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Message: <blockquote data-quote="BoldItalic" data-source="post: 7220675" data-attributes="member: 6777052">She reached out with her mental halberd, just as ...... Bar-De-Door teleported 500 feet straight up and hovered over the inn. He had cast Dimension Door.The entity that was Us screeched to a halt and hurtled back along the underground tunnels, accidentally engulfing Foghorn, Sister Jericho, Ronni, Knife and Keyes as it passed through them on the way.[TABLE="width: 80%"][TR][TD]Foghorn:[/TD][TD]What happened?[/TD][/TR][TR][TD]Tasha:[/TD][TD]No time to explain.[/TD][/TR][TR][TD]Knife:[/TD][TD]What are you all doing in my mind? Get out![/TD][/TR][TR][TD]Goatee:[/TD][TD]We aren't in your mind. You are in the mind of Us.[/TD][/TR][TR][TD]Knife:[/TD][TD]Well, I don't like it! Let me go immediately![/TD][/TR][TR][TD]Adeliva:[/TD][TD]Don't worry, dear, you can leave at any time. Just do this.[/TD][/TR][TR][TD]Knife:[/TD][TD]I'm doing this but I'm still here.[/TD][/TR][TR][TD]Tasha:[/TD][TD]Hold on, something's not right.[/TD][/TR][TR][TD]Albert:[/TD][TD]I'm trying too. It's stopped working.[/TD][/TR][TR][TD]Sister Jericho:[/TD][TD]What's gone wrong?[/TD][/TR][TR][TD]Tasha:[/TD][TD]I don't know.[/TD][/TR][TR][TD]Sister Jericho:[/TD][TD]I think I know.[/TD][/TR][TR][TD]Knife:[/TD][TD]Go on, then.[/TD][/TR][TR][TD]Sister Jericho:[/TD][TD]It's my Ring of Invincibility. It won't let Us split up because it would damage Us.[/TD][/TR][TR][TD]Ronni:[/TD][TD]So we are all in this permanently?[/TD][/TR][TR][TD]Albert:[/TD][TD]That could be embarassing.[/TD][/TR][TR][TD]Ronni:[/TD][TD]This has possibilities. How fast can this thing go? And can it go Stealthy?[/TD][/TR][TR][TD]Albert:[/TD][TD]We tried once, but it didn't work. Bar-De-Door was waiting for us.[/TD][/TR][TR][TD]Foghorn:[/TD][TD]Speaking of which, shouldn't we get after him?[/TD][/TR][TR][TD]Tasha:[/TD][TD]We might not be able to do anything, like this. We can't grapple him, for instance.[/TD][/TR][TR][TD]Footnote:[/TD][TD]What if you take the ring off?[/TD][/TR][TR][TD]Sister Jericho:[/TD][TD]It cannot be removed by mortal means. We'd have to ask Athena.[/TD][/TR][TR][TD]Tasha:[/TD][TD]Can we do that?[/TD][/TR][TR][TD]Sister Jericho:[/TD][TD]We could teleport to the abode of the gods and see if she's home.[/TD][/TR][TR][TD]Ronni:[/TD][TD]We can actually do that? Cool![/TD][/TR][/TABLE]In the abode of the gods, Athena was studying a tiny model of the Awning Pothole with an even tinier figure of Bar-De-Door suspended above it. "Ah, there you are," she remarked. "Well done. I hope you like your new mode of existence?""We'd rather like to be able to separate again, as an At-Will bonus action," explained sister Jericho, who was by common consent their spokesperson in the presence of deities."It doesn't work like that, dear. Once you have achieved godhead, there's no going back. You know too much."There was an uncomfortable shuffling of feet at this turn of events. "Er ... Us is a deity?" asked Sister Jericho in a shaky voice. "We ... weren't expecting ...""Yes, dear. You'll fit in here beautifully. Just make yourself at home. The others are looking forward to meeting you.""Um," ventured Foghorn. "About Bar-De-Door?""Oh, we can soon fix that," replied Athena. She touched the suspended Bar-De-Door and breathed the True Self spell that only deities know. The erstwhile sorcerer king reverted to his original form of a bar of soap and, no longer supported by magic, fell down straight through the awning to land on the bar of the inn. In the model, some tiny goblinz were already repainting the inn sign - it was now called the Painted Pumpkin - and had hired a one-eyed barkeeper called Jak. As they watched, a barbarian called Throg Throggsonn swaggered in ...►<a href="http://www.enworld.org/forum/showthread.php?546123-So-long-and-thanks-for-all-the-fish!&p=7104430&viewfull=1#post7104430" target="_blank">Continuation Thread</a></blockquote>

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