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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Gregor" data-source="post: 5792639" data-attributes="member: 11751">The show begins...Starting at the back of the theater and cascading forward, lantern flames flicker and vanish, drawing your attention toward the spotlit stage. When only a handful of lanterns remain, violins, cellos, and a tinny drumroll sound from the walls, seeming to come from nowhere. The last lanterns are snuffed, the curtain slowly crawls to the forty-foot high ceiling, and then even the spotlights die, fading like the setting sun, white to orange to blood red. The drum rises to a crescendo, and then go silent just as a man strides onto stage, a spotlight snapping him into view.He hurries across the stage and casts a furtive glance to the audience. You recognize the actor, under layers of magic and illusion, as Giorgio the Wayfarer from the Council meeting. He plays the role of the ancient orc geomancer, Toteth Topec, clad in a white traveling robe of ancient times. Then from the shadows of the theater’s ceiling, a serpent dives like a pearly lightning bolt, snapping its jaws just as Toteth dives out of reach. Violin strings cry out in fright from the walls. The geomancer somersaults to his feet and pulls a long black staff from under his robe.  The serpent rises into the air, snarling in rage, its tail whipping past Toteth like the trough of a iridescent wave. Just when the dragon’s tail is almost out of reach, Toteth leaps and graps the tail one hand, holding his long club of a staff in the other.Drums sound, horns cheer, and the audience gasps as, flying through the air, Toteth clambers up the beast’s back, fights off it’s thundering bites, digs his hand into the monster’s eye, and cracks out one of the dragon’s teeth with a ferocious swing of his staff. The wyrm bucks and vanishes into the shadowed sky, and Toteth flips and rolls twenty feet to the ground, stones cracking where his hands and feet strike.The audience stands and applauds, and so begins The Spectacular Trial of Toteth Topec.[sblock="for Kirio"]Kirio, you have no idea how the theatre could be possible, save that it is obviously extremely high magic - probably planar magic. [/sblock]</blockquote>

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