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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Shoel Sweeny" data-source="post: 2899111" data-attributes="member: 40608">Aki and Saelya, Prophayts[sblock]Aki's attention is caught up by the swarm, so entranced is the neraphim that he may  only perform partial actions.  Saelya overpowers the hypnotic effect of the light and can do as she pleases for now.[/sblock]New hues vibrate and dance within the radiance, burning and mixing in a fascinating pattern that causes all to turn in awe towards the land devouring light.  Humanoid shapes now seem to  twist and tumble beyond the veil, they beckon watchers into their inferno pagent.The young guns of the order slowly and inexolerably move towards the sheet of yellow light, fascination etched deep in their faces.  The one nearest the light, a githyanki vash who had abandonded his people during the death of Vlaakith, moves furthest to the shimmering border and takes a deep meaningful glance at his fellows aruond him.  Without further warning he plunges his hand into the light, shreiking and shaking in seeming ...ecstasy?  The primewalker slowly draws out his hand, now burned off to a stump above the wrist, charred and glittering up to his elbow, and propels both his legs forward, face first, into the phenomenon.  His death theors are exultant beyond the shimmering border.The shock of the githyanki's scream seems to wake the staring bunck out of their funk, and seemingly not a moment to soon.  From where their fallen expidition member put his hand into the light now opens a hole, flaping about like a silk garmet caught and held by Pandemonium.  Coming from inside the tear, the buzzing begins once again twice as loud as before, and from there glowing yellow and red insects swarm out, millions of them clawing and tearing through the hole and into the courtyard like flies from a corpse.  The radiant mantis like creatures rise into the air as a cloud of uncountable numbers, as the stream continues to grow some shake off the effects of the creatures dance, seeing the danger for the first time.  A cry of warning and despair rings up thourghout the assembly, some volunteers running back towards the portal while others simply stare at the mass of congealing insects in stupified awe.  From the way the swarm is agitating you have maybe moments before the mantis's fall upon the expidition like fire from on high.    [sblock]That's an opportunity for a new save for Aki.  The portal back to Sigil is approximately two kilometers from your current location.  The depths of the caves beneath you could provide shelter from the swarm or lead you to the portal faster then taking the twisting streets of the uppper village.  Then again, there's a chance you could get caught up in a dead end, alone but for the buzzing of the sunflies.[/sblock]</blockquote>

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