The tunnels of the Underneath of the Forums
The group pauses in its flight for a few tense moments as a newcomer whose presence is at once both familiar and frightening joins their number. For the span of these moments it would seem as if the onrushing of darkness the group had sensed was none other than the grim shadows which have grown so heavy over the life of the Fallen. Even as they converse about which tunnel to follow into the light of the surface, however, another voice brushes their concerns aside with sudden and sneering threat. Within the pouches that Brendon carries lies a gem, a diamond unusually large and containing within its facets a dusky swirling of restless shadow, and from this gem a voice speaks. “Yes, run! Seek what light is yet to be found beyond these tunnels. Run, fools! But know that death pursues on wings of shadow and that such wings have borne it close.......”
The silence that follows upon these words is heavy with malice. Such malice is not mere metaphor, nor is it simply a presence felt within the emotions for with a terrible and swift silence malice takes shape as it steps outward from the shadows. The woman, she called Rhianneth is the first to be seized a so great is the force with which she is struck that a single blow shatters the many skins of enchanted stone which had protected her. Another blow from the same source strikes the lion brutally reducing its protective growls to a shriek of pain. Another set of powerful hands seizes the elf Elethias and slams him into the cavern wall with such force that he loses consciousness amid the sound of snapping bones. Malice stands in towering shadow both before and behind the group, twin forms of great size clutching swords that hum.
The silence that follows the initial assault is broken only by the humming of the swords and the cold speech of twin voices that insist, “None shall contest our claim!”
Rhianneth - Your stoneskin spell has been destroyed and you are stunned.
Wyrd - has taken 45 points of damage.
Elethias - You have taken 60 points of damage and are unconscious. You’ve also broken a few ribs.
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