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    Wenomir was fully intending to decapitate the cultist, so the sword would cut true. He does jerk it away when Anika is about to run into it, though, so the injury should be minor. He follows her as she chases the cultists. The time for being subtle is well and truly over.
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    The cultists flee up the stairs, eager to get away from the charging bear. Anika will probably want to follow, of course, but should she do so, she'll find that dilapidated apartments aren't... exactly the best environment for bears to exist in, as an ominous creaking and cracking sound will attest to just as Anika reaches the halfway point of the stair, just before coming into striking distance of the cultists, rapidly followed by the stair collapsing, subjecting Anika to a short fall amidst a shower of wooden splinters. Wenomir, being both further back and lighter on his feet than your average bear, should fortunately be spared this humiliating (and painful) fate, and the gap is short enough for him to smoothly leap over easily and reach the cultists in a single bound if he wishes it.
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    [Dilapidated Apartment]

    "RAWR?" Oh Elune, should have used the panther form.

    Anika just have time to close her eyes and simply rely on her greatly enchanted fortitude to protect her before the stairs comes crashing down underneath her.
    This had never happened before, she guessed she owned Azeroth's building constructors more than she ever could have thought. Those buildings could house dragons, regardless of age, size or building material!
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    Wenomir does gracefully leap over the broken stairs, and tries to decapitate both cultists in a single swing as he lands.
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    Snick! Snack!

    Good thing the robes they were wearing were red already. Because boy that's a lot of blood.
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    [Dilapidated Apartment]

    That hurt.

    The big bear is laying with it's belly on-top of the remains of the stairs, groaning in pain. This first adventure hadn't gone exactly as she had planned. She returns to her humanoid form and with a gesture of her arms green healing energy start to swirl around her as she mutters mind curses in darnassian.
    <"Stupid cultist masonry, lazy fanatic builders..."> She then turns to look up at Wenomir. "How are we doing? The rest of the cultists are probably on the run, or are preparing to fight us right now."

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    "Most likely, yes," Wenomir says. He'll help Anika out of the hole if she needs it. "But I can't see or hear any more yet. Let's move quickly before they either regroup or run."
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    [Dilapidated Apartment]

    Anika is more than grateful for the offered hand, her whole body still hurt after that fall. It didn't look like she had taken any real damage though, but only thanks to her bear form. "Okay, let's just move ahead then. They don't know they trouble they're in yet." Anika replies as she takes the lead, moving further into the cultist infested building. She got her eyes and ears open to see if she can spot any more cultists or traps (the staircase was totally a trap now). It might been have a mistake to abandon stealth so early, but the druid rarely dwelled on such things. Now they just had to figure out what the cultists were doing before they all fled, a worthy challenge.

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    [Dilapidated Building]

    They won't find any more cultists until they reach the third floor, which is where the cultists seem to be conducting their ritual. The door before them stands closed. Anika will be able to sense powerful magic on the other side.
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    [Dilapidated Building]

    Wenomir tries to open the door, although he suspects he'll find it locked. Regardless of the result, he presses his ear to it, trying to hear more of what's happening beyond.
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    And if it isn't locked, will Wenomir push the door open? Anika is more than willing to go through, she isn't sure they would hear anything important on the other side of the room. She will wait for Wenomir to finish his little investigation of the door though. "Come on, let's just go inside. We're just giving them more time to prepare." She whispers. It should be noted that Anika can't feel arcane magic. That's mages, not druids.

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    [Dilapidated Apartment]

    Technically, it's demon magic, not arcane magic. Then again, there's not a lot of nature around to get corrupted, so perhaps Anika can't feel it.

    Wenomir's eavesdropping, unfortunately, doesn't yield a whole lot of useful information. There's a lot of culty chanting going on, led clearly by the voice of a woman, who seems to be weaving enchantments of some sort in amidst all the more mundane chanting. All that chanting makes it hard to discern anything else, however. A whole army of heavily armed cultists could be standing on the other side of the door, and be undetectable under all that other noise.
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    Nothing else to do, then. Wenomir tries to kick the door in and storm through. He keeps his sword in a defensive position, ready to intercept whatever attacks that may come.
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    Yay! This was the best part!

