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Message: <blockquote data-quote="megamania" data-source="post: 1295938" data-attributes="member: 9255">UNDER A DARKSUNSEGMENT 122“Unite and Face the Enemy”“Give me another moment cleric!” swears the halfling.  Her eyes are shut tight in concentration and determination.  The eyes move about under the closed eyelids as if she were dreaming.  In truth, she is searching.  She sees many things, a cloaked skeleton, and 1000’s of undead rising from cellars and the underground, and even a staff of incredible power in a building yet to be searched by the undead.  Finally she finds the target of her search- Mania.The sight would be unbelievable if it were not for the person she seeks.  Mania is on a pile of gold, relics of power and other priceless goods.  He is climbing the pile while kicking off skeletons.  He appears to be climbing the pile for a defensible position.  She sees others fighting along with him.Tangiers is a halfling bounty hunter sent to find and track Mania by a templar in Nibenay.  Her mastery of psionics is well respected.  Her tracking skills are equally respected.  She decided to get closer to her subject by befriending a cleric looking to rescue him.  The game is getting interesting now.Mania and his three friends are near the center of the cursed city.  It cursed with undead.  The very undead that now climb out of their hiding holes with the arrival of the darkness.  She and Chaffle, a cleric of Water, are just inside the city limits and have been nearly overrun by skeletons already.  Chaffle does all he can to keep them hidden within the ruins so that she may search for him.She studies the interior of the building the four would be heroes and thieves are within.  Then as she draws back her sight, she watches the path required to reach them.  Her eyes snap open and blink rapidly.  “Cleric! We must go!  We must go NOW!”Chaffle begins to turn around as he feels the halfling tug at his tattered cape.  Grasping his knee now they suddenly are enveloped in light.  Even as they fade away the very doors crack as many skeletons try to break it down.  Then, the very walls crack and fall in as a large skeletal figure of a humanoid reaches in.  If a skeleton of an ogre could sigh this one would.  Seeing the prey has escaped, it withdraws its large hand and goes back to searching for the meat as commanded by Minscar. The spear slices the upper part of Logan’s shoulder.  He curses then pushes the large well made table off the pile.  The skeleton holding the spear is struck and broken by the heavy table.  Belinda stands with her back to his.  Her features are blurred and displaced.  Even the skeletons seem affected by her power.  Strange since undead normally are immune to most effects of psionics.  However, this is not the time to question it.Suddenly a blast of energy shots out and turns in midair.  The blast separates into five beams of light.  Two skeletons holding halberds explode as the lights strike them.  The one skeleton was about to feast on Mania’s bloody leg.   “Damn it Mania!  You and your damned ideas!” screams Cosa in anger.  “Now is not the time for a lovers quarrel!” replies Belinda tripping a skeleton and grabbing his weapon as it falls.  “It was a desperate move but it will at least give us a chance!”She swallows hard as the rear doors burst open and three dozen more skeletons arrive.  They are about to be overrun on a pile of treasure!Mania is grabbed by a skeleton and uprooted doing more damage to his bloody leg.  He holds the skeleton off with one hand and searches for something to strike it with his free hand.   “Ah –HA!” He yells and stabs it with…a stick?  The skeleton pauses as if enjoying the moment.  Mania kicks it off but breaks the “stick” within its ribcage.  The resulting explosion of the shattered Wand of Wonders destroys many skeletons and cuts and bruises everyone else as coins fly like they were fired from a sling.Logan, in his glory asks if he has any more sticks.The skeletons gather up and form three loose clusters.  They are about to charge the pile in a blitz attack.Mania and Cosa both begin to quickly search for exists above and beyond the undead.  Belinda searches for anything psionic to attack with.  Logan, still naked, smiles a grin that would intimidate anyone living and motions for them to come.  And they do.“Mania…I love you.” Says Cosa feeling this is it.“I too.  Want to have some kids when we get out of here.” He replies in total denial of the dire situation.  The skeletons begin to scramble over the pile.  The pile was 15 feet high and about 20 foot in radius.  Now it is only about 8feet tall but spread out throughout the room from the battle.  It is a good thing Tangiers expected this.A waving light appears which is ignored by the skeletons then Tangiers and Chaffle appear and land gently in the treasure.  Tangiers, knowing what was about to happen as she saw the horde massing towards the building, has already considered her next actions.  Chaffle isn’t so prepared.  He trips a bit walking over gold lined vases, coins and ivory and jade statues.  Then he sees the situation and plight of his friends.Cosa lets off another round of Magic Missiles from the wand she found.  Mania grapples and pushes back a skeleton that trips up three others.  Belinda slaps a skeleton with the first random thing she grabs- a large rolled up map.  The ancient paper explodes in dry pieces but does knock the skeleton back.  Logan does what he can.  With a running start, he leaps onto the mess still hoping to find that axe he had seen earlier.Tangiers runs to the closest group of skeletons.  Her eyes begin to glow and leak built up psychic energy.  She releases it as many skeletons are blasted and torn apart as they are severed by her mind.  Chaffle, with no turns remaining, pulls out his wand of light and castes it towards the pile of gold and treasure.  Many skeletons pull back but others are unaffected.  This is the problem with undead thinks Chaffle.  Too many have developed immunities due to special creation or curses that created them.Suddenly he feels a tug on his wand.  Then another tug.  Then a yank.  He grips it with both hands and looks about.  Walking slowly, leg before the other suggesting uncanny balance, an armored skeleton slowly walks his way.  It carries two swords.  Its head is aglow with uncontrolled psychic energy.“Welcome Chaffle.   I am Halobreaker.   I am your death.”</blockquote>

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