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| - | <div class="content-item"><div id="g_body"><p><font face="trebuchet ms"><br><b style="">[<st1 time="" hour="20" minute="15" w="" st="on">20:15</st1>] <<st1 place="" w="" st="on"><st1 city="" w="" st="on">Arden</st1></st1>> crossing from an alley opposite
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| - | clearly having listened to the same conversation " how does one explain
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| - | the mental boost I wonder....." he does not notice you and continues
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| - | across the street down another alley<o p=""></o></b><br>[<st1 time="" hour="20" minute="15" w="" st="on">20:15</st1>]
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| - | * Iago turns to Damsel again, "I asked for healing and a safe passage...
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| - | both were granted to me"
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| - | <br><b style="">[<st1 time="" hour="20" minute="15" w="" st="on">20:15</st1>] <<st1 place="" w="" st="on"><st1 city="" w="" st="on">Arden</st1></st1>> "Wait what?"<o p=""></o></b><br><b style="">[<st1 time="" hour="20" minute="15" w="" st="on">20:15</st1>] * <st1 place="" w="" st="on"><st1 city="" w="" st="on">Arden</st1></st1>
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| - | suddently turns and looks<o p=""></o></b><br><b style="">[<st1 time="" hour="20" minute="16" w="" st="on">20:16</st1>] <<st1 place="" w="" st="on"><st1 city="" w="" st="on">Arden</st1></st1>> "Oh... its you lot"<o p=""></o></b><br><b style="">[<st1 time="" hour="20" minute="16" w="" st="on">20:16</st1>] <<st1 place="" w="" st="on"><st1 city="" w="" st="on">Arden</st1></st1>> "It healed you?"<o p=""></o></b><br>[<st1 time="" hour="20" minute="16" w="" st="on">20:16</st1>]
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| - | * Damsel shrugs. "I am not arguing it's effects with you. I would not even
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| - | attempt such things..."
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| - | <br><b style="">[<st1 time="" hour="20" minute="16" w="" st="on">20:16</st1>] <<st1 place="" w="" st="on"><st1 city="" w="" st="on">Arden</st1></st1>> "Physically?"<o p=""></o></b><br>[<st1 time="" hour="20" minute="16" w="" st="on">20:16</st1>]
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| - | * Lkeas watches <st1 place="" w="" st="on"><st1 city="" w="" st="on">Arden</st1></st1>
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| - | carefully. "Mental boost...?"
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| - | <br>[<st1 time="" hour="20" minute="16" w="" st="on">20:16</st1>]
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| - | * Iago turns and sees <st1 place="" w="" st="on"><st1 city="" w="" st="on">Arden</st1></st1>,
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| - | his face falling a bit, "Yes, it did"
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| - | <br>[20:16] <Durroth> it healed me in a sense too
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| - | <br><b style="">[<st1 time="" hour="20" minute="16" w="" st="on">20:16</st1>] * <st1 place="" w="" st="on"><st1 city="" w="" st="on">Arden</st1></st1>
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| - | frowns<o p=""></o></b><br>[<st1 time="" hour="20" minute="16" w="" st="on">20:16</st1>]
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| - | * Damsel hesitates and looks towards Arden, her expression one of tired
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| - | <br>[20:16] <Iago> "I had a broken arm and leg. They
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| - | <br>[20:16] <Durroth> and I suppose even improved me
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| - | <br><b style="">[<st1 time="" hour="20" minute="16" w="" st="on">20:16</st1>] <<st1 place="" w="" st="on"><st1 city="" w="" st="on">Arden</st1></st1>> "And it.... physically
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| - | polymorphed that computer into a living being"<o p=""></o></b><br><b style="">[<st1 time="" hour="20" minute="17" w="" st="on">20:17</st1>] <<st1 place="" w="" st="on"><st1 city="" w="" st="on">Arden</st1></st1>> "Which is to say an organic
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| - | one?"<o p=""></o></b><br>[20:17] <Iago> "But only for a short time"
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| - | <br><b style="">[<st1 time="" hour="20" minute="17" w="" st="on">20:17</st1>] <<st1 place="" w="" st="on"><st1 city="" w="" st="on">Arden</st1></st1>> "Those powers are NOT
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| - | simple...."<o p=""></o></b><br><b style="">[<st1 time="" hour="20" minute="17" w="" st="on">20:17</st1>] <<st1 place="" w="" st="on"><st1 city="" w="" st="on">Arden</st1></st1>> "And they are not explained by
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| - | a Probability Engine"<o p=""></o></b><br><b style="">[<st1 time="" hour="20" minute="17" w="" st="on">20:17</st1>] <<st1 place="" w="" st="on"><st1 city="" w="" st="on">Arden</st1></st1>> "They are lasting actual
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| - | changes in the local reality"<o p=""></o></b><br><b style="">[<st1 time="" hour="20" minute="17" w="" st="on">20:17</st1>] <<st1 place="" w="" st="on"><st1 city="" w="" st="on">Arden</st1></st1>> "Further this is
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| - | caelestia"<o p=""></o></b><br><b style="">[<st1 time="" hour="20" minute="18" w="" st="on">20:18</st1>] <<st1 place="" w="" st="on"><st1 city="" w="" st="on">Arden</st1></st1>> "Healing Sorcery is very
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| - | restricted"<o p=""></o></b><br><b style="">[<st1 time="" hour="20" minute="18" w="" st="on">20:18</st1>] <<st1 place="" w="" st="on"><st1 city="" w="" st="on">Arden</st1></st1>> "Almost all healing magic is
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| - | clerical"<o p=""></o></b><br>[20:18] <Iago> "That's where my skepticism arose,
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| - | should we submit ourselves to the whim of something so great?"
