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Message: <blockquote data-quote="James McMurray" data-source="post: 270630" data-attributes="member: 743">Having faced Meourgetok Natalia in battle before, Lorelei was aware of his potency. For 2000 years she had chased the dead god across the planes, hoping to reunite him with his essence, albeit not in a manner he wished. Meourgetok, a Hunefer, the mummified remains of a dead deity, cursed to search for his essence eternally in a vain attempt at regaining his divine spark, saw Lorelei, and the ancient rivalry flared anew.Over 3,000 years ago, the cycle of gods before this one ended. Meourgetok, then the god of strength and decay, was torn kicking and screaming from his ancient throne in the Abyss. But he would not stay down. His spirit was interred in the depths of Mount Celestia, but his body roamed free. Lorelei, an enforcer for the newly appointed sun god Pelor, was sent to retrieve or destroy this most heinous of undead, lest he unsettle the balance of power in the divine courts by somehow regaining his essence and re-ascending.A millennia ago, Conrad Adar had stumbled across the Hunefer in a rage, rampaging through a devilish city deep in the fourth layer of hell. He wisely fled the scene, but research and magics told him Meourgetok’s story, and he concocted a plan that would gain him the most powerful soul ever trapped by a contractor devil. Approaching the Hunefer carefully (after the rage had died down) he proposed to show the creature where its essence was, if it would only agree to not harm Conrad. Driven mad in his quest for rebirth, Natalia agreed near instantly, and Conrad plane shifted the two of them to the base of Mount Celestia. As the waters of the ocean of holy water burned their feet like acid, Conrad knew he had to work fast. “Your soul lies within that mountain, which is made of the same stuff as these shores. You will never be able to regain it. It’s a pity a fool such as you must be cursed to forever roam, soulless and empty. Damnation! I’m glad I’m not you.”Hearing the truth in Conrad’s words, Meourgetok realized his quest for his being was fruitless, and the rage returned. As his fist slammed into the devil, the penalty clause was invoked. Not even the might of a half-dead god can withstand the power of a contractor’s tome. Conrad immediately plane shifted out, and although the hit from Meourgetok and the burns from the ocean took a year to heal, it was well worth it.Five years later, as Conrad roamed the streets of Union in search of new souls to add to his tome, he came across Lorelei. Not knowing that her quarry was safely trapped away, she too had undertaken a fruitless quest. When Conrad learned of that, he leapt into action to gain yet another soul of great power. Two such souls of this magnitude would most certainly entitle him to a full partnership in the Baatorian Legal Association.“My dearest Lorelei, what if I were to tell you I knew where your prey lie?”“What do you want from me devil, I’ll not sign your papers.” Lorelei responded.“Tut-tut dear, you and I both know the destruction that thing is capable of while it roams free. It has even rampaged through hell in its quest for rebirth. You and I both know that having it free is not a situation anyone but the maddest of men would desire. There are no papers to sign, no contracts. I will take you to where he is so that you may assure yourself that he is no longer a threat to the cosmos.”“Very well fiend, but be forewarned, I will brook no treachery from you. Though I may fall in a devil’s snare, know that you will fall before me.”Lorelei reached down her mighty hand and touched Conrad, in preparation for the plane shifting. As she did so, the litigator reached into his robe and drew forth his tome. “Put that away fiend!” Lorelei warned, but before she could make due on the threat in her voice, Conrad pulled open the tome.“He is right here, go to him and our deal is complete.” As Lorelei’s body and soul were ripped into the book, she realized too late her foolishness for dealing with a devil.But now, after a thousands years of torment in the Tome, she suddenly finds herself free. All around her humans and demi-humans cry in fear, but from those voices she picks out a familiar sound: the wails of the Hunefer victims. Looking around, she sees him! Finally her quarry can be destroyed!-------Meourgetok spies his tormentor almost immediately as well, her 25’ frame towering above the screaming crowd and her full plate gleaming in the morning sun. He screams a cry of rage and a command to the mummies his touch has created in the crowd, hastes and displaces himself and charges her. Before he can reach, she  steps sideways into the ethereal plane and begins to prepare herself for battle (starting with a haste of her own).As his mummies continue charging blindly towards where she was, Meourgetok activates his True Seeing and his being flares brightly, surrounding him in an unholy aura. He moves to where she is and begins to slam the people around him that are paralyzed with fear, creating more mummy minions. Meanwhile Lorelei is rapidly preparing for battle, with quickened spells and abilities to increase her titanic battle prowess to epic proportions. She then moves away and returns to the Prime.Seeing her reappear, Meourgetok and his mummies charge. They have moved towards another battle, and the combatants there scream in mindless terror at the sight of the dead god. Lorelei attempts a greater dispelling, but none of the Hunefer’s effects are ended, and she raises a magic circle against evil which does manage to keep him at bay, until he dispels it moments later. Lorelei summons an Astral Deva to help her combat the minions, and when it appears the sight of Meourgetok sends it into a panicked catatonia. Meanwhile the mummies charge, and one of them reaches her but fails to strike. Her return attack does not miss however, and the beast is sent reeling from her massive war hammer’s blow, made even worse by the fact that her Righteous might has increased her size to a towering 50’ tall.Meourgetok leaps onto Lorelei, but her magics return the force of his blow back upon himself. He is barely nicked by the blow, but is forced to reassess the situation and he again casts greater dispelling. Many of her spells are dropped, including the Fast Reflection (an epic spell which rebounds melee attacks upon their instigator).Lorelei raises another fast reflection, another magic circle vs. evil, and unleashes a fire storm. After the fiery blast Meourgetok is unscathed, but his minions fare poorly. All but two are destroyed outright. The titan has also managed to stretch the spell’s effect to include a few demons in a battle raging between demons and celestials not too far from their position.The two remaining mummies attack the Deva, crashing their fists into its catatonic form, and shaking it free of the fear. The Hunefer also charges, and again hits himself. Lorelei’s war hammer slams home and the flare from its fiery blast sends the beast reeling. His wounds begin to close almost as quickly as they are formed though. It will take more than a single shot from a war hammer to drop this thing, even if it is fiery, gargantuan, and undead dread.The Deva leaps up just as a mummy is swinging at her, and the beast falls! It never rises again though, as her mace rings true and the beast crumbles instantly to dust, destroyed by its holy power.Meourgetok breaks through the circle and dispels the renewed reflection. Two slams hit home on Lorelei, and her skin rapidly begins to decay. The pain is intense as his supernatural rot sets in, and she know she does not have long before she too becomes a mummified servant of the dead god. Acting quickly, she moves away and casts a Mass Heal. Her movement has taken her into range of the two half-celestials, so she targets them as well. She also manages to affect the Deva, who is barely scratched by the mummies, but thankful nonetheless.Her strength renewed, the Deva assaults the last remaining mummy, but does not manage to destroy it. She gets hit again for her efforts, but knows that if they continue to trade blows like that, the abominable undead will crumble long before she does. To be continued. . .</blockquote>

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