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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Jon Potter" data-source="post: 4204540" data-attributes="member: 2323">[PLAIN][Realms #435a] He's Getting Away![/PLAIN]Each beat of Morier's heart sent a jet of his lifeblood spraying out onto the floor, and he pressed a hand to the vicious wound trying ineffectually to staunch the flow. He turned on his heel, his hand covered with a wet crimson glove, and almost ran into Ahlear, who had just cleared the doorway. The druid took one look at the eldritch warrior and cast Lesser Vigor on him."Where is he?" Ahlear asked as he readied the shortspear he'd borrowed from Huzair and looked about for any sign of Morier's attacker. He didn't see him, of course; Alechtus was quite adept at not being seen.Shamalin stepped in behind him and assessing Morier's injuries at a glance fell easily back into the familiar role of putting the warrior back together. She cast Cure Moderate Wounds and touched the albino's arm, channeling the magic into him. Huzair came next, invoking a Greater Invisibility to cloak himself from view. Even as he disappeared, Anania darted in and ducked to the right, her eyes sweeping the dim interior of the shrine for a target.Two heartbeats later, Doctor Akerman filled the front of the temple with Mind Fog. The cloying wisps of vapor affected friend and foe alike, and all save Ayremac and Huzair felt the magic deadening their willpower. Dulling their perception. Softening the edges. Rounding... the... not round... things...Ayremac remained sharp, however, and he stepped back, out of Alechtus' reach, forcing his attacker to move out from cover if he chose to strike at him. Then he called on the power of his celestial blood to heal himself.But Alechtus wasn't interested in attacking Ayremac. He darted around the far side of column, his shape a blur of motion as he made for the doors. He passed within five feet of the Invisible Huzair without ever realizing it. Without a weapon in hand, Huzair could do little as the big man darted passed him and into the sunshine outside. A heartbeat later, there was an echoing crash as the front doors slammed shut, plunging the temple into near-darkness.Morier, who had been retreating fearfully for the doors skidded to a halt and looked at the closed doors. Then he looked at his blood-slicked hand and breastplate, frozen momentarily with frightened indecision. So... much... blood...Ahlear started to follow Alechtus, almost tripped over the Invisible Huzair and threw his shoulder against the doors. They barely budged as the larger man was leaning against them from the other side. "What now?" the druid growled as he heaved against the doors. "He's getting away!""I can't figure why he would run out like that," Ayremac said as he invoked Daylight, filling the temple with brilliance, "but my gut says that I want out too!" He rushed forward, slamming his full weight, shield-first against the doors. They rattled open a hand's width or so before slamming shut again.Shamalin clanked in the opposite direction, heading toward the two figures bound on either side of the altar. Anania, too, moved in that direction, but she ignored the captives and made for the doors at the rear of the place, moving lithely from bench-to-bench at a pace that was more than twice as fast as the heavily-encumbered Mercybringer.Ayremac cried out in warning as more vapor suddenly began to leak through the doors. It was a sickly greenish color and smelled unspeakably foul. The holy warrior recognized the scent as a Stinking Cloud and like the last time he'd been subjected to one, he felt his stomach bubble up and disgorge its contents unceremoniously all over the inside of the doors. He doubled over in pain, wracked by cramps, and beside him Ahlear did the same. There was a strange moment when vomit seemed to launch itself from empty air, but then he heard Huzair groan and realized that the wizard - though he remained invisible - had succumbed to the spell as well.Ayremac heard a strange rushing, roaring sound coming from outside - a sound that he associated with Ixin. It sounded like dragonfire and was followed immediately by a shriek that sounded disturbingly like Doctor Akerman.</blockquote>

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