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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Isida Kep'Tukari" data-source="post: 6277184" data-attributes="member: 4441">The Originator is quite tall, with dense musculature.  It has no real mouth or nose, but there are apertures on its chest that seems to serve as air exchanges.  Its skin seems to be very fine scales, and its flesh is very warm.  The wounds it had received are no longer bleeding, but the edges still gape.  It's cranium is elongated and enlarged compared to most humans.  You see no evidence of mechanical enhancement anywhere on its body.  It has a few faint older scars, deliberate and symmetrical, on its shoulders, looking like puncture wounds.  Xaion, as the Originator sags in your grasp, the odd feeling you'd had before goes away.  You still feel a bit strange, but no stranger than when you first walked down here.  You are able to tie it up with a rope, and recalling its strength, spare no length or knot to bind it tightly to prevent it from getting leverage.As you begin to tap the crystals, the unconscious Originator's eyes snap open.  It does not struggle, does not move, but its eyes follow you, as if waiting for you to do something...  One combination of crystals seems to make the air warmer and more humid.  One makes a lovely series of tones ring from the crystals.  Another very complicated one makes a haze of gray dust spray from the ceiling and settle over everyone.  Your sweat begins to mix with the dust, and you begin to find it hard to move. -------------"The Originators guarded the Wellspring.  They had entombed themselves in it.  The Overwatch detected the energy of the Wellspring and sent an Excursion to tap into the unused energy, creating the Womb.  The Womb was created to transfer energy to the place where time eats itself," the abhuman says with careful, precise clarity, as if reading from an unseen scroll.---OOC:  Fireinthedust - Thanks for the compliment!  But if you'd never gone back, you'd never know what you'd missed!  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin    :D"  data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" />  Watching you guys traipse across the Sheer with an expanding jungle and abhuman army in your wake would have been a different variety of entertaining.  <img src="http://www.enworld.org/forum/images/smilies/devil.png"  class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":devil:" title="Devil    :devil:" data-shortname=":devil:" /></blockquote>

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