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| - | <br>[<st1 time="" hour="20" minute="18" w="" st="on">20:18</st1>]
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| - | * Joins: Nick (lincoln14n@Caelestia-570E6237.hsd1.co.comcast.net)
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| - | <br><b style="">[<st1 time="" hour="20" minute="18" w="" st="on">20:18</st1>] <<st1 place="" w="" st="on"><st1 city="" w="" st="on">Arden</st1></st1>> "Especially of that power to
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| - | unbreak bones"<o p=""></o></b><br>[20:18] <Durroth> I wished to be whole again
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| - | * Parts: Nick (lincoln14n@Caelestia-570E6237.hsd1.co.comcast.net)
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| - | <br>[20:18] <Iago> "I asked for healing and safe
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| - | <br>[20:18] <Durroth> all the fragmented emotions and such
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| - | within me are now whole, and I also recieved the memories of my analogs
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| - | <br>[20:18] <Necro> That you know of
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| - | <br><b style="">[<st1 time="" hour="20" minute="19" w="" st="on">20:19</st1>] <<st1 place="" w="" st="on"><st1 city="" w="" st="on">Arden</st1></st1>> "I did not imply that there
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| - | was any malignancy Iago"<o p=""></o></b><br><b style="">[20:19] <Arden>
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| - | "I am more commenting on the fact that such a thing requires a great deal
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| - | of different sorts of power"<o p=""></o></b><br>[20:19] <Iago> "Nor did I think you did. I was
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| - | simply expressing the possibility that arose in my mind"
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| - | <br><b style="">[<st1 time="" hour="20" minute="19" w="" st="on">20:19</st1>] <<st1 place="" w="" st="on"><st1 city="" w="" st="on">Arden</st1></st1>> "And given the nature of some
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| - | of them...."<o p=""></o></b><br><b style="">[<st1 time="" hour="20" minute="19" w="" st="on">20:19</st1>] <<st1 place="" w="" st="on"><st1 city="" w="" st="on">Arden</st1></st1>> "Clerical healing magic
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| - | requires a God"<o p=""></o></b><br>[20:19] <Lkeas> I guess we've just been concerned that
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| - | we've been granted what seems to be quite wonderful gifts, without any cost to
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| - | <br><b style="">[<st1 time="" hour="20" minute="20" w="" st="on">20:20</st1>] <<st1 place="" w="" st="on"><st1 city="" w="" st="on">Arden</st1></st1>> "The church of eldron
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| - | tolerates this Festival I learned but does not like it"<o p=""></o></b><br><b style="">[<st1 time="" hour="20" minute="20" w="" st="on">20:20</st1>] <<st1 place="" w="" st="on"><st1 city="" w="" st="on">Arden</st1></st1>> "So it is safe to say they are
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| - | not affiliated with Eldron"<o p=""></o></b><br><b style="">[<st1 time="" hour="20" minute="20" w="" st="on">20:20</st1>] <<st1 place="" w="" st="on"><st1 city="" w="" st="on">Arden</st1></st1>> "Which is fairly audacious of
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| - | them"<o p=""></o></b><br><b style="">[<st1 time="" hour="20" minute="20" w="" st="on">20:20</st1>] <<st1 place="" w="" st="on"><st1 city="" w="" st="on">Arden</st1></st1>> "Since they never claim it was
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| - | a god<o p=""></o></b><br><b style="">[<st1 time="" hour="20" minute="20" w="" st="on">20:20</st1>] <<st1 place="" w="" st="on"><st1 city="" w="" st="on">Arden</st1></st1>> "They get away with..."<o p=""></o></b><br><b style="">[<st1 time="" hour="20" minute="20" w="" st="on">20:20</st1>] <<st1 place="" w="" st="on"><st1 city="" w="" st="on">Arden</st1></st1>> "Much"<o p=""></o></b><br><b style="">[<st1 time="" hour="20" minute="21" w="" st="on">20:21</st1>] <<st1 place="" w="" st="on"><st1 city="" w="" st="on">Arden</st1></st1>> "I guess then you need to
