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Message: <blockquote data-quote="megamania" data-source="post: 6068102" data-attributes="member: 9255">SIBERYS SEVEN 003KUNDARAK SEGMENT 052“PURE CHAOS”Dura directs Leeya’s attention to behind them.  Six of the mutated dire apes are in the hallway.  One begins to growl and threaten the spell casters so Leeya sends a fireball down at them.   Dura tries to follow with a beam of magical energy but misses the charging creature.  Three others smell the blood of the just recently killed bugbears and go for easier food.  The other two seem uncertain but sneer at the spellcasters.Aura strikes Bora again.  Bora tries to plead with the paladin, her friend.  Finally she merely grunts and murmurs a barbarian (non-paladin Grandma friendly) comment and bolts at her while dropping her sword.  Aura gets in a slight nick as she is tackled full force (nat 20) and sent hard to the ground with the big ½ orc woman on her.  Mania continues to try to strike the nearest target which is Incarnum.   The warforged has come to understand somewhat what is happening.  He could easily move away from the rogue but fears the defenseless Vander would become the next target.  He cannot allow that.   He concentrates on being defensive against Mania.  Unseen by anyone he begins to glow softly as he reaches deep inside to the strange Incarnum energies that powers him.  He becomes harder to strike.Vander continues to reach into the air to grasp and pat unseen friendly animals.  His childish and goofy smile is the only clue to whatever he is seeing.   Dura is struck hard by the charging ape.  To protect her, Leeya castes a fireball into the hallway.  This discourages the two other apes from also charging and gets the leading ape in the back.  It howls at Dura and Leeya in pain and anger.Suddenly the ape stops howling and has a pained look on its face.  Then the others hear it.  A loud ear-piercing screech from the cocoon.  It pulses and lights strike out in beams of color.  The mists suddenly retract through a lit crack of the entrance where the man was sucked in.   Vander stops babbling and grasps at the air once more then looks around.   He is confused and embarrassed.   Mania and Aura continue to attack and thrash about.   (allowed a second save due to retraction of mists).  Leeya and Dura are freed up as the dangerous ape decides to leave rather than fight whatever is happening.  It’s dull and angry mind still remembers the cocoon it would seem.  Vander stumbles back trying to understand what is happening.   Leeya steps up-  whatever is happening it’s because of this cocoon and needs to stop.The cocoon groans once more and a mutated man stumbles out and falls to his (its) knees.   He throws up them swipes his mouth.  He sits upright and pulls back his cowl.  His two eyes have fused into one and seven tentacles with eyes on them wriggle free of his wet hair.  Taking no chances, Leeya unleashes her most powerful spell at him and freezes him there killing him instantly.Vander helps Incarnum hold Mania back.  It is not easy.  In another minute or so the effects finally wear off.   Aura breaks down crying and both Leeya and Bora hold her.  She doesn’t want it at first but accepts it after a few moments.   Mania sits in a corner and seems shocked and in deep thought.“Can we destroy it?” asks Dura.“I don’t want to get near it.    I don’t know.” Answers Leeya.“We can’t just leave it can we?”    wonders Vander, still trying to understand what has happened to both himself and the others.“Can we?” echoes the warforged.“What concerns me the most is I recognized her.”  Bora brings up.“The party in Sharn,” Mania says with little emotion, “Muy I think was her name.”“Gods of the Sovereign Host….” Whispers Leeya.“Now what?” asks Bora.</blockquote>

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