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Message: <blockquote data-quote="megamania" data-source="post: 1596303" data-attributes="member: 9255">STRIKEFORCE: MORITURISEGMENT 062“The Blue Death”The Captain successfully avoided the lightning discharge from the Blue Death but failed to avoid the next attack.  The blue dragon flapped its large wings hard.  It did not wish to fly but only to disturb the lose dust and dirt.  The Captain’s shield could block only so much of this.  His eyes blinking against his will he backed up to a doorway and fled inside.  The Blue Death cocked its head and harrumphed with a slight electric sparkle.He dropped to his four feet and began to walk across the courtyard.  He mindlessly stepped on the dead gnolls with little thought.  “Oh no.  The sly human has run away and I can’t find him in these ruins.” The Blue Death sarcastically says.    As he reaches the doorway, preparing to breathe into it with all of its might, the Captain strikes.  Unfortunately for him, Blue had heard him climbing inside to attack from above.The Captain reaches back to throw his shield when the lightning arcs up and strikes him.  The armor he wears burns his skin as the lightning heats it and arcs through his body.  The Captain finishes his throw however.  The shield strikes Blue hard but ricochets away.  Not understanding or expecting part of its enchantment, he is unexpected by the following strike which strikes an eye.  The shield bounces around two more times before returning to the Captain’s trembling hand.“Rarrrgh!  What magics are these!” Blue Death snarls with blood pouring from its one damaged eye.  “I will add that weapon to my treasure once I tear it from your burned body!”  The Dragon now begins to flap its wings to rise from the ground.“Ugh”, moans the smoking WWII veteran soldier.  The Captain climbs to his feet using his shield for support.  He quickly thinks about lightning and electricity since THIS dragon seems to be electrical- not fire.  Maybe that’s why it is blue instead of green he figures in ignorance.  Hearing the dragon’s wings again, the Captain begins to move to the back of the ruined building.The plastered wall begins to shatter and explode as a new line of white lightning tore through the outer walls.  The Captain shielded himself as he ran down the stone steps and exited out the back door.  The shadow of the Blue Death fell over him quickly.  He ran into a new building looking to avoid a flyby attack of any kind.  The Blue Death cursed in Draconic and passed by before landing nearby.The Captain throws his magical artifact again.  The shield strikes the Dragon four times as it bounces and returns at the dragon just as hard as before.  Scales are cracking and the dragon is in pain.  How can this base human do this?  A new blast of lightning strikes the Captain throwing him back and off his feet with his shield intact.  The shield absorbed much of the impact and power of the discharge this time.  Still, the Captain is in a great deal of pain as the electrical burns are causing his skin to blister and his heart to pump irregularly.The Captain spots a deep crack in the ground and tries to move silently into it.  The Blue Death knows this area and smiles as only a dragon can.  It slowly picks up a stone and begins to hum a strange tone.  It walks to the hole and waves one clawed paw over the stone held by the other.  It then gently lets go of it as it drops into the hole.  The entire time it smiles at it’s own great amusement.The Captain drops into the hole hoping for cover and to find a secret exit.  No such thing.  Instead he finds himself in a roughly cone shaped hole.  A trap.  Worse, hearing the talons and tail above scrapping near the surface, the Captain realizes it is a trap made by the Dragon.  He looks up and seems a small stone drop from the top.  Halfway down he suddenly sees nothing at all.  Even his thick leather and metal gloves can not be seen before his eyes.  His combat reflections act even as he realizes what is next.  He directs his shield up for any incoming electrical attack.  Due to the shape of the pit, he can not know for sure where the dragon is above but the dragon knows exactly where he is in this magical darkness.The Captain braces himself for the expected attack but nothing happens.He waits still with his shield held high in protection.Nothing.Then, in his own voice, he hears himself say from above-  “arms tired yet human?  I suspect you have been holding that marvelous and beautiful shield high for protection for some time now.”  The voice sounds like the Captains but the tone is unmistakably cold and devoid of emotion.  “Your shield …it defies logic and even any known magic I am aware of.  It is an artifact.  Am I correct?  I just LOOOVE artifacts.  I have not found any to have in a long time.  Generally the powers that are here wish for no artifacts to be brought in without their permission.  Where did you get it?”It is the dragon’s turn to wait impatiently.  It doesn’t like it.“I want answers!  Where did you find it?!?”silenceThe Blue Death rears up its horned head, electricity arcing from it with excitement, it lands hard and fires in a blast.  The scream of pain and the faint smell of cooked flesh (even human flesh) satisfies the scaled horror greatly.With a great smile and sense of security, the adult wyrm asks once more in it’s softest voice it can manage (a female bard from two years ago) – “Where did you find the artifact?”</blockquote>

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