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| - | determine what the ulterior motive is"<o p=""></o></b><br>[20:21] <Iago> "Some here claimed to see, or even
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| - | manifest the nature of, The'Galin... which gave rise to some of my fears"
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| - | <br><b style="">[<st1 time="" hour="20" minute="21" w="" st="on">20:21</st1>] <<st1 place="" w="" st="on"><st1 city="" w="" st="on">Arden</st1></st1>> "I have to assume you are
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| - | right in expecting there is one"<o p=""></o></b><br>[<st1 time="" hour="20" minute="21" w="" st="on">20:21</st1>]
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| - | * Damsel crosses an arm across her chest, gripping the opposite arm lightly
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| - | <br>[20:21] <Lkeas> Would that be ungrateful of us, you
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| - | <br><b style="">[<st1 time="" hour="20" minute="21" w="" st="on">20:21</st1>] <Arden> "The'Galin"<o p=""></o></b><br><b style="">[<st1 time="" hour="20" minute="21" w="" st="on">20:21</st1>] <<st1 place="" w="" st="on"><st1 city="" w="" st="on">Arden</st1></st1>> "... I cannot see how"<o p=""></o></b><br><b style="">[<st1 time="" hour="20" minute="21" w="" st="on">20:21</st1>] <<st1 place="" w="" st="on"><st1 city="" w="" st="on">Arden</st1></st1>> "I mean he is a foreign
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| - | deity"<o p=""></o></b><br><b style="">[<st1 time="" hour="20" minute="22" w="" st="on">20:22</st1>] <<st1 place="" w="" st="on"><st1 city="" w="" st="on">Arden</st1></st1>> "And the farpoint
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| - | would..."<o p=""></o></b><br>[20:22] <Iago> "I don't claim he has any control,
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| - | but that he was experienced within booth..."
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| - | <br>[20:22] <Deathbringer> Mine showed visions of near
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| - | deities of my world.
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| - | <br><b style="">[<st1 time="" hour="20" minute="22" w="" st="on">20:22</st1>] <<st1 place="" w="" st="on"><st1 city="" w="" st="on">Arden</st1></st1>> "Well thats natural
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| - | right?"<o p=""></o></b><br><b style="">[<st1 time="" hour="20" minute="22" w="" st="on">20:22</st1>] <<st1 place="" w="" st="on"><st1 city="" w="" st="on">Arden</st1></st1>> "You see what you know"<o p=""></o></b><br><b style="">[<st1 time="" hour="20" minute="22" w="" st="on">20:22</st1>] <<st1 place="" w="" st="on"><st1 city="" w="" st="on">Arden</st1></st1>> "It comes as much from you
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| - | as...."<o p=""></o></b><br><b style="">[<st1 time="" hour="20" minute="22" w="" st="on">20:22</st1>] <<st1 place="" w="" st="on"><st1 city="" w="" st="on">Arden</st1></st1>> "Well would it be ungrateful I
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| - | wonder"<o p=""></o></b><br><b style="">[<st1 time="" hour="20" minute="22" w="" st="on">20:22</st1>] <<st1 place="" w="" st="on"><st1 city="" w="" st="on">Arden</st1></st1>> "To enter that booth and as
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| - | your request"<o p=""></o></b><br><b style="">[<st1 time="" hour="20" minute="23" w="" st="on">20:23</st1>] <<st1 place="" w="" st="on"><st1 city="" w="" st="on">Arden</st1></st1>> "Ask to know the secret of the
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| - | booth"<o p=""></o></b><br>[<st1 time="" hour="20" minute="23" w="" st="on">20:23</st1>]
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| - | * Lkeas chuckles. "That sounds like cheating."
