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The party is run down by the great machine- but only through slowing it down can they escape. Twink takes up the call, using his great elvish agility and instinct to hop up and give the machine a great wound along its side- attempting to go for whatever devilish machinery powers it from within. Much to his horror, he finds the boards and metal struts bleed as his strike makes a hole in the side of the machine, and then, staring at the darkness within, Twink realizes that there is nothing inside.
The machine is further wounded by William and escaped by other party members- keeping it back within the endless battlefield that it is bound to. It stutters to a stop and steams, at the moment weakened and needing to repair itself, but nowhere near killed. Something like that cannot be killed...
Before nightfall, the party reaches the shore and has came to the bank of the great lake. There, far in the distance, they can finally see their final goal- the <span class="mu-s"><span class="mu-i">Island of the Pines</span></span>!
