[Nexus] Reinholdt's Repository

[Reinholdt]

[Artifact Hunt]

"Work on the wards then. I'm going to check out the R.O.U.S.s." The Admiral says, looking for a place to climb up to investigate the noise. Since the wall is so decorated, perhaps its easy to climb? Guess that depends on how it was decorated.

[Earl of Purple]

Greg's Group

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"You think I'm not working with you? I am working with you. Do you want me to set my efforts against yours? I'm an immortal, inherently magical being whose lists of great deeds would take longer than your lifespan to recite. It is not possible for you to actually stop me in any manner that would not have me coming back to exact revenge." Nephrim's boasting about the list of deeds, and she isn't quite immortal. But since to die permanently, she needs to be killed on Pazuzu's layer of the Abyss, she has a home ground advantage.

Nephrim has shrugged off her rucksack and is holding it in front of her, where she can quickly take something from it.

[Shadowcaller]

Greg's Group

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The chest... continues to be there. You can skip me until either of them interact with anything besides each other.

[Rebonack]

[Artifact Hunt]

Hmmm... Simply magic that stops the door from being destroyed? Well! That makes tunneling through the door or around it troublesome. So the Wanderer will try something else!

He'll butt his saber up against the key hole!

The glassy weapon warps and deforms until it can slide into the keyhole! As with any skilled Shaper the Wanderer's Focus is largely an extension of his own body and altering its physical shape is a fairly standard exercise. It'll be difficult, but he's trying to work at creating just the right shape to set loose the pins in the lock.

This will take a while, no doubt. Longer the better the lock is made.

That unlocking spell might finish before he does.

[MethosH]

((Artemis97, so sorry about that I'll keep that in mind. So... I didn't broke the statue, just made it fall. Hope that helps in someway to fix it))

[Artifact Hunt]

Gawlen runs towards the bridge but stops wondering if the bridge will support him and how he will go through it. He noticed Mr. C flying away and screams to the party in order to draw the attention of others.

[Devixer]

[Artifact Hunt]

Ashley had already cast a flying spell before she headed into the temple, so Mr. C should be just fine when it comes to getting back on the bridge.

She lets the Wanderer do his thing with the hilt, and instead tries to disable the wards with her own magic in case trying to unlock the door triggers something.

[Jacklu]

[Artifact Hunt]

Joan hurries to join the others at the door. She looks up at the temple and searches for a window.

[Zefir]

Greg's Group

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"You know that manipulating the minds of the people around you isn't working with them as I mean it. You more play with them like puppets. And as I said I'm not such a poor puppet so stop your attempts to line me in there. Just go on. Dam Bul will get your bag when I want it."

Zefir doesn't really give much attention to her threating. He knows that people in the nexus are much more able to survive. Just see Illphi and her fight with Gordon. And as I said the mind controll did take a little effect.

[Artifact Hunt]

Didn't know that it is a fly spell, thought it's something else like a magic net to catch them. After all Mr. C will use that and fly to the door, back first. With an annoyed expression he passes them.

"I really need to search for a trainer f..." *blob*

Mr C just flew into the Door. He turns around watching people looking at the door and doing several stuff.

"Well. Should I go into the lock and just open it?"

Mr. C is 6 inch big, which is for todays locks just to big, but since this seems to be in the past there may be a bigger lock and Mr. c maybe able to shrink himsself a bit.

[MethosH]

[Artifact Hunt]

Galwen starts walking on the bridge. Being a heavy block of stone saved him from the wind, but he is just hoping that the bridge won't collapse.

[Earl of Purple]

Greg's Group

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"They are puppets. Everybody, demon or otherwise, with the ability to control people's actions would agree. Very few people aren't puppets, and you are one of that few. You have nothing to be afraid of, you're just paranoid and possibly slightly stupid. Accept that I'm a puppet-master, acknowledge that you aren't a puppet. Neither of those things are likely to change any time soon. If my mind control worked you wouldn't be this annoyed." Although that last is largely because Nephrim would simply order Zefir to forget about the mind control.

[Zefir]

Greg's Group

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((I'm sorry, but it seems most of her things are taken out of the clouds. It just feels like she is talking to someone else at the same time))

"Oh shut the hell up. Your just controlling who isn't strong enougth using them for their own plans. Your just the stupid one to think everyone could work as you want it. If your skills would wokr you would order me to ignore my feelings or something. Just another weakness of you...
Now go on."

Annoyed maybe not the right word. He needs to talk to someone about her, but it's lily that Illph is controlled as well. She may be a strong fighter, but Zefir don't think she has the mind to resist her.

[Earl of Purple]

Greg's Group

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"I will. And when we return, I will politely request not to be assigned to work alongside you in future." Nephrim will then walk forward and try to open the chest. Should it prove locked, she'll take out a pistol and try to shoot the lock, since that works on TV. She'll also glance at the dead gnoll to see if there's a bag or something on its person. Also, because she suspects it might get up soon to protect the chest.

[Shadowcaller]

Greg's Group

The chest is in fact not locked so Nephrim shouldn't have any problems opening it. As soon as it's flung open however a cloud of dust is released and an transparent dark figure emerges from the container. It's practically shapeless, floating just above the chest, completely motionless.

