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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Hairy Minotaur" data-source="post: 1299249" data-attributes="member: 11574">Rebrey stands upon the roof, watching wisps of black smoke rise from the hole in the roof. The warmth of the stone from the heat below, only rises to his ankles, as a biting cold breeze blows across his face. Not knowing the fate of Gothmog and Alriand, and unsure as to what Tharhack might be doing, Rebrey sits down on the roof. Watching the smoke puff out of the hole, Rebrey waits for the fire to die down, so that he can descend the tower. Emthur's body collides with the snowy ground, the three remaining glass balls on his necklace all explode at once. The wind whips up around Emthur's broken body, picking up snow and pieces of decaying body parts, sleet begins to fall through the whirlwind. Bolts of lightening crackle in the spaces between debris, giving the ice storm an electric blue tinge as it grows in size. Lightning rains down from the black cloud twisting above Emthur, mounds of snow are vaporized from the heat of the electrical strikes. Alriand felt the sting of ice chips bouncing off of her face, and opened her eyes to find herself cradled in Gothmog's arms. She could still feel the breathing of the big man, relived that he had made it through, Alriand looks around for the pegasus. Alriand only spots a patch of disturbed grass and earth, where the snow seemed to have been shoveled away by something big. Alriand watches the light show within the raging sleet storm, she sees a dark figure walking towards her through the swirling chaos. Immediately fearing the worst, Alriand stands up, and tries to wake Gothmog. Alriand shakes Gothmog, then slaps him, but he's still knocked out. Turning back to the storm, Alriand watches as lightening strikes the figure, but it doesn't slow it's progress. During the time between lightening bursts, when the dark cloud drowns out all light under it, the figure seems to disappear from Alriand's vision. Even darkvision is unable to locate the figure, but once another bolt of lightening arcs through the cloud, the figure is visible again, even in darkvision.The figure comes within forty feet of Alriand, Alriand can make out the jet black skin of the figure, it's head appears devoid of any hair. It's eyes appear to be all black, but it's teeth are a pale white, almost ghostly white. Alriand turns back to Gothmog and begins shaking him violently, trying to get him to come to, but the half-troll remains unaffected. Alriand turns back to the figure, but can't seem to locate it. Turning back to Gothmog, Alriand sees the figure leering over Gothmog's body. A foul stench emanates from it's body, it's skin is pulled tight across it's bones. It's eyes are pitch black, it opens it's very wide mouth, and a snake like tongue slithers out from between it's teeth, the tongue drops down and licks the sweat off of Gothmog's forehead. "Get away!" Alriand screams at the creatureThe creature though completely ignores Alriand, and with it's sharp claws, begins to remove Gothmog's stone armor plates. Alriand pushes the creature off of Gothmog, and imposes herself between the creature and Gothmog. The creature sits back up, and snakes it's three foot tongue out to Gothmog, Alriand slaps it away. The creature seems to not even notice Alriand's presence, instead training all of it's focus on the unconscious Gothmog.Tharhack makes his way up the ramp, and comes to the ivory doors, a human man is fused to the middle of both doors. Tharhack looks on in wonder and disbelief, Tharhack can hear the man snoring, so me must still be alive. Reaching a hand out to touch the man's head, causes the man to awake from his slumber."Kill me." The man says "Who are you? Why are you stuck there like that?" Tharhack asks"Who..... am ..... I? Who? Whoo whoo. Owl, whoot owl." The man replies"I don't understand. Is your name Owl?" Tharhack inquires"Is today blue? Master doesn't like green, turns it white." The man replies"You aren't making any sense, how can I get you out of the doors?" Tharhack asks"Think you're a little bit closer to changing me? You're never winning me over, you're wasting time." comes the reply"How long have you been here?" Tharhack tries another question"Take all the pain away, I cannot stay my hand from reaching out, so that I can empower you for all eternity." answers the man"You poor man, did Emthur do this to you?" Tharhack asks"Look at what you've done to me. You've become my enemy, poisoning the world for me. Take away my everything, weakened as I am." the man replies"You're a nut case. How do I get inside?" Tharhack asks"Do you really think I covet like you do?" The man answersTharhack gives up trying to interrogate the man, and starts looking for a way to gain entry to the building. After a couple moments of searching, Tharhack locates a small lever to the right of the door."Don't touch that!" Shouts the manTharhack's hand jumps back, but then Tharhack theorizes that the man is delusional anyway, and reaches out again for the lever."I said don't touch that!" The man shouts at Tharhack again"So, you can hold an intelligent conversation, why can't I touch it?" Tharhack asks"I stand on the brink of your mind, living inside a nightmare from which I just cannot awaken." Comes the responseFed up, Tharhack pulls the lever down. The doors begin to creak, and dust drops from the doorframe above the doors. The man lets out a terrible scream, as his body is torn in two by the separating doors. Blood flows from the two halves, and quickly floods the landing in front of the doors. Tharhack startled by the scene, quickly returns the lever in the upright position. The doors closes again, and like a zipper, the man is returned whole again."I told you to not touch that!" The man yells at TharhackStanding in an inch of fresh blood, Tharhack removes his hand from the lever, and stares at the man.</blockquote>

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