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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Lazybones" data-source="post: 1668843" data-attributes="member: 143">It's a full-fledged Glabrezu.  * * * * * Chapter 185Nabthatoron, the glabrezu lord of the Demonskar, had arrived to take matters into its own hands. Zenna felt her gut clench with sick horror as she looked up into the utterly alien face of the demon.  Her legs barely responding to her commands, she stumbled backward, unable to break away from that unholy stare.  Almost casually, the demon swung one massive pincer-claw at her.  The movement broke the spell of immobility, and she dodged back just as the pincer closed on where her neck had been a moment earlier.  Still, the edge of the claw clipped her body with the force of a battering ram, and she was knocked roughly sprawling, rolling to a stop before one of the pillars on the far side of the room, her entire body throbbing in a medley of shooting pains. Dannel fitted an arrow to his bow and without hesitation fired.  The long shaft struck true, hitting the demon in the chest between its two protruding short arms, but the arrow’s tip barely penetrated its thick hide, and the impact appeared to cause it no damage. “Puny,” the demon hissed.  It spoke a word of power, and chaos filled the room. A storm of multicolored, flashing, darting energy exploded throughout the chamber.  Zenna, struggling to get up, felt a brief twisting sensation as her equilibrium faltered under the force of the demon’s chaos hammer, but she focused her will and it soon faded. Unfortunately, Morgan, Alek, and Arun, each dedicated to the precepts of Law, were not so resistant to the dark power’s effects. Alek and Morgan both screamed as the chaos storm tore through them, overwhelming their senses.  The two men stumbled apart, each fighting just to stay standing.  A few paces away, Arun gritted his teeth and weathered the worst effects of the blast.  Beside him, Hodge grunted but likewise the hammer washed over him without the dramatic effects it’d had upon the Helmites.  Dannel and Mole were unaffected, and the gnome had already started moving around the perimeter of the room, looking for an opening—although her hands shook when she looked up at the demon, and she wondered what her pathetic little mace could do to such a thing.But she was who she was, and doubt did not arrest her progress.  As the power unleashed by the demon cleared—it had only lasted a few heartbeats—Alek Tercival screamed and drew his sword.  The holy blade flared in his hand with golden light, as if eager to engage this adversary.  The paladin headed directly for the demon, though his steps were jerky and uncertain, and his limbs moved as though leaden weights had been attached to them.  The demon saw how heavily his spell had affected the man and laughed, a vile, mocking sound that rumbled within its massive body like an earthquake. Morgan and Arun also moved forward, the cleric also slowed from the lingering effects of the chaos hammer.  Arun roared a challenge and an invocation to his god as he charged, but the demon’s attention was focused upon Alek Tercival. “Your soul will be mine, foolish manling,” he said. Alek raised his sword to attack, but before he could strike the demon’s massive pincers came down and tore into him.  One clipped him on the shoulder, driving him down with the force of an avalanche, though he somehow kept to his feet, his eyes burning with a combination of fury and madness. “Beware the Unseen Mark!” he cried.  “Beware the eyes that kill!”“Beware the wrath of the lord of the Demonskar,” the glabrezu replied, grabbing the paladin around the torso with his other pincer, and lifting him up into the air.  Alek screamed as the demon tightened its grip, crushing his body.</blockquote>

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