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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Silver Moon" data-source="post: 568894" data-attributes="member: 8530">Chinese Take-outChapter 71, “Mojo signs up for NASCAR”, September 28, 1018, 1:15 A.M. Sparks and smoke pour out of the large screen that Mojo has just destroyed with his hammer.    Narg turns back towards the cleric Davvid and gestures to the handgun that he is holding, saying “That belongs to one of my party members, would you mind giving it back to me.”  Davvid replies “I’ll put it away, but you don’t get it until my team leader Barthrock says so.”  “Fair enough, let’s go find him,” states Narg.  The group heads back towards the staircase, climbing over the bodies of the ten dead elephant-footed giants.   As they climb up the stairs Narg asks the young elf  “So, future boy, what happens next?”  The elf replies “I honestly don’t know.  Things have now changed from my original history.”  Narg counters with “What exactly? Come on, spit it out”.  The boy reluctantly replies “Well, in my timeline your group was ambushed in the great hall, and you were killed.”  “I was?” Narg states.  The boy answers “Yes, Roger’s two mages cut you down with Lightning Bolts, and the Chimera then carried off your body.  You were never seen again.”  “And the sword you're carrying?” Narg asks.   “You dropped it as you fell.  My stepfather, the King, gave it to me before my Pooka brought me back.  He thought I might need it to help prove to you who I am.”   “And WHO exactly are you?” asks Mojo.   “I’d really rather not say,” the boy answers. The group quickly makes their way upstairs, deciding to go to the second floor balcony, to see what is now going on in the great hall.   Narg makes a reference to Aradyn as “fletching breath”    “Fletching breath?” asks Serita.  “Yeah, it’s a new name,” Narg answers, “I was getting tired of Arrow-boy.  I’m not sure if I like it yet.”  Aradyn moves forward to the balcony railing, looking below.   He heads back, stating that the only one in the hall is Barthrock, and that the truck is gone.   Narg hurries back over to the railing, followed by the two members of Barthrock’s team.The cleric Davvid tells Narg that he wishes to speak to Barthrock.  Narg reluctantly agrees to this.  Davvid stands and calls down to his team leader.  Barthrock yells back up  “Where is Morgarth?”  Narg and Dratakke now both stand, saying “Gone.”    Narg yells down “Where is Roger?”  Barthrock answers “He and his team just left a few minutes ago in the vehicle.  He’s heading down the hill from the castle right now.”   “Let’s GO!” Narg yells, and leads his team back down the staircase and into the great hall.They all run from the great hall into the front entranceway.  From there they can see the truck exiting the castle grounds at the bottom of the hill.   However, what immediately captures Mojo’s attention is another vehicle, a bakery truck, that is packed by the side wall of the front hallway.   He rushes over and hops in, yelling for the team to get into the back.   Serita and Narg both jump into the passenger seat.   The group of Aradyn, Cassie, Fiona, Lannon, Mark and Timothy climb into back of the truck.   Ebony, Hiroshi, Lono and “Futureboy” decide that the vehicle is full, and stay in the room. Mojo fires up the engine, and drives towards the castle door and drawbridge.   Barthrock rushes towards the driver’s seat as they are pulling near the door.  Barthrock yells, “I think I know where they are going.”  Mojo stops the vehicle, and says "Tell us on the way," as he grabs the half-dwarf by his tunic and pulls him up into the vehicle.   This surprises Barthrock, not realizing that Mojo had the ‘exceptional strength’ needed to grab him like that.  Barthrock says, “Hey, I never said I was coming with you.”  Mojo answers “Well, you are now, so shut up and climb the rest of the way in.”  Barthrock positions himself on the edge of the driver’s seat beside Mojo.  The truck crosses the drawbridge and then picks up speed going down the hill. They approach a large contingent of bugbears moving to block their path.  Barthrock says, “Maybe it’s a good thing that I am with you.  Stop and let me order these guys to let us pass.”  Mojo stops down, and Barthrock gives them instruction to let the truck by, then to lock the gate and not to let anyone back in until they return. He says that to especially keep out Roger and any of his team.”  Mojo hits the gas pedal once the truck is beyond the main gate, and barrels down the rough road at between fifty to sixty miles per hour.   Barthrock explains that the road leads to a river, which Morgarth used a large ship to bring in supplies and the bugbear army.    As they near the water they get a very good look at the ship, which Mojo declares “Looks like it also came from Alton’s world”.  It is made of gray metal, and is about 140 feet long and 25 feet wide.   Standing on the top deck of the ship are some members of the members of Roger’s team.   The other truck is stopped near a ten-foot wide metal ramp leading up to the ship.   Lannon uses his Boots of Spider Climbing to climb up onto the top of the speeding truck. With perfect aim, he pulls out one of the flare wands and sends a flare directly into the ship.  The flare smashes through a window of the ship’s bridge, strikes the metal wall inside of the bridge, and then explodes.  Fireworks fly out in all directions, most ricocheting off the bridge walls and wrecking havoc inside, although several go flying out of the bridge and onto the ship as well.   An explosion then erupts from the bridge.A fireworks careen out of the open doorway of the bridge, and right into an enemy mage.  The mage had been looking up to discern the sound of the approaching truck, with his back to the bridge doorway.  It strikes him like a missile directly into his back, striking between the shoulder blades.   This causes extreme pain as it burns into him, also causing his robe and hair to ignite.  The second firework then strikes his legs, at the back of his knees, causing him to collapse outward.  He falls onto the ramp and then rolls down it as a dying human fireball.   All of this occurs within a couple of segments.  Mojo announces “I think they know we’re here.”</blockquote>

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