Stone Golems crumble and turn to dust. Shadowy beasts flutter into darkness and disappear. The stone weapons turn to fine sand and fall from hands to the floor.
Silence descends on the hall and rooms again. A moment of calm falls across the hallway. Nothing of the previous visit from Cade is recalled by your Characters.
In the hallway adjacent to the Cell you started in, is Cade with more white in his hair and a nasty scar, both to an eye and his temple, an older Cade from who you were working with in Gloom.
Nodding he says, “Peace. Here to help. Alex, like my note said, sorry. If I could undo it I would. Once you guys never returned the rest went to war against Giest with no Pillars and no help from others. Was bad. Nasty bad. Gloom fell to Giest and Scara. Was almost a decade later when the CS raided the necropolis and destroyed the place. By then Giest was off world anyway. Took me a while to find you all. Some asshat space pirates of the UWW tried to abduct you all. They were going to float you or well….they did float you. You all died. So. I got this idea. I made contact with Drake Prime and he helped me rescue you guys. I guess he once worked for the Legion in a SET. So, Drake helped me sell you guys. We talked to the UWW pirates and convinced them to sell you to Caesar. Lucky for you guys I got some True Demons in Hades to buy you as slaves and toy things. See, there are a set of Pillars here in Hades we can steal. Steal and change things so that Gloom does not fall. We need to escape from this building and get the Pillars, and then get to the East Dolmen site for an extraction from Drake and his insane new D-Raider crew he is running with. The Brouhaha Crew.”
Cade opens a flat empty bag and pulls out vials. Some are full of red liquid, some blue. He starts handing them out. ”Will restore your mystic energies and inner strength. Last time I had hoped the tattoos would help, but wasn’t enough. Being right next to an Anti-Ley Line is a bitch. We need to get a few hundred feet away before it stops affecting you all.”
(Each vial will restore you to full Power Points. Everyone who drinks a vial also finds that darkness and fatigue are no longer an issue. As long as you leave the area relatively soon don’t worry about having PP drained due to proximity of Anti-Line. If you stay for longer than 20 minutes it would be an issue. There are a total of 12 vials to share.)
Pointing at the door, Cade says: "The door. Once we open it there will be four Shadow Beasts at the far end of the hallway. Closer will be two Shadow Hounds. They are all fast as hell....heh. When we go across the bridge, the colossal demon outside in the lava river tries to throw lava at us. Several times some of you end up in the river of lava, freaking once Humble jumped in on purpose. You never came back. Stay out of the river. The far door starts closing once they realize we are escaping. if that door closes we always die. Trapped on bridge or in next building, or outside on the rocks, we always die. The only time we ever made it past this first encounter was when Jitters sacrificed himself to stop the door. This time..." Cade holds up the chair. "...I got an idea to keep that door open and us alive. After we get across the bridge the Anti-Ley Line will not sap you anymore either. So. Kill and run to far end of hallway. Then the fun part comes. Caeser himself."
Init Order = For once you open doors and go out into sulfur smelling open bridge area, unlike cell, outside is hot.
Post your chit chat and then post your Attacks on the creatures, thanks.
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