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Message: <blockquote data-quote="megamania" data-source="post: 1928909" data-attributes="member: 9255">STRIKEFORCE: MORITURISEGMENT: 081“DREADLOCKED SPIKED UGLY SMELLING TROLL THINGIE!” Jim stares at the grooved ceiling.  The glow coming from his body allows for him to see it well enough.  He perceives the etched lines and thinks about the Japanese stone gardens.  So beautiful and with hidden meaning.  He moves his head to his side.  Christina is sleeping.  She has her own glow.  It is not the magics she used to become immune to his Spellfire that crackles on touch.  No.  She is happy.  The happiest he has seen her ever.  She …loves him and he …her.Of all the women in the multiverse to fall for.  At least Momma stayed in her dimensional pocket.  He hates making love and looking up to see the cat staring at him, twitching her tail.  It was worse once he learned the cat was her mother.  Oh the humanity.His moment of peace and introspective is broken by the Captain shouting out from the balcony.  Intruder!Jim runs out to the main hall.  From there he sees the Captain using his shield to hold off tentacles from a troll-like creature.  Each of its tentacles has multiple mouths on it.  It speaks in a hard and loud language.  Where its head should be looks like black cords with a mouth within it.  The mouth has long and razor sharp teeth.  It stands over 9 feet tall.  ( Epic Handbook- Pseudonatural Troll page 211)The Captain calls Jim to stay back as he hurls his shield.  The shield flies out striking the creature several times but it does little to no harm to its resilient skin.  The creature attacks again even as his shield magically returns to his arm to defend him.  Five of the six tentacles complete with thorny spikes strike.  One is batted aside easily but the other four snake around the shield and strike him.  He screams in pain as the tentacles coil tearing into his armor and armor then they lift him up and begin to saw and pull at him.  The rending attack is killing him.Jean, never truly asleep runs out.  Her room was the closest to the Captain’s watch position.  She immediately releases a lightning bolt at the planar creature.  The air crackles and the creature pauses then shakes and stiffens as the lightning courses through it.  The Captain shudders.  Jim rushes in and grabs at the Captain.  He directly releases a blast of pure magic into the creature making it howl in pain.  The Captain tries to pull free but can not.  Sasha stumbles out saying the creature will kill the Captain if allowed to attack again.  She says this before even seeing what they face.  The creature pauses then changes form.  The legs and arms pull into the body as new tentacles sprout from its back.  The mouth gives one more snarl and hiss before tentacles spill out of it.  Soon, the Captain is covered by a mass of swirling and grouping spiked, multi-eyed and mouthed tentacles.  He is nearly unconscious from the pain from the first attack.  Christina, still wearing only a nightshirt begins to call onto the power of Infiniti.  An aura surrounds the creature then fades.  “It is resistant to magical effects!” she curses out loud after trying to Banish the creature.  Then comes Vander.  Vander’s psionic falchion audibly sings and he pulls the sheath from it.  Wearing no armor he walks directly up to the swirling mass and begins to cut at it.  Two strikes hit cutting off chunks of the beast.  Most of the original damage regrows back!  (DR25/+6 OUCH!)  If Vander is scared, he doesn’t show it.Jean, sensing how close the Captain is to becoming lifeless, changes tactics and drops the temperature radically around the creature.  Ice forms and breaks as it tries to roll and slither away with its prize.  The cold strikes but it is shrugging off the worst of it.  Jim, now thoroughly pissed strikes again.  He blasts at the creature with as much power as he feels he can safely.  The creature screams and throws the near lifeless body of the Captain into Jim’s glowing body.  The attack knocks the wind out of the unarmored and surprised rogue.  The creature Dimensional Doors to the edge of the balcony and tries to escape. She sears the creature by opening a small but highly effective gate into the plane of sound.  The sub-sonics tear the creature apart.Christina immediately goes to the Captain’s body.  Deep cuts and torn muscles pulse sickly.  “Can you help him?  I don’t like the idea of another walking dead with us.” Quips Jim thinking about Vander’s resurrection.  The words tear into Jean’s soul instead.  “Yes- just hold him still.  The damage is more than physical.”20 minutes go by before Christina and Sasha are done healing the Captain’s visible injuries and the Constitution loss he received also.  His armor is badly mired but as always- the shield shines like a universe waking up.Sasha takes guards as she continues to watch over the Captain.  The others return to their rooms.  Jean sits in the dark …by herself.   Silently she repeats “walking dead…walking dead …walking dead…” for many hours until daybreak occurs.</blockquote>

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