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Devlyn stands up, shaking his head.
"We need to get some answers here first, since we're down a few people. We just aren't asking the right questions the right way yet."
He activates his Amulet of True Sight and starts scanning the area for anything out of sorts (like an illusion covering up the presence of the bodies, or masking the fact that this isn't really Club Calistria, etc.). When his gaze falls on Oroth, he stops.
"Huh. What do we have here....?" as he adjusts his grip on his blade.
I'm going to finish this tommorrow, sorry about bailing like that.

The Dalesman |

This is not our month...
Morning all. I'm logged in from home at the moment - my sweety is badly ill again, and I'm pretty sure I'm bundling her off to the doctor around midday. I have no idea how much I'll be able to contribute today, but I'll do my best not to leave anyone hanging if I can help it.
I'm going to apologize in advance just in case I come off a bit snarky today - when I went to pick up my sweety from her work, I found out that her coworkers left her outside in a parking lot alone, cold and getting sick until I showed up to get her. To say that I'm seething mad right now is the understatement of the millenium...

The Dalesman |

Sorry to hear that man. As someone still affected with the lingering crud, I hope your sweety makes a quick recovery. The bugs flying around this month seem wicked ...
No sweat D-Man. Very BS of her co-workers to do that to her.
Oh man, that was very uncool of them. I don't blame you for being pissed. Hope she feels better soon.
Thanks for the kind words folks - they are appreciated :)
I'm torn between getting medieval on those guys, and not causing any trouble at her job that could affect her. Maybe I just need to get some zen this morning...
And I don't know what it is this month, but you're right, Patrick. These bugs just need to go away and leave us all alone... :P
With luck David, DB9 and I can wrap this little dialogue up shortly and get free to move around a bit. I need to find some good news! ;)

The Dalesman |

Sirone appears from the water of one of the fountains. "Champions, you must get to the Ancient Grove. Lynora and Jack Hammer are in grave danger."
Devlyn curses under his breath.
"Alright Sirone. Can we use the omniportal to get there, or do we need to go by other ways? And has Alaina come to yet?"
The Dalesman |

"Use the Omniportal, it connects all planes," Sirone says. "The priestess has not yet awakened from her slumber."
"Got it. When she does wake up, tell her that she may need to make some inquiries about her one surviving hired hand here," as he looks at Oroth.
Devlyn heads to the portal and transits to the Ancient Grove.
Edited because I can't keep up well today... :)

The Shadow |

Sirone, Mistress of the Waves wrote:"Use the Omniportal, it connects all planes," Sirone says. "The priestess has not yet awakened from her slumber.""Got it. When she does wake up, tell her that she may need to make some inquiries about her one surviving hired hand here," as he looks at Oroth.
Devlyn heads to the portal and transits to the Ancient Grove.
Edited because I can't keep up well today... :)
*Oroth follows.*

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Angel sighs and gets up from her chair. She really doesn't want to deal with LJ and JH right now. She understands mentally that her relationship with JH hasn't happened yet, and may never happen. Emotionally though, the feeling are real and the wound hasn't even had time to scab over yet. Still, if there is one thing she understands it's that in war you do what you have to regardless of how you feel.

lynora-Jill |

A loud humming startles the group. A swarm of wasps emerges from the crystal hive on top of the clubhouse. They circle around buzzing and a large wasp hovers in front of them
zzz... you are not welcome ... zzz ... begone!
I was not aware of animosity between us, winged ones, the air elemental whispers back. We are only here to watch for further incursions and assist you if you need it. Would you truly try to banish the air?

The Wasp Queen |

The Wasp Queen wrote:Yes, winged ones, but they have already gone. We will help you keep guard lest they come back, the wind whispers to the agitated wasps.zzz ... intruders have defiled the hive ... zzz
The wasps swirl about agitated
The agitated wasps calm a bit and fly back to their hive. A faint annoyed buzzing can still be heard

DbJ's Human Form |

*DbJ lands just inside the forest outside the Club and, shifting to his human form, walks to the Club. He stops when he sees what has happened. Then slowly goes into the treehouse to collect some things. He ignores the wasps and the air elemental.*
*The items collected, DbJ leaves not spending the time to fully shift, he grows wings for his human form. Leaping into the air, he is gone.*

Nameless Narrator |
A crackling form appears on the patio. It levitates several feet above the bluestone surface. Bright blasts of electrical energy arc from the figure, blasting tables and chairs about.
The figure booms
COME OUT. I KNOW YOU ARE HERE.
Another figure, also levitating but wrapped not in electricity but an odd greenish chysalis of arcane runes and numbers emerges from the clubhouse and faces the electric-charged form
YOUR SCRY STONE IS QUITE POTENT. I WOULD HAVE THOUGHT NO ONE COULD PIERCE MY WARDS
The electric-drenched form blasts the other
THIS ENDS NOW BETRAYER!

Jay Frogskin |

The greenish form gestures and a beam of green symbols strikes Frogskin. The very fabric of the thread stutters. It is Board energy, concentrated to kill.
FLEE OR DIE!!
"YOU FIRST, SPAWN OF EVIL!!!" He shouts, countering the Board Essence with his own. The two bolts meet in midair, hovering, as each tries to overwhelm the other.

Nameless Narrator |
While Innocent Blood is distracted by the raven Alaina blasts her with a concentrated blast of enrgy. The vampire blasts backwards, slamming into the wall of the clubhouse. As she stands a frenzied humming erupts. The wasp colony descends upon her.
Innocent Blood screams and gestures. The wasps are disintegrated by a pulse of green energy that takes the roof of the clubhouse off. She screeches:
INTERTHEREAL EX NIHILO!
A gale-force wind springs up. The entire thread begins to fray, the distant meadows dissolving in a rush of bits and bytes. Alaina screams and attempts to project her energies out to bolster the thread. Innocent Blood blasts her with another beam of green energy.
Both Alaina and Innocent Blood vanish in an explosion of eldritch power, leaving the thread to slowly dissolve into the Deep Interthereal Sea.

The Eighth Runelord |
The chaos echoes and whirls, scattering random fragments to different parts of other threads. The plot of land where the Messageboard Oracle was buried and anything that was nearby to that disappears to a private location of the Runelord's choosing. Lightning and fire strobe through the remaining debris - an eerie echo of the lights that used to twirl and spin over club-goers - as the club subsides and thrashes into a maelstrom of final dissolution.

The Eighth Runelord |
The Runelord marks the final death throes of the Club, and scans the debris for certain signs and portents which he has anticipated will indicate Calistria's frame of mind regarding these events.
He notes them, and then he departs, leaving the flotsam bobbing and turning slowly in the interethereal sea.

The Dalesman |

The Dalesman wrote:I'm working on a replacement ...never fear ..Jack Hammer wrote:Boo. Hiss. Boo. Hiss. Now we need a new place to party.Seconded. With a passion. Posthumously, but still... ;)
Just razzin' you, sirrah. The fact that we miss it is testimony to how much fun you made it for all of us. I can't wait to see what comes next! :)

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Plantjack barely holds the thread up for days, though the actual building has long since fallen around him (and on him). Finally, though, he collapses out of exhaustion. The thread begins to collapse on him, threatening to destroy him.
Suddenly, Jay Frogskin flies in. "Come on, Plant, time to go..." He mutters. He digs around under the rubble and finds Plant. With a quick spell, they both disappear.
The thread collapses.