    Anika decided not to throw caution to the wind this time however and spent a moment to just see what was going on in the room Wenomir was charging into before she did anything. She had to pick out the most important room to harass. Probably the cultist with the fanciest robe, the largest hat, or the only female in the group. It was always something that made them stand out.

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    [Dilapidated Apartment]

    Wenomir successfully manages to kick the door down on his first go! Not that was ever in doubt - I mean, he's a pretty strong guy, and these doors suck pretty hard. But imagine if he had tried to kick the door down and it ended up sturdier than expected. Like, he just kicked this door multiple times and it didn't budge at all. I mean... that'd be pretty embarrassing, right?

    We're glad that didn't happen.

    The cultists are expecting such an entry, of course, thanks to all the noise that was made earlier.

    Situation:

    Six cultists of varying sex, arranged in a semi-circle around the door, holding various simple or crude melee weapons, similar to the ones downstairs.

    A big old ritual circle.

    Three persons of varying appearance (a young female elf, a middle-aged clerkish looking dwarf, and an old human woman who might have been a herbalist or wise woman of some sort) tied up together in the middle of the ritual circle.

    Seven cultists standing around the circle, holding their hands up in the air and chanting. At the end of the circle farthest from the door, one of the cultists has her hood down, and appears to be leading the chant.

    Behind the lead cultist stands a lanky figure composed out of bright white fire that's only roughly humanoid in shape, with excessively long legs and arms that scrape the floor. At its full height it would be taller than the room, as such it stands hunched over, head brushing against the ceiling and leaving faint black char marks. The entire room seems covered in similar marks, and when the door is kicked down it gazes directly at the two intruders, maw gaping and filled with amethyst colored flames. Its eyes too are deep pits of amethyst fire, and it gazes at Wenomir with terrifying fury and also... familiarity. It emits a terrible noise as it recognizes him, somewhere in between a high pitched screech and a feline yowl, swinging an arm in a spray of white sparks to point directly at him.

    "YOU DARE INTERFERE WITH MY PLANS, FOOLISH HUMAN? SLAY HIM, MY SERVANTS! I WILL NOT BE COLLARED AGAIN!"

    With a yell, the cultists charge in unison, brandishing their weapons.
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    [Dilapidated Apartment]

    Wenomir's left hand lashes out, sending a knife at the throat of one of the cultists - the one most directly in front of him. Immediately after, he rushes to meet the cultists' charge with his own. He swings his sword in two broad arcs, trying to catch at least one cultist with the blade, as he attempts to barrel past them. Hopefully, the task will be made easier by the central cultist being knifed. This rabble's only threat is delaying him long enough for the ritual to be completed, which he can't allow.

    He's not sure if he should recognize the fiery being. It seems to know him, but he's never seen it. But there's something oddly familiar about it...
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    [Dilapidated Apartment]

    Welp, this situation just got a lot more complicated. Hostages, some sort of demonic(?) master and probably some sort of sacrificial ritual.
    "Go for the hostages Wenomir, I'll keep them busy!" Anika shouts as she places herself in front of the cultists as they rush towards them. With Wenomir barreling past them, she unleashes a typhoon spell right in the cultists faces. The spell is intended to push them all back and make them fall prone as a sudden violent gale materializes in front of her.

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    [Dilapidated Apartment]

    Wenomir successfully knifes a cultist, manages to bowl past the cultists with some effort, though it's likely that some of them manage to get some glancing blows on him with their weapons as he barrels through. Things are complicated by the windstorm being conjured up, however. Anika manages to blow the group as a whole backwards, sending them tumbling into Wenomir's path, or maybe just straight up into him. It's a deluge of cultists!

