Team Alien Resurrection / Part 2

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[You have escaped. Congratulations, surely all your problems are over and you can return to your apartments- Oh, wait, no.]

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[aliksirette]

[Dragging Tavros toward the staircase by the arm, blasting away at the undead with her pistol with her free hand. Devil Indiana Jones just needs a fedora.]

What are you doing you blithering moron?! Get moving!!

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[You commune with the skeletons.

The undead, tainted by magical poison and madness, driven by hunger for the flesh of the living, for life itself, for magic.

Plugged directly into your mind.

H-Have fun, because now you can hear the whispering driving you to join them.]

[pchaaair]

[BAD END BAD END breaking off from that-- and then answering, although he's clearly in some kind of pain and clutching his head with his free hand as he's dragged.]

It-- I was trying to see, if I could make them go away. I can commune with things.

[aliksirette]

Why in the name of Five-Headed Dieve would you do that? You'll probably go mad, now!

[Has run out of ammunition, so she hands her gun to Tavros.]

Syllatrix that.

[But she still has tricks up her sleeves. Or rather, homemade grenades filled with incindiary jelly. I hope the undead hordes don't mind a little heat.]

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[They don't, and nor does the temple. Some of the skeletons scorch and crumble to nothingness, but there's more, always more.

On the second level is a gate, a mirror to the one in Atuin, with a half-lit set of crystals.

Unfortunately it looks like it needs a magical charge to work.]

[pchaaair]

[IN GOES THE GUN-- and out come the crystals he's been carrying with him since the palace.

His head still hurts like crazy, though, even as he messes around with his sylladex.]

Do you think, those crystals will work?

[aliksirette]

Let's hope.

[Well, they are rocks, even if they are saturated with magic. So, she uses earth magic to fling them all at the crystals on the gate.]

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[One two three four five--

And just as the skeletons burst through, it ignites!]

[pchaaair]

[LET'S BOOK IT OUT OF HERE.

Grabbing Jeanette and running through the gate.]

[aliksirette]

Wh- Unhand me!

[But letting herself be dragged because she wants out just as much.]