July 13th Notes

The smog is slowly dissipating around the dead serpent. Blaze, Onida, Zebulon and Joe are headed to the altar. The Behemoth and Hikari are heading toward the mural. As they head toward the altar they see the altar has scroll work around it, but it is damaged. They get on the altar. The seven pedestals don’t have items on them. They have been damaged but not falling down. They have inscriptions but most of them are not legible. The pedestals are of a different type of rock than the rest of the building. Blaze tries to lift one up. She suddenly realized that she can’t breathe. She lets go and she can breathe again. Joe is just staring at the pedestals. The others at reach the Mural that is over a mile long. The background is a whitish-blue might be clouds might be energy. Most of the figures are in robes but a few are not. It is one figure after another with no boarders in between. It is heavily damaged. IT looks like there was some kind of inscription along the whole mural, but it is so damaged that we can’t make anything out except for the fact that it is in the same language as the scroll. Some of the damage is water, some the plaster is gone, some burned and other places it looks like it was damaged. All figures have hands down by their side and highly idealized (never looked better.) All are the same height. Everything has a type of religious connotation to it. Painted with normal paint. Starting at one the first figure that they see: Indian Shaman, the next character is Xestro, not mechanical at all, has water damage next is Onida, partial burned The next one is not wearing a robe. It looks like two large floating marshmallows floating in the air with a slight pinkish cast to them. They look almost like they are flowing into one another. There is no face. The next one is a humanoid that looks like he/she is completely composed of shadow except for two orange eyes. Next is a human male that is white, brown hair and brown eyes. The next is Blaze, looking odd in a white robe (has impacts like things hitting it and one small spot on the bottom that looks like it was burned) Humanoid, but the head is destroyed and part of the shoulder can’t tell if male or female Davis with all his marbles Human female that is not recognized Big Dee that has cybernetics Completely destroyed except for a bit of its robes Hikari Humanoid of some type but unidentifiable is male Zebulon (We are tempted to put a mustache on him) Not wearing a robe. It has two legs and two arms. Lots of scales and is in hunched over stance. It is really strong and has a snaggle toothed mouth. It is deep red (Nothing Blaze has ever heard of) Joe is not wearing a robe. Curled up in a cool position. Some melted and some water damage The mural is gone from the third of the way up. Bottom third is there. It is melted. It is not wearing a robe. It looks like an apple pie with the crust on top but no pan underneath it. It has tentacles coming down like a jelly fish, but the top literally shaped like a pie. Two little eye stalks are on top. The pie is at the shoulders of everyone else, but the eye stalks come to the head of the others. Light crispy golden color. Jarl looking good in his white robes The face area is melted away. Most likely humanoid. Female Looks like a humanoid wolf that is standing up. White under his mouth, silver main color with black highlights (is he wearing a robe) Blaze discovered it is a Wolfin. A female made out of flames, but still wearing a robe. Totally unidentifiable, been burned up. Probably Male Flea Can’t even see if there was a robe there. Plaster is gone 28. Look like they have a combination of all the damage. Blaze decides not to move any more pedestals. Onida walks around the pedestals. Onida rolls perception to see if she can see why the Thraidec was here while the rest of them are gone. The Thraidec was sitting in an impression on the pedestals and all the rest of them have impressions as well. It was by far the smallest of all the items. Onida says to get some paper and make rubbings of the impressions. The center one had the Thraidec, little heart, to the left pedestal had a deep cylinder going into the top of it about a foot deep (Onk). The next to the left had two then crescents not touching almost like an eye (Can’t make out name). The next one on the end is in the general shape of a face carved into the statue with the nose level with the top of the pedestal (infinity symbol). It is looking up at us. Toward the right from the center the pedestal has a vase-like-horse shoe two or three inches deep (box with the cross). The next is a round circle cut into the stone a couple of inches, flat bottom (symbol destroyed.) The last one on the right is ten rings cut into the rock (destroyed symbol.) Blaze does rubbings by using carpet of adhesions to glue the paper onto the pedestal. Blaze wonders why the booby trap didn’t go off when we took the Thraidec off. We try to get Joe to lift that pedestal, but he won’t. The booby trap could have been a spell that creates a vacuum in the air around her. Big Dee takes pictures of the mural. The people at the altar go to the mural. Now been in the dimension at least three quarters of a day and the light has not changed. Hikari directs us to where we are in the mural. Blaze looks to see if she recognizes the dee bees. She knows the red lizard looking thing is nothing she has seen before. The wolf one in called a Wolfin. They stand 8 feet tall and know for their military society. They are known throughout the megaverse. They are not related to wolves or werewolves. She doesn’t know anything else. John is not seen. Blaze starts to fill the Seeker. It has twelve tiles to fill. She puts about 660 PPE into it and it has about 8 tiles full. Jarl is wandering around, Onida is heading back to the behemoth, Joe is looking at the 14th mural, everyone else is in the behemoth. Blaze gets it up to 10 tiles. Onida is almost to the behemoth. Blaze senses a rift starting to form. She yells out to warn everyone. Only Hikari and Onida hear her. It is forming about 