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| - | <br><b style="">[<st1 time="" hour="20" minute="23" w="" st="on">20:23</st1>] <<st1 place="" w="" st="on"><st1 city="" w="" st="on">Arden</st1></st1>> "So far the booth has rejected
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| - | no offers tho"<o p=""></o></b><br><b style="">[<st1 time="" hour="20" minute="23" w="" st="on">20:23</st1>] <<st1 place="" w="" st="on"><st1 city="" w="" st="on">Arden</st1></st1>> "Would it be Self
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| - | Revaltory"<o p=""></o></b><br>[20:23] <Iago> "The operator seemed to think it
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| - | was ungrateful to be skeptical..."
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| - | <br><b style="">[<st1 time="" hour="20" minute="23" w="" st="on">20:23</st1>] <<st1 place="" w="" st="on"><st1 city="" w="" st="on">Arden</st1></st1>> "I am not skeptical"<o p=""></o></b><br><b style="">[<st1 time="" hour="20" minute="23" w="" st="on">20:23</st1>] <<st1 place="" w="" st="on"><st1 city="" w="" st="on">Arden</st1></st1>> "I am baffled"<o p=""></o></b><br>[20:23] <Iago> "Or it may simply create a
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| - | <br><b style="">[<st1 time="" hour="20" minute="23" w="" st="on">20:23</st1>] <<st1 place="" w="" st="on"><st1 city="" w="" st="on">Arden</st1></st1>> "Skeptical implies....
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| - | doubt"<o p=""></o></b><br><b style="">[<st1 time="" hour="20" minute="24" w="" st="on">20:24</st1>] <<st1 place="" w="" st="on"><st1 city="" w="" st="on">Arden</st1></st1>> "I have no reson to doubt
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| - | motives"<o p=""></o></b><br><b style="">[<st1 time="" hour="20" minute="24" w="" st="on">20:24</st1>] <<st1 place="" w="" st="on"><st1 city="" w="" st="on">Arden</st1></st1>> "But I seriously DO question
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| - | the technology"<o p=""></o></b><br><b style="">[<st1 time="" hour="20" minute="24" w="" st="on">20:24</st1>] <<st1 place="" w="" st="on"><st1 city="" w="" st="on">Arden</st1></st1>> Here<o p=""></o></b><br><b style="">[<st1 time="" hour="20" minute="24" w="" st="on">20:24</st1>] <<st1 place="" w="" st="on"><st1 city="" w="" st="on">Arden</st1></st1>> I can cast a contingency spell<o p=""></o></b><br>[<st1 time="" hour="20" minute="24" w="" st="on">20:24</st1>]
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| - | <Lkeas> Hmm?
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| - | <br><b style="">[<st1 time="" hour="20" minute="24" w="" st="on">20:24</st1>] <<st1 place="" w="" st="on"><st1 city="" w="" st="on">Arden</st1></st1>> Any effect that would cause your
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| - | life to end or severe damage to come to you<o p=""></o></b><br><b style="">[<st1 time="" hour="20" minute="24" w="" st="on">20:24</st1>] <<st1 place="" w="" st="on"><st1 city="" w="" st="on">Arden</st1></st1>> Teleports you immediately to my
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| - | abode<o p=""></o></b><br><b style="">[<st1 time="" hour="20" minute="24" w="" st="on">20:24</st1>] <<st1 place="" w="" st="on"><st1 city="" w="" st="on">Arden</st1></st1>> before the effect is realized<o p=""></o></b><br>[20:24] <Deathbringer> That is handy.
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| - | <br>[20:25] <Durroth> indeed
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| - | <br><b style="">[<st1 time="" hour="20" minute="25" w="" st="on">20:25</st1>] <<st1 place="" w="" st="on"><st1 city="" w="" st="on">Arden</st1></st1>> We then can feel safe in poking and
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| - | proding....<o p=""></o></b><br>[<st1 time="" hour="20" minute="25" w="" st="on">20:25</st1>]
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| - | * Iago nods and smiles, "That alleviates a lot of fears"
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| - | <br><b style="">[<st1 time="" hour="20" minute="25" w="" st="on">20:25</st1>] <<st1 place="" w="" st="on"><st1 city="" w="" st="on">Arden</st1></st1>> the workings of the mysterious box<o p=""></o></b><br><b style="">[<st1 time="" hour="20" minute="25" w="" st="on">20:25</st1>] * <st1 place="" w="" st="on"><st1 city="" w="" st="on">Arden</st1></st1>
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| - | gestures and mutters something and casts a crystal into the air which vanishes
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| - | with a explosion<o p=""></o></b><br><b style="">[<st1 time="" hour="20" minute="25" w="" st="on">20:25</st1>] * <st1 place="" w="" st="on"><st1 city="" w="" st="on">Arden</st1></st1>
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| - | proceeds to read a scroll which also vanishes<o p=""></o></b><br>[20:26] <Deathbringer> The material component?
