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Message: <blockquote data-quote="haiiro" data-source="post: 1809331" data-attributes="member: 1891">Calling to Tuggle and Cupric over his shoulder -- telling them bits of what he heard -- Artemis steps right up to the shimmering man. With both hands, he beckons to him, as if trying to tell him to float out of the wall.Keeping an eye on the others -- including the still-dwindling, Evermeet-bound Follies, who are now the size of housecats -- Tuggle moves to the portal. Half-crouched, the gnome's ready to try and pounce through it if danger looms.Standing between Tuggle and Artemis, Cupric shifts his soothing song to one of friendship. It's a peaceful ballad, not unlike the one he used in the mosaic room when they encountered the shimmering man there.Through the flickering, unstable portal at the end of the corridor, Cupric and Tuggle can see Tal's tableau unfolding: the stranger with the long hair is running towards them, holding some sort of glowing purple thing. A dwarf they don't recognize is standing near Tal, holding a dwarven urgrosh -- a weapon with an axeblade at one end, and a spearpoint at the other.Facing the shimmering man, Artemis is resolute: unafraid, even as the figure's arms spasm and weave around him. Somehow, despite coming close several times, neither the glowing being nor the barbarian touch one another. Still listening for voices on the wind, Artemis hears nothing.Then the shimmering man begins to curl up, almost as if he is headed for a fetal position, and his persistent, echo-less scream starts to fade. Though it's still quite loud, as the volume goes down so does the light level: the shimmering man is becoming transparent as he curls up.And at the far end of the corridor, the portal shudders and ripples, like the surface of a pond when you toss a pebble into it. Darts of energy skim around its edges, and the view of Tal and the others becomes less clear.Its edges contracting, the portal begins to shrink.OOC: The <a href="http://3d6.org/tools/01_elite_quarters.gif" target="_blank">updated map</a>.Okay, Artemis moved to M-19 -- directly in front of the shimmering man. db, you said Tuggle would be both by Artemis and by the portal, but they're nowhere near each other. Since by the portal seemed more important from your post, that's what I went with. tdr, you followed Tuggle's lead with Cupric, so I've got you somewhere between the two.If this were combat, I would have paused for clarification. Using the map grid in your posts will help keep me less confused. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /></blockquote>

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