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Message: <blockquote data-quote="megamania" data-source="post: 3127353" data-attributes="member: 9255">THE CREATION SCHEMASEGMENT 27609/17/06“Xandor & Xandar”Flurry watches as three Emerald Claw members in their full armor and cape walk down the dock.  They look for witnesses then climb onto the bow of the sunken ship.  They disappear from view.  A sailor continues to stand at the dock entrance.  He pretends to have not seen the three leave the dock and board the mostly sunken ship.Flurry decides to find out more.  The moment the guard at the dock leaves he knows he has about one minute with no guard.  He races across the courtyard of the warehouse building and to the dock.  The dock has several rotten boards that slow him down, as he must be careful where to step.  He reaches the area the men went and steps down onto the ship.  Here he discovers a hidden catwalk under the pier that goes back to shore.  He begins to climb onto it when he spots something also under the dock.  Something large and floating above the water yet under the dock.  It has what looks like tentacles and one eye.He turns and flees.The creature he saw flies out after him and as he climbs onto the dock again another one flies up from under the dock cutting him off.At this point Talon notices the warforged monk is missing and alerts the others.  They look and see him scramble up from under the dock.  They know if he is running then there is trouble so they in turn then begin to run.The warforged is struck by two rays fired from what he thought were tentacles but are instead eyes.  The first beam washes over him, as he will not bow to their wishes.  The second hits him and he feels himself fall apart at the molecular level, soon he becomes fine metallic dust with a few magical items mixed in.  The gentle breeze from the sea begins to draw him into the air and onto the waters as the group reaches the dock.The guard is surprised as Clorox charges down onto him and the centaur warhulk kills him outright. Ippikak begins to fire arrows at the Beholder that killed Flurry.  The second Beholder flies down the dock to deal with Talon and Cedious whom are looking to cross the dangerous dock.Beams of energy wash over both and Cedious ignores the beam’s power but Talon is painfully hurt from the inside – out as he resists death but falls under their brief command.  He leaps off the dock into the water where he is slowed down to a crawl and becomes much easier to hit.  Cedious decides to leap into the water also to pretend to be under their control.Clorox is fearful to charge down the dock but fears the beams of energy even more.  He taunts the creatures even as he treads lightly on the dock, which creaks and cracks loudly.  Pebbles decides to fly at them to attack instead of using the dock.  One anti-magic beam later and she is swimming (sorta).Ippikak hires into the closest Beholder causing it to roar out in pain.  Ippikak is zapped and killed for his troubles.Cedious climbs out of the water and onto the under dock catwalk.  Using the dock for shelter, he sneaks up on the one Aberration nightmare and scores a critical strike with his dart.  It splashes into the water dying.  The other creature circles around to find out what killed its brother.  It comes to close to the dock as Clorox strikes it.  The dock’s inferior condition turns out to be a hoax- a magical illusion complete with sound effects.For his effort he is struck by the Charm Monster, Finger of Death and disintegration rays in that order and fails each one in that order.DM NOTE:   I fear a TPK at this point.Pebbles flounders out of the anti magic area and flamestrikes the beholder.  Set on fire, Cedious darts it from under the dock.  Talon finally reaches the dock and proceeds to pull himself out.  He is not happy.Finally, with more divine attacks and another few darts the creature goes down.  They collect what they can of their friends and anything they can sell before returning to the main section of Stormreach.</blockquote>

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