    The fiery being seems to recognize the druid as the larger threat. He beats his fists against the floor angrily, setting the wooden planks alight, then throws a fireball directly at Anika!
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    Wenomir grits his teeth to push past the glancing blows inflicted. The cultists behind thrown in front of him are a bit harder to ignore, though. He comes to an abrupt halt, before leaning forward again and performing a somersault above the cultist-pile. This, however, means his rush in the fiery being's direction is interrupted.
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    [Dilapidated Apartment]

    Eep! Fireball!
    Anika doesn't intend to try to dodge it however, instead she instantly changes her form into a huge bear, intending to simply take the fireball head on.

    The fireball will hit with a roar of fire, but as the fire disperses the bear comes charging through it towards the demon with a roar so loud that it might deafen the nearby cultists. Her fur is blackened from the fireball, it is also glowing faint blue as it have for a short time gained magic resistance, that should help against the demon.

    She aims to charge straight into it, attempting to simply body-tackle it and snap at it's throat.

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    [Dilapidated Apartment]

    The demon's flesh is about as fiery as it looks, and it struggles mightily under Anika's assault, whipping her with its arms. It's hard to establish how much damage she's doing, on account of its less-than-fleshy substance.

    The cultists doing the chanting continue to chant in earnest, and the room starts to go cold.

    Meanwhile, the cultists behind Wenomir are starting to clamber to their feet.
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    [Dilapidated Apartment]

    Wenomir quickly assesses the situation. Anika seems to have the fiery spirit locked down for the moment, so he needs to take down the chanters. Whatever they're trying to do, they shouldn't.

    He snatches a knife from his bandoleer and throws it at the lead chanter. Then he dashes towards the closest one, and sweeps his sword through their neck, in a deceptively nonchalant move that might nonetheless sever their spinal cord like a twig. Regardless of the result, he bounds towards the next one, trying to run them through the chest, before leaping in the air and landing near a fourth unfortunate cultist, trying to cleave them vertically as he descends.
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    [Dilapidated Apartment]

    Anika trusts that Wenomir deals with the cultists and whatever ritual they were doing, her task right now was keeping the demon-thing distracted so he could do his job. It was kinda hard to focus while her flesh was being sheared by the flames, but she had to endure. She roars in pain but the flames aren't doing as much damage as they should be doing, her bear form was a gift from Ursoc, it could endure all sorts of damage. She blindly flails at the demon in the hopes that it would at very least will be distracted by it while she suffered through it's flames. Once Wenomir was done she could retreat back and heal herself.

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    [Dilapidated Apartment]

    Wenomir's knife takes the lead chanter in the gut, and she collapses to her knees as he swiftly decapitates another and impales another, tearing through one half of the ritual circle like a swift breeze like so many autumn leaves. The lead chanter removes the knife and coughs, trying to stem the flow of blood from her stomach as the fiery demon raises both its arms in fury.

    "NO! I'VE WAITED TOO LONG FOR THIS!"

    The fiery demon flattens its form, slipping out from under Anika before bursting upwards into a pillar of light which arches across the ceiling, before coming down in a bright column that pierces the lead chanter's chest, arcing outwards in a blazing web that rips through the remaining cultists, sending them tumbling to the ground. The lead chanter clutches her head and screams in a voice that is both her own and the demon's, fire blazing out from her mouth and eye sockets.

    "IF I CANNOT BE FREE FROM THE NIGHTMARE OF THIS PLANE, THEN I'LL SEE YOU IN A NIGHTMARE OF YOUR OWN!"

    The hostages in the center of the circle awaken and also begin to scream, in unison, their voices forming a discordant counter-harmony with the demon's own, a harsh wailing screech that begins to assault Wenomir and Anika's senses, first their hearing, and then their vision, and then all other senses under a barrage of furious noise. No matter what actions they might aspire to take using their last moments of lucidity, pretty soon it becomes hard to move or even think under the overwhelming assault of noise, and they'll find themselves sinking into a white-hot unconsciousness.

