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Message: <blockquote data-quote="megamania" data-source="post: 1087368" data-attributes="member: 9255">UNDER A DARKSUNSEGMENT 103“The Sentinels of Bodach”Mania and I spent the majority of three days recovering in the druid’s grove before heading out to the area where the Sentinels were believed to be.  We suspected the Druid’s reach was further than the grove.  There were no further encounters with dangerous creatures within the Rocks and twisting canyons.  The closest to an incident was when Mania saw several Rock Wyverns high in the sky and away from them.  It was a bitter reminder of the loss of our friend whom with his child-like innocence captured their interest in the few days he traveled with us.  Mania and I glared at the creatures before moving into a less visible location.We were about to head out into the salt and silt where Bodach was when we saw the first signs of the Sentinels.  Their handiwork to be exact.  Several dozen boned remains lay about being covered by the blowing silt and sand.  They were recently active and mobile.   About twenty minutes after crossing the battle area, we saw the first member.  He was easily the hairiest dwarf any of us had seen before.  He fought large hulking skeletons using everything at his disposal.  He swung a large heavy battle-axe of unique design and at times struck out with his wrist razors, which were mounted on each of his hands.  He was not against biting or kicking his foes also.  He howled, Cussed and thoroughly enjoyed himself throughout the battle.  His name we would later learn was Logan.On a dune nearby stood a cleric.  He was driving the skeletons away with his great faith.  I had identified him a follower of water.  He was yelling something or someone’s name.  Obviously he felt someone or something else was nearby.  Perhaps the undead’s master.I was startled when I saw that some skeletons were not being broken by magic or the powers of the mind.  No, a well hidden from view combatant was striking down the skeletons.  She wore a tight body suit similar to my once functional Psionic skin of Healing.  This second skin blended in with the colors of the sand and rocks making her hard to see.  The skeletons had no eyes; they sensed her life force and thus were not so easily fooled.  Like Logan, she seemed to be enjoying herself.Then it came.Possibly the largest skeleton anyone had ever seen before.  It must have been an enlarged skeleton of a big giant.  It lacked legs but still crawled out of the silt and was awesome and fearful to behold.  Logan leapt directly onto its head.  He tried to hold it by its nasal area but the undead shook its head violently.  Logan fell and it went to bite him!  He braced himself for the attack and began to attack it from within its massive mouth and skull!The Cleric tried to turn it with his will but his will but could not.  He began to attack it more directly with conventional weapons used by clerics.  The woman, later to known as Belinda, fended off the last of the skeletons.  Mania, being what he is, joined the fray immediately.  It was a sight!  The dwarf within the mouth striking out at it.  Mania grasping it’s ribs to climb onto it’s back and the cleric keeping busy with the giant clawed hands.  Then he came.  We have all come to know him as Earth Cleric Jenner.  He is a powerful cleric and psion.  He mentally attacked the undead construct weakening it considerably.  Then he called onto his faith and the ground seemed to swell up and engulf the creature.  Mania and Logan were left with sand on their backs as the bones melted or phased into the ground.The sight amazed me.  I had seen nothing as of yet.Excerpt from journal written by Cosa in the future.</blockquote>

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