Limping return

[Nephrite]

Then he'll just have to try and open his mouth and breathe!

[Anastasia]

The darkness is suffocating. You don't breathe in anything at all here. You need air desperately, each moment harder and harder.

[Nephrite]

Then... he will just have to try and move. Move up ... anywhere... move!

[Anastasia]

You attempt to move upward - and slowly move. But it's moving too slow, your lungs screaming for air now. The darkness clings to you, holds to you tightly. It refuses to let go, like an oily embrace.

[Nephrite]

No, no, no. He can't stop and go down!

He has to... keep...

...

Light!

If up isn't the right way then he has to find his direction! Find the way out of the darkness... damn the air, find a source of light out!

[Anastasia]

Charisma check, +3 bonus.

[Nephrite]

still negative level penalty?

[Anastasia]

Correct.

[Nephrite]

[blockquote]Rolled 1d20-1 : 1 - 1, total 0[/blockquote]

[Anastasia]

But it's impossible like this. You can't breathe. You can't do anything. You're dying, you're choking.

Through eyes drifting shut, you struggle to breathe and see someone above you, choking the life out of you. The tremendously fat and foul Orcus looms above you, a ghostly image ripping the life from you, not willing to let go.

[Nephrite]

He won't die like this...!

He musters his strength, the strength of his friends, his allies, his loved ones, all around him... he has to fight back with every fiber he has left...

To never give up hope, even like this!!

[Anastasia]

Charisma check again, same bonus as before. Good luck.

[Nephrite]

[blockquote]Rolled 1d20-1 : 3 - 1, total 2[/blockquote]

[Nephrite]

i give up

[Anastasia]

The slightest hint of air, a tiny gasp as you get the tiniest amount out. It's something, a moment as the ghostly figure shines. Through squinted eyes you can see the figure is turning ghostlier and ghostlier, less and less solid, even as it chokes you away.