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In an attemt to get drunk, Rogan drinks his wine.

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"Anyone can just go in there and kill someone, but you don`t get information from a corpse"
--SEAL motto

Well Talos I see how much good that did.

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When the fourth bottle is empty, Rogan is good and drunk...

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"Anyone can just go in there and kill someone, but you don`t get information from a corpse"
--SEAL motto

As Talos walks down the wall, he sees a slight disturbance in the air in front of him. Looking down a corridor to the side, he sees a ghastly shape floating away from him. Curious, he walks down the corridor, keeping the ghost in sight.

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*Talos followed as quiet as he could. Avatara, unseen, walked silently behind, wondering what Talos was up to but not daring to interfere...unless it was absolutely necessary.*

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With war there is great amounts of death. Men and women make themselves known, doing dangerous feats in their attempt to become heroes.
Some succeed, some don't...

As Talos continued to follow the ghastly image, he heard odd noises. Turning around, he saw nothing.

"Must be an Orc or some other vile creature," Talos muttered to himself.

The ghost slowly glided off to another hall going to the right. As Talos followed it, he realized it was some sort of grand hall. There were grand decorations of evil, and the ceiling was unusually high. Far in front of him, a great spiral staircase wove upwards.

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By this time the whole group was following Talos and Avatara.Even Grapper who was walking on the cieling.

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Rogan quickly sobered up...

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"Hello how are you today I`m just fine I see you are a little boy I have a little boy myself his name is Matthew I also have a cat his name is Furby he jumps up on my feet when I sit down and watch TV and i clap him on the back I like pizza and tacos and I also like coke and watching TV nice to meet you we have to do this again sometime"
--Mime who`s had enough

Fanatic, who had looked dizzy and confused since he had been controlled, seemed more alert than ever. "A ghost like this appeared right before I got controlled. i think that this is the ghost that did it." Fanatic said.
Grapper, who was walking on the ceiling right above the ghost, said, "That makes sense."
The ghost looked up, and suddenly Grapper's eyes turned red...
Fanatic realized what was happening, and did something he hadn't done before. (At least in his right mind) Fanatics shadow seemed to peel off the wall and become buffer than before. the Shadow elemental fired a dark blast at the ghost...

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Three is the number thou shalt count, and the number thou shalt will be three. Thou shalt not count four, nor shall thou count two, unless thee preceedeth to three. Five is right out.
--Monty python and the Holy Grail

While the adventurers fought among themselves against dark magic, Talos followed the ghost up the steep, spiralling steps. Avatara was still following him, and was lucky that the angle of the stairway hid him when Talos turned around again. After spiralling a whole three times, they were level with the second floor of the tower. It was ominously covered with splotches of dark-red, and strange, ethereal screams seemed to float into Talos's ears.

Luckily for Talos, the ghost continued up the stairway, followed by Talos, followed by Avatara. The steps became narrower, shorter, and steeper, and Talos began to envy the ghost for its ability to float. After seemingly an eternity of practically climbing increasingly cliff-like steps, the ghost came to the third floor of the tower. The stairway continued further up, but seemed to be designed for more human abilities. The ghost, however, continued forward, away from the stairs, and very soon made a sharp left turn on a hidden corner. Talos, who had been distracted by a grotesque mask, almost didn't see the ghost slip away.

As he left to follow the ghost, Talos realized why he had been distracted by the mask. Masks were hung up all along both the hallway he was in, and the one he had been in. Their eyes were following him, though the effect was considerably freakier now as the hallway was barely wide enough for him.

(I'd prefer the other group doesn't get involved in my part of the story right now, other than perhaps Avatara. If you must follow me, stop on the second floor. It might be interesting there. Don't affect the ghost or do anything that would make me see you.)

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[This message has been edited by Talos (edited 12-05-2000).]

DF decided to follow Talos in case anything happened. He split from the group and followed far behind Talos. A wall in front of Talos then exploded out into the hall, knocking Talos down. DF appeared from the newly constructed doorway and got a strange look from the Talos. Then, the other DF made his move. He drew his sword, which was not the Iceblade, and charged the DF that appeared. The sword hit its mark with enough force to knock him back to the wall. It also pierced the armour all the way through and left DF fataly wounded. He then withdrew the sword from DF's badly injured body and raised it fast enough to block Talos's attack.