30 yards right in front of her. She puts her armor on. It takes about 5-10 seconds to open. Blaze starts her hovercycle to get to the behemoth and the rift opens in front of her. It is bright light and a figure comes out of it. She senses evil. It is about 20ft tall, looks like it is wearing a hooded robe. It is back lit so can’t make out too many of its features. Two horns are curling up out of its hood and has big bat like wings. Onida can see it better because it isn’t backlit for her. Onida almost knows what it but can’t quite recall it. Blaze tries to take off on her hovercycle and is a little too panicked and falls off of her hovercycle, banging her head on the handlebar as she goes down. She hears a deep rumbling chuckle. She tries to charm him but doesn’t really have a chance after her fall. She hears a hiss of a voice saying “Stupid human.” Onida sees Blazes hovercycle but Blaze has disappeared. The monster says, “Pathetic Human Creature. Give me what I came for and I shall spare your life.” Blaze tries to befuddle him. It laughs again and says, “I shall enjoy ripping your soul from your quivering flesh.” Blaze tries a globe of daylight on his face. It lights up its face, but the globe of daylight in front of its face so you still can’t see what it is. He waves his hand and the globe disappears. She casts carpet of adhesion on him. She can tell from him robe that he is stuck. Blaze jumps onto her hovercycle. She hears, “Wait, weakling,” and she is now stuck to her hovercycle and she can’t move. He waves his hand and starts walking toward her. Hikari comes out of the behemoth. Xestro is two steps behind him. Joe rounds around the behemoth. Blaze tries putting chromatic protection on herself. He chuckles and says, “What pathetic beings. I don’t know why fate chose you.” Joe flies closer to the Monster. Blaze tires to ignite his clothes on fire but they doesn’t even smoke. The Demon moves closer to Blaze. Hikari shoots an arrow at the beast’s head. He makes a nice shot and hits the beast right about at the cheek. We hear an angry hiss. Onida tries to shoot the beast but the shot goes flying wildly and shoots Blaze’s headlight on her hovercycle. Xestro manages to dodge around Hikari when he stops to shoot the monster, but he does fall on his face. Joe shoots a fire ball at the monster. Onida shoots a little better this time. Blaze tries to shoot an ice bolt at his face but it goes into the rift. The Demon looks around at all of us and he leaps forward in a flying tackle at Joe. Joe dodges out of the way and it flies by and lands on the ground. Hikari shoots it again. It’s unhappy with him. Xestro gets up. Blaze starts to ley line phase to the other side of the behemoth. Onida tries to hit him again and it flies off to the dead monster room. The Demon looks over at Hikari, straightens, throws out his arms and the ground under Hikari starts shaking a whole lot under Hikari and Xestro. Onida shoots it again and hits it this time. Joe turns around to go back to the monster. Hikari shoots the monster in the throat. It hisses. Onida shoots it again. Xestro runs toward the monster. Joe flies closer to him. Hikari tries to shoot it. Onida tries to hit it again. Xestro is still getting closer. The demon starts chanting again. Onida shoots it again. Giant fissures open in the ground under Xestro and Hikari. One of Hikari’s feet sinks into a fissure and he sinks to one knee. Xestro dodges out of the way. Onida misses again. Hikari tries to step away from the fissure. The demon continues to chant. Joe is over the demon head and flies down closer. Xestro is still running toward the monster and slips down to a knee in one of the fissures. Onida hits him again. Hikari tries for the throat again but he hits Xestro instead. Xestro has only been shot by his comrades. The demon’s voice rises to a crescendo and he vanishes. The ground is still shaking. Blaze can now see the other side of the behemoth. She moves toward the behemoth and she notices a shadow on the ground from the top of the behemoth. The demon is on top of the behemoth. Blaze looks up and sees that he is smiling and all of his wounds are healed. Blaze sends a ley line transmission to Hikari telling him where the monster is. Blaze moves to shoot an ice bolt at him and he vanishes. She tries to run into the behemoth. Hikari yells to Joe to go to the top of the behemoth. Hikari runs back through the behemoth. The ground is no longer shaking. Xestro starts climbing the behemoth. Joe flies to the top of the behemoth and sees nothing. Onida sees everyone running toward the behemoth and starts running toward it too. Blaze suddenly feels a large hand wrap around her waist and lifts her up. Onida sees Blaze be lifted up into the air. Joe sees the invisible and sees the monster and heads toward him. A lightning bolt comes straight at him and he takes the hit. Joe tries to do a flying tackle at the monster and he jumps up into the air and Joe flies straight passed him. The monster turns around and aims a kick at Joe and he tries to grabs the foot that he is kicking him with. The kick lands and Joe goes flying. The monster laughs at him and aims another kick at him. Joe goes for the waist and gets a tentative hold on the leg that is not kicking him. Blaze is not being moved around too much right now so she tries to phase into the behemoth. Joe bites his leg while the monster kicks him. Joe holds his hand over him and starts chanting. Joe does a fire breath at the hand over him. He pulls his hand away and says something that sounds like cussing in another language. He stomps down on Joe and Joe starts wrapping around the monster’s leg and goes up the body. He tries to tangle his free arm but he managed to keep his arm clear. Hikari is out the other end of the behemoth and is wondering where everyone is. Xestro can see over the edge of the behemoth and sees Joe wrapped around something and Blaze in the air. The monster wants to have both his hands to fight Joe so he tosses Blaze onto the behemoth. She rolls with the fall and knocks the wind out of her.