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Message: <blockquote data-quote="InVinoVeritas" data-source="post: 3573295" data-attributes="member: 41485">Ru takes off like a shot, moving at speeds that even horses could barely achieve. He rushes out of the alleyway, eyes glazed, his own head shaking back and forth slightly. He barely recognizes the world around him, knowing that something must be close behind. But... the world continues to melt before his eyes, sounds filling his ears--flashes of light, pops and bells and shouts and horns all sounding, while bizarre faces and half-faces float by. [sblock=Ru]Ru is Confused. Next round, he will babble incoherently.[/sblock]A vulgar battle cry announces the paladin's arrival as he bursts out of the carriage. His face looks maddened, and the eldritch tone does nothing to help the matter. He rushes the fell gnome, greatsword drawn high. He grips the sword tightly and tries his best to ignore the sound, ignore the nosebleed Torhan just discovered. The swing is wild, frenzied. The gnome leans back to avoid the blow, landing in a crab position. Calahan lets out a pained scream, grabs his head and kneels, fighting to gain some semblance of reality in the face of unbridled agony. He watches as the gnome stands back up--backwards. For some reason, the gnome stood back up so that he was standing on his hands... Or was he standing on his hands before? The question quickly recedes from everyone's mind, though, as he launches himself at Torhan. The paladin gets his sword up and uses it to push the gnome off, hard. Sparks fly as metal hits metal--Torhan's foe is apparently armored... but he was sure that the strike bypassed whatever defenses were up in front of it.Fr. Berman waits just for this opening to fire without hitting Torhan. BANG! The shot also seems to glance off the gnome's shoulder with a clang. By his side, Darian sings a dirge... normally, such a song would be unwelcome, but it gives the policemen something else to hold on to instead of the gnome's incessant wail. Darian raises his whip and reaches out, grabbing hold of a leg (arm?) and crashing him into the ground.Calahan fixes on the song, pushing the nonsense from his mind. Darian will be able to keep him safe in this time of insanity... and seizes the moment to sink two arrows into the gnome. The first skitters on the ground past him, but the second finds its target--and shatters.Fr. Berman notes from his position that Tavish and the horse-masked driver have cowered, their hands full with just keeping their steeds under control. Tavish starts humming the dirge with Darian, just to keep the song in his head. Alek and his entourage still sit alone in the coach. Ru, on the other hand, is nowhere near here... Darian points out that he is now staggering through the clocktower square, far in the distance, barely able to comprehend the festival all around him...Ru: 16/30Torhan: 40/40Calahan: 14/23Fr. Berman: 26/30Darian: 14/20</blockquote>

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