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<blockquote data-quote="Hairy Minotaur" data-source="post: 1328223" data-attributes="member: 11574"><p>Tharhack drags Empythacoreaus off of the stairs, and back into the laboratory. Tharhack gives the pit fiend two <em>cure moderate</em> heals, which bring the pit fiend back to consciousness.</p><p></p><p>"What happened?" Charekyal asked Empythacoreaus before Tharhack got the chance</p><p></p><p>"I don't know what that thing is, although I suspect that it is the remnants of the human wizard who placed Ageanent in his prison." Empythacoreaus answered</p><p></p><p>The trio heard heavy footsteps coming down the steps, Tharhack helps Empythacoreaus to his feet, and they watch as the rest of Ageanent's body lumbers down the stairs. Headless and missing it's left arm, the body appears to smoke in the same fashion Ageanent's head did before it exploded. </p><p></p><p>"Move! lets get out of here!" Empythacoreaus shouts as he herds Tharhack and Charekyal towards the stairs leading back down to the eye sockets room. </p><p></p><p>Empythacoreaus ushers Charekyal down the stairs first, Tharhack turns back to watch the body stagger towards the group.</p><p></p><p>"It's not going off." Tharhack says aloud</p><p></p><p>"More body left than just a head or arm, my guess it's going to follow us down the stairs." Empythacoreaus says grabbing Tharhack and placing him on the steps ahead of the pit fiend, and urging him down the stairs.</p><p></p><p>Tharhack and Empythacoreaus make it down the stairs to a waiting Charekyal.</p><p></p><p>"Where now?" Charekyal asks</p><p></p><p>"Out through the eyes." Empythacoreaus tells her</p><p></p><p>The three begin to climb the ladder up to the left eye socket, as the body of Ageanent falls down the stairs onto the floor beneath them. The body glows with an angry red light, almost crimson in color.</p><p></p><p>"Hurry!" Empythacoreaus shouts at Tharhack who is still climbing the ladder </p><p></p><p>Tharhack reaches the last rung and as he's lifting his body over the edge of the landing, the explosion they knew was coming goes off. Tharhack's body gets shot through the air like a missile into Empythacoreaus, Charekyal while avoid the blast itself, is dropped prone from the reverberations from the blast. The giant skull shakes as the power of the blast forces itself through any and all openings. The top of the skull collapses and pieces of bone from the eye socket are blow off the skull. Large pressure fractures appear on the outside forehead of the structure, as well as to either side of both eye sockets. </p><p></p><p>The right eye socket completely collapses inward on top of the nasal cavity, and spilling through the second level floor. This also causes a partial collapse of the left eye socket as the support bone between the eyes, is taken down with the right eye socket's collapse. The dust begins to settle, as small pieces still flake and fall off from the top of the huge hole where the right eye used to be, and also where the large cracks have formed along the exterior surface of the skull. An unearthly quiet spreads itself over the structure, Charekyal pulls herself up on her hands and knees, and begins to sob. Empythacoreaus and Tharhack force their battered bodies into a sitting position. They see Charekyal moving and assume she's ok for now, as they are unable to hear her sobs as their ears ring with pain from the blast. </p><p></p><p>Looking back at each other in disbelief, Tharhack and Empythacoreaus watch as a huge chunk of bone topples from the left eye socket, and crashes onto the debris below. The two men stand and make their way on unsteady legs to Charekyal, helping her to her feet, Tharhack wipes the tears from her burning cheek. </p><p></p><p>"I CAN'T HEAR ANYTHING!" Charekyal shouts over the ringing in her eyes</p><p></p><p>Empythacoreaus puts a clawed finger to his lips as if to shhh the fire nymph, then raises her head so that she's staring at his face, and mouths the words "it will pass" </p><p></p><p>Empythacoreaus gathers Tharhack and Charekyal into his arms and flies them off of the platform, and down to the ground below. Looking up and back at the structure, they can see the huge hole in the right side of the skull's face, and the fault lines of the fracture lines as they radiate outward from the eye sockets or what's left of them anyway. </p><p></p><p>Charekyal walks towards the entrance doors to the structure, Empythacoreaus goes to reach for her and pull her back, but Tharhack stops him. Realizing what she's doing, Tharhack motions to Empythacoreaus to let her go. </p><p></p><p>Charekyal makes her way to the still intact front doors, a pang of recognition begins to form in the doorman's eyes. Charekyal come face to face with the man who held her heart, and then let it slip away. Crying, Charekyal reaches up to touch the cheek of the only being she's ever loved. The doorman's burned skin continuously heals itself as Charekyal traces a tear back up to the man's eye. Tears of happiness, of pain, of broken hearts, and of closure rain down on the ground in front of the doors. </p><p></p><p>Tharhack watches as the doorman says something to Charekyal over and over again, although it doesn't appear to be an apology. Charekyal backs away from the door, and motions for Empythacoreaus to join her. Tharhack watches as Charekyal describes an