Power Plus Ambition Results In Longevity

Part 1

Stupid Wizards Approach Sleeping Dragon

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Hitching up your girdles
Psyching up your mind
Scratching in your spellbooks
Diamond dust is fine

Bigby's Warding Fingernail
Mordenkainen's Doom
Greater Element Evasion
And some magic shrooms

Wands are in the belt
Scrolls are close at hand
Zero hour's fast approaching
Too bad Tenser's banned

Shields are cast with care
Tension's in the air
Everything's prepared,
But we've got no time to spare

We stand alone on a promontory
Waves behind, ahead a marble quarry
Components for the greatest spell
We've ever seen, and ever will

Mythal theory, put in practice
Webs of energy multiply
Covering the ground beneath
Rising high into the sky

A word is spoken:
The final trigger
The culmination
Of our toil and rigor

A terrible crash has filled the air
The slabs of rock reorganize
Draconic script is forming there
Before our sand-stung eyes

Behind our backs the waters tremble
And as the rocks are settling down,
The sea behind leaps upwards now
And hangs, confined and bound

A mass of water in the air
A sphere of liquid flying low
Straining to return again
To the shrunken sea below

Yet through all this we do not turn
Our eyes are drawn to see
The rocky letters vibrating
And heat waves flowing free

They burn and glow, a hot white light
Soon too bright to look upon
The curves and lines outshine the sun
And slowly sink into the ground

Silence reigns and dust has fallen
'Till the earth begins to shake
Subsonic thrums flow through the rock
As the aberration wakes

- Nick Pence