An unjaded maniacal [i]Ahab[/i] shrieked a raging harpoon whilst vaulting his half-blood into the lightning littered eve. His mid-jump scream and throw ambitiously embraced the monstrous [i]Melvillian[/i] whale, echoing an orcish fairy tale of an innocent [i]Taji’s[/i] endless pursuit for a serpentine [i]Yillah[/i], an obsessive mark that mumbles utopian impossibilities. The Olympian javelin matched the mettle of the now unintended flight attendant, securing amongst the scales of the [i]Mephistopheles[/i] underbelly. A leprous twinge later sought a response from the blue dragon as buzzing arrows from Brannor and Kyra tested the tenacity of Orchid’s grip. Yet, a draconian gust easily conquered its tethered Damoclean warrior, dangling for verve and truth.

The subsequent imminent descent was coupled by the background rally of Parum’s music, between her incising bow-blade and heralding chanting, as she sallied away from the pirate’s icy, labyrinthine roof, bracing against the obsidian eyes above.  Torus’ body cringed within the Minotaur hide and under the frosty shroud, sensing the mythic plummet would claim another [i]Bladud[/i]. Without hubris or complacency, the verdant [i]Icarus[/i] tumbled beneath the blackest of suns, his imaginary pinions melting from the brute force of the blue-winged [i]Kua Fu[/i] killer, as gales of wind failed to carry the gravity of his boldness.

The desolator of Greenest then emitted not a bolt, but Draconic libretti against the blue-haired Hin, [color=5f55e5] “First you dare compare I, Lennithon, to an overgrown pawn and then suddenly switch to cowering in fear? Learn your place, grain of sand.” [/color] The eaves-dropping elder recognized the injured vanity, that was curiously, quickly and serendipitously appeased, jetting now away from the trounced citadel, with a vibrant speed unwitnessed prior by many.  

[color=a2d39c]””WAAAAAARGH!”[/color]

The nubile decline converged into a bellowing, bloody meteor, crashing but dodging Cuth upon the rampart, that now continued as a mass grave.  The brutish [i]Sampati[/i] jarred miraculously with gusto and vertigo, a staccato nystagmus that mimicked his earlier gallantry. The hulking [i]Babel[/i] of angst, fury, and vigor seemed to bend with the passage of tempo and garbled Common. 

[color=a2d39c]””RAAAGH! COWARD! COME AND DIE!” [/color]

The [i]Himban[/i] phoenix, however, collapsed under the exhaustive trek of heaven to hell, after realizing and declaring his foe was beyond his reach. For now. Soon, [i]Chauntean[/i] hands intervened before the [i]Moirai[/i] claimed his mortality and, worse yet, his unfulfilled destiny. Kyra whispered as vivacity leached from her core to Orchid’s.

[color=pink]"Both thorn and thistles it should bring forth, for us. For out of the ground we were taken for the dust we are, and to the dust we shall return."[/color] Her worsening pallor accentuated the fatiguing expenditure of an already depleted cleric.  [color=pink] “We don’t have any time for…”[/color]

Golden eyes suddenly chanced upon the druid's wearied gaze, surfacing both his talents and the halfling’s contemplation of the aftermath, with its underlying motives and consequences. 

[color=yellow]"Help the woman with the rest while I move him out of here."[/color]

The simple command summoned ironic rainfall from under the frozen umbrella, while more aquatic earth erupted from the third waterskin, a marine djinn trickling from the druid’s persona to accommodate the paladin’s wish. Two wintry, almost frictionless stretchers anchored with jutted handles shortly materialized, fit for many bodies, whether dismembered, maimed or intact, to shovel and ferry, those most ill inside, requiring only gnome-like effort due to the nature of the incorporated slick ice. Glancing back at the naked Orchid heaved by Brannor and Kyra’s frenetic compassion, the old man offered all simultaneously:

[color=00aeef][i]“Oghma indeed! For life and death are united, even as the river and ocean clap in unison. Allow us to yoke together, young warriors. For I, Torus, sense the burden you are tethering.”[/i][/color]