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| - | * Lkeas watches TruthTruffle meep in alarm at the loud noise and skitter over
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| - | <br><b style="">[<st1 time="" hour="20" minute="26" w="" st="on">20:26</st1>] <<st1 place="" w="" st="on"><st1 city="" w="" st="on">Arden</st1></st1>> "Let me know what you
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| - | learn"<o p=""></o></b><br><b style="">[<st1 time="" hour="20" minute="26" w="" st="on">20:26</st1>] * <st1 place="" w="" st="on"><st1 city="" w="" st="on">Arden</st1></st1>
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| - | turns and continues down the alley<o p=""></o></b><br>[20:26] <Necro> So, any takers on being the guinea
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| - | pig? I'll go if no one else will...
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| - | <br>[20:26] <Iago> "Let's get there first, I hope its
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| - | there after last night"
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| - | <br>[20:26] <Lkeas> Well, I've already been inside, so I
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| - | <Deathbringer> Yeah.
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| - | * Durroth pets Truth reassuringly
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| - | <br>[20:27] <Iago> "It might just be gone
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| - | <br>[20:27] <Durroth> there there little one
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| - | * Quits: Dakota_Pierce (pierced@Caelestia-AC5D8D7C.dhcp.gnvl.sc.charter.com) (Vanished:
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| - | <br>[20:27] <Damsel> "I've heard his shouting earlier
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| - | <br><b style="">[<st1 time="" hour="20" minute="27" w="" st="on">20:27</st1>] <Voice> "Come experience the
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| - | thrill that David Viara called unifying"<o p=""></o></b><br>[<st1 time="" hour="20" minute="27" w="" st="on">20:27</st1>]
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| - | * Damsel smirks slightly at the timing.
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| - | * Lkeas turns in the direction of the voices. "Ah, perfect.<span style=""></span>This way?"
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| - | <Deathbringer> Heh.
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| - | * Iago follows Lkeas
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| - | <br>[20:29] <Durroth> the problem is we've all gone
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| - | through the hut already
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| - | <br>[20:29] <Necro> No we haven't
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| - | <br>[20:29] <Necro> At least not all of us
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| - | <br>[<st1 time="" hour="20" minute="29" w="" st="on">20:29</st1>]
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| - | * Lkeas seems to consider this for a moment. "I think Adam was able to go
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| - | in twice.. he said he had something to ask.."
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| - | <br>[<st1 time="" hour="20" minute="30" w="" st="on">20:30</st1>]
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| - | * Damsel trails after the others with a serious expression
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| - | <br><b style="">[<st1 time="" hour="20" minute="32" w="" st="on">20:32</st1>] <Figure> "Ah"<o p=""></o></b><br><b style="">[<st1 time="" hour="20" minute="32" w="" st="on">20:32</st1>] <Figure> "Again you join
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| - | me"<o p=""></o></b><br><b style="">[<st1 time="" hour="20" minute="32" w="" st="on">20:32</st1>] <Figure> "What a
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| - | pleasure"<o p=""></o></b><br>[<st1 time="" hour="20" minute="33" w="" st="on">20:33</st1>]
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| - | * Lkeas tips her head to the man. "Yes, we're back.<span style=""></span>With a few more."
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| - | <br>[<st1 time="" hour="20" minute="33" w="" st="on">20:33</st1>]
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| - | * Iago stays at the back of the pack
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| - |
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| - | <br><b style="">[<st1 time="" hour="20" minute="33" w="" st="on">20:33</st1>] <>Ambiance<> The hut is in
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| - | yet a third location clearly not where it was yesterday either in fact it seems
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| - | to be in a small garden this time<o p=""></o></b><br>[<st1 time="" hour="20" minute="34" w="" st="on">20:34</st1>]
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| - | * Damsel stays back a small ways as well, observing.
