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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Hairy Minotaur" data-source="post: 1216683" data-attributes="member: 11574">The eagle flies over to Xanoniel, and drops the gem into her outstretched hands. Okag scrambles to his feet and watches Xanoniel catch the gem. Okag puts his hand up to Tharhack and successfully casts hold person, paralyzing Tharhack in place. Rebrey recovers and rushes Okag, but he loses his footing and slips on his rear prior to reaching Okag. Okag takes this opportunity to reach down and pick up Rebrey by the throat, dangling him off to his right. "Now wood witch, give me back my gem, or I'll snap your little friend's neck." Okag demands."I think not ogre." Xanoniel answers, as she calls her eagle back to her shoulder.Okag gives Xanoniel a sly smirk before calling up another globe of darkness, enshrouding himself, Rebrey, and Tharhack. Xanoniel stands her ground as the eagle time with her elapses and it returns from whence it came. Xanoniel curses her indecisiveness, but tells herself this is only a bluff by the ogre."Release him and I'll let you have your gem back in pieces, hurt him and you won't live to see the dawn." Xanoniel repliesThere's no response from the ogre, Xanoniel realizes waiting won't give her any edge, as the ogre is probably healing up nicely behind his dark wall. Xanoniel goes over her available spells in her head trying to come up with something that would buy her and Rebrey some time. Then came a sickening crack from the darkness, then the sound of something dropping into the muddy street. Xanoniel calls out for Rebrey and Tharhack but gets no response. Xanoniel blocks out the sounds of the screaming halflings, blocks out the sound of the raging fire engulfing a farm house near the wheat field, blocks out the sound of her pulsing heart, and focuses on the sound of the freezing rain as it hits the muddy street. She feels the cold dripping off of her frigid nose. Then her hears the *schlink* of a sword being drawn from a scabbard behind her, turning she catches the sheen of wet steel as it slams into her left shoulder, almost cleaving her arm completely off. Blood gushes all around Xanoniel as she drops to both knees, she doesn't remember dropping the gem only that Okag was now holding it, taunting her with it. Felling her body growing colder from the blood loss and fearing shock will set in any second, Xanoniel spies only last ray of hope."Finish me, I'd rather not willing become your puppet." Xanoniel gets out weakly."My dear, I have no intentions of further harming your body, my servants will need all of your appendages." Okag replies looking down at the druid. Once Okag's eyes lock onto Xanoniel's however, Okag sees the deep green of an ocean long since vanished. Her wet hair it's waves pounding against a relentless surf. Okag is drawn into the depth of this vision, even as his host of ogre ghosts begin to materialize once again."Decapitate him." Xanoniel breathes her final breath. Okag hears the words but the meaning is lost until a sharp pain runs up the back of his right thigh, Rillkep's sword cuts deep into the ogre's leg. "Puny runt, I will torture you slowly and most painfully." Okag states taking a swipe at Rillkep's head but missing. Rillkep ponders his demise, he hope however to put up a good enough fight to allow his Hamlet to escape far enough away to avoid being hunted by this creature and his ghosts. Out of the corner of his eye he watches Xanoniel's lifeless body smack against the wet ground. Startling the ogre enough that he turns his hips to see what's behind him. Allowing Rillkep another undefended attack, this one drawing blood form the ogre's inner left thigh. "Enough of this!" Okag shouts as he disappears in front of Rillkep.Spinning around trying to find where the ogre went to. Rillkep gets a slam to the head. Okag reappears as he lifts Rillkep by his hair, so that Rillkep it eye level with Okag."Guts, while you have some now, they are something you'll have removed very shortly." Okag tells Rillkep.Okag was so caught up in his victory speech he failed to see the crippled figure emerge from the darkness, pick up Wilby's discarded sword, and cut Okag across the back. Okag drops Rillkep to meet this new threat. Turning to see Rebrey wielding a short sword in his left hand, his right arm horribly broken as the bones have broken through the skin and blood has drained down his arm and drips off his fingers. "My, My still have a little fight in you I see." Okag replies swinging a clawed fist at Rebrey who manages to somehow deflect the blow enough to only cause a minor scratch. Now flanked, Rillkep jumps to his feet and slices Okag across his left hamstring."NO! you people are like insects, I will squash you all now." Okag says as he disappears again. This time however Rebrey notices the depressions Okag's feet make in the now soft mud of the street. He watches out of the corner of his eye as Okag circles around behind him. Counting off in his head, Rebrey swings wide behind him slicing into Okag's left shin and causing the surprised ogre to lose his balance and fall to his side. Not wanting to waste Rebrey's fine act, Rillkep pounces on the same injured leg driving his sword's point deep into Okag's left knee. Okag kicks out at Rebrey with his right leg, hitting him squarely in the chest, sending Rebrey tumbling backwards where he lays motionless in the mud. Rillkep slashes out at Okag's legs again but fails to hit anything this time. Okag props himself up on his right knee, as his left leg is useless right now. He thrusts the gem into the night and it's emerald glow begins again. "While I will not admit to being humbled by a bunch of kneelings, I will admit to poor planning. However in the end either way, I still get mine." Okag states to Rillkep.The ghosts begin to stir once again, the body of Wilby begins to twitch, and rise from it's prone position. Okag gives Rillkep a smile, only to have the halfling return the same smile. Thinking that an odd way to accept defeat Okag shrugs his shoulders as his right arm is cleaved from his body by Tharhack's greatsword. The gem drops to the ground, and Rillkep dives for it. Okag screams in pain, as the ghosts begin their slow descent back to nothingness again. "She said decapitate him" Rillkep shouts point to OkagTharhack discards his greatsword and puts Okag in a head lock. Okag makes some vain attempts to dislodge Tharhack, whose muscles course with blue energy."What are you doing? She said you have to cut his head off!" Rillkep shouts at Tharhack"Cut? Hell, I'm going to rip it off it's foundations! See to Rebrey, if he still breathes we can save him yet." Tharhack answersBones crack and muscle tears as Tharhack slowly begins to overpower Okag. Rillkep finds Rebrey still breathing but barely as he administers what healing knowledge he does have. Rillkep thought he was doing something wrong as her heard a sick tearing sound, only to hear two more quick tearing sounds and then the sound of Tharhack sighing as Okag's headless body collapses into the mud.</blockquote>

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