[quote=@ZAVAZggg] [color=red][i]"Well, isn't this just a pickle? Still, looks like I'll still be getting fed today,"[/i][/color] Seggorath noted, the hunger in her tone evident. Maere shook his head with a sigh, pinching the bridge of his nose momentarily. [color=#f05825]"I'll grab the boy."[/color] And with that he promptly walked over to Promien, who was still clucking his blackened heart out, and swung right for his face. With the necromancer successfully rendered unconscious, Maere hoisted him over his shoulder. That done, he swiftly left the room, his body becoming enveloped in its demonic carapace in the process. [b]After leaving the castle and placing Promien somewhere relatively safe, Maere summoned Ashrune to his hand, its form more akin to a flaming ember than an actual blade. Striding off, he went to lie in wait for the creature, planning on taking it down in one fell swoop.[/b] [/quote] [color=crimson]"Everyone together,"[/color] Mortus procures his arcane focus from the folds of his robes and makes a mixture of gestures and incantations [b][u]beseeching the lords of the abyss to give him the power to destroy the legendary naked mole-rat[/u][/b] [color=crimson]"May the Abyss give me strength."[/color] he says as he runs to exit the keep.