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| - |
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| - | <br><b style="">[<st1 time="" hour="20" minute="34" w="" st="on">20:34</st1>] <Figure> Well then<o p=""></o></b><br><b style="">[<st1 time="" hour="20" minute="34" w="" st="on">20:34</st1>] <Figure> "Who shall enter
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| - | the dollarstore oracle next?"<o p=""></o></b><br>[20:34] <Durroth> lets see, who do we have who hasnt
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| - | gone through
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| - | <br><b style="">[<st1 time="" hour="20" minute="34" w="" st="on">20:34</st1>] <Figure> That does not matter<o p=""></o></b><br><b style="">[<st1 time="" hour="20" minute="35" w="" st="on">20:35</st1>] <Figure> The reason some of your
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| - | party who had gone through last time were not allowed to do so again<o p=""></o></b><br>[<st1 time="" hour="20" minute="35" w="" st="on">20:35</st1>]
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| - | * Iago looks at the figure, wondering if he is remembered
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| - |
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| - | <br><b style="">[<st1 time="" hour="20" minute="35" w="" st="on">20:35</st1>] <Figure> was due to their own
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| - | attitude<o p=""></o></b><br><b style="">[<st1 time="" hour="20" minute="35" w="" st="on">20:35</st1>] <Figure> The booth would have
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| - | effected them badly<o p=""></o></b><br>[20:35] <Lkeas> That makes sense, sort of..
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| - | <br><b style="">[<st1 time="" hour="20" minute="35" w="" st="on">20:35</st1>] <Figure> it would have been far
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| - | from fantastique<o p=""></o></b><br>[20:35] <Lkeas> Ah, only fantastic, then?
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| - | <br><b style="">[<st1 time="" hour="20" minute="35" w="" st="on">20:35</st1>] <Figure> No<o p=""></o></b><br>[20:35] <Durroth> fantasTIQUE
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| - |
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| - | <br><b style="">[<st1 time="" hour="20" minute="35" w="" st="on">20:35</st1>] <Figure> Possibly Terrible<o p=""></o></b><br>[20:36] <Lkeas> That's not good.
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| - | <br>[<st1 time="" hour="20" minute="36" w="" st="on">20:36</st1>]
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| - | <Deathbringer> Ouch.
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| - |
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| - | <br><b style="">[<st1 time="" hour="20" minute="36" w="" st="on">20:36</st1>] <Figure> or... even horid<o p=""></o></b><br><b style="">[<st1 time="" hour="20" minute="36" w="" st="on">20:36</st1>] <Figure> Maybe mortifying<o p=""></o></b><br>[20:36] <Deathbringer> So... painful?
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| - |
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| - | <br><b style="">[<st1 time="" hour="20" minute="36" w="" st="on">20:36</st1>] <Figure> Which is very very NOT
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| - | fantastique<o p=""></o></b><br>[20:36] <Durroth> not necessarily painful
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| - |
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| - | <br>[20:36] <Durroth> mentally scarring maybe
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| - |
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| - | <br><b style="">[<st1 time="" hour="20" minute="36" w="" st="on">20:36</st1>] <Figure> But possibly<o p=""></o></b><br>[<st1 time="" hour="20" minute="36" w="" st="on">20:36</st1>]
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| - | <Lkeas> Lovely.
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| - |
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| - | <br><b style="">[<st1 time="" hour="20" minute="36" w="" st="on">20:36</st1>] <Figure> Both<o p=""></o></b><br>[20:36] <Durroth> ouch
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| - |
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| - | <br>[<st1 time="" hour="20" minute="36" w="" st="on">20:36</st1>]
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| - | * Iago looks at Damsel, "You gonna try this?"
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| - | <br>[20:36] <Necro> Serious damage mentally scarring?
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| - |
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| - | <br><b style="">[<st1 time="" hour="20" minute="36" w="" st="on">20:36</st1>] <Figure> Doubt and fear are not
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| - | the sin incidentally<o p=""></o></b><br>[<st1 time="" hour="20" minute="37" w="" st="on">20:37</st1>]
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| - | * Damsel glances at Iago and shakes her head slightly.
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| - |
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| - | <br><b style="">[<st1 time="" hour="20" minute="37" w="" st="on">20:37</st1>] <Figure> One of your number
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| - | wanted to assault me<o p=""></o></b><br>[20:37] <Durroth> I figured that
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| - |
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| - | <br><b style="">[<st1 time="" hour="20" minute="37" w="" st="on">20:37</st1>] <Figure> I do believe that the
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| - | experience would have been quite bad for her<o p=""></o></b><br>[<st1 time="" hour="20" minute="37" w="" st="on">20:37</st1>]
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| - | <Lkeas> Mmm.
