Despite the tentacles' crushing grip on your waist, your hand is steady... and your blade buries itself in the insane man's eye. Between the oozing "bite wound" and your dagger, he really does seem about ready to collapse...<br/><br/>But he doesn't fall yet.<br/><br/>"F-foolish... foolish follower of the rose... You can only delay, but you can not stop the end of the world."<br/><br/>With a groan, the man makes his way closer to you, and one hand reaches out... and even before it grasps your wrists, you can see the man's skin roiling with images of darkness and madness.<br/><br/>"S-s-see what I see, and you will finish my master's glorious work. All is pain, and only annihilation will end it..."<br/><br/>As the man's hand grabs your wrist, one of his own black tentacles reaches up and wraps around his arm... but it's a second too late. Even as the man's bones begin to grind, you feel a surge of energy lance through your arm...<br/><br/><div class="spoiler_container"><div class="spoiler_header" onclick="hideSecond (this);" role="button"> OOC</div><div class="spoiler_body">He's basically staggered at this point, and grappled same as you... but he's casting Gift of Madness, which would show Lisra images of Groetus' and Zon-Kuthon's views of the world. The result is one round of confusion if she fails a DC 16 will save. </div></div>