Talos's speed allowed him to avoid the same demise as DF but didn't allow him to get in any free shots. After being knicked a few times, he decided to go on the offensive. His blinding attacks were only seen by the clone and appropriatly blocked. The rest of the group could not do anything for the narrow halls made it impossible for them to hurt the clone without hurting Slayer. The battle raged on. The clash of swords could be heard from the fields far beyond the caves they had traversed earlier. The sight was blinding for the speed was so fast, nobody could catch everything. The smells were of sweat and raw determination. After trying to kill the clone with a 4 part combo, Talos's weapon was knocked from his hand. The clone then went on a major offensive and it took the most of Talos to avoid the pointy end of the sword. He then got a lucky kick on the clone's chest, knocking him down several feet away. Talos then ran to DF's body and drew his Iceblade. Though unskilled in using this exact weapon, Talos was a weapons expert and could use this professionally. The clone came back for more when Talos had finally got prepared for the battle. The clash of blade was even faster and louder. The blade he was wielding was strong enough to withstand all attacks without backlashing. After about 20 more minutes of fighting, Talos was exhausted. He decided he would need to finish this quickly or else he was going to lose. He slashed left, then right and then leapt into the air. Upon hitting the ceiling, he flipped around and landed behind the clone. Appearantly the move was too fast for the clone to register because everyone was still looking at the place he stood before. The clone slashed a few times before he realized what happened. By then it was too late. Talos took his opportunity quickly and stabbed deeply into the clone. The sword then reacted and froze the living body. The clone let out an inhuman screech as it fell to the ground. Shaken, Talos dropped the sword. He was so tired that all he wanted to do now was rest. The clone then disintegrated into a puddle of water which quickly evaporated into nothingness. Talos then traversed to DF's body. He forced a potion down DF's throat which immediatly woke him. As he regained his balance, he walked over and shook Talos's hand.

"I only saw a bit" DF started "But what I did see astonished me. He took me completely by surprize. His speed was too damn fast. You kept up with him."

He then frantically searched his person for something

"Where the hell is my sword?" DF asked as he started to look around him

"It is at you feet. I had to use it to defeat your clone" Talos said

"How did you know that was the clone?" DF asked

"The sword was the final clue but I knew it wasn't you beforehand but I couldn't prove it. He used dark magic almost exclusively in the last battle. I know you try to hold off those attacks until absolutely necessary." Talos answered with a smile

"Where is the rest of the group?" DF asked as he started to look for them

"I got the feeling that they didn't need me so I left them for a bit" Talos answered with a slight frown "Are you gonna try to catch them or go along with me?"

"They have enough people. I think you may need more help then they do so I think I'll tag along with you now" DF said as he picked up his sword and sheathed it.


Meanwhile, the other part of the group was having troubles of their own. DF had left them but that was the least of their worries. They then saw, at the end of the hallway,...
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Had to make my own changes. No offense meant to you, Avatara

[This message has been edited by Desert Fox (edited 12-11-2000).]

...bunch of dead bodies. Lots of both human and orc boies were lying everywhere. Rogan crouched next to a body and touched a large wound on its chest. "What the devil...the blood is warm!" Rogan said, "and so is the body, and it looks like the wound is from a large military-like blade." As they proceeded they found more bodies, some of them shot to death by a lot of arrows. DF pulled an arrow out of a warm human body and looked at it. "Strange design. Never seen this type of arrows before." "It couldn`t be my clone?" Slayer asked. Rogan looked back as he said: "Whatever it is, it`s powerful and doesn`t like intruders."

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"Hello how are you today I`m just fine I see you are a little boy I have a little boy myself his name is Matthew I also have a cat his name is Furby he jumps up on my feet when I sit down and watch TV and i clap him on the back I like pizza and tacos and I also like coke and watching TV nice to meet you we have to do this again sometime"
--Mime who`s had enough

Grapper, who was still on the cieling called down "What's up with the dead bodies."

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(Rogan was posting for the group with the 'dead bodies' thing, continued from "they saw...")

...A large room full of mirrors. Both Talos and DF were surprised that they hadn't noticed it before. In fact, Talos could have sworn the hallway had seemed a dead end. They walked forward, with Avatara still tailing them, past more grotesque faces toward the mirrored room.

As they crossed over the threshold to the room, Talos said, "DF, do you know the process of clone making? I learned a little about it when I was studying magic. I remember it involved large numbers of enchanted mirrors, which would duplicate them, and make a shade of them. The shade would become stronger and stronger around the mirrors, absorbing their dark magic and becoming a slave to whoever the mirrors told them, until they were a full duplicate."

DF replied, after they were wholly in the room, "Yes, I do know that manual process, but Slayer's duplicate was made from a book, in some unknown spell. Speaking of, however, I don't think we should be in this room. It's quite possibly - quite definately - a clone making room!"

But it was too late. By the time DF had finished, the entrance to the room had closed with its own mirror. Already, shades of themselves were appearing in the center of the room. They were becoming clearer...

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DF decided to try and stop the process
"Destroy the mirrors. We might not be able to stop it this time but we will disable the machine" DF shouted as he cast a fireball.
The fireball hit one of the mirrors and melted it into a pool of reflective glass. He then cast an ice spell at another of the mirrors and froze it. With little effort, he punched the glass and shattered it into millions of pieces.
Talos decided that DF's reasoning was sound enough and went to work towards damaging the glass. His speed allowed him to take out many but his weapon just wasn't suited to breaking glass.
"DF, let me borrow the Iceblade for a few minutes" Talos requested.
DF, seeing no harm in it, tossed the unsheathed blade to Talos. Talos caught it expertly, being sure not to touch the blade. He then used it to smash the mirrors. When it touched the mirrors, it froze them and shattered them all at the same time. After a few minutes of use, Talos was done and ready to face anything. He tossed DF his sword back and drew his scimitar. They then faced off against their clones, who had completed as the warriors destroyed every last mirror...

