Suddenly Jolly roars in anguish. "You killed him!" he screams at the ghoul while cradling Garrin's body. "Fiend!" he roars, "UNHOLY FIEND!" Jolly is suffused with green, glowing energy that leaks from his eyes and orifices like wispy tree roots. He screams a silent third time as his body quakes, attempting to contain some kind of arcane explosion. With a final roar, green flames blast forth from Jolly's mouth, incinerating the ghoul and leaving a scent like the undersides of wet leaves.
But the energy doesn't stop. It continues to consume Jolly, seemingly burning him from the inside out until nothing but a circular, pulsating disk of green and yellow energy stands before you.
"I am a spirit of the Feywild, called the Queen of Vines. I have had to destroy one of my own to contact you. What I have to say will be hard for you to understand; please keep an open mind."
"This death curse you are trying to stop doesn't end at the borders of your realm. It has affected mine. It has affected the Shadowfells. It has affected all planes. All realities. It is an aberration of the natural order created by a planes-traveling meddler who styles himself above the gods."
"As you stand here, these events are transpiring across myriad worlds... in other realities. Imagine your world, had you not been born, or your parents not been born. Each possibility creates a new reality. Across all of these, the death curse is being fought. I am here...to consolidate the efforts. I have found others such as yourselves with the skills and fortitude that make them good candidates for success. I would have you join them, that your efforts could be combined. You will leave your world behind; there is no coming back. But the sacrifice you make here could save us all. Will you make this sacrifice? Then enter."
The disc becomes swirling vortex of energies roughly 7 feet in diameter. What do you do?
Valik stands there in stunned silence. The atrocities he has witnessed in the death of his comrade Garrin, the ghoul thing and now Jolly. The surreal apparition before him uses words that fall on numb, half understanding ears. He turns to Bowark, who started off an enemy and soon became a friend despite their work on opposite sides of the law. His face a mixture of sadness and questions.
Bowark glances at Valik as the sphere expands to collect them. Your bodies experience sensations quite foreign and unexplainable as they are thrust through more numerous dimensions than either of you can probably count. Great heat, great cold, accompanied by a sensation of being spread thin, like butter on bread, to being constricted and pressed, like a roach worming its way into a house. There is no vision... there is vision of everything.
You come to your senses slowly, having never been put through a multidimensional grinder before. You're in a very small cell, five feet by ten feet, and another humanoid occupies the cell with you. You have all your possessions.
The iron cell door opens and a human accompanied by a tiny dragon stand in the doorway...
Suddenly Jolly roars in anguish. "You killed him!" he screams at the ghoul while cradling Garrin's body. "Fiend!" he roars, "UNHOLY FIEND!" Jolly is suffused with green, glowing energy that leaks from his eyes and orifices like wispy tree roots. He screams a silent third time as his body quakes, attempting to contain some kind of arcane explosion. With a final roar, green flames blast forth from Jolly's mouth, incinerating the ghoul and leaving a scent like the undersides of wet leaves.
But the energy doesn't stop. It continues to consume Jolly, seemingly burning him from the inside out until nothing but a circular, pulsating disk of green and yellow energy stands before you.
"I am a spirit of the Feywild, called the Queen of Vines. I have had to destroy one of my own to contact you. What I have to say will be hard for you to understand; please keep an open mind."
"This death curse you are trying to stop doesn't end at the borders of your realm. It has affected mine. It has affected the Shadowfells. It has affected all planes. All realities. It is an aberration of the natural order created by a planes-traveling meddler who styles himself above the gods."
"As you stand here, these events are transpiring across myriad worlds... in other realities. Imagine your world, had you not been born, or your parents not been born. Each possibility creates a new reality. Across all of these, the death curse is being fought. I am here...to consolidate the efforts. I have found others such as yourselves with the skills and fortitude that make them good candidates for success. I would have you join them, that your efforts could be combined. You will leave your world behind; there is no coming back. But the sacrifice you make here could save us all. Will you make this sacrifice? Then enter."
The disc becomes swirling vortex of energies roughly 7 feet in diameter. What do you do?
Valik stands there in stunned silence. The atrocities he has witnessed in the death of his comrade Garrin, the ghoul thing and now Jolly. The surreal apparition before him uses words that fall on numb, half understanding ears. He turns to Bowark, who started off an enemy and soon became a friend despite their work on opposite sides of the law. His face a mixture of sadness and questions.
"What...what do we do?"
Bowark glances at Valik as the sphere expands to collect them. Your bodies experience sensations quite foreign and unexplainable as they are thrust through more numerous dimensions than either of you can probably count. Great heat, great cold, accompanied by a sensation of being spread thin, like butter on bread, to being constricted and pressed, like a roach worming its way into a house. There is no vision... there is vision of everything.
You come to your senses slowly, having never been put through a multidimensional grinder before. You're in a very small cell, five feet by ten feet, and another humanoid occupies the cell with you. You have all your possessions.
The iron cell door opens and a human accompanied by a tiny dragon stand in the doorway...
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