Board Thread:Roleplay/@comment-28358106-20160714040922/@comment-28358106-20160722042612

There is silence, but for a moment.

'"Your civility does you credit, Champion,  but to no end.  Long has the Doctor been my inveterate enemy, but nevermore.  He is now dead, slain by his own hubris.  I have come to reclaim what he has stolen from me.  The Old World has slept long enough.  Now, it shall awaken, and cleanse this plane of lies..." '

And the Lich disappears in a snarl of darkness. Praetor gets a terrible feeling...

"Find them," says the Regent, weakened by the staggering evil. "He is going for them...find them..."

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"Aabi, we have to help them.  Help me get them off the..."

Melandil looks up. Victivius is in the air, a spectral death.

"No..."

"Yes.  Indeed, yes."

Melandil and Aabi are cast aside like dolls.

Regina looks up weakly, setting her gaze on the Lich. Her fading eyes then blaze with a fire, and she leaps up, unsteady.

"No!  You can't have them!  You won't touch them..."

She is cut off as Victivius lifts her into the air, black tendrils holding her in place Her eyes grow wide as he reaches forward, his dark powers searching...

"N-no...n-never..."

And then they grasp the Glyph.

Regina gasps as it is pulled slowly from her body, the ribbons of light snapping, cutting her life force. She squirms briefly,  then relaxes. She is dropped.

'"At lasssssst..." Victivius holds his hand high, clutching the Glyph...'

And then Whitemarch is destroyed.

Another shockwave erupts. It strikes the city, and Rhun And Nezon feel it hit the building. They clutch each other as the shaking subsides, and then listen to the deafening silence.

And then the howling starts.

The hospital erupts in bedlam. On the other side of the door they can hear screams, glass shattering, bestial snarling. Nezon opens the door, and a giant spider, clad in shredded clothing, almost grabs her before she shuts the door again, screaming. Then they hear it coming from the streets...And then they see why.

Goblins roam, destroying. A giant spider climbs over a house, dragging a victim. A minotaur rages below, cutting down people and trampling them. Several fires erupt in the city, the building silhouetted against the flames. Not Mamono. Monsters.

They maids have no choice. They escape through a window, and flee north...

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"Praetor... " the Regent gasps. As the curse begins to turn her body, wracking her with pain, she extends her hand. "You...must escape..." she says. "...find them..."

There is a flash, and a sickening sensation.

Praetor looks about himself. He knows he is on the north road. He looks in one direction,  and sees the city, shrouded in flames.

He looks the other way, and feels something familiar, comforting, terrified...