action she wants Empythacoreaus to take, one he's vehemently denying to do. Charekyal falls to her knees and weeps, Empythacoreaus waves Tharhack up. Empythacoreaus walks away from Charekyal and towards Tharhack, he gives Tharhack a knowing glance as he passes by him without uttering a word or mouthing a word. </p><p></p><p>Tharhack reaches Charekyal and places a hand in front of her to offer her a lift up, Charekyal looks up into Tharhack's eyes, Tharhack feels the pull of pity as he can only imagine the betrayal she went through. Charekyal points to a large bone block that has fallen to the ground near the doors, then points to the doors themselves. Tharhack doesn't get her meaning, and doesn't get what Empythacoreaus' problem with this task is. Tharhack retrieves the heavy rock, and carries it over the doorman and rests it against the doors. </p><p></p><p>Charekyal goes to the lever, and pulls down, forcing the doors to open and splitting the doorman in half as Tharhack is showered in a spray of blood. It is then that Tharhack realizes what he has been asked to do, if the doors never close the doorman never regenerates. Empythacoreaus couldn't bring himself to kill an innocent, Tharhack looks back to see Empythacoreaus standing with his back to the doors, unable to watch. Tharhack turns back to Charekyal, who watches Tharhack intently with pleading eyes. Tharhack understands now that the doorman had been pleading for his death. Tharhack searches for someplace within him that tells him this is alright, someplace that would allow him to not feel guilt over this. Tharhack wanted to help the tortured man, but if a pit fiend couldn't bring itself to kill this man, how could Tharhack do it?</p><p></p><p>Tharhack pushes the block into place with his foot, and Charekyal releases the lever. The doors close up to the block, and go no further. Charekyal walks away about ten feet, and crumbles to the ground. Empythacoreaus goes to console her, and Tharhack feels a little less regal, a little less mortal. He remembers back to his own mother, a slave to his orc clan, and how she pleaded with him to end her tortured existence. Maybe this was his attempt to make up for not granting her soul peace. </p><p></p><p>Tharhack's reflection is interrupted by a searing touch to his hand, as Charekyal breaks him out of his memory, and thanks him for doing what no one else could do, yet what needed to be done to give peace to a shattered soul. Tharhack wishes he could say something meaningful, yet nothing comes to mind. Instead he merely keeps his thoughts to himself and accepts Charekyal's gratitude. Tharhack turns and leaves the door behind, and spots two figures dragging something big behind them approaching from the direction of the tower. Tharhack's mood becomes elation as he hails his friends and urges Charekyal and Empythacoreaus to follow him.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Hairy Minotaur, post: 1328223, member: 11574"] Tharhack drags Empythacoreaus off of the stairs, and back into the laboratory. Tharhack gives the pit fiend two [I]cure moderate[/I] heals, which bring the pit fiend back to consciousness. "What happened?" Charekyal asked Empythacoreaus before Tharhack got the chance "I don't know what that thing is, although I suspect that it is the remnants of the human wizard who placed Ageanent in his prison." Empythacoreaus answered The trio heard heavy footsteps coming down the steps, Tharhack helps Empythacoreaus to his feet, and they watch as the rest of Ageanent's body lumbers down the stairs. Headless and missing it's left arm, the body appears to smoke in the same fashion Ageanent's head did before it exploded. "Move! lets get out of here!" Empythacoreaus shouts as he herds Tharhack and Charekyal towards the stairs leading back down to the eye sockets room. Empythacoreaus ushers Charekyal down the stairs first, Tharhack turns back to watch the body stagger towards the group. "It's not going off." Tharhack says aloud "More body left than just a head or arm, my guess it's going to follow us down the stairs." Empythacoreaus says grabbing Tharhack and placing him on the steps ahead of the pit fiend, and urging him down the stairs. Tharhack and Empythacoreaus make it down the stairs to a waiting Charekyal. "Where now?" Charekyal asks "Out through the eyes." Empythacoreaus tells her The three begin to climb the ladder up to the left eye socket, as the body of Ageanent falls down the stairs onto the floor beneath them. The body glows with an angry red light, almost crimson in color. "Hurry!" Empythacoreaus shouts at Tharhack who is still climbing the ladder Tharhack reaches the last rung and as he's lifting his body over the edge of the landing, the explosion they knew was coming goes off. Tharhack's body gets shot through the air like a missile into Empythacoreaus, Charekyal while avoid the blast itself, is dropped prone from the reverberations from the blast. The giant skull shakes as the power of the blast forces itself through any and all openings. The top of the skull collapses and pieces of bone from the eye socket are blow off the skull. Large pressure fractures appear on the outside forehead of the structure, as well as to either side of both eye sockets. The right eye socket completely collapses inward on top of the nasal cavity, and spilling through the second level floor. This also causes a partial collapse