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Message: <blockquote data-quote="UniversalMonster" data-source="post: 1969061" data-attributes="member: 1034">Okay, we are back. I will spare you all the excuses. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /> And begin with a posting of initiative. Liliana <a href="http://invisiblecastle.com/find.py?id=53135" target="_blank">24</a>The Beast <a href="http://invisiblecastle.com/find.py?id=53143" target="_blank">22</a>Thane <a href="http://invisiblecastle.com/find.py?id=53136" target="_blank">21</a>Phelen <a href="http://invisiblecastle.com/find.py?id=53138" target="_blank">16</a>Sher Farhid <a href="http://invisiblecastle.com/find.py?id=53134" target="_blank">15</a>Delmar <a href="http://invisiblecastle.com/find.py?id=53139" target="_blank">13</a>Belok <a href="http://invisiblecastle.com/find.py?id=53137" target="_blank">9</a>Liliana makes it across to the other door (joining where Thane and Sher are briefly). She takes up a defensive posture. However, as she passes through the acrid mist, <a href="http://invisiblecastle.com/find.py?id=53140" target="_blank">she notices something</a> familiar. She identifies the faint scent of a type of candlewax that conjurers use. She thinks that this may be a summoning of some sort- although by no means any normal kind. The beast suddenly emerges. The fog seems to melt around it as a horrible creature coalesces into being. It is a wormlike creature as large as a horse, as thick around as a dwarf's waist, but with large razor-edged wings flaring off like undulating fins. It is levitating and slithering through the air, lke some kind of elongated manta ray. It's mouth is a lamprey-like gaping round hole, filled with irregular teeth, and it's tail is lashing a lethal looking barb. It hisses in a gurgling unintelligible roar, whipping it's attention between Thane and Delmar, and then zooms soundlessly towards Delmar. It lashes it's tailbarb against Delmar suddenly, but the barb crackles against a shield of flickering white light (Delmar's Protection spell) at the last second and then bounces away. The beast gurgles angrily and writhes with fury. Thane suddenly charges in slashing with his bastard sword, and <a href="http://invisiblecastle.com/find.py?id=53142" target="_blank">cuts the beast across the underside.    </a>, leaving a <a href="http://invisiblecastle.com/find.py?id=53150" target="_blank">vicious wound</a>. Phelen runs back and takes cover behind a book shelf (h2). After a moment's concentration, he feels his skin slightly loosen and become stretchable.Sher drops to all fours, and then seems to transform into the form of a tiger! His equipment and armor seem to absorb into him, and within a few seconds he has become a sleek feline predator. Sher Farid torns toward the coalescing creature and growls.Delmar (had his Protection spell up already) taunts the serpentine beast with his spear, trying to keep Thane or someone on the far side within eyeshot. So the flank is set up between he and Thane. Any attacks he makes would cancel the protection spell, so Delmar maintains the flank, trying to keep the beasts attention on him. Belok moves up into a closer position, and manifests Offensive Precognition. He is briefly slicked in a weird silvery sheen, through which his eyes burn like silver fire. He hefts his glaive, scanning the creature's movements.</blockquote>

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