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Message: <blockquote data-quote="megamania" data-source="post: 6390113" data-attributes="member: 9255">CREATION SCHEMASEGMENT 382“EVEN HEROES CAN DIE” 9/23/14AFTER MIDNIGHT OF VULT  12,  999Glyder watches as the purple dinosaur suddenly drops from the sky.   The impact in the water can just be heard over the hoots and roar of the drow barbarians and the arcane explosions from the others.Battle.War.He hates it and wants nothing to do with it.   But he knows what must be done.   As a time traveler, he is often aware of end results of certain conflicts but never the details involved.   This is why sometimes he leaves notes for himself.This is moment of truth for him.   He generally talks his way out of conflicts or gathers allies to do the fighting for him.   He knows this is not the case this time.   He knows he will get his hands dirty and…. The end result will not be pretty.  In fact- it will hurt a great deal.With the air ship and Screecha out of the sky, he knows he can now move away hidden and unseen.  Still he uses the thick brush for cover.  He knows the drow have uncanny eye sight at night.   He comes to the ruins of the downed airship.  Most of it is in the water but not all of it.  He has a hard time of it but he begins to climb the ship.   Just as he thinks he has figured it out, he slips back to the ground.   From here, spots a hole in the hull and decides to investigate it.  He easily enters the ship from the bottom.  Inside it is dark but the Ring of Chronos allows him to see in the darkness.  There are dead bodies stored here that were to be animated.  He hopes this will never be the case.  He finds stairs leading up and at the top he finds some dry areas on submerged.  Using the ring again, he thinks about the images he pulled from Play’s twisted mind.  The Sahuagin that took the Schema rode a shark.  That shark had specific battle scars on its tail and side.   Using a unique scrying power given by the artifact, he reaches out and looks for the shark.Once he locates the shark he looks around.  They are in a submerged area of a tower.  The dimensions suggest the giants made it.  It may still thus be nearby.  Pulling his vision in he sees it is a tower just emerging from the watery depths at the far end of the ruins.Sighing since he knows that once he leaves, he will be unable to call on reinforcements, he uses the power of his boots and teleports to the tower.Now being closer, he sits down and begins to concentrate.  It takes time but an arcane eye forms before him near his forehead.  It flies away and enters the water.  It circles the tower looking for ways in.   The water is very deep but there is a balcony near the top and several windows.    Ne has no spells to allow surviving under water.   He thinks of a possibility but knows he needs more information if he is to attempt it.The eye goes down through the balcony.  He mentally maps out the way down as the eye swims down deeper.  Several layers down he finds the sea devils and the Creation Schema.   They are confident that no one knows where they are as they have set the Schema down next to a back wall.Leaving the eye there, Glyder tries something he has never done before.   He has two scrolls that he pulls out.   First he summons a water elemental that swooshes and weaves on the water’s edge.  Next he summons an air elemental.   Using the communication talents of the ring he discusses his plans with the two elementals that are uneasy with each other.   The air elemental especially is unhappy but finds it cannot ignore the will and power of this curious looking gnome.The gnome’s dreadnaughts lift and twist as the elemental tries to form a solid air pocket around his head and then slowly and unsteadily they walk onto the edge of the tower.   The water elemental washes under his boots and lifts him into the water.   Fear rises in the gnome as the breath is taken from lungs even as he tries to breath within the concentrated air pocket.   The gnome mentally says to go and they drop into the water.The water elemental is quick to push them down through the balcony and the hallways.  Glyder can feel large air bubbles break off from the swirling bubble of forced air.   Its working but not for long.   As he is about to rush into the final room he calls up a scroll effect where six replicas of himself appear.  The Sahuagin are stunned by the intrusion.  The air used to speak the last of the scroll has used up his air supply.Two guards strike him with their tridents and the water around him becomes heavy and nearly solid.  By Chronos- he is drowning!Then a shadow pushes through the room.  The very shark he used for scrying- it’s here and attacks him.  He grabs the Schema even as the shark bites down onto him.   There is a burst of blood.  The shark releases him and bites down again leading to a new burst of blood.   Then they lose sight of the small figure in the blood cloud.He is gone…. Along with the Schema.</blockquote>

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