to which is attached a heavy lead plate, that gives them a way to fly above the deadlands and avoid the worst effects of radiation, or whatever else, is there. They begin their journey to the base.[ATTACH]56115[/ATTACH]Then Acererak destroyed all of his slaves and servitors, magically hid the entrance to his halls, and went to his final haunt, while his soul roamed strange planes unknown to even the wisest of sages.</blockquote>

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