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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Jon Potter" data-source="post: 5044909" data-attributes="member: 2323">[PLAIN][Realms #502] The End of the Line[/PLAIN]Morier staggered to his feet and stepped toward the others. "Stay close," he commanded. "We're getting out of here." He drew again on the power of Dridana's Heart and Ledare watched in horror as his doing so made the God Isle begin to tremble again."Maybe we don't need to drop everything and run," she argued, her face filled with uncertainty. "The rats aren't attacking yet; they're just talking. Maybe they can help us." Morier, who was concentrating on the miracle he was working, said nothing in reply, but Maleko looked at Ledare as if she were mad."They aren't attacking because I webbed them," the mage retorted, a note of alarm rising in his voice as the quaking of the ground mounted. "What makes you think they are here to help us?" But the Janissary didn't get a chance to answer because at that point Morier finished invoking Wind Walk and the effect was instantaneous and dramatic.It was as if the God Isle were a sheet of glass and Morier were a dagger slammed pommel-first against it. The ground directly beneath his feet fairly pulverized as he completed the spell and an expanding network of cracks radiated outward from him. The terrible shaking of the ground drove both Morier and Ledare off their feet, while this time, Maleko kept his. As had been the case with Ledare moments before, it afforded him an excellent view of the shattered ground as fissures began to open up all around.One yawned open beneath Morier and the albino teetered momentarily on the edge of the crevasse, limbs scrambling for purchase on the crumbling ground. Then he overbalanced and fell head-first into the fissure.Maleko shouted something unintelligible and lunged for the eldritch warrior, trying to save Morier as Ledare had saved him, but he was a fraction too slow and the earthquake - godquake, Maleko thought absently - quieted, the cracks closing at once with gruesome finality."No!" the elf shouted, digging with his thin fingers at the tiny crack that remained on the surface."Oh, the irony is delicious," the rat swarm tittered as Ledare got to her feet. "Be a dear, Ledare, and see if you can't burn these Webs. I know how much you dislike anything to do with spiders."</blockquote>

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