Immediately upon your arrival at the Sanctuary of Light, Karavakos knew you were there, and for what purpose. His minions arrayed and at his command, the gauntlet is thrown down and arcane energy blasts in all directions. You are blasted hither and thither, the life force being hammered from you like nails beneath the mallet!
After the initial assault, you stand bloodied but resolute. You grip your weapons and wade into the minions of Karavakos like the scythe through the wheat. What follows is a game of chaotic cat and mouse. Karavakos flits in and out of your reach unleashing devastating powers on you at every turn...and you waver, but do not fall.
Eventually, you remove Karavakos minions from the game and it is only you and your pray that you have sought these long days in this accursed place. He stands...alone upon the top tier of the pyramid within the sanctuary of light. You climb and strike him...he throws you down, you climb and strike again, only to be thrown down again.
When he finally realizes that you are no mere group of glorified peasants, but a real threat...he does the only thing that remains in his bag of tricks...he calls upon the power of the pyramid itself, and to deadly effect. Standing surrounded, he is infused with the vast power of the pyramid and he unleashes it upon you.
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You are all blasted to the edges of the room...you see your comrades fall, unable to withstand this new onslaught that Karavakos has pulled out of the engines that power the pyramid. After several harsh attacks, Karavakos can no longer withstand the massive influx of power....he is just a mortal after all and the inevitable happens. The power consumes him and he explodes in a spectacular and deadly fashion.
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3 more of your members fall...unable to withstand the deadly end of Karavakos.
Vyrellis runs to the top of the pyramid and uses the power within her to create a portal to the mortal world, but time to escape is short. How will you escape with so many of your party on the knifes edge of death? There is simply no time.
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At that moment, Ragner, Kallak and Dalin come up with the refugees, Kallak heals 2 of your members well enough so that they can struggle to the top of the pyramid, Gilgenor heals the 3rd, but the exit is not an easy one. The pyramid is failing...collapsing upon itself. With its prisoner finally gone (?) it has no purpose....Vyrellis can not hold the portal open and it begins to fluctuate chaotically. One of the refugees sees the portal and the promise of freedom and runs headlong into it...it was his final mistake as the fluctuating portal slams shut in an instant and his body is cleanly cut in half...legs still in the pyramid...his torso and head had secured their "freedom"...for what little good it did him.
A few more of you take your chances and pay a high price...a hand lost...a foot removed...a prized weapon destroyed. The rift is closing...you will be trapped in this collapsing dimension...
Vyrellis' orb begins to crack...she will be overwhelmed by the strain of
holding open the portal and...a decision must be made. There are a few of you that could help her maintain the level of arcane power required to keep the portal open for a few more moments...but you know you will most likely be lost in the process. Forward steps the most unexpected volunteer....Xiphos. While some of the more arcane inclined people might have used magic to sustain the portal...Xiphos does not...she merely stands within the portal and, through brute strength, and the touch of Lloth upon her, she is able to brace the portal and hold it open...only for a few moments, but it is enough time. Spectral spider legs emerge from the scar on her face to brace the portal open. To those of you that see this happen, it is a disturbing image that will haunt you for all your days. The rest of you flee the portal and then in a scream and flash of light, Vyrellis is no more...her orb shattered in a hundred shards and the full force of the portal slams down on Xiphos. It is at this moment, when Xiphos is on the verge of distruction that the only person remaining within the pyramid throws himself into the grinding maw to give her a chance.
Ragnar uses his arcane power to lash himself to the portal. Arcane tendrils of power snake around the pillars in the sanctuary of light and then hook into both edges of the portal forcing it open for a brief moment...but it is enough and Xiphos launches herself through to freedom.
You glance back into the portal and the last thing you see is Ragnar, suspended in midair and light as if the tendrils are supporting his total body weight and then the portal slams shut with a deafening finality and Ragnar is destroyed in a gruesome display of blood, and fire and then he is gone.
You look around and all you see is burning...everything is burning...
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