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(Dadj would be considered under the Hard immortal. So he's off on Jupiter.)

(Mink would be a hard immortal. I think. Yeah. So. *shuts up nao*)

(Pluto is too a planet! )

(My apologies, I thought it was implied. x_x I'll go edit that.
Edit: edited.)

((disrespectin' the rules. YOU CAN'T TAME ME ))

After a spell that apparently did nothing - Tyval did not notice what was happening to his friends, as the huge monster wall thing requested his immediate and complete attention - he Paladin tried to put himself together and figure out how to destroy a wall with arms. No mana, and only a bladed weapon in hand... oh, the shield!

Now, if he could only actually MOVE his now frozen in fear body, he could smack the wall with his shield. It was better than nothing.

The Ranger ceased his seizing and in fact ceased being visible.

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Samantha strode up and stood Shoulder-to-Shoulder with Tyval. According to her class in Advanced Tactics and Theatrics, this was one of the most powerful two-person formations known to exist, second only to the well-known Back-to-Back Style, which of course would not have been appropriate for confronting a single foe (discovered independently by Strauss and Berklenmeyer, 87 YD - see Allied Combat: A Dramatic Approach, Wolfren, Bosch, et al.).

She put away her lamp - between the fierce glow on her blade from the enormous, magically-animated monstrosity closing in on them, and the glow emitted by the monstrosity itself, there was plenty of light. She took out from her satchel two bottles of pills. From these, she handed one pill of each type to Erin and Tyval. "Take the red one if you get injured. The green if you become tired. They're small, but I have water if you need it."

She re-capped and replaced the bottles, then set down her sword. "I won't be able to cast anything else for quite a while, but this is the only spell I know that might help us against this thing anyway." She made two large circles in the air - looking kind of like a severely mentally-challenged bird trying to take off - and a tingling sensation came over the three of them. "We should be okay if it throws any magic projectiles at us, but other spells I can't say for sure."

She took up her sword once more, in both hands, now studying the wall for anything at all that might be useful to them. Suddenly she became considerably less grim-faced. "Don't worry, the good guys always win, right?"
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((In the bottles, there are two healing pills and five stamina pills left. Also, casting that Reversal on three times as many targets as it was designed for completely drained her, and its effect will wear off in six rounds instead of ten.))

Satisfied that all that could be affected with Telega were affected, the Demon Wall hastened its advance a bit. It casted Toxify, an AoE spell that inflicts Poison on all caught within it's area, besides the caster, of course.

In the deep reaches of space, the rounded view of Jupiter sits in silence in the inky blackness. It is cold and lifeless, not a thing moves except perhaps the dim twinklings of far-off stars. Then, something floats into view. Is it a man? He is grim-faced and blue-tinged. Arms crossed, legs bent, he tumbles through the infinite abyss, orbiting the cold planet.

(I got nothin'. x_x sorry.)

(Thanks, mross. You're a trooper. xD)

Remember Divine Health? Tyval had casted that spell upon himself a while before. ((OOC: See page twenty. )) And it was smart of him: the toxic cloud left him mostly unharmed. Mostly - he was feeling a little sickish, but what's that for a hardened Paladin?

Question being... what would wear off first, the blessing or the poison?

When Samantha gave him the order, the terrified paladin stuttered a 'yes' and proceeded to get the waterskin and bless it. Luckily blessing stuff went easy on his mana. It still took two tries, as he was so terrified he misspelled the prayer once before he got it right.

Then, out of sheer willpower, he started walking towards the wall. Sure, he felt like he was going to faint, and was shaking so much his muscles were hurting. But he still did it. The only thing that could suppress his fear was his sense of duty. And his duty at the time was to help his superior, the lizard-like adventurer Samantha, destroy the monster! And well, not let her die.

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Sam ducked under a blade as it swung across, then strafed to the side as the other came down vertically, crashing in to the ground just to her side. Without slowing her charge, she leapt up and on to the sword's hilt, then sprinted up the thing's arm. As she raised her sword, its hilt ignited and turned the blade to blue fire. She brought it down as hard as she could on what she thought was the thing's face.

