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    [The Nightmare]

    Anika assumes that the nightmare beast has taken residence inside the most important-looking building, which is the big tower, so that's where she is headed, trying to simply ran past any obstacle in her way. Wenomir has to hold on to her fur to keep on her back as she runs.

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    So, Linda was bit. It would probably be too much to hope for that Boudica would have gone through all the trouble of making a multi-headed serpent that turns into poison gas when killed and not ensured it had a venomous bite. An extremely thorough cocktail of toxins should be coursing through the fox's veins right now. Neuro-, hemo-, myo-, nephro-, even pneumo- flavors. Yet she can be saved by twinned graces: what the venom was designed for and what it wasn't designed for. In the latter case, the biology of her species may have enough key differences from the intended target to diminish the overall effect, as the venom's brunt falls upon human nerve channels and tissues. It also appears that the toxins were intended to kill a great deal more slowly than a natural snakebite. Make the victim helpless and reliant on magical intervention just to stay breathing, then deal with the distracted and occupied teammates at one's leisure. If Linda can escape the noxious cloud rapidly filling the atrium, she will surely survive long enough to receive magical healing. Another spot of positive thinking: Carrie and Arlem have finished the damned thing off, meaning no more bites to worry about!

    But the newly slain heads start to decompose, just as same as the others. The gas will fill the front hall in another minute. At least it seems to be heavier than air. Arlem manages to stay out of it the higher he goes on the stairs. He might start to telepathically pick up on several individual consciousnesses moving around on the second floor, with the purposeful air of armed men getting into firing positions. The psychic shouting of fear and anxiousness drown out any other thoughts that may be going on up there.
    Carrie darts toward Linda, already making an effort to get her the hell out of there; she tries to grab her under the shoulders and backpedal hard.
    "Hey, if you can like... not die real quick, I might be able to get some of the venom out. Gonna hurt like hell, but you'll be... a lot less dying."

    Unless otherwise hindered, she tries to get Linda back outside to the van.
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    "If it's all the same to you, I'd-" Yeah, Rein is generally pretty vulnerable to directed gusts of wind when he's being cat. Thankfully Quinn is there to keep him safe. Right there. Keeping him close. And removing his focus. "Uh... whatever she said, yeah."
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    It seems like the geezer's done talking. Well, apart for some shouted words in an arcane tongue. Then it's an intricate hand motion followed by the very unsubtle gesture of an aimed index finger. Quinn and Rein's demands for communication and cooler heads to prevail are answered with a large fireball blasting towards them.
    "They always go with fireballs," Quinn grouses, diving to the side and bringing her blade up...almost like a paddle.

    Indeed, she's bringing it up to smack into the fireball as it arrives.

    From the magic crackling across her blade as fire meets steel, it very much seems as if her intent is to swat the incoming fireball straight back at the annoying mage, like a deadly game of ping-pong!

    Of course, her dive to the side means she lands on her side, which means a certain kitteh is going to be getting even more squished up against Quinn's curvaceousness in the process...

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    Never thought Rein would see the day where he didn't want this to happen. Now things are just getting uncomfortable and squished and a little hard to breathe. Such conflicting emotions. "Quinn, dear, could you put me down? I'm capable of mobility and I'm certain I'm only slowing you down. I'm a lover, not a fighter." Mostly though, Rein doesn't want to be around in the event Quinn misses one of the fireball pitches and it explodes in their collective face.
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    [The Nightmare]

    The path to the gate is uneventful, until they reach the fortress' wall. The gate seems to stand firmly shut, however as they approach, it seems to open of its own accord, welcoming them into the courtyard.

