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The grizzly stood over their prey, foaming with iridescent saliva. The mucus formed helical strings, full of checked fury and restrained rage, a provocation transformed bestiality, reigned by nature’s blessing to the druid. It was a strange power, the reckoning that the Mother bequeathed to her adopted children. Fate engineered his rescue from Chult by Xaron, to arrange his freedom to fight against a much greater threat.

Why?

Nevertheless, the answers to his sole inquiry remained in the back of the bear’s mind, clawing and gnawing at the proverbial bit, hoping to be unleashed. This aspiration relished itself within the sanctity of a feverish fugue of a mind seed, planted by a jealous bard, now presumably banished from recent memory. The pinnacle and valley of the current siege of Greenest, with now their ambush upon this troupe, lead Torus to ask himself the rationale behind his existence, in the form of a horrifying growl.

Orchid, in time, applying the same stringent filter upon the runt left behind by the remnant litter, would yield a bounty, enough to feed his ravenous intellect.
Sounds good to me. You can address him as your personal sidekick. Torus will go along with the ruse, @Lucius Cypher.
Sorry. Didn't realize we were still in Initiative, nor that was my turn. I should have inferred from Brannor taking the last action.

I will not be currently pursuing the enemy at this stage. If you would like a post, I can scrounge one tonight. No problemo. @Hekazu
Yes, he was an excellent test subject. Just like the quarry next to her.

Gavin.

Their vessel had raced, at a near tenth of light speed, hopefully before Virne would catch word, during his illustrious scheduled revelry on Universal Nova. However, she knew this to be impossible. ACASIAS readily took advantage of transferring trillions of qubits to all the necessary recipients, sending via quantum entanglement, information born upon protons and atoms, by exchanging a myriad of electron orbital states precisely from one position in space to another. However, this physical massage of galactic data etched as a massive morse-like code to which each Scrounger’s suit could intercept, decrypt, and compile as local audiovisual files, if they had clearance and/or said info was declassified; the numbers ferried out fortunately were not superluminal despite resolution of the EPR paradox of special relativity, centuries before.

They still relied on the presumption of harmonic shell perceptions.

An appropriate analogy would be a telegraph employing subatomic preservation without hyperfine splitting, but relishing in the logical gates of relativistic swapping. As long as one could decipher such anticipated exchanges intentionally, information in a local galaxy was faster than the classical transmission of a spoken dialogue. Yet, biological life forms were too complex to translate over such a vast ether, due to risk of disrupting the Pioneer plaque limits of astrophysics.

Alas, all these actions could still be carried about with such rapid communication, even without, quantum teleportation, by ACASIAS before the pair even set foot inside.

With the aid of the gravity manipulator, Vropda and her new found shipmate finally met again the perpetrator. The other two carcasses had since been removed from the quarantined field and stringent biometric locks that were already placed on the frozen, rotisserie body. His corpus appeared packaged as a potential gifted specimen for her Xenoendoplantation lab, primed for dissection as a scion for future grafting and embedding among the Scrounger race. The Duke had denied her request before, but may now be more malleable with this third altercation being the incident racked on Nick’s rapsheet.

In his proverbial famous words: Three strikes. And you’re out.

The Captain still knew that Zelthis remained cognizant; he was more elusive than uncontrolled nanobots, and he would need not only physical restraints but mental ones. Since his cochlear cells were the most resistant to damage, Creft’s sister realized he could still hear.

Perfect.

She pressed a few buttons on her suit, which engaged several speakers, readied for their musical debut. Vropda had since cultivated such complex, self-perpetuating melodic fractals into sound, repeating a musical theme in a large symphonic framework. Similar to a cant or an elegy, her dirge would secretly, unbeknownst to Lobrom, appease and pacify the frigid man's disturbed mood, assuming their captive’s nervous systems utilized electric potentials and depolarization. The soothing tunes were low pitched, only consciously detectable with the correct diverting strata. All she needed was to reach the subconscious id that mounted upon the ego of this shapeshifter, altering his brain to reciprocally dance to their suggestions and orders. The Captain realized this could only last for an optimal twenty to thirty standard hours, before Nick would purposely negate the auditory signaling to release himself from these cerebral fetters.

Vropda, once satisfied that the bispectral index score from Zelthis equated and related to quiescent sedation, bellowed in a shrill voice.

“ACASIAS, bring the containment unit. Once he's imprisoned, please instill gravity once more, so our friend, Gavin, here, does not have to.”

> UNDERSTOOD

@Hekazu@Fer1323@JBRam2002@Zverda@Corporal Lance
Got unexpectedly busy. Post postponed within the next 24 hours.
@Hekazu For Torus,' reaction, he will employ the Brown Bear's Claws, a Melee Weapon Attack: +5 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. Hit: 11 (2d6 + 4) slashing damage.

It lands only for 6 damage.
Round 4 Update


Cerise and Corgi
Dashed to Mara, next to Invis Lady. Spirtual Weapon follows by 20 feet.

Uregaunt
Took gear with free action and dashed to follow.

AdAM 7 and 8
Collects all potions on the remaining 3 benches. Continues to Don armor after drinking green potion.

Mara/Fern
Mara will move forward to the Invisible Lady and calm herself. "Don't follow me," she warns before using Reckless Attack to gain advantage on a Booming Blade cantrip. She hits for 8 bludg + 8 thunder damage, and Invisigirl will take 2d8 more thunder damage if she moves. Then wolf will Disengage and move out the portal.

Thanath
After reclaiming his javelins, Thanath looked over at the portal just in time to see Mara and her Wolf pass through it. "Are we heading through the portal now?!" Thanath boomed as he approached Cerise, Uregaunt, and the Invisible Woman "I must admit it does seem rather interesting!"

Zana
Attempts to unlock his door, but is unsuccessful.

Invis Lady is up next.
Torus to D14.
Bears can easily be bereaved of their natural cautiousness, being attracted to food sources, such as garbage dumps, litter bins, and even roasted hens. These ursids may even venture into dwellings in search of sustenance, as gatherings of people reciprocally and awkwardly encroached upon and into their habitats.

However, this was not the barreling omnivore’s natural biome, nor was this a jamboree, in revelry of the landscape's vintage.

For the dozen were destined prey.

Due to the length of his forelimbs’ claws more prolonged than those of the hind limbs, the grime amassed on the front of the grizzly’s torso. The talons’ structure were blunt, and in addition to their excessive weight, contributed to their difficulty to climb trees, as well as, compared, to their black cousins. Being the only extant species of bears with a hump upon each shoulder blade, fashioned entirely of muscle, imparted more might in digging, habitual foraging and den construction prior to hibernation. In lieu of this tremulous anatomy, the druid’s wildshape’s scapulae continued to oscillate in succession, intensity and sternness, striving through dirt and silt, to the cache of weapons between the kobolds and humans.

The maxilla and mandibular ridges soon parted, allowing a roar to erupt from the agape jaw as its owner's furry extremities made way, past one of the cultists, to hopefully guard against their potential armament.

If any were brave enough to face Torus, clothed with nature and armed with ferocious hunger, they hopefully would be unarmed.


@Hekazu
Post will be up later today, @Hekazu.
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