<div class="spoiler_container"><div class="spoiler_header" onclick="hideSecond (this);" role="button">Spoiler: Click to Show/Hide</div><div class="spoiler_body">Oh, before I forget- add 1 hero point to your sheet for giving up your magic (temporarily) rather than essentially sacrificing the paladin. :P Also, you should be at +2400 Exp for defeating four imps. </div></div><br/>The two don't question... they just follow, moving post-haste through the underbrush as fast as they can without leaving you behind. If you follow the creek, you can actually see the tainted water roiling along beneath the water's surface... and schools of minnows circling haphazardly, having lost even the little knowledge of the world that they possessed. Definitely a good thing you avoided contact with it...<br/><br/>But you do manage to avoid the glade before the tainted tide arrives, and set up a small magic circle in the center. The whole process is rushed, and so far from perfect... but you manage to say all the right words, and channel your energy through Perlivash, directly into the roots of the forest. By the time everything is said and done, the entire Dryad circle is practically glowing with borrowed energy... and you are completely and totally exhausted.<br/><br/>At least Perlivash seems (mostly) alright after being used as a magical transformer... A little<strong>dazed</strong>perhaps, but not as exhausted as you are.<br/><br/>"D...did it work?" Tyg asks, looking at the trees uncertainly. "They certainly seem to have been affected, at least..."<br/><br/><div class="spoiler_container"><div class="spoiler_header" onclick="hideSecond (this);" role="button">OOC</div><div class="spoiler_body"> At this point, Nadia is pretty certain that the ritual worked, but the rest is on the dryads. </div></div>