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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Isida Kep'Tukari" data-source="post: 1531168" data-attributes="member: 4441">*Alyshia, the little walnut-sized urchin quickly expands to his full size.*"Eh?  Dragon-finding?  Is the naughty boy hiding?  I sniff him out for you," Spike mutters, then takes off into the air, hugging the ceiling.  If you care to share senses with him, you can tell the dragon has backed up about forty feet from his last location.*Kilvash's crossbow is loaded, and she'll sight as soon as you tell her where.*~~~~~*Zykovian, you believe you have Kelvarix fooled into believing you were fooled by his invisibility.  You would also know a couple other useful things about the dragon.  He has many power stones and dorjes, mostly of lower-level powers, but still useful.  He prides himself on being a good manipulator, and favors weakening up his opponents before striking.  He wears a psychoactive skin that makes him very nimble, and a third eye that lets him more easily penetrate resistance to his powers.*  *His psionic powers are those that make him tougher both physically and more difficult to hit, as well as a few others that cause fiery damage.  He's also capable of pulling even the headblind (those without psionic powers) into the mindscape.  His cave (and hoard) isn't too far from here.  He also keeps a hoard-tender, a personal slave that polishes and arranges his hoard, while also adding to it with her artistic skill.  Of course, Kelvarix also uses the girl, a drow named Antiphia, for his physical needs as well.**In the endless plains of the mindscape, Kelvarix lunges and pins you to the ground, winning this round.  You also see the shadowy half-formed images of Ellimon and Guran, and Kelvarix turns and slams both them to the ground as well.**Despite Kelvarix's success in the mindscape, it is you are ready first to go in the real world.  Dashing forward, you quickly realize that Kelvarix has moved farther back.  He was only twenty feet away, but he's moved much farther than that.  You keep dashing forward, hoping to reach him.  Just as you reach the end of your run, you realize you nearly ran into him.**Alyshia, you now have I good idea where the dragon is, he's sixty feet away from the drow man and the half-dragon svirfneblin, though the half-amethyst dragon looks like he just ran up next to him.**If you tell Kilvash what you see, she sights over the half-amethyst's head and fires, and you hear a roar from the invisible dragon.**Grim, you fire your scortching ray, fire lashing out to lick at the dragon's scales... to no effect.  He must be resistant to fire, curse it!**Ellimon fires, followed by Guran in the next instant, and both bolts strike home.  With a roar, Kelvarix becomes visible again, and Guran looks visibly shaken.  He's never actually fought a true dragon face-to-face before.  Ellimon sneers at the dragon, the expression turning his ruined face into a hideous mask.**Kelvarix suddenly spits a crystalline lozenge at the two farther dragonslayers, which explodes upon impact.  Ellimon dodges out of the way adroitly, but Guran takes the brunt of it, the shards sticking into his skin.  Kelvarix seems to almost contemputously ignoring you Zykovian.*~~~~~*Gortag, you land two solid hits on the half-dragon, slashing deep into his side, and on his opposite shoulder.  He looks badly wounded, but as you slam your axe down on his, he manages to wrench it out of the way.  However, his return slash misses you, as does his bite.**Out in the corridor you hear some soft laughts, punctuated by a thud of a body, and the cries of murder fall silent.  It sounds like Ishmael just felled someone.  A cry and another thunk, followed by a curse echoes through the corridor.*~~~~~*Zass'sk, the little ones finally finish pouring out of the wall and quickly scuttle into the mazes of the Underdark.  Several minutes later, out of a larger crevice, comes a group of humans and dwarves, along with a few drow, being ushered along by an ugly duergar woman with a grim expression.  Suddenly there's an explosion off to your right.  You see a flash of amethyst scales and realize the battle has been carried awfully close.  A beholder, a gaggle of skum, and two mind flayers are giving it battle, but the skum are falling very fast, and the mind flayers don't look like warriors of any sort.*  [OOC - Zykovian - 19Alyshia (and Spike) - 12Kilvash - 10Grim - 9Ellimon - 6Guran - 4Kelvarix - 4 (lower Dex)</blockquote>

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