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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Plane Sailing" data-source="post: 150818" data-attributes="member: 114">As they turn their back on the late afternoon sun, they can hear loud and clear the “bongs” of the wrymcall bell down in the town square, marking out the end of another working day down in the besieged town.Returning the to dead dragon, their minds are being continually assaulted by the glowing crystal, throbbing away and demanding that they bow down and worship it (although it keeps getting distracted by the thought that it doesn’t have a body any more). M’ir gingerly pokes the crystal into a sack,  hoists the sack up and attempts to smash it into the wall - and finds his mind viciously assaulted as it attempts to stop his breathing. Trajan likewise throws off an attempt to dominate his mind.After a few rounds of these mental assaults, as if in a sulk, the Dragoncrystal says “You are insignificant to my plans anyway. Serve me, mortals, or it will be the worse for you in the long run”.Trajan remembers the huge gem cutting equipment they saw on the creatures workbench, so they go back into the cavern and up onto the table, selecting an 8 ft long chisel and a similarly sized hammer used for splitting crystals. Removing the Dragonstone from the sack and wedging it in a corner, M’ir kneels and holds the chisel steady while Trajan takes huge wacks at it with the hammer. With each ringing “clang” of the steel upon steel the Dragonstone flashes a bloody red, before returning to its normal pulsing sapphire blue glow. Chips fly off – but the crystal is extremely tough, and seems to regrow itself almost as quickly as they damage it. After three minutes of frantic hammering (and one wild swing which nearly took M’irs head off) Trajan is fatigued and the crystal looks almost as good as new.What next?“Perhaps” wonders Trajan “this crystal is like yours – just the focus, and his real power is elsewhere… Maybe in that strange glowing linked crystal thing we saw on the dragons workbench?”“Right. Lets smash it” K’tan and M’ir agree.Once again they make their way back into the cavern, grappling hooks are attached to the crystal construct, and with a few big heaves – it comes smashing down onto the floor of the cavern.The shattering sound seems to go on and on and on, and on the floor where it hit, it almost looks like there is a shattering in reality, fragments of spacetime falling away to reveal…</blockquote>

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