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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Nephis" data-source="post: 9526211" data-attributes="member: 20459">Per [USER=6696971]@Manbearcat[/USER]:Here's a quick reminder of what needs to be done:An earlier turn of Arunny's: Arunny  successfully exorcised the Dawnflame from Ibhea, so that Ibhea lost both Dawnflame Aura and Dawnflame Emnity.[HR][/HR] ARUNNY watches as the figure of flame before her seems to morph its form into others resembling the man that was once her friend - the child he was, the priest, the seeker of dangerous truths. Maba's Piercing Eye senses the possibility of redemption for the Whiskey Priest, if only she can find the right moment to reach into the fiery figure before her. Just ... the ... right ... moment... If she can avoid the poison of the Dawnflame now while it is - however briefly - extinguished, if she can reach the burnt flesh of the man beneath, if only ...The Seer calls to herself all the Healing Power of the Heofoncandel as she steels herself to touch her Undone friend. As she places a palm upon a shred of his torn clothing, he turns to face her, that street urchin, holding all the pain of abandonment and starvation in his pale luminous eyes, filled with tears. Then, as Arunny continues stare into the boy's eyes, they begin to fill once again with the matte darkness which filled them before. And all the while, the figure grows taller, the boy growing into the height of the full-grown man. And larger still, towering over the Priestess, the smoke of the extinguished Dawnflame growing thicker around it, and the eyes within the column of murky cloud glowing with the light of no longer extinguished coals. Horror fills her as she witnesses a mouth begin to form on the "face" of the monster bearing the visage of her lost friend: at first a line, then a grin, growing so wide and toothy that it seems to threaten to devour her. Then - suddenly - its impetus toward her stops. The figure rears up, arching its back, seeming to scream through the still growing, toothy grimace which eventually devours itself and disappears in a puff of smoke. As Arunny recovers herself, gasping with shock and unshed tears, she sees before her the young warrior, her protegee, the Radiant Shamishar, scimitar in hand. Relief fills her at the realization that Qamra has done what she herself was unable to do and has saved them all. At least those who can be saved: there is no saving someone who has removed himself from redemption.[HR][/HR]* Adjure Caiphon's Influence (DC 30): Heal: r6+18=24 vs 30 DC = Failure.</blockquote>

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