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| - |
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| - | <br>[<st1 time="" hour="20" minute="37" w="" st="on">20:37</st1>]
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| - | * Iago glances around, noting that she is not here
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| - |
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| - | <br><b style="">[<st1 time="" hour="20" minute="37" w="" st="on">20:37</st1>] <Figure> Another of your number
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| - | was being divisive and.. distressed<o p=""></o></b><br>[<st1 time="" hour="20" minute="37" w="" st="on">20:37</st1>]
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| - | * Iago coughs slightly
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| - |
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| - | <br><b style="">[<st1 time="" hour="20" minute="37" w="" st="on">20:37</st1>] <Figure> They really could not
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| - | enter<o p=""></o></b><br><b style="">[<st1 time="" hour="20" minute="37" w="" st="on">20:37</st1>] <Figure> That would have been bad<o p=""></o></b><br><b style="">[<st1 time="" hour="20" minute="37" w="" st="on">20:37</st1>] <Figure> But today is a different
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| - | day<o p=""></o></b><br><b style="">[<st1 time="" hour="20" minute="37" w="" st="on">20:37</st1>] <Figure> Isn't it master Iago?<o p=""></o></b><br>[<st1 time="" hour="20" minute="38" w="" st="on">20:38</st1>]
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| - | * Iago looks up, smiles a tad, but says nothing
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| - |
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| - | <br>[<st1 time="" hour="20" minute="38" w="" st="on">20:38</st1>]
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| - | * Lkeas hides a small smile behind her hand and glances at Iago.
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| - |
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| - | <br><b style="">[<st1 time="" hour="20" minute="38" w="" st="on">20:38</st1>] <Figure> And never forget that<o p=""></o></b><br><b style="">[<st1 time="" hour="20" minute="38" w="" st="on">20:38</st1>] <Figure> Its always a different
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| - | day<o p=""></o></b><br><b style="">[<st1 time="" hour="20" minute="38" w="" st="on">20:38</st1>] <Figure> What was yesterday it
| |
| - | may not be tommorow<o p=""></o></b><br><b style="">[<st1 time="" hour="20" minute="38" w="" st="on">20:38</st1>] <Figure> The Booth is... based on
| |
| - | principles<o p=""></o></b><br><b style="">[<st1 time="" hour="20" minute="38" w="" st="on">20:38</st1>] <Figure> it is a new Oracle at <st1 place="" w="" st="on">Delphi</st1><o p=""></o></b><br><b style="">[<st1 time="" hour="20" minute="39" w="" st="on">20:39</st1>] <Figure> A new and enirely Orphic
| |
| - | experience<o p=""></o></b><br>[<st1 time="" hour="20" minute="39" w="" st="on">20:39</st1>]
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| - | <Lkeas> Oracle? <st1 place="" w="" st="on">Delphi</st1>.. wha?
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| - |
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| - | <br><b style="">[<st1 time="" hour="20" minute="39" w="" st="on">20:39</st1>] <Figure> as such were intended<o p=""></o></b><br>[20:39] <Lkeas> This is run by Orphic?
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| - |
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| - | <br>[20:39] <Durroth> Ah, that brings back memories
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| - |
| |
| - | <br><b style="">[<st1 time="" hour="20" minute="39" w="" st="on">20:39</st1>] <Figure> Orphic.. means prophetic<o p=""></o></b><br><b style="">[<st1 time="" hour="20" minute="39" w="" st="on">20:39</st1>] <Figure> Oracular<o p=""></o></b><br>[20:39] <Durroth> not mine of course
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| - |
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| - | <br><b style="">[<st1 time="" hour="20" minute="39" w="" st="on">20:39</st1>] <Figure> It has to do with
| |
| - | Orpheus of course<o p=""></o></b><br><b style="">[<st1 time="" hour="20" minute="39" w="" st="on">20:39</st1>] <Figure> And the Oracle at <st1 place="" w="" st="on">Delphi</st1><o p=""></o></b><br>[20:40] <Legault> So that's why that Dakota got called
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| - | here...
