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Message: <blockquote data-quote="megamania" data-source="post: 1624965" data-attributes="member: 9255">STRIKEFORCE:  MORITURISEGMENT 068“ The Team Reunited …Minus One”The Ogre never had a chance.It saw a lone and injured weaponless human and thought “yumm …easy food” The dim witted Giant-kin never suspected the power of The Captain’s shield.  The first strike broke ribs and collapsed a lung leaving it wheezing and tottering on the edge of a hole.  Then the shield whirled around in mid air and struck him again and again.  The shoulder seemed to explode and even as the world went black it struck him again on the knee shattering it and causing him to fall into the hole.The shield magically flies back to the Captain’s outstretched arm and stops even as he grasps it.  The Captain is becoming tired and depressed.  He has been walking for several hours trying to locate his teammates and the artifact.  The artifact has been on the move, which concerns him.  Does this mean they failed?  Or has a teammate gotten it?Part of his answer is narrowed down as a familiar voice calls out to him for aid.  Megamania.  He and two slender warriors are carrying Vander and his armor.  Not a good sign suspects the Captain.  Even as fifty feet away he can see the blood and the sheer amount of it that stems from his head.The Captain runs over and sees that Vander has died a grisly death.  His head has been crush from above and his brain removed or lost.  A ghostly look still on his face that is pale from blood loss looks up at the Captain.  Kneeling down, The Captain prays to god for and any god Vander believed in and remains kneeling there for several moments before first standing up with his head low then pretending to adjust his facemask, rubs his red eyes.  “What happened?”“It’s how we found him” answers Megamania as if truly speaking to a General or Captain in the military.“Mind Flayer”“a  …mind flayer?” asks the Captain to the slim figure before him.  Looking at the warrior he realizes his mistake.  He thought both warriors were female.  The slim body type and long hair tricked him.  The figure that spoke to him was a male.“And you are …?”“I am Faejahhal.  This is Celion.  We are a paladin and a cleric of Corellon Larethian.  Your friend here saved my life using an unique healing technique called cee-pee-are.  We were looking for you and the others when we found Vander on the bridge.   Dead.  His injuries suggest a mind flayer attack.  I am sorry.  We do not have the means to resurrect him.  At the words of resurrection, the Captain’s eyebrows raise and image his god’s son come to mind.  This world …so strange, so very, very strange.“Captain, my detector is not working well.  Christina is missing and Jean’s seems ..faint.  Looking down- to look at it again-  Holy ****!  The artifact is moving!  He looks up stunned to the Captain then grits his teeth.  He is really trying to control his use of colorful language around the Captain.  If it bothered him this time, it does not show.“Okay, lets try to find Jean.  She is roughly on the way of artifact.  If an agent of the Tattooed Man does have it, we’ll need all the power we can muster and her lightning and control over weather will be very helpful.Foregoing the original mission (for now), the two elves follow The Captain and Megamania and continue to help with Vander body.After several hours of searching they note that Jean seems to be heading towards the artifact.  They are entering an area with tall towers made of stone with layers of wood and bark covering them.  The towers are several stories high.  Some nearly 10.  “Have you noticed that the crystals are no longer following us?”Asks Jim aka Megamania.“Yes but this doesn’t change things any.  We need to find Jean and the artifact.”“You have found me but I wish none to see me.” Comes a voice from the shadows.“Jean- is that you? Your voice is so hoarse-…” begins the Captain.  He is interrupted by the very ground trembling then cracking.“Looking to the epic center the Captain yells for everyone to take cover.  The cracks spread out like a huge web then erupt in an explosion of rock, earth and pieces of wood.  A loud growl is heard and up out of the hole climbs out a mighty creature.  Huge and armored, it climbs out of the hole now measuring over 30ft wide.“What in the world?”  mumbles Megamania in stunned indifference.In its hands are two things.  A minotaur holding the required prize to win the “contest” and in the other, a blue skinned woman holding a staff.  The artifact and it is held by the shape changer that nearly killed the party through trickery and deceit.“oh ****” The Captain lets slip.**********For reader’s- it is an Adamantine Golem************** <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /></blockquote>

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