What's Going On?
Last night saw the company undertaking a short notice leve aptly named 'A Void to Behold'! Tasked with recovering an antique casket that had recently been excavated from deep within the Sagolii Desert of Southern Thanalan. Assembling at the Forgotten Springs they received the details of the duty from the Company Master; before heading South following a poorly scribbed map to locate their prize.
Arriving to find the piled corpses of the mercenaries who had previously guarded the camp and the second batch to whom had come to investigate the former's disappearance it was soon revealed that a sinister figure was responsible for it all.
Arriving to find the piled corpses of the mercenaries who had previously guarded the camp and the second batch to whom had come to investigate the former's disappearance it was soon revealed that a sinister figure was responsible for it all.
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Sat atop the piled bodies was a Lalafell Necromancer of considerable ability. Swiftly demonstrated as corpses flew like rag-dolls to shield her from blows and with a thrust of her stave into the air the Darkness overtook the area in a dome like creation. From the terrors of the void came Gargoyles clawing their way into reality, fueled by the resonant aether from the masses of freshly killed corpses.
Turning their weapons on the emerging voidsent the group quickly put them back to their reality; hacking and slashing them back into the portals they were still emerging from. In the meantime a trio had attempted to attack the Necromancer directly, finding them assailed by flying corpses, crackling bolts of lightning and finally a challenge issued directly by what appeared to be a woman behind the robes and stave.
Turning their weapons on the emerging voidsent the group quickly put them back to their reality; hacking and slashing them back into the portals they were still emerging from. In the meantime a trio had attempted to attack the Necromancer directly, finding them assailed by flying corpses, crackling bolts of lightning and finally a challenge issued directly by what appeared to be a woman behind the robes and stave.
![[Image: tumblr_ocigl0Qxii1urclfso4_1280.png]](https://66.media.tumblr.com/c5b29bc269a546a2b31324e997d773ab/tumblr_ocigl0Qxii1urclfso4_1280.png)
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They were challenged to fight a construct made from the very casket they were sent to recover, rock twisted and reformed into a human like visage twenty fulms high and the emeralds, rubies and sapphires embedded in the ornate object formed weapons and eyes for the beast.
Yet they were undeterred, laying into the construct with vigor before it had even finished forming as it was forced to its knees and onto the defensive from a barrage of attacks both from Knights & Dragoons. Yet it was not bested easily as its weapons swept through the air with unnerving speed, manipulating into a Warhammer and swiping a Dragoon from the sky and almost crushing another.
It was during this the bravest, or were they the most foolish? Of the group attempted to assail the Necromancer who was behind a swirling blood shield. Tearing through it only to be met with the hovering weapons of the deceased sellswords waiting for them. One by one the weapons tore through his body whilst others were narrowly deflected by sheer force of will or shields. Alas the Necromancer sat untouched on her throne of bodies.
Eventually after some friendly fire and narrow misses however the Construct was bested and the Necromancer allowed them the prize which they sought. In one last show of strength the dead rose around the group as ice bound them in place, a reminder to accept their prize and depart before they faced a much greater threat!
It was during this the bravest, or were they the most foolish? Of the group attempted to assail the Necromancer who was behind a swirling blood shield. Tearing through it only to be met with the hovering weapons of the deceased sellswords waiting for them. One by one the weapons tore through his body whilst others were narrowly deflected by sheer force of will or shields. Alas the Necromancer sat untouched on her throne of bodies.
Eventually after some friendly fire and narrow misses however the Construct was bested and the Necromancer allowed them the prize which they sought. In one last show of strength the dead rose around the group as ice bound them in place, a reminder to accept their prize and depart before they faced a much greater threat!
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Many thanks to those who attended last night! Both FC, Linkshell & Friends! Many thanks to Virella for grabbing much better screens than I too.
