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Message: <blockquote data-quote="megamania" data-source="post: 6263231" data-attributes="member: 9255">CREATION SCHEMASEGMENT 353“COLD STORM SUMMONER” 2/17/14ARYTH 15,  999The clockwork horses are being used now that the snow is not too deep.  Tall pine trees of blue and green grow through the foot of snow.   It is still cold but not as it was on the glacier.Jasyne Symtex continues to lead the group.  John Play continues to be childish but somewhat entertaining.  Calli d’Sivis and Glyder Freetime talk quietly about the land and its beauty.  Kim Elderich remains in deep thought and trying to decide what to do if they ever recapture the artifact known as the Creation Schema.None of them notice the thickening clouds following them in the near distance.   Calli is the first to notice the gentle but cold breeze to develop.“Storm is coming.” She says.Elderich snaps out of his deep thought and looks back at it.  “Strange storm.   We should take cover in case it is another of those Chaos Storms.”“Chaos Storms?” questions Play as he too also looks back and questions the clouds.“Magical storms that started before we came here.  They bring strange and powerful Chaos magic with them.”“Powerful magic” adds the time traveling gnome as he thinks back to how he became a time traveler due to a Chaos Storm that ironically he was a victim of a few months ago.  It feels like decades ago because to him it has been.“What do you make of it?   The wind… it is very cold.” Asks Jasyne as he returns to the group.“Take shelter and beware.   I doubt it’s a normal or natural storm front.”New snow is falling by time they decide on a tightly grouped set of trees to take cover under.  Glyder has the artificial horses line up to create a parameter wall.  Jasyne watches the oncoming storm with concern.  Play tries not to show it but also watches it carefully.  It is getting dark now and the wind is picking up enough to sway the large trees above them.“Clearly it is not a natural storm.” Confirms Glyder as he looks with trepidation to the skies.“Yeah-  it raced at high speeds out of the glacier but now is slowing down and seems to be stopping either near us or above us.” Adds Play as he wonders if his arrows will fly straight in this wind.Suddenly the very air behind them seems to solidify and turn to ice.  “We’re under attack!” calls the Kensai Archer.“Naw- it’s just the elven kids club looking to sell us sugared crackers- oh course we are under attack.” Replies Play.Glyder moves to the center of the unmade camp to be with Kim.   He has always trusted the dwarf to get through magical attacks.  Calli follows his lead.Jasyne spots a dim blue flash.  “Incoming” he calls out.  Something is moving through a dimensional door.A white swirling ray comes out of a very blurry area of windblown snow and just misses Jasyne.  The ground it strikes lumps up in ice.Kim calls up a fireball.  He figures it is a cold based attack and something of an area based attack.  It bursts showing the form of a medium sized armored figure.  The creature begins to laugh as it moves forward.  Glyder half wishes the unpredictable time ports would happen about now.  Play fires several arrows at it.  One plinks off its armor-like ice layers.  The others miss.  Play sighs and goes for melee weapons.  Calli shouts at the creature.  The sonic attack strikes the creature solidly.  Ice cracks and breaks off as it is staggered.  But it keeps moving forward.  Jasyne sets his jaw and attacks with his near artifact level bow.  All five arrows fly leaving a glowing and sparkling rainbow and an equally colorful arcane explosion as they strike the creature which now howls in pain and frustration.  “Show-off” says Play.Suddenly the creature steps out of a magical portal behind the archer.  Kim calls up a spell and black tentacles erupt out of the snow covered ground and wrap around the legs of the creature.  He hopes the archer can move away this way.  Play swings at the creature.  Only one strikes with his magical Tonfu clubs strike the ice covered skeletal undead. Play thinks about what a long day this is shaping up to be.Calli lines herself up carefully and reads off a Lightning bolt spell from a scroll.  The lightning Bolt washes over the ice.  Ice shatters but little damage is done to the boney creature itself.  The archer pushes away from the held creature before being grappled and begins to swing his bow at it.  The creature pulls at the tentacles but finds itself held in place.  It howls like the winter winds at the archer in frustration.  Instead of arcane might, Kim Elderich now calls onto his strong inner beliefs and summons a divine Flaming Strike of raw energy.  The creature screams as the fire and divine energies wash over it.  “Remember Kim- I am here….” Calls out Play whom narrowly avoids being part of the magical attack.  He swings at the creature.  A solid hit to the face makes it snap its head to the side.  It turns back to him and stares at the Dark Lantern with a skeletal smile.  It unnerves Play some.  He is not used to creatures that take his best shots and continue to stand their ground.  Calli moves around again trying for a vantage point to strike the undead cold creature without striking Play or Symtex.  The archer only steps back a few steps before firing away again.  The arrows fly to the side.  Two strike doing minimal damage and one flies in such a way as to make Glyder throw himself to the side (nat 1).  The creature tears free from the spell damaged tentacles and goes for Play whom now reconsiders the wisdom of going after the creature toe to toe.Deciding to try something he rarely does, Kim calls on the might of his believes of good and commands the creature to leave.   The creature staggers and stops before striking Play.   It begins to step away from the party.  It is angry that the cleric has summoned the power to drive it away.  Play moves away considering what magical options he has to use.  With the creature moving away from the others Calli gives it a powerful shout.  Snow erupts at its feet and behind it as the sonic pulse strikes at it.  Five powerful magic arrows explode on it next shattering the remaining ice on its body.  A white beam of frosty energy leaves the creature as it continues to leave against its will.  Jasyne calls out in pain as the unnatural cold washes over him this time.  Kim flame strikes it again but the supernatural cold of the creature removes most of the super natural heat and power from the spell.  Not wanting to stop yet, Play pulls out a wand he has.  The fireball strikes the retreating undead creature.  The fire washes over it but seems to do nothing to it.  Play is wishing he was fighting Zinter d’Cannith and his warforged again.  Calli calls up another spell from a scroll she has. The lightning strikes and crackles around the creature as it takes another step back.  More arcane explosions as three arrows strike the creature from Jasyne.  A new misty fog of pure cold forms between the retreating undead and the party as a new wall of ice forms.  “It is beaten- let it go.” Says Glyder.  “So it can recover and attack again- I don’t think so.” Declares Play.  Angry at the entire confrontation, Kim agrees bitterly.  Now with distance and a wall between them, he calls up a powerful spell.  “He created a storm of cold…. Let’s see what he thinks of a storm of heat…” says Kim as he concentrates on a new spell.    Play looks at Kim, then at the wall, then back at Kim and begins to run back towards Kim.  Jasyne stops in bewilderment as Play runs by him then sees what Kim is doing and decides Play knows the dwarf most…. Follow his lead.The ice wall turns yellow and orange then bursts as waves of fire roll through it.   All of the ice and snow has been melted and or blasted away from where the Winter Wight was once before.“Alright…. Let’s see if we reach that valley by nightfall.”</blockquote>

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