A brilliant flash of light erupted as the weapon reacted with the immense amount of magic suffusing the wall, and Sam was flung back with hideous force, an awful scream trailing her the whole way. She'd collapsed against the wall a full fifty meters back down the tunnel in the direction they'd come from. She couldn't breathe. She had no memory at all of what had happened. If she'd ever been struck by lightning, and could form coherent though, she'd have compared it to that. She wondered how she was still conscious.

As her lungs started up again, she raised her head slowly. First she saw what was left of the group. Names escaped her. A little further down, she saw the... thing. Not even chipped. Just sitting there like nothing had happened, probably laughing to itself at her incompetence, about to end more innocent lives.

Her breath came in little wheezy gasps. "Not... here. Can't... die here." Barely a whisper. She looked down and saw her right hand still held her sword, which had reverted to normal. All the color had drained out of her fingers. She managed a half-hearted smirk at this, giving thanks for tiny miracles.

((It's unlikely her attack would have even damaged the thing's protective spells, much less its actual body, considering its power. There's another part to this post, but I don't want to be a big dumb selfish selfishness-pants.

Also, Erin has to post. Assuming she's still alive.))

((It's on.))

It all happened so fast. A flash. A body flying past him, the body of the one he was supposed to protect. Dead. Obviously dead - who could ever survive such a blast? The paladin lost all the will to move, his limbs once again becoming stiff with fear. He didn't mind. There was no escape, anyway - he might as well give his life to buy his comrades a little more time. With a huge effort, he raised his shield. The wall was approaching, slowly but surely.

He closed his eyes - then felt something climbing onto his shoulder. He opened his right eye, what could it be?

It was Gabby the squirrel, who was squeaking in a rather strange manner as if he was trying to talk. Or rather, pray, while making equally strange movements with his little paw. The terrified paladin recognized the prayer: he was trying to summon someone.

Gabby was summoning Dadj back.

The Ranger felt a new tugging sensation on his person. He couldn't breathe where he was, wherever that was and the sensation of his lungs shriveling and burning was a new one. One he did not particularly enjoy. He couldn't propel himself in any direction to move away from the tugging, so he was resigned to let whoever was weaving a spell over him. He felt the tugging strengthen and soon he felt as if his entire body was being sucked into a funnel.

After the feeling of being crushed through said tunnel, Dadj found his body re-inflated and dumped on the same dank dungeon floor it had previously been pulled from. He felt a different kind of burning as the atmosphere of oxygen he was used to filled his lungs and pumped the stagnant blood back through his system, causing the increasing blueness of his skin to recede. He looked around him in confusion.

(Exciting. o: )

The power of the wall's Protect spell had been reduced by over half, and some of the damage had pierced through - it was shown as cracks on it. Nevertheless, it continued its advance, adding a new AOE spell to the fray - Blindga. This will, obviously, blind anyone affected. It immediately casted this, which manifested itself as a black streak racing towards the intruders. As soon as it struck a spot on the ground in the middle of them all, it exploded into a pitch black, magic cloud - for anyone affected, this blindness will last for quite a while, even after the cloud is gone.

The paladin's reaction to the sudden blindness was immediate.

"Cancellation."

Moron. His vision cleared immediately, but so did his Divine Health blessing, the one that was stopping the poison from deteriorating his body. He would soon regret having done so. Now he could see the insanely big monster slowly getting closer... while he, on his knees, doing his best to withstand the horrible pain.

Having barely any handle on anything magic, Dadj was at a loss when his eyesight was suddenly stolen from him. He had only just made it to his feet and assessed the situation well enough to know that they were under attack and this thing had probably warped him to space. He staggered backward, trying to find a wall to keep his bearings. He wasn't afraid of being attacked, he was just annoyed that he couldn't see how he would be hit.

((Does Tyval's spell cancel the entirety of Blindga, or just on himself?))

((I like longer posts, personally :0 ))

The Ranger was backing away from the gronking, as it sounded closer to the danger. He was moving for a long time and could tell he was moving away from Tyval and whatever was attacking him. But he couldn't tell where he might be going. Moving backwards and blindly was not conducive to finding anything. Except maybe a fallen friend, which one could then trip on, falling backwards onto his arse. Dadj tumbled over Sam's sedate form, quickly scrambling to his feet and finding a non sentient wall behind him.

"Who was that?" He whispered to the darkness.