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<blockquote data-quote="Silver Moon" data-source="post: 588539" data-attributes="member: 8530"><p><strong>Chinese Take-out</strong></p><p></p><p>Chapter 77, ”A Trip to the Abyss“ , September 28, 1018, 6:15 P.M. </p><p></p><p>Cassie, Lannon, Mark, Mojo and Narg decide to join Kim on the journey to the abyss. Narg Junior hands Mark with his Nargblade, telling the ranger “Here. In my original history you used this to destroy the Morgarth evil.” “Care to tell us anything else kid?” Lannon asks. The elvan boy shakes his head no, saying, “No, I wouldn’t want to say anything that might change things. You won last time.” </p><p></p><p>Kim sings the song to enlarge the miniature harp into its full shape. She sits on the instrument’s bench, and begins playing the chords to the rather difficult song. She finally gets to the point of the finale, continuing to play with her right hand, and extends her left. The other five each grab hold of a finger, and she finishes the song. The rest of the Silver Moon Adventurers watch as the six characters and the harp suddenly change form, turning into beings of pure light. The separate sections of light then merge together into a single multi-colored glowing orb, which then disappears down into the floor. </p><p></p><p>To the six characters, they continue to see what is going on around them. They see the interior of each room in the castle that the beam passes through. It eventually reaches the sub-basement, and approaches the markings carved in the center of the floor. It passes through, beneath which the party now see several glowing boulders as well as a glowing wooden staff, a glowing jeweled scepter, and a glowing glass ball. Cassie accurately concludes that these are the enchanted artifacts that Li-Tak used to create the anti-magic sphere. </p><p></p><p>They continue to descend down into the earth, quickly travelling for another twenty miles. During this journey, which takes about a turn, they can see several hundred feet in every direction. They see dirt, rocks, and burrowing rodents and insects. At the end of the twenty miles they see ahead of them a glowing blue inverted funnel ahead (similar in appearance to the Wormhole from Star Trek Deep Space Nine). The aperture is apparently where the earth and wizard magic enter the sphere. </p><p></p><p>They approach this opening, but just as they are passing through it they come to an abrupt stop as the dimensional boundaries dissolve, with their surroundings now changing. They then make a 180-degree turn and head back into the funnel, which is now comprised of red light. They only travel a few feet before it opens up onto another plane. Their orb of light then separates back into their individual forms, and their bodies then solidify, each still holding onto one of Kim’s fingers and her still seated by the harp.</p><p></p><p>They find themselves standing on a rocky plateau above a extended plane of gray and maroon sand. Interspersed throughout are gray and maroon mixed colored rocks. The rocks vary in texture, however most appear to be porous, like those of a volcanic surface. Behind them they see the aperture where the sphere opens up, measuring approximately twenty-five feet in diameter, and constantly billowing with red cloud-like patterns. The anti-magic sphere itself extends upward from there, creating red-tinted half circle above the plane forty miles in diameter and twenty miles high. The sphere illuminates the entire land below it with bright red-to-yellow tinted light. There is almost no vegetation to be seen; primarily a few scattered scraggly brownish-gray leaf-less trees with bent branches, standing no more than five feet tall, similar to what one might see on mountains above the tree line. The only other vegetation is a occasional patch of weeds, most of which are in a state of dying or decay. </p><p></p><p>They also see before them the demigod Finder Wyvernspur. He is attired differently than he was during their previous encounter, this time wearing a gray velvet shirt with a trim of fur and jewels on the cuffs and collars and dark woolen pants (the same outfit that he is wearing on the cover of the Forgotten Realms novels Song of the Saurials and Finder’s Bane). He also looks extremely tired. “This can’t be good,” Lannon mutters. </p><p></p><p>On the ground near Finder are the bodies of five creatures, dead from visible puncture wounds. Two of these creatures have dark red skin and bodies the size of fire giants but with a pair of non-humanoid heads, one of a snake the other of a dog. A four-bladed great axe is still clutched in a death grip by one of these. The other three creatures are slightly smaller, about nine feet tall, with red rubbery skin. Their protruding wide fanged jaws bear some resemblance to orcs. Each has a long pointed blade still in its hand, and it appears that the blades have been grafted onto them. </p><p></p><p>The group also now notice that each of them is now wearing a round metal medallion pinned onto their clothing near the chest. Each medallion has a white harp in the center of a gray background, the symbol of Finder. Mojo whispers to Narg “So, it this when you’ll go kick his butt?” “Shut up,” Narg answers. </p><p></p><p>Narg asks Finder “OK, what did you do this time?” “I messed up,” the Demigod replies. “Would you mind telling us exactly how?” asks Cassie. Finder says, “I misjudged the situation. I knew that I had the ability to transform Mordenkainen, and strip him of the Morgath evil that had inhabited his body. What I didn’t anticipate was that the Prince of Hell, a more powerful deity than I am, would object to having his play toy taken away from him.” “Why don’t you start from the beginning,” states Lannon.” Mojo gestures to the bodies on the ground, saying “And tell us what exactly these things are, or were.”