>>5441801You whirl about to face the source of the sound—uncomfortably close—and feel your face crumple as if hit by a giant’s blow. Your nose and mouth fill with blood, your spell squandered and lost—and the corresponding mana with it. Worse, your chest, and lungs, are similarly compressed. Your limbs feel heavy, as if weighted with iron shackles. You kick your legs and lash your tail, but find no purchase.
You are hovering in mid-air, held by the Ghoul Supreme’s power. Your Drow allies were saved by your actions from immediately set-upon and destroyed, but are still rather occupied with fending off the other ghouls. These foes, too, were delayed and demoralized by your display of power-; they poke and prod, harass and harry, but fear to draw too near. To your forces. Still, the Drow are understandably so concerned with fending them off as to make them ignorant of your plight..
Not until the Ghoul Supreme, with insulting frivolity, expends some of his own mana to alert them. He swings his free hand wide, letting his control over the various hurled objects dissipate, and setting the skeletons and corpses filling this place to hollow, cackling laughter. The Drow look up—well, those not immediately engaged in life-or-death struggles—and a few cry out your pseudonym.
The Junior Novice looks between you and your psionically-inclined captor, and whines.
“You die now,” the Ghoul Supreme explains, condescendingly, with a hyena-like chuckle. “Bye.”
You cannot draw a weapon… Cannot breathe flame, or cast a spell. Your options are terrifyingly limited. Your <Dragonshape> is already beginning to crack and crumble, your mystically-charged bones and muscles beginning to tremble and shrink back to their natural dimensions as your mystic energy ebbs. Can you really be about to lose—to die—at the hands of a pestilent little twerp like this, after having slayed such monsters as the Devourer and Shoggoth?
What do you do?
>Call out to the Junior Novice>Call out to Azonia>Call out to Hamaraska and Honemdyn>Call out to Jhamrius and Sengar>Call out to the shoggoth-sword [guaranteed success, but also, REDACTED]>Call out to the Dark Gods Below and Beyond [expends <DIVINE FAVOUR> for an insta-win miracle]>Summon one of the remaining elementals from your Ring of Elemental Command [Expends one gem, you will not have direct control of the elemental]>Attempt to negotiate [How?]>Write-in 