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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Plane Sailing" data-source="post: 926530" data-attributes="member: 114">It takes nearly a minute to evacuate the tower. Dala and Anne-Marie streak back to the gate, winds howling around them, while Trajan takes an extra thirty seconds to prevent Arilyn from dying of her wounds, then carry her and her bag of books out of the tower. Glancing over his shoulder he can see angry storm clouds racing towards and around him, and the howling of the wind is growing stronger and stronger. He can see the gate is trying to close but is blocked open by the cloud castle!Dala and Anne-Marie fly through the gate and into the castle roof garden. How can they move the castle out of its current position to allow the gate to continue to close? Dala smacks his forehead with his hand. “Idiot!” he thinks, “I can probably dispel the domination on the giant!”. “How much magical power have you got left?” enquires Anne-Marie.“Oh, just enough for one try... I hope it works” he replies.They quickly fly down the spiral staircase, hunting through rooms at high speed for the location of the dominated cloud giant.Meanwhile Trajan has laid Arilyns body down in the garden and stands facing the gate, ready to draw his sword. Wind rushes out from the gate, it is like standing in a gale. Squinting, he can make out the largest of the elementals with his naked eye. “About another thirty seconds, no more” he reckons.Dala has reached the cellar level, and in the store room where they first saw the tortured face of a giant in the cloud castle wall they see the snarling giant. Dyson gestures and shouts his words of dismissing magic, and the giant is bathed in a cool white light. The fierce anger fades from the giants face, to be replaced with horror and revulsion“MY WIFE! MY SON! WHAT HAVE I DONE?” the giant cries in anguish as the memory of all that he did while dominated crashes in on him.Aware of the need for speed, with surely only scant seconds left, Dala quickly persuades the giant by dint of his amazing personality to move the castle away from the gate. The giant furrows his brow and they sense some movement.Up in the garden, Trajan wipes the sweat from his hands as a gargantuan elemental, being ridden by a mindflayer hurtles towards the gate… but he feels the castle move underneath him, and the gate suddenly winks out of existence, leaving only a piercing psychic cry of anger fading in his mind.Phew!Downstairs, Dala and Anne-Marie attempt to console the distraught giant, but he is overwhelmed by grief at the thought of what he did to his toddler and his wife. They follow him back upstairs, through the huge hall and into the music room. The giant gestures round at the artworks which adorn the room.“TAKE WHAT YOU WANT. I’LL GIVE YOU A COUPLE OF MINUTES THEN YOU MUST LEAVE. I CANNOT LIVE WITH WHAT I HAVE DONE”.As Trajan brings a groggy Arilyn down with him, he meets the other two who are hurriedly gathering some valuable and portable artworks in gold and silver. The giant has retreated back down into the cellar, sobbing heavily.“Hey, this thing is moving again” Anne-Marie notices. “That’s our cue to get out of here”.They run to the castle gatehouse, out onto the cloud and  with the help of the flying magics cast earlier they take off and fly down to the small plateau which supported the invisible bridge. As they look back round at the castle they can see it entering a shallow dive, straight towards the side of a mountain. There is a tremendous roar and crash as the cloud castle smashes into the rocky cliff, and then a silent explosion of clouds as the castle and all its contents vanish in a series of thunderclaps and lightning bolts.The Door in the Air is closed.</blockquote>

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