All rested and full of new knowledge. It is time for the four to ride together once more.
With our new found hope from the Lady Abigail we continue the mission of retrieving the pieces of the nexus. Already having three pieces makes it fairly trivial to extrapolate the location of the fourth down in South America. Doesn't take long to find a spot only a few hundred yards away and portal the team down. We enter the temple without any issues and with our new understanding of the runes we can easily see this is the temple of the Obrimos. Ohm should have the tools necessary to get us through the puzzle rooms.
We head down the right corridor as usual. We know there is a trap somewhere in this corridor but for the life of us we just can't seem to find it. Since this is a temple devoted to forces there is a good chance setting off a trap could provide some fire so we have Danno fall back and Red runs through the corridor. Red eventually steps on that pressure plate we couldn't find and nozzles start to protrude from the walls and before we could react the whole corridor was filled with fire. Danno managed to keep his wits about him regardless of being crispy and we continued on to the room. The next room had four pedestals rising from the bottomless pit below. We could all feel the seemingly random gusts of wind swirling about the room. Trying to leap across these pedestals with that wind would surely be bad. Ohm fired up his Forces sight and after studying the room was able to see indications on the walls of when the gusts would blow. He gave us all the ability to see it and we were able to come up with a loose pattern. I increased our skill in the art of leaping and was pleasantly surprised to find that for the horsemen I was able to increase their skill beyond the usual barriers I was accustomed to. Ohm enhanced our leaping some more and I took off across the pedestals. Even with figuring out the pattern the wind was still formidable and it wasn't easy getting across the room. On the last pedestal I tripped and fell short of the landing, luckily I managed to grab the edge and pull myself up. I really should spend more time at the gym, teleport makes one lazy. The rest made it across without problems and we moved on to the circular room. Inside the room was a golem of sorts made of stone. As expected it came to life as the last person entered and a stiff wind blew across the room hindering any efforts to move or attack easily. The golem also quickly set itself on fire which didn't make Danno all that happy. Ohm had given us limited protection from the primal forces and the fire didn't effect us so Danno and Hector charged right in. The first thing the golem did was throw some fire across the room. I must have knocked my head good on my jumping attempt or else I was just getting used to being in pain but I had forgotten to mention to Ohm that I could use some wound mending. I got Ohm's attention as the spray of fire dropped me. I don't remember much else of the fight but it didn't take long to finish off the golem. The creatures we have encountered in these temples have been formidable but they didn't stand much of a chance against us. We aren't some semi normal band of supernaturals. We are the four and nothing will stand in our way.
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Head down the left corridor, this time Red was able to find the trap, a well hidden tripwire. We step around the tripwire and head into the Prime room. Ohm gives us all the prime sight and we can see that the room is filled with a dense phantasmal forest with small but quick things moving about. As I head through the forest I catch a glimpse of what appear to be pigmys or something similar. They move quick and attempt to bite me but I see them coming and can dodge the first couple. Nearing the exit one does manage to take a bite of my leg and drains some mana. The others make it through mostly unmolested, each only losing a few units of their respective power sources. We enter the circular room and prepare for a fight but instead we are greeted by a golem like creature made of magic who doesn't attack us. It instead asks us why we are here. We tell it why we need the nexus and it seems to know what is going on outside. It even seems to know about the Lady Abigail. It implies that we are actually in the basements of the watchtowers themselves, a notion which takes Ohm and I by surprise. We learn that all the components of this crazy ass play are more intertwined than we know. This is more than just good vs evil, us against an evil mage. This has been something that has been destined since the beginning of creation. The creature of magic unlocks the door for us and says more will be revealed when the nexus is complete. So with that we head on to the final chamber to defeat it's guardian. Walking back through the corridors makes me feel a bit more awe struck to think that we are walking within a watchtower. There are countless stories of mages throughout history that have gone mad and destroyed much just to get another glimpse of the supernal realms. And here we were inside of one. Oh to see the looks on the faces of those stuffy mysterium. Of course no one is going to believe us.
We enter the central room and as the doors close three shiny golems come to life. One is encased in fire, another with claws of silver and the central one encased in a shimmering globe. Hector takes the fire one and Danno the silver. After a few tests it becomes apparent that the globe on the central one is extremely difficult to pierce. As Hector and Danno begin to wittle down the two the center one speaks some words of power and begins to unravel the spell and powers active on Danno. As the fight progresses we are all hit with spikes of lightning that wittles us down even with the elemental protections from Ohm. As the fire one falls the globe around the center one fades a bit. The focus turns to the silver one and it soon falls as does more of the center one's shield. With all out attention turned to the remaining one it lashes out with spikes that attach to Red and Ohm with small wires. The center one then sends electricity down the wires and begins frying the two much like a very large supernal tazer. Red manages to rip out the spike and Ohm deflects the damage while Hector and Danno rip the things to shreds. We grab our fourth nexus piece and leave. I for one am anxious to return and retrieve the last piece of the nexus to see what is in store for us.
My jubilation is quickly squashed as soon as we leave the temple and get a message that something bad has happened at the palace while we were gone and we needed to get there asap.
Cygin