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Message: <blockquote data-quote="the Jester" data-source="post: 1073570" data-attributes="member: 1210">Down and Out the Hatch"Urgh," Lester gargles as he's crushed in the gizzard of the great slaad Vuivui.  He can't even really move; worse yet, his friends are crammed in with him.  Many of them, maybe most...  Then the muscles around him constrict, squeeze, and force him and the others down... down... through warm intestines and out Vuivui's palpitating anus.  The L falls onto a hard surface, shaken.  An instant later Malford is squeezed out on top of him."Are you all right?" Thrush calls tensely.  "Sybele?"  His blade is naked in his hand; he looks frightened.  He's standing next to Vuivui, and they are not where they were.  Indeed, they are in a wooded area.Vuivui grunts as Orbius drops from within him, then an instant later with a convulsion he passes Sybele forth.  Coughing and gagging, covered in suspect liquid, our heroes struggle to their feet."We should be called the poop party," Malford grumbles, thinking to all the sewers, fecal worms and worth that he's encountered over the years.  And now he's been pooped out by a slaad."What happened?" Lester demands of Thrush."The- the slaad thing ate you all, and then they appeared- the Bile Lords, and their golem- and then Vuivui teleported us away."  He gulps.  "He didn't eliminate the curse- he triggered it.""And now hopefully it's done," Malford muses.  Vuivui makes an affirmative motion, and our heroes cry out in gladness."If there's anything we can do for you," Sybele starts, and suddenly there's a wrenching sensation as the entire group finds themselves plane shifted.  Sybele halts her sentence.The group stands upon a weathered surface of remarkable flatness.  Debris, including bones, is visible almost everywhere.  Most of it seems to be the detritus of war machines and soldierly equipment.  The sky is black, with neither stars nor moon nor sun, but there are numerous fires on cubes in the sky, providing a strange dim lighting that pervades the place.  In the distance the sound of clashing armies can be heard.An image appears before Vuivui of a strange, clockwork creature.  "It's some kind of inevitable," Orbius exclaims.Destroy, Vuivui demands.  And he vanishes, leaving our heroes in Acheron.Next Time: A Deadly Dragon</blockquote>

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