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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Nightfane" data-source="post: 1280503" data-attributes="member: 15820">Monsters of the Past   Illya's whip cracked in the air towards head of the Sand Sorceror, but as it grasped it the head disappeared in a wisp of sand returning to its body. The newly reformed being began to chatter in undecipherable language of clicking and hissing. Energies swirled from its bodies flowing into the ground beneath it as it rose in the air. Insectiod wings began to grow from his back. The vains of them shimmering in golden brilliance. He dropped his staff and the ground seemed to ripple with energy. The masked man barked in an a language similar to elven and slammed the head of his staff to the ground. Shockwaves began to expand outward from where it hit. As the shockwaves moved through the hands holding Zarafel they exploded in a cloud of sand.   Where the sand landed though, Spiny skeletals insectoid like beings of sand shot up. Their maws chittering in the same strange language as their master. They began to slowly move towards their prey. Keltoth yelled, " WHAT ARE THESE THINGS?" No one seemed to respond. They were all to busy trying to avoid the fiends now confronting them. The masked stranger called out, "My name is Lothane and I can certainly tell you what these things are.     <lothane ducks one of the fiends and slams his staff upward into the chin of beast>  They are sanddraggers. Long ago the valley of Gelthoth was a desert of darkness. No one dared enter it for fear of the kingdom that existed in its heart. It was said   <parried attack of a the sandgrabber's rapier and a planting of staff in his midsection hurling him against a wall>  these creatures would drag down any uninvited guest in those lands. Their bodies would never return. Only a few bones from a skeleton would be spat up in pools of blood. Their would be gnaw marks on these bones."    Keltoth spun slicing the head off the sandgrabbed which exploded into a strange black sand.  "YOU MEAN THEY EAT FLESH?", he screamed until sudden realization set in at what he had just done. The other soon realized too and began to perform the similar actions. Illya wrapped her whip around one and ran up the wall wrapping the whip around a lampholder and dropping down. The leverage jerked the head from the body of the creature. It too disappeared in a cloud of black dust. The Sand Sorceror began to snarl and click in the same strange language. He landed and charge Illya. She rolled underneath the swipe of his staff's blade adorned top. Zarafel with one fell swing removed the three heads of the beast in his way. He rushed towards the Sorceror. Lothane sat down and drew a circle around himself in which he began to adorn with runes. A purple glow began to encompass him. Suddenly the mask fell away revealing his tattoed face. He rose chanting:  "RIZKA KELZASH DELIZ FRIZNT VELOSH"    The Purple energy now swirled around his form giving a strange new appearance. He landed and new staff sprouting from his hand. The more he chanted the more he changed form till a dark reflection of the Sorceror stood before the group. He motioned and the remaining sandgrabbers charged towards the sorceror. As the group came into close of contact, Lothane spun around his hand flowing forward unleashing all the energy into the sand creatures causing them to be turned into a glassy relfection of its past self. He then through his staff towards it shattering the glass into a billowing cloud of black dust.    He then turned to look toward the group only to see a charging elf and his kopesh barreling down on him. Without paying attention to the other Illya slung her whip around grabbing Keltoth's ankle, just as Zarafel brought the flat of his blade against the side of Keltoth's face. The now unconscious body of Keltoth fell to the ground. Lothane quickly put his robe and mask back on. He picked up his staff and moved a safer distance from the unconscious Keltoth. The same man in the red sun adorned tunic appeared red armor now showing underneath it.   "Malaran be praised, I think we have found what we are looking for.  Well once that one has been awoken."  </blockquote>

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