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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Nephis" data-source="post: 9227050" data-attributes="member: 20459">At Bita-Bousseh's gasp of horror, PA'AVU looks back over her own shoulder to see what the barrister has seen. The goliath may still be clutching her gosb'tar and his mate in her sturdy grasp, but the thing they call The Mind is now behind them, caught up in a strange sort of whirlpool. Clearly Chanvati has seen as well, for - although he makes no audible sign - his body is filled with tension.Pa'avu continues to study the situation, trying to see a way to rescue the Entity: in this strangely cerebral place where her material self seems ethereal and somehow less than, she begins to feel a physical pull. Once again uses senses other than sight, the Stoneblessed warrior feels her l'pahb'gin drawn to something in the spiraling whirlpool trap in which The Mind has been ensnared, something familiar and both within and without her. The iron in her blood is attracted to ... are those specks of iron in the whirlpool?Trusting her instincts, the goliath breathes into her l'pahb'gin, focusing on that iron in her blood, feeling its weight grow heavier. This shifts the trajectory of their passage and allows Pa'avu (and her passengers) to be caught in the magnetic pull of what she hears her gosb'tar murmur cerebrally "A Magnetmote ... very powerful!" Allowing his words to wash over her mind as river water, informing but not distracting her, she focuses on catching The Mind in her grasp (and not losing her other charges at the same time!). The timing must be exactly right.The magnetic pull becomes stronger as her iron blood engages with the spiraling whirlpool, and the goliath quickly catches up with The Mind and is able to grab it and hold all three of them closely in one strong and stony arm. The other arm she brings up to her bared teeth, prepared to act at the only chance she will get ... before they are all pulled into the trap.As the spiraling motion brings them around again, Pa'avu bites into the palm of her hand, releasing a few drops of her iron-heavy blood. At the same time - just as the magnetic pull is suddenly reversed by the invasion of her blood into its vortex - she leaps forward and into the Time Stream once again, managing to hold onto her charges as she navigates her massive jump.[HR][/HR]* Pa'avu uses One with the Earth (Recharge 6) in place of a Secondary Skill for an Autosuccess to allow her l'pahb'gin to recognize the iron specks in the Magnetmote's spiraling trap and to transform the iron in her blood (making it heavier) for a +2 bonus to* Primary Skill Athletics check to leap back into the Time Stream: r9,12 (Powerful Athlete) +16 +2 = 30 vs. 29 Hard DC. Success with biscuit (trademarked) of +2 Bonus to Initiative for This Final Showdown in the Astral Sea (also trademarked)</blockquote>

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