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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Black Omega" data-source="post: 1066910" data-attributes="member: 79">Verick ducked back down to rejoin the party, shaking his head “At least in this area there’s a heavy attack.  This is our best route out of the wall, though.”  There was a brief conference with all except Mir, who was still trying to guide her thrush out of the wall and back to the group, though the terrified thrush was having to fly slowly to avoid constantly running into walls in the pitch darkness.The party decided to charge into the battle, Toshiro leading the way up the ladder.  The situation on the wall had only gotten worse while they debated.  To the left a group of Crab samurai were finishing off goblins, but starting to be surrounded by their now undead  former comrades.  An oni with the blubbery look of an octopus was slithering up over the edge of the wall into view, while a Bloodspeaker was running from corpse to corpse, raising the dead defenders of the wall and adding them to the Shadowlands army.Toshiro’s target was obvious and as soon as he was up he was charging the Bloodspeaker, joined in a few seconds by Kaz, while Verick rushed toward the Oni.  Mindra and Mir were left to handle the undead hordes, which Mindra got a good start un, calling upon his connection to his ancestors, the energy so powerful several zombies simply crumbled away into nothing.Toshiro hacked into the Bloodspeaker savagely and Kaz was trying to move to cut the maho-tsukai off, but the man was too fast.  He took a step back, crying out “My life and blood is offered belongs to the Dark Lord, you may not have it!”  Blood dripped from his fingertips as he gestured and the skeletons of the still dead began to twist and reform, ripping free of the bodies to create a wall of bone between him and the Crab samurai.Verick’s jade katana flashed as it hacked away a tentacle from the blob like oni and he dodged a lash of the tendrils before slashing into the creature savagely again.  Volar cast a Fly spell and flew closer, effortlessly casting a Magic Missile, only to watch the creature absorb the magic without any sign of harm.  In fact, the wounds of the creature seemed to heal a little.Mir was surrounded by the zombies but the creatures were too slow to catch the young Aasimar and she dodged their attacks as she retreated to help Verick.  Mindra took a few hits from the zombies but another blast of his ancestral energy shriveled more of the zombies into dust.In frustration at the wall, Toshiro and Kaz both took a few seconds to try and hack through, but failed and the sharp edged bones injured them both.  Noticing Verick struggling with the Oni, Toshiro ran over to help while Kaz grimly continued to hack away on the wall, while the maho-tsukai went to work again raising corpses.  Kaz was not left alone long, however.  Two goblins riding gaunt, pony like creatures with claws instead of hooves surrounded him.  Kaz swiftly cut down the goblins and went to work on the wall of bones again, surprised when one of the gaunt creatures whispered “Yes..yes..ignore us..we are harmless..don’t mind us…”  thenh both tore into him with sharp claws, samurai blood flying as the creatures disproved their words.Verick’s blade was slashing through the blubbery demon effortlessly, the wounds burning the creature.  But it was massive, it’s tendrils lashing out at  anyone who got close and sending them flying.  Save Verick, who was trapped as a tentacle wrapped around his body.  Toshiro’s charge saved the Lion warrior, his honorable katana slicing through the tentacle at the base and freeing Verick.    But that only lasted a moment, as Toshiro was swiftly entrapped by another writhing tentacle, armor creaking as it squeezed tightly.  Mir paused out of reach of the tendrils, ready to rush in to heal when she got the chance.And Mindra fought on against the undead.  As Crab after Crab fell fighting the zombies, Mindra blasted the undead into dust and bone fragments, finally resorting to his mace to finish off the last few.Kaz growled as the creatures tore into him and he left off his assault on the wall to fight back.  He hacked off the paw of one of the creatures before sweeping his sword back to take it’s head off.  The other creature howled loudly at the death of the other and plunged into the battle more fiercely, claws on Kaz’s shoulders, raking downward as the blood flowed.Toshiro felt his body being crushed by the tentacle while the creature fended off Verick’s attempts to save him.  Volar had a plan though, as always.  Arcane energies forming around him as he chanted a spell and flew in close to grab Toshiro, then both disappeared in a flash.  Reappearing on the other side of the bone wall, next to the shocked Bloodspeaker.  Toshiro’s katana struck like lightning and in two savage strikes the bloody Maho-tsukai simply fell apart, dead before the pieces of his body struck the ground.Kaz’s bloody battle with the gaunt creature went on, Kaz clearly winning.  Until the bloody creature ran a few steps away and growled “I know your scent, and I’ll have revenge, yes I will…”  then it dashed away, far faster than Kaz could follow.The octopus demon had slithered fully onto the wall now, pulsing softly as it’s tentacles lashed out again, one buffeting Verick, another capturing Mir, who had wondered too close.  A toss from another tentacle sent Verick up into the air and over the edge of the wall, stone scraping over metal as Verick grabbed for the edge then disappeared from view.It was a nice view of the Shadowlands Horde, Verick reflected.  Hanging by one hand just below the edge of the wall was not the best place for sight seeing.  But there were a lot of creatures coming up the wall below him, not simply goblins but many other things.  Oni, undead, and other creatures his mind could not quite focus on.  Gathering himself, Verick focused deep inside for strength, then launched himself upward over the blob like demon, his katana flashing one final time, and as Verick landed beyond the creature, his katana held out to the side, the oni slowly fell apart into putrid ooze.From there, cleaning up the undead and goblins were pretty easy, Mir’s staff and Mindra’s mace just as good for the task as the samurai’s katanas.  But as they finished they looked around.  On the towers to either side, strong gusts of wind kept the signal smoke from alerting anyone, while goblins tips over the burning braziers and danced in triumph.  And another wave of the Shadowlands Horde was just starting to crawl over the edge of the Kaiu Wall.Even with healing low, magic low, and everyone wounded.  Toshiro was tempted to make a stand on the wall then and there.  But as an Oni no Akuma came into view, flame dripping from the creatures three tongues, he knew it would be pointless.  The group retreated quickly, leaving the wall to the Shadowlands.</blockquote>

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