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Instantly, Talos's clone went afte Talos and DF's clone went after DF. As DF knew of dark magic, so did his clone, but he wasn't afraid to use it. Talos's clone, on the other hand, was pretty much on equal footing with Talos. After considerable parrying, Talos's clone managed to knock Talos himself down. Thinking him dead, the clone went for DF. DF was already at a considerable disadvantage, as large amounts of dark magic were being used against him. Already, the clone had used a spell that made DF's own sword try to attack him. Barely managing to keep the sword in his hands, DF managed to land a few blows on the magic-centric clone. However, just before he was about to land a particularly damaging one, he felt a sharp slice made across his back. When he turned around, he saw Talos's clone swiping at him with his scimitar. DF recovered his wits quickly, and went after Talos's clone. His own clone was in pretty bad shape, and was very tired after the large amounts of dark magic.

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*Suddenly, one of the walls exploded and a giant inferno lit up the room with an impressive display of fire. Desert Fox's clone fell to the ground, badly singed while Talos's clone had somehow managed to stave off the inferno with the scimitar. Talos and Desert Fox, though the floor beneath them was seething with intense flames, were surprisingly unhurt. Talos looked up and saw Avatara standing where a wall used to be, debris scattered all over.

Avatara turned suddenly and then was thrown across the floor by...Avatara? Talos looked back and forth in horror as the two Avataras decimated the room with their intense battling with fire spells. Talos suddenly was knocked to the ground, appearantly his clone was ready for more.*

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"I'm a controversial figure. My friends either dislike me or hate me."

While Avatara fought his clone with magic, Talos and DF went after their clones. They knew who was who by the weapons each carried. The replicas were perfectly like the real thing but the weapons couldn't be instilled with the magical power or appearance of the blades Talos and DF carried. After some more fighting, Talos called out to DF a short phrase and DF heard him. 2 seconds later, Talos leapt over DF already ducked head and the clone was charging after him. DF stabbed his sword deep into the clone's chest, instantly killing him before the frosty effect of the blade could kill it. Talos did a similar move except it involved stabbing down onto his opponent. With the clones properly dispatched, the warriors decided to help out Avatara. The only problem was, they couldn't tell whcih was the real one. So they decided to...

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...watch the fight for a minute to find out who was who. "Hey, where`s Rogan?" DF asked, "I completly forgot about him." Suddenly, Rogan entered the room. But something was wrong. He drew his sword and charged at DF. "Watch out, it`s the clone!" DF yelled as he prepared to defend himself...

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I`m a bomb technician. If you see me running...try to keep up.

*By now, DF and Talos had wasted enough time that the inferno of fire spells had literally melted the stone ceiling in places and the floor in other. Massive puddles of molten stone stood between them and the Avataras, who were now in the hall battling, fiercer than ever before.*

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"I'm a controversial figure. My friends either dislike me or hate me."

Talos and DF couldn't figure out which Avatara was the clone and which wasn't. Suddenly, DF had an idea: the clone, besides from magical imperfections, was a carbon copy. However, certain weaknesses, like a lack of resistance to heat, were not duplicated. DF, though, couldn't think of any outstanding weakness of Avatara...

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Fanatic, who had been left behind, caught up in time for DF to say "destroy the miirors!"
Then he spotted the Machine. that was the machine that had cloned him over 20 times, he was sure. Immeadiately, he took his sword out, black sparks shooting out every which way, a black within black. Fanatic held his sword high above his head. he then brought it slicing down and a loud noise of tearing metal. instantly, the remaining clones exploded and at the same time the machine exploded with such force that everyone was flung out of the chamber...

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Three is the number thou shalt count, and the number thou shalt will be three. Thou shalt not count four, nor shall thou count two, unless thee preceedeth to three. Five is right out.
--Monty python and the Holy Grail

The few warriors that were able to stand after the blast decided that it was too much effort and collapsed. The explosion took the energy out of even the strongest warrior. They rested until...

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...the mirrors appeared again and started making more clones.But the clones just layed there very still on the floor in the same posishons as the woriors.Then the wariors prepared to fight and got up.Their clones did exactly the same thing.Then Talos shouted as everybody charged" Stop,these are good clones.They will do what we do and probably what we tell them to do."

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[This message has been edited by Grapper (edited 12-19-2000).]

Rogan entered the room and said: "Sorry, I`m late. I got a little busy with an orc back there."

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I`m a bomb technician. If you see me running...try to keep up.