of the left eye socket as the support bone between the eyes, is taken down with the right eye socket's collapse. The dust begins to settle, as small pieces still flake and fall off from the top of the huge hole where the right eye used to be, and also where the large cracks have formed along the exterior surface of the skull. An unearthly quiet spreads itself over the structure, Charekyal pulls herself up on her hands and knees, and begins to sob. Empythacoreaus and Tharhack force their battered bodies into a sitting position. They see Charekyal moving and assume she's ok for now, as they are unable to hear her sobs as their ears ring with pain from the blast. Looking back at each other in disbelief, Tharhack and Empythacoreaus watch as a huge chunk of bone topples from the left eye socket, and crashes onto the debris below. The two men stand and make their way on unsteady legs to Charekyal, helping her to her feet, Tharhack wipes the tears from her burning cheek. "I CAN'T HEAR ANYTHING!" Charekyal shouts over the ringing in her eyes Empythacoreaus puts a clawed finger to his lips as if to shhh the fire nymph, then raises her head so that she's staring at his face, and mouths the words "it will pass" Empythacoreaus gathers Tharhack and Charekyal into his arms and flies them off of the platform, and down to the ground below. Looking up and back at the structure, they can see the huge hole in the right side of the skull's face, and the fault lines of the fracture lines as they radiate outward from the eye sockets or what's left of them anyway. Charekyal walks towards the entrance doors to the structure, Empythacoreaus goes to reach for her and pull her back, but Tharhack stops him. Realizing what she's doing, Tharhack motions to Empythacoreaus to let her go. Charekyal makes her way to the still intact front doors, a pang of recognition begins to form in the doorman's eyes. Charekyal come face to face with the man who held her heart, and then let it slip away. Crying, Charekyal reaches up to touch the cheek of the only being she's ever loved. The doorman's burned skin continuously heals itself as Charekyal traces a tear back up to the man's eye. Tears of happiness, of pain, of broken hearts, and of closure rain down on the ground in front of the doors. Tharhack watches as the doorman says something to Charekyal over and over again, although it doesn't appear to be an apology. Charekyal backs away from the door, and motions for Empythacoreaus to join her. Tharhack watches as Charekyal describes an action she wants Empythacoreaus to take, one he's vehemently denying to do. Charekyal falls to her knees and weeps, Empythacoreaus waves Tharhack up. Empythacoreaus walks away from Charekyal and towards Tharhack, he gives Tharhack a knowing glance as he passes by him without uttering a word or mouthing a word. Tharhack reaches Charekyal and places a hand in front of her to offer her a lift up, Charekyal looks up into Tharhack's eyes, Tharhack feels the pull of pity as he can only imagine the betrayal she went through. Charekyal points to a large bone block that has fallen to the ground near the doors, then points to the doors themselves. Tharhack doesn't get her meaning, and doesn't get what Empythacoreaus' problem with this task is. Tharhack retrieves the heavy rock, and carries it over the doorman and rests it against the doors. Charekyal goes to the lever, and pulls down, forcing the doors to open and splitting the doorman in half as Tharhack is showered in a spray of blood. It is then that Tharhack realizes what he has been asked to do, if the doors never close the doorman never regenerates. Empythacoreaus couldn't bring himself to kill an innocent, Tharhack looks back to see Empythacoreaus standing with his back to the doors, unable to watch. Tharhack turns back to Charekyal, who watches Tharhack intently with pleading eyes. Tharhack understands now that the doorman had been pleading for his death. Tharhack searches for someplace within him that tells him this is alright, someplace that would allow him to not feel guilt over this. Tharhack wanted to help the tortured man, but if a pit fiend couldn't bring itself to kill this man, how could Tharhack do it? Tharhack pushes the block into place with his foot, and Charekyal releases the lever. The doors close up to the block, and go no further. Charekyal walks away about ten feet, and crumbles to the ground. Empythacoreaus goes to console her, and Tharhack feels a little less regal, a little less mortal. He remembers back to his own mother, a slave to his orc clan, and how she pleaded with him to end her tortured existence. Maybe this was his attempt to make up for not granting her soul peace. Tharhack's reflection is interrupted by a searing touch to his hand, as Charekyal breaks him out of his memory, and thanks him for doing what no one else could do, yet what needed to be done to give peace to a shattered soul. Tharhack wishes he could say something meaningful, yet nothing comes to mind. Instead he merely keeps his thoughts to himself and accepts Charekyal's gratitude. Tharhack turns and leaves the door behind, and spots two figures dragging something big behind them approaching from the direction of the tower. Tharhack's mood becomes elation as he hails his friends and urges Charekyal and Empythacoreaus to follow him. [/QUOTE]
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