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    As Anika and Wenomir's senses return to them, they'll rather quickly realize that all is not well. Cultists, demon, and apartment are all gone. Instead, they seem to be standing on a rough path of grey limestone, cutting through a dense undergrowth of twisted shrubs and crooked branches looming overhead. Behind them, a dense forbidding wood that quickly swallows up all traces of the path, closing into an impenetrable mass of bent branches and black leaves. Before them, the path wraps around a grey cliff overlooking a misty valley. The sky above is a vibrant, imperious violet color, broken by the bloody twinklings of a hundred scarlet stars in sweeping constellations across the velvet night.

    The valley opens over a long, crescent shaped lake, surface utterly still and asphalt-black except for at the feet of a pair of thin waterfalls that tumble from over the edge of the cliff above, spiralling outwards in ribbons of furious white water that bloom into a rain of mist and fog that blossoms above the lake's glassy surface. A thin beach of indigo colored sand separates the lake from an expanse of trees that carpet the valley floor, extending outwards into the distance where more mountains pierce through the sea of dark leaves like jagged teeth, hiding the horizon with their tarnished faces. The path wraps around the grey cliff-face, crossing under the closest waterfall and zigging and zagging up the sheer face of the mountain to reach its destination.

    Because far up this path, perched atop a spur of stone jutting from the grey cliff face like the splintered prow of a ship dashed against the rocks, a bone-white tower reaches up towards the violet sky, gleaming with a spectral iridescence. Bleached walls rise up around a narrow courtyard around the tower, pale and gleaming like glaciers looming over the narrow approach. The tower narrows into a thin spire as it climbs, and at the peak of the spire a crimson blood moon appears to hang silently over the tip, casting a dismal red pall over the ghostly fortress.

    A frigid wind picks up from across the lake, carrying with it a damp, freezing chill that strikes the pair face-on, pushing back into the forest. Anika and Wenomir both will have a vague sense of imposing threat - an instinct that if they don't act with urgency, some terrible fate will fall to pass.
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    [The Nightmare]

    Wenomir stares blankly at the landscape before him. The tower, in particular. He tenses up, and his right hand clenches on the Answer's hilt. His face is expressionless, and his voice quiet, but foreboding.

    "This is... our old tower. The one I destroyed so the demons wouldn't claim it. I... think I know who this demon is, now."

    Staring his greatest failure in the face is not very comfortable for him.
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    [The Nightmare]

    Anika's reaction is more akin to wild confusion than quiet tenseness, the bear roars in anger and flails around against a enemy that was there just moments ago. Then she turns and look around, fangs bared and ready to attack. For a moment her amber eyes meet Wenomir's and she takes a step forward, her claws ready to lash out against him as well.

    But then she stops herself and returns to her humanoid form, her face twisted in rage. "So do I, it pulled us into the nightmare! It must be one of Xavius creatures!" Her teeth are still bared as she yells and Wenomir might note that her canines are long and sharp like fangs. "We gotta... gotta..." She looks around in desperation. "We gotta find and kill that thing! It said that I'd see us here! We'll just ignore all the stupid illusions and cut its <word that's probably a cuss> throat!"

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    [The Nightmare]

    "I don't know who Xavius is, but I know what that spirit was," Wenomir says. He's still eerily calm, but a storm is brewing under that veneer. "In our old tower, there was a cat. It was actually a powerful being, bound there in that form. When I destroyed the tower, it got free. But not entirely. You're right about one thing, though. We need to find it, quickly."
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    [The Nightmare]

    A cat? Strange, but whatever. "Then let's not waste anymore time. Jump on my back, I'll get us there faster." That last sentence would have been confusing if Anika hadn't turned into a great saber the very next moment.
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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.

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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.
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    Default Re: Serious Plots 6: Srs bsns

    [The Nightmare]

    Without further ado, Wenomir gets on her back. It's weird, but if it gets them there quicker...
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