</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Silver Moon, post: 588539, member: 8530"] [b]Chinese Take-out[/b] Chapter 77, ”A Trip to the Abyss“ , September 28, 1018, 6:15 P.M. Cassie, Lannon, Mark, Mojo and Narg decide to join Kim on the journey to the abyss. Narg Junior hands Mark with his Nargblade, telling the ranger “Here. In my original history you used this to destroy the Morgarth evil.” “Care to tell us anything else kid?” Lannon asks. The elvan boy shakes his head no, saying, “No, I wouldn’t want to say anything that might change things. You won last time.” Kim sings the song to enlarge the miniature harp into its full shape. She sits on the instrument’s bench, and begins playing the chords to the rather difficult song. She finally gets to the point of the finale, continuing to play with her right hand, and extends her left. The other five each grab hold of a finger, and she finishes the song. The rest of the Silver Moon Adventurers watch as the six characters and the harp suddenly change form, turning into beings of pure light. The separate sections of light then merge together into a single multi-colored glowing orb, which then disappears down into the floor. To the six characters, they continue to see what is going on around them. They see the interior of each room in the castle that the beam passes through. It eventually reaches the sub-basement, and approaches the markings carved in the center of the floor. It passes through, beneath which the party now see several glowing boulders as well as a glowing wooden staff, a glowing jeweled scepter, and a glowing glass ball. Cassie accurately concludes that these are the enchanted artifacts that Li-Tak used to create the anti-magic sphere. They continue to descend down into the earth, quickly travelling for another twenty miles. During this journey, which takes about a turn, they can see several hundred feet in every direction. They see dirt, rocks, and burrowing rodents and insects. At the end of the twenty miles they see ahead of them a glowing blue inverted funnel ahead (similar in appearance to the Wormhole from Star Trek Deep Space Nine). The aperture is apparently where the earth and wizard magic enter the sphere. They approach this opening, but just as they are passing through it they come to an abrupt stop as the dimensional boundaries dissolve, with their surroundings now changing. They then make a 180-degree turn and head back into the funnel, which is now comprised of red light. They only travel a few feet before it opens up onto another plane. Their orb of light then separates back into their individual forms, and their bodies then solidify, each still holding onto one of Kim’s fingers and her still seated by the harp. They find themselves standing on a rocky plateau above a extended plane of gray and maroon sand. Interspersed throughout are gray and maroon mixed colored rocks. The rocks vary in texture, however most appear to be porous, like those of a volcanic surface. Behind them they see the aperture where the sphere opens up, measuring approximately twenty-five feet in diameter, and constantly billowing with red cloud-like patterns. The anti-magic sphere itself extends upward from there, creating red-tinted half circle above the plane forty miles in diameter and twenty miles high. The sphere illuminates the entire land below it with bright red-to-yellow tinted light. There is almost no vegetation to be seen; primarily a few scattered scraggly brownish-gray leaf-less trees with bent branches, standing no more than five feet tall, similar to what one might see on mountains above the tree line. The only other vegetation is a occasional patch of weeds, most of which are in a state of dying or decay. They also see before them the demigod Finder Wyvernspur. He is attired differently than he was during their previous encounter, this time wearing a gray velvet shirt with a trim of fur and jewels on the cuffs and collars and dark woolen pants (the same outfit that he is wearing on the cover of the Forgotten Realms novels Song of the Saurials and Finder’s Bane). He also looks extremely tired. “This can’t be good,” Lannon mutters. On the ground near Finder are the bodies of five creatures, dead from visible puncture wounds. Two of these creatures have dark red skin and bodies the size of fire giants but with a pair of non-humanoid heads, one of a snake the other of a dog. A four-bladed great axe is still clutched in a death grip by one of these. The other three creatures are slightly smaller, about nine feet tall, with red rubbery skin. Their protruding wide fanged jaws bear some resemblance to orcs. Each has a long pointed blade still in its hand, and it appears that the blades have been grafted onto them. The group also now notice that each of them is now wearing a round metal medallion pinned onto their clothing near the chest. Each medallion has a white harp in the center of a gray background, the symbol of Finder. Mojo whispers to Narg “So, it this when you’ll go kick his butt?” “Shut up,” Narg answers. Narg asks Finder “OK, what did you do this time?” “I messed up,” the Demigod replies. “Would you mind telling us exactly how?” asks Cassie. Finder says, “I misjudged the situation. I knew that I had the ability to transform Mordenkainen, and strip him of the Morgath evil that had inhabited his body. What I didn’t anticipate was that the Prince of Hell, a more powerful deity than I am, would object to having his play toy taken away from him.” “Why don’t you start from the beginning,” states Lannon.” Mojo gestures to the bodies on the ground, saying “And tell us what exactly these things are, or were.” [/QUOTE]
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