OOC: bigger party but bigger problems now?  Combat has started so 3 actions max and first action should involve defending yourself from the blades probably. If you gonna use an ability, make it very obvious you are using an ability.
mentions: [@supamusu][@Moonberry][@JonTheArchivist] [@Ducksworth] [@ImaginedBird]

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The chamber seemed to tighten as Evie’s words echoed against the stone. The mage lifted his chin, pale eyes glimmering through the haze, and his mouth curled into something that was not quite a smile.

[color=00a651][b]“You came for Kavros,”[/b][/color] he said, voice carrying with a low resonance that shivered the water around him. [color=00a651][b]“He is deeper still, where the mist runs strongest. He does not walk among the unprepared. You will not find him by force of will alone.”[/b][/color]

The mist thickened at his gesture, rolling low across the water until the mage was swallowed and the pillars blurred into silhouettes. Faces wept harder, rivulets streaming down to join the pool, and in their tears the reflections of the party warped and writhed. Each surface offered some memory of grief, sharpened to a cruel edge: comrades buried, family lost, failures replayed. It pressed at the mind with a steady pulse, as if the chamber itself sought to end them through the the despair of their pasts.

The water rippled.

[color=00a651][b]“You will drown before you see him,”[/b][/color] he intoned his voice bouncing around oddly in the chamber making it sound like it came from all around the party.

The water's surface convulsed noticeably. Shortly after from the fog, shards of water drawn razor thin, like glass, screamed through the mist, fast and unpredictable at the party.

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