    The courtyard is a scene of battle and carnage that Wenomir will find uncomfortably familiar. Many of the buildings have been ruined, and the corpses of various members of Vigil mingle with the bodies of demons and the ruins of their armor. Most dramatic is Felandria's giant-sized body, draped over the far wall with a massive gash in her torso, facing the Keep.
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    [The Nightmare]

    "That's not what happened," Wenomir says, as if arguing with what he's seeing. "We lost, but most of us got away. Felandria certainly did. And I destroyed the base before the demons could claim it."
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    [The Nightmare]

    Anika would suggest Wenomir to ignore it all as it was obviously not true, but she herself was focusing on getting out of here as soon as possible. She knew the effects of prolonged exposure to the nightmare and would rather avoid them. She looks around for any signs of the creature, if it truly was a part of the nightmare (and perhaps even if it wasn't), she should be able to feel it's presence within this elaborate illusion.
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    "There was some kind of poison gas-snake here. Two of us are pulling back to get out of it; I'm going further in."
    Up he goes, one stair, two stair, away from the poison, towards the fearful armed men. If a man only has faith, what does he have to fear from slings and arrows? Is there a door to kick in, or is he just going to step around a corner (a vertical corner?) and find something fun?
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    [Front Hall]

    Looks like having my characters flop over unconscious is a running theme right now... Linda collapses from the dire bite and gas filling the area.

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    Looks like having my characters flop over unconscious is a running theme right now... Linda collapses from the dire bite and gas filling the area.
    Carrie hauls Linda outside, glancing around as she tries to get her behind some cover.
    If she can do that, she then tries to sink her fangs into the bite wound and draw out the venom.
    It should suck the poison out of Linda's system... but also hurt like a bazillion stubbed toes, except all over her body.
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    Once, a road passed by here, near a lake at the convergence of two rivers. Now, there's a crater, broader on one side, where a blast wave long ago spread out and leveled the countryside. It's not all ashes, these days. Plants and animals are creeping back in, and the crater is filling with a shell-shaped pond (although neglected by most fish, without a way to walk over). There's something at the bottom, shining, revealed by a disturbance in the mud.

    Nowadays, the road goes around, just in case.
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    Obriane is already getting up, but as she sees the spirit attacking the Kitty-clones with it's many heads, she appears to hesitate. Just what was she going to do against this thing? it was far stronger than any other spirit she had ever encountered. She looks at Kitty for ideas, pulling her knife out of it's holster. She wasn't sure if going in melee with this thing was such a good idea, but what else could she do? Her bow didn't seem terrible effective here.
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    While Obriane hesitates, Kitty wastes no time. She lunges at the spirit while it's distracted with one of her illusions. Her shands are like claws and her teeth sharpen. She goes for the throat, intent on ripping and tearing the creature that would dare threaten Obriane.

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    [Rivi Des]

    Kitty manages to dive right at the central 'head' of the spirit, and can feel her fangs sink into what feels like cold water. There is no blood coming out of this throat, just emptiness and sadness. The howl of pain is real enough though and she can feel the spirits cold hands of death reaching for her, trying to pull her away from the throat, their touch bringing intense agony. She can hear Obriane call her name in the distance. She sounds concerned.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Recaiden View Post
    Once, a road passed by here, near a lake at the convergence of two rivers. Now, there's a crater, broader on one side, where a blast wave long ago spread out and leveled the countryside. It's not all ashes, these days. Plants and animals are creeping back in, and the crater is filling with a shell-shaped pond (although neglected by most fish, without a way to walk over). There's something at the bottom, shining, revealed by a disturbance in the mud.

    Nowadays, the road goes around, just in case.
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    One odd figure arrives at the shore, walking on dainty hooves. Sarina, carrying a bag full of adventure supplies gladly given to her, arrives at the pond. The spiders told her about this place. They were vague, as always. Something about it helping her? Or was it for them? She thought it was supposed to be helpful at least. The Queen is always hard to understand.
    The Not-Actually-A-Spider Princess peers over the edge of the pond, taking out an extendable net on a pole, ready to try and retrieve the strange shiny...thing.
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    The nets reach down and disturb the shiny thing, digging into the mud. It's small, a little trio of sparks set into a not-so-shiny loop, and it slips through the strands. But she might uncover and scoop up some tattered, dirty fabric.
    That's probably not why she's here.

