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Message: <blockquote data-quote="megamania" data-source="post: 7557131" data-attributes="member: 9255">UNDER A DARKSUN“POISONED“SEGMENT 161WINDS     DAY 23YEAR 23    RAL CONTEMPLATION KING’S    AGE 190RUINS ON THE EDGE OF THE CRESCENT FOREST- BETWEEN GULG AND NIBENAY“Sounds big.”“Maybe we should just avoid it- leave.” Suggests Cosa.They circle around the ruins.  The stone building may have once been two stories tall but now only walls 4-8 feet tall remain.  Lose stone liters the field and remains in piles near the main building.“May be a threat to the woman.  I want to check it out.”Cosa hates the determination for Mania to defend “another” woman.  Especially when Belinda is still missing and days away.A shadow is moving and shifting in the remains of a doorway ahead of them.  Besides “big” Mania can not identify it without peering into the ruins.  As Mania leans against the wall and prepares to step into the doorway, Cosa steps on rocks on the ground that grind loudly against each other.  Whatever is inside has heard her.  The shadow grows and exits the doorway.  Whatever is inside is at the exit now. Mania gives her a dirty look then slowly peers in and sees a large Barbed Scorpion!Mania reaches into his mind and envisions a shield to appear between the scorpion and himself.  Cosa once more calls on energy from the surrounding forest.  She releases it as a ray of concentrated heat like a mirror and the dark sun above.  The air shimmers as the concentrated heat beam strikes the shell of the scorpion which blackens and cracks.  The pain must be intense as the scorpion’s scream is intolerable.  It charges ahead.  Mania easily keeps his psionic defenses up as the claws pounce into it as it reaches for him.  The stinger however goes over the shield and tags him on the back.  Luckily for him, it is the armored barbs that strike- not the poisonous stinger.Mania pushes forward and strikes the region of the scorpions head.  Cosa begins to draw energy and can not cut off the flow.  “NO!” she calls out and the spell is lost as the grass under her feet and the moss on the rocks shrivel and blacken. [nat 1 to draw power- ouch].  Distracted by her calling out, the stinger strikes Mania [confirmed crit] [sigh nat 1 Fort check also].Mania’s swings are wild as he feels the poison within his body already [-7 CON total] and suddenly he feels that even if that woman was a Fey- she is on her own.  Uneasy with the results of casting her scorching ray, Cosa calls on the forest’s power.  She places her hand along the larger stone piece that acts as a door jam and shapes it. The large scorpion finds itself pinned as the rock pushes out and just pushes it into the other stones.“Lets go.  I’m not sure how long that will hold it.”And thus they flee and Cosa has once more accidently defiled.</blockquote>

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