Then suddenly it speaks in perfect common. "Your wish?"

[Earl of Purple]

Greg's Group

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"I wish for the ability to bypass mystical barriers unharmed." Nephrim's been thinking about this.

Also, I'm sorry I didn't post- I was trying to keep to the posting order.

[Zefir]

Greg's Group

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Zefir just stands there and wait. Her wish currently didn't seem to do anything against him so he just wants to see what happens. After all the cropse needed to come from anywhere."

[Shadowcaller]

Greg's Group

"I am sorry, my binding specifies that I may only grant wishes which benefits the gnollish race as a whole. That is the purpose I have been bound here, building up my power to grant their people a better future, to raise them from the ashes of failure." The darkness responds.

[Earl of Purple]

Greg's Group

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"Oh. Then what's the point of granting wishes if they can't result in personal power?" Nephrim is rather self-centred, though she should really have asked if there was a cost to the wishes before making one.

[Shadowcaller]

Greg's Group

"My binding does not allow me to answer that kind of question." The being replies. "Now make a wish or leave me be."

[Zefir]

Greg's Group

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((skriping isn't nice at all....))

"Maybe we could ask him to resurect the gnoll over there. That way we might get some informations, but I fear what we might also summon with it."

Zefir who has listened and is still involved in here has made a step inside the cave.

[Earl of Purple]

Greg's Group

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"I wish for gnolls to have wings and instinctively know how to use them. If there is a limited amount of gnolls you can effect, then start with the ones in the nearest gnoll community and centre the effect on there." If they have wings, Nephrim might be able to convert them to worship Pazuzu. Especially if they suddenly gain wings they were not expecting.

[Shadowcaller]

[Greg's Group]

"Your wish be done." The darkness responds as a subtle change goes through the air. Reality rewriting itself. "My purpose is now fulfilled I can finally escape this wretched place. As a thanks I will give you a warning. Get out while you still can. I intend to tear down these prison walls."

And unless it's somehow stopped the darkness will surge right into the nearest wall, leaving behind a strong smell of burned ashes in it's wake. The shadowy substance which the being seems to have been made up will suddenly start to spread through the walls.

Dust and water suddenly starts to pour out as the whole room starts to shake, like an earthquake which slowly seems to spread through the whole tomb.

Ilpholin and Becky will no doubt start to feel the tomb shaking as well soon enough.

[Reinholdt]

[Junction]

"Oh what did those three morons do now?" Ilpholin asks no one, turning to run out of the collapsing place, no longer interested in waiting for them to get back.

[The Bushranger]

[Conjunction Junction]

"No doubt they touched something," Becky grouses as she turns to flee as well - gathering her magicks in preparation for making a shadow portal. "Please state a destination!"

[Zefir]

[Greg's Group]

Zefir looks a bit annoyed at Nephrim.

"Nice. You could have also told him to get the staff for the gnolls."

He then tries to take ashort look over important things in the room, picking whatever is worth it. Then he heads for the Exit as well.

[Earl of Purple]

Greg's Group

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I thought it was the dead gnoll granting the wish. If so, Nephrim will look through the chest before leaving.

If not, and it was the chest speaking and not the dead gnoll, Nephrim will check the chest just in case, and the gnoll's pockets, before leaving.

Anything interesting will be taken, and Nephrim will ignore Zefir.

[Shadowcaller]

[Conjunction Junction]

I feel I should mention the guardian is still here in case anyone have forgotten it's presence. It just stare at the portal as it opens. waiting for orders.
From the ceiling above dust, dirt and swamp water starts to rain upon them.

[Greg's Group]

The darkness actually came out of the chest, but if Nephrim looks down into it she willl find a rather large demonic doll with several black needles stuck into it and some kind conjuration circle drawn around it. She will likely recognize it from some of the books, it's a tool to bind powerful demons with.

Otherwise the room don't contain anything of value so Zefir can exit as the tomb slowly starts to crumble around him.

[Reinholdt]

[Conjunction Junction]

"Follow me." Ilpholin tells the guardian, in case that wasn't clear in the whole 'protect me' command she gave it earlier.

"Right outside the entrance of this place." She tells Becky. After all, this was all work towards a goal which isn't quite finished yet if Becky recalls.

She'll then step through the portal.

[Zefir]

[Greg's Group]

Since he obviously can't pick the chest befor Nerephim Zefir will head for the outside. small stones who hit him seem to brake befor reaching him and drop to the ground.

[Earl of Purple]

Greg's Group

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Not quite what Nephrim was expecting, but Nephrim will grab it anyway. She then returns to her accustomed form, a pair of snowy white wings spreading from her back as she flaps and flies to escape the collapsing temple.

[Shadowcaller]

[Conjunction Junction]

The guardian follows her into the portal and they will end up outside where a group of rather surprised gnolls are waiting. It's the same group as before with one key difference, they all got large bat-wings which appears to have shocked them somewhat.

Greg's Group

The two will manage to escape before the temple collapses over their heads, finally surrendering to the swamp around them which seems to devour it completely. As they get above ground they can see the black presence they just released even tear down the decaying statue which had been placed just outside the tomb.

It crumbles into pieces and with it the last physical traces that there have ever been a tomb here disappears into the swamp.