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Message: <blockquote data-quote="seasong" data-source="post: 892376" data-attributes="member: 5137">Leaving TuomaAs they left, Greppa and Merideth rubbed their off-hand wrist gently. The bracelet was gone. The ghost sensation of something restraining their will was not. A quick glance between them told the story - never again, no matter how much the "guild" cost to join.Greppa hastily summoned earth spirits into each of his companions and himself, and everyone sighed as strength entered them. It had felt odd, having merely human strength...As the trio spotted Chatham and waved, a mighty explosion was heard in the distance behind them. Turning, they caught a glimpse of smoke trailing from behind the mountain ridge when.. a strange bird, with wings in four directions, a tail and neck like a serpent, and easily the most graceless avian face one might imagine, spotted them and dove.Lightning built along its ungainly beak, and then discharged into Merideth... she stood and took it, and began to smile. It was unlikely that this bird was going to be much trouble. Then it swooped past Greppa and... except that it didn't. It stopped dead, its wings acting as efficient brakes, and then began spinning and hovering in place as it struck Greppa with its beak. Small sparks bounced off his earth skin and he fell flat.The tiny ellini scribed a quick circle and Uripedas burst forth from it, shrieking into the air at the avian monstrousity. "Yes! Yes! Fight! Yes?""YES!" Shouted Greppa, and Uripedas zoomed past the ugly thing, pricking its hide and shouting something in a tongue foreign to the mortals below. Whatever it was, it worked. The creature reversed direction in a heartbeat and flew up at Uripedas, taking several sling stones to the backside from Bellos as it did so.As the creature chased Uripedas fruitlessly (it was astoundingly maneuverable, but few creatures could match the sun hawk's raw speed), Bellos continued to nail it with bone crushing shots from his sling, and Merideth healed Greppa. Finally, it took off, screaming its wrath and Uripedas landed next to the trio and Chatham."Re-summon me! Please!?"Greppa did so, grinning, and then, as the spell renewed, Uripedas looked at the retreating avian, "That bird - it's a lightning elemental manifest. Very bad. Hurt a lot of people. We chase, yes?"And so it was on. A merciless slaughter of the cruel beast, lest it hunt others less capable of driving it off. Greppa, swinging from Uripedas' claws, pelted it with spells from afar while Merideth swung next to him, healing what little damage it was capable of dishing out against them.At the end, Greppa and Merideth both were grinning. It felt really good to have those bracelets off. They rejoined Chatham, and began to head east to Chatham's drumming.</blockquote>

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