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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Trouvere" data-source="post: 5324905" data-attributes="member: 37250">Quozen takes off, heading south.  The sunrod clatters to the cobbles not far from Midias.[sblock=Midias]Ngikhnit reels, battered by an unseen force that first has him doubled over and then snaps his head back.  Blisters break out across his face.  He ends up slumped against the stall behind him, eyes glazed, and barely breathing, at the very edge of death.Something whistles past Midias' own head.Meanwhile, beyond Quozen, a figure comes  into the alleyway to the Square, bearing a light at shoulder height.  He hastens forward to meet the elf, calling excitedly."Lads? Lads?  Ah, there you are!  It's me, Old Gillin!  I changed my mind!  Wandering at night with adventurers one last time, in search of who knows what - I had to come after.  What are you doing in here?  And what is that smell?"It is indeed Gillin, with Mildred, his glowing morning star.[/sblock][sblock=Ngikhnit]A blow comes from nowhere, catching Ngikhnit in the ribs, pushing him to the very edge of unconsciousness.  He sees the creature now, just before a vicious slap of a tentacle takes him full in the face, blistering his skin with acid and snapping his head back hard.  Darkness claims him.OOG: first attack hits for <a href="http://invisiblecastle.com/roller/view/2692073/" target="_blank">4</a>, taking Ngikhnit to 0; second blow hits for <a href="http://invisiblecastle.com/roller/view/2692074/" target="_blank">4</a>, with a natural 20 <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt="(:" title="Smile    (:"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname="(:" />eek<img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />; crit confirmed, for an additional <a href="http://invisiblecastle.com/roller/view/2692075/" target="_blank">5</a>.  Ngikhnit is on -9.[/sblock][sblock=Peladus]Looking back to see whether anyone is coming to help with the net, Peladus instead sees Ngikhnit reel, battered by an unseen force that first has him doubled over and then snaps his head back hard.  Blisters break out across his face.  He ends up slumped against the stall behind him, eyes open, barely breathing.A moment later, Peladus' vision defeats the creature's maddening ability to slip from sight.  The creature has crawled east between the two left standing.  Midias' posture makes it clear that he is unaware it has moved.As this is going on, the voice calling out from the other side of the Square becomes louder and clearer.  And familiar."Lads? Lads?  Ah, there you are!  It's me, Old Gillin!  I changed my mind!  Wandering at night with adventurers one last time, in search of who knows what - I had to come after.  What are you doing in here?  And what is that smell?"[/sblock][sblock=Pendrake]Once more Pendrake's vision defeats the creature's maddening ability to slip from view.  But what he sees is horrid.  The creature thrusts a bulbous outgrowth of its shapeless body into Ngikhnit's midriff, doubling him over, and then a vicious slap of a tentacle takes him full in the face, blistering his skin with acid and snapping his head back hard.  He ends up slumped against the stall behind him, eyes glazed, and barely breathing.The creature appears to realise that Ngikhnit is no threat, since its other tentacle whips through the air past Midias, and it slithers slug-like to the east, between the two left standing.Midias' posture makes it clear he is unaware the creature has moved.Meanwhile, a figure comes around the corner of Spelding Row into the alleyway to the Square, bearing a light at shoulder height, hastening to meet Quozen.  He's calling excitedly, but his words are lost in the distraction of battle.  It's still unmistakably Gillin, with Mildred, his glowing morning star.[/sblock][sblock=Quozen]The distractions of the battle are left behind as Quozen heads south.The voice from the street is calling "Lads? Lads?"A figure comes around the corner into the alleyway to the Square,  and hastens to meet Quozen.  He shouts into his face: "Ah, there you are!  It's me, Old Gillin!  I changed my mind!  Wandering at night with adventurers one last time, in search of who knows what - I had to come after.  What are you doing in here?  And what is that smell?"It is Gillin, with Mildred, his glowing morning star.[/sblock][sblock=Maps][sblock=Midias]<img src="http://img710.imageshack.us/img710/1401/midias32.png" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " data-size="" style="" />[/sblock][sblock=Peladus]<img src="http://img155.imageshack.us/img155/903/peladus32.png" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " data-size="" style="" />[/sblock][sblock=Pendrake]<img src="http://img530.imageshack.us/img530/4597/pendrake32.png" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " data-size="" style="" />[/sblock][sblock=Quozen]<img src="http://img840.imageshack.us/img840/776/quozen32.png" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " data-size="" style="" />[/IMG][/sblock][/sblock]OOG: Round 12.  Pendrake...</blockquote>

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