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Message: <blockquote data-quote="the Jester" data-source="post: 1070857" data-attributes="member: 1210">SquirmhallStrogass is a huge continent thousands of miles away from Var.  Nonetheless, a teleport without error followed by trump use should get our heroes there.  When the morning comes- the evening having been spent in planning for the journey- Orbius teleports himself to a great cliff.  His superior knowledge of geography, fortunately for the group, has left him knowing the locations of many unusual places.Somewhere on this cliff...Picture if you a thick board.  Break it in two, shift one piece up so that it's higher than the other, make it about a mile and a half high and you have a decent picture of this cliff.  To the west is open ocean; the face of the cliff towards the sea is riddled with caves.  Squirmhall, according to Orbius' readings, is somewhere in there.Some flying and detection magic soon enough reveals a magical aura emanating from beneath the water about half a mile south of the party's initial position.  It looks to be underwater.  Malford casts a water breathing on most of our heroes (though Lester has gills and thus doesn't need it) and in they go.The underwater cave the party enters is oddly shaped, not having the typical appearance of a sea cave.  Soon the rock gives way to a weird organic-looking surface.  Then it slopes upward and opens on a strange air-filled cave, but one that pulses as if alive.  Membranes form, cutting part of the cave off from the rest, then dissolve away.  Weird fluids leak out and are reabsorbed.  The floor grows lumps that are slurped back inside it momentarily.  It's somewhat reminiscent of the Doom Sleeper; our heroes seem to be spending a lot of time inside living things lately (and will shortly spend some more)."Whoa," Lester says in a hushed voice."Vuivui*!" Malford calls.  "I, God-King Malford the Magnificent, and my allies, who include warriors of Chaos, come to ask you a boon!"Vuivui... Vuivui... Vuivui...  The name seems to echo and reverberate, almost taking on a life of its own, growing louder and louder.  In a few seconds it becomes painfully loud, and Thrush and Malford clutch at their ears, deafened by the terrible noise.  Sybele, gritting her teeth, manifests control sound and tones it down to manageable levels."Whew," says Drelvin.  "Looks like we know what not to do now.""Hey, look!" Angelfire exclaims.  He's pointing at a spot on the floor; but nobody else quite catches what he saw, as the floor seems to be growing back over.  "What was it?""It looked like a bookcase," Angelfire tells them.  Sybele strides over to where he's pointing and reaches out to touch the floor.  Then there's a loud zap! and she cries out, snatching her smoking hand away, just as two weird things that seem almost formless melt up from within the chamber and into view!  A quick flurry of eyes and noses regard the party as the two chaos beasts** begin to slither forward towards our heroes!*For the record, it's pronounced VOO-ee-VOO-ee.  <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=";)" />**Er, two spring attacking, 10th-level fighter chaos beasts, that is...Next Time: To Summon Vuivui!</blockquote>

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