<strong>Name</strong>;  Eldrith Lightstone, Zachariah<br/><strong>Location</strong>;  The Prancing Pony in Everesta<br/><strong>Time</strong>;  Midnight, going on morning of the next day.<br/><strong>Tagged</strong>;  Everyone in or around the Prancing Pony.<br/><br/>Malbogia growled as he feels his limbs become restrained and constricted by the bitch woman that had just used her holy inspired might to keep him from hurting the dark knight beneath him further.  Looking up where the spell came from, he was about to unleash more of his dark power upon her directly when he is pulled off of his feet right before a phantom blade bites into his side.  The strength of the rock giant is astounding since he had seen the man underneath a moment before, having not expected such strength from the likes of a mage.  On the other hand though most mages didn't carry a war pick and were the size of a giant before entombing themselves in rock armor, so he had to admit Morgul was more than he appeared now that he was on his face in the dirt before the Goliath.  At his words however, Malbogia just laughed wickedly, finding the mortal man quite amusing.<strong>"It is YOU that should run before ME!  I am Malbogia, Balor and your impending doom, both in this world and the one you call Earth!  You can defeat me, but it will matter little since my lord and Prince of the Hells that I hail from will destroy you all even should I fail!  But enough talk, this is over for you!"</strong>Eldrith heard what he had to say as she was healed before kneeling beside Zachariah who looked like he'd been through Hell already, the smell of his burned flesh sickening to her senses, not to mention the sight before her no less.  She didn't pay any attention as Malbogia disappeared before Morgul's eyes and appeared behind him, his demonic arms already locked around the mage's waist in a crushing bear hug from behind his back, his molten hot body pressed tightly against his own as flames wreathed them both.  Victoria's fiery barrage was doing nothing to the fire demon himself, but he twisted them around and made sure that whatever else she threw at him would hit Morgul instead of him all the same.<br/><br/>She could have helped in the fight but the light elf was too torn up over what had happened to her best friend.  "You have to do something!  There's gotta be a way!  I won't let him die like this!"  Eldrith cried out, her sea green eyes full of tears since this wasn't right.  There should have been something they could have done to save him, but even through her grief she could see that something was amiss about this whole thing.  This shouldn't have been irreversible.  Something was wrong with the game or the monsters themselves or something, but whatever it was, it was preventing their magic from working as she tried some of her own light based healing magic, nowhere near as strong as Mizuki's perhaps, but still enough that it should have made some difference.  It didn't however, and Zachariah somehow looked even worse than before, if that was even possible.<strong>"It's....ok....Eld...Eldrith.  I...don't know why....this isn't working....but whatever...the reason....promise me....you'll find a way to stop it from...claiming more....lives.  I knew...the moment...that thing's attack hit me...that my body....was gone.  I can't...go back...I can't log out....and so....only because I'm so strong...in the game...do I yet live....now.  But I won't last...much longer....I can already feel...myself fading....the pain is already...dulling....as are my senses....my awareness.  Find out...why this happened El...drith...and stop it...before it's too late."</strong>"You aren't going anywhere, so stop talking like that Zachariah!  You hang in there, we will....find a way....don't...you dare die now!"  Zachariah couldn't move, but his face said it all since he knew he was done for as he turned to Mizuki next, Eldrith's hand having found its way into his as he somehow found the strength to squeeze it once more.<br/><br/><strong>"Make sure...she finds out why...and thank you....for trying to help me...whoever you might be.  I never did get your name...but it matters little now I...suppose.  I do have one...last request...however.  Should you...ever find your way there....take my crossbows....to the Order of the Blade's base...they are demon hunters...like me.  Tell them...what happened here...what happened to me.  Find Akasha...she'll reward you...for informing her...of what happened to one of her own."</strong>Regardless of their answer, Zachariah breathed his last as rain started to fall heavily upon the city.  Normally when a PC 'died', they were able to respawn, slightly weaker than before perhaps but none the worse for wear otherwise in either the dungeon they fell within or the last safe zone they had visited such as a town or village or so forth.  That was not the case here however since 'Zachariah' was dead not just in Eden but in reality as well, his pod having exploded and taken a considerable amount of the building with it, something that should have been impossible under normal circumstances.  The game company would deny it of course, and keep going as if nothing had happened, but he was not the first, and unless something was done to stop whatever plan was in motion, he wouldn't be the last.<br/><br/>Eldrith meanwhile sobbed into Mizuki's arms, unable to believe what had happened at all, but upon hearing the continued fighting between demon and mage she tore herself away from the woman and soon stood beside Morgul.<strong>"It seems you haven't learned your lesson the first time, elven whore.  Time for you to die!"</strong>"SHUT UP!  She shouted back, disappearing, or rather she seemed to disappear, her staff falling heavily against the demon's oversized groin as she passed only to slam it into his right knee from behind, forcing him to fall forward before she ran up his back and over his head, her weapon cracking against the left side of his face as she fell to the ground a moment later, about to go at it again unless someone stopped her from hurting herself.