开云体育

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Fleeing through the portal one by one, you find yourselves suddenly in the jungle near the base of an enormous ancient pyramid.

It’s early morning, and songbirds are in full orchestra. The air is hot and humid already and the soil is soft and damp.

North’s ‘calm emotions’ seems to soothe and settle her somewhat, though she and?Sweet William?still hold tightly to the spear.

“Go,” Morning Song wheezes through a coughing fit. “The Feathered One awaits…” she says, collapsing from pain and exhaustion.

Unfortunately, you apparently haven’t completely escaped.

“Now, young Tabaxi… you will die,”?the voice states ominously, reverberating through the very air around you.

Clouds gather and a crackle of lightning streaks down from the sky striking?Tabby?in full, and the thunder rocks the area, throwing everyone except?Sweet William?backwards 5 feet. Still clutching the spear,?Tabby?somehow inherently recognizes that she’s immune to lightning while wielding the weapon, and a prideful smile curls on her lips.?Sweet William?on the other hand made a successful STR and CON save to resist getting knocked prone and only takes half damage (13 hp).

While?Tabby?is distracted by the lightning AND the threatening voice AND?Sweet William?still holding the spear,?Brother Ashley?slips in to offer a healing prayer to Morning Song. “Save your magic for the combatants,” Echoes of Thunder whispers but the Cleric follows the earlier request of his young best friend and stabilizes the dying monk’s wounds with a prayer.

Cerina?can clearly see a way through the heavy foliage to get to the pyramid.

“What do we do?”?Brother Ashley?asks Morning Song, but she is too weak to answer.

“Take the battle to the source,” Echoes of Thunder says, slipping away from Morning Song and approaching?Tabby. Making eye contact with the girl he whispers to her, “Remember.”

Tabby?is confused and conflicted. She has a strange desire to cut this man down where he stands, but she also feels a longing, a connection, toward him. She feels overwhelming emotions- fear, anger, even hatred, but her rational mind cannot comprehend why? Yes this man was once her adversary, her enemy, but his actions no longer support that belief. Her mind shifts to the Jaguar ‘Cries in Moonlight’ and another surge of fear and anger and hate wells in her for his lies, his deception. What knowledge did he keep from her about her parents? What doesn’t she know? What is she meant to remember? Then something stirs deep within her subconscious- a fleeting memory from infancy ‘try to remember, always put purpose ahead of your feelings’. She’s shocked to recognize her birth father’s voice. He was training her to be a monk even as a baby.?

She’s suddenly certain these ARE her birth parents, but strangely her emotions are not love, or gratitude, or even joy. She feels even more anger, and rage! They abandoned her. They betrayed their calling. They betrayed the monetary, stole from it, and enslaved the Leonin. They were the bad guys all along! And she’s the only one that can make them pay for their wicked ways! She controls the Spear and she can balance their badness with her goodness! The only way to restore the order is to kill them.

Flynn?slips in close, casting Sleep on?Tabby, and she goes limp in?Sweet William’s arms.?

And what do you do?

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