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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Plane Sailing" data-source="post: 343232" data-attributes="member: 114">Next morning, at first light, K’tan concentrates, extending his power over all his companions, and everyone becomes invisible. They creep towards the village, passing through the boundary stones. Trajan, Anne-Marie and Arilyn move down the left side of the buildings, but K’tan got his left and right muddled up and ends up (invisibly) separated from his companions on the right side of the main street. It is clear that they are expected, as there are two ranks of villagers in front of the tower, clutching scythes and pitchforks.Anne-Marie, still under the compulsion from the suggestion imbedded the previous day, quietly sneaks up to the front rank of peasants - and then unleashes a deadly whirlwind attack, cutting down three of them quickly. More peasants run up to surround her as she becomes visible, and two more are felled by her deadly reflexes as they try to get behind her. Their peasant weapons swing wildly, but against Anne-Maries graceful speed and uncanny intuition they are helpless.As the swordsmistress wades further into the crowd of peasants, she catches a sight out of the corner of her eye as Tully steps up to flank her - and lands two vicious blows with her keen bastard sword, cutting deep into her thigh and stabbing in at her kidneys. Anne-Marie makes one strike in return and then steps back away from the bodyguard - only to be caught in a cone of frigid air beaming down from the top of the tower! She throws herself to one side, twisting her body and evading the force of the icy blast which freezes the grass and a few of the peasant warriors.“Dyson must be up there”, Arilyn mutters. “Trajan, the winds will carry you there”. She taps him lightly on the shoulder, releasing the spell prepared earlier that day, and Trajan feels the familiar feeling of weightlessness, and he glides quickly up to the top of the tower where Dyson must be - but can’t see anyone up there.Hovering invisibly, he suddenly feels a tap on his side, followed by searing pain as vitality flows out of him and into… nothing? He swings at where his attacker should be, but does not connect with anything invisible. Suddenly he is struck again, and once more his health is draining away - in desperation he throws himself back off the rooftop, and over the parapet...</blockquote>

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