    Are those little dark shapes moving through the water fish? Kinda hard to make out anything about them. The shadows of something on the surface? But abovewater, the pond is empty.
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    Sarina frowns. Waving her fingers carefully, she forms a thin cup of force with her mind, and tries to use it to scoop up the strange shiny sparks. She's not as strong in force magic as her "twin" Isaac, so it requires all of her concentration to maintain the spell. She doesn't even spare the strange fish a glance.
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    The thing is scooped, and starts to lift up towards the surface of the pond!

    The 'fish' all swim over and assemble at Sarina's end of the pond. The sun rises, light spilling over the countryside all of a sudden.

    No, that can't be right. It's mid-afternoon right now. It's just that there's something very very bright to the east. Half a second later, Sarina should feel a wave of heat roll through. But the air is still. An illusion?
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    Sarina gasps in surprise, but does not drop the spell. In fact, she pulls even faster as she tries to get this out of there before whatever's going on finishes. She doesn't really understand, and would like to be done as soon as possible.
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    The light fades, the heat stays, clouds of dust and ash billow by. None of it touches her. Odd luck, isn't it?

    "What are you doing here?"
    Was that a voice, very faint?

    Are those shadowy hands clawing their way out of the pond and onto dry land?

    Well, who would even notice those things?
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    Sarina snatches the THING out of her little cup, wrapping it in a silk cloth that she'd woven a few days ago. She'd gotten so much better at it recently. She's only outclassed by the actual spiders.
    Things are getting a bit odd for our cervine spider-princess and she thinks it's time to high-tail it out of there.
    That saying kind of applies rather well to this, actually.
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    "Wait, please!"

    The thing is a little ring, with three pits/holes/settings/jewels that are extremely shiny, all along one half. It feels a lot heavier than it looks.

    An intangible second image is laid over the ground Sarina scampers through: the place as it was the day the earth was cracked to make that pond and the little shiny thing rolled down to rest there.
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    [Masked Shore]

    Sarina's large ears perk up, and she stops.
    "Hello?" she asks thin air, wondering if she simply imagined the voice...
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    "That's not yours. Why are you here?"
    "Why do you feel - familiar?"

    Good ears! There's something here. Very faint, an impression several-times removed.
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    [Masked Shore]

    "I was told to get this. What was it you said? Fa...familiar? I don't know." she tells the voice.
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    "Who are you?"
    "Are you me? Are you-"
    "-you aren't whole! Where'd it go!?"


    The shadows assemble themselves together into a dark outline peeled off the ground, a humanoid shape with its fingers stretched long the way shadows do in twilight.
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    "I'm me. You aren't me; you don't have tails."
    Sarina, unlike Koshal, did not ask Message about potential risks of not having a shadow, and so isn't sure if it might be a problem here.
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    "I could. Share yours."
    "I'm sharing that ring; it's ours you know."


    It lifts a hand, upturned towards Sarina, moving 3-dimensionally in a most un-shadowlike way.
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    Sarina looks down at the bundled-up ring, then back up at the shadow, and repeats something that has been said by her as Isaac many a time.
    "Nope!"

    Sarina turns and bolts on her deer-legs in the way she came. She's pretty fast; the shadows will have to catch her.
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    The shadows chase after. They're pretty fast too, not because they're any good at running, but on account of being cheaty shadow things with no mass to move around.
    But Sarina doesn't have to get away. Just stay out of reach long enough to get out of the phantasmal wasteland around the pond and back to the road.
    However, the shadows are right behind her.
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    Sarina keeps running and with one hand draws a line behind her, which glows with bright light.
    That's actually all it does; it's not a ward or anything, but she thinks it'll work fine against shadows. Maybe.
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