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| - |
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| - | <br><b style="">[<st1 time="" hour="20" minute="40" w="" st="on">20:40</st1>] <Figure> was an ancient Grecian
| |
| - | shrine on a world you probably never heard of called Terrioha<o p=""></o></b><br><b style="">[<st1 time="" hour="20" minute="40" w="" st="on">20:40</st1>] <Figure> Or something like that<o p=""></o></b><br><b style="">[<st1 time="" hour="20" minute="40" w="" st="on">20:40</st1>] <Figure> But it was consulted to
| |
| - | see the future and to dream dreams<o p=""></o></b><br><b style="">[<st1 time="" hour="20" minute="40" w="" st="on">20:40</st1>] <Figure> to experience wonder<o p=""></o></b><br><b style="">[<st1 time="" hour="20" minute="40" w="" st="on">20:40</st1>] <Figure> To become trully
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| - | Ecstatic<o p=""></o></b><br><b style="">[<st1 time="" hour="20" minute="41" w="" st="on">20:41</st1>] <Figure> And that is what the
| |
| - | booth does<o p=""></o></b><br><b style="">[<st1 time="" hour="20" minute="41" w="" st="on">20:41</st1>] <Figure> it is Fantastique<o p=""></o></b><br>[20:41] <Lkeas> Isn't viewing the future dangerous,
| |
| - | though?
| |
| - |
| |
| - | <br><b style="">[<st1 time="" hour="20" minute="41" w="" st="on">20:41</st1>] <Figure> But it can be dangerous<o p=""></o></b><br><b style="">[<st1 time="" hour="20" minute="41" w="" st="on">20:41</st1>] <Figure> Is it?<o p=""></o></b><br><b style="">[<st1 time="" hour="20" minute="41" w="" st="on">20:41</st1>] <Figure> It could only be
| |
| - | dangerous if it was definite<o p=""></o></b><br><b style="">[<st1 time="" hour="20" minute="41" w="" st="on">20:41</st1>] <Figure> or solitary<o p=""></o></b><br><b style="">[<st1 time="" hour="20" minute="41" w="" st="on">20:41</st1>] <Figure> And the future is not
| |
| - | all it does clearly<o p=""></o></b><br><b style="">[<st1 time="" hour="20" minute="41" w="" st="on">20:41</st1>] <Figure> Like deliphi it heals
| |
| - | the lame<o p=""></o></b><br><b style="">[<st1 time="" hour="20" minute="41" w="" st="on">20:41</st1>] <Figure> it makes ones dreams
| |
| - | come true<o p=""></o></b><br>[20:41] <Lkeas> Ah, I see..
| |
| - |
| |
| - | <br><b style="">[<st1 time="" hour="20" minute="41" w="" st="on">20:41</st1>] <Figure> it imparts great secrets<o p=""></o></b><br><b style="">[<st1 time="" hour="20" minute="42" w="" st="on">20:42</st1>] <Figure> It is... a wonder<o p=""></o></b><br><b style="">[<st1 time="" hour="20" minute="42" w="" st="on">20:42</st1>] <Figure> But I am partial<o p=""></o></b><br>[20:42] <Durroth> I'll second that
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| - |
| |
| - | <br><b style="">[<st1 time="" hour="20" minute="42" w="" st="on">20:42</st1>] <Figure> Ever since I became its
| |
| - | gatekeeper<o p=""></o></b><br>[20:42] <Durroth> it is indeed a wonder
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| - |
| |
| - | <br><b style="">[<st1 time="" hour="20" minute="42" w="" st="on">20:42</st1>] <Figure> So many years ago<o p=""></o></b><br><b style="">[<st1 time="" hour="20" minute="42" w="" st="on">20:42</st1>] <Figure> My predecessor was
| |
| - | enamored of it too<o p=""></o></b><br><b style="">[<st1 time="" hour="20" minute="42" w="" st="on">20:42</st1>] <Figure> So tell me<o p=""></o></b><br><b style="">[<st1 time="" hour="20" minute="42" w="" st="on">20:42</st1>] <Figure> Who shall venture forth
| |
| - | first?<o p=""></o></b><br>[20:43] <Damsel> "Will you tell us who you
| |
| - | are?"
| |
| - |
| |
| - | <br>[<st1 time="" hour="20" minute="43" w="" st="on">20:43</st1>]
| |
| - | * Iago cringes
| |
| - |
| |
| - | <br><b style="">[<st1 time="" hour="20" minute="43" w="" st="on">20:43</st1>] <Figure> Me my lady?<o p=""></o></b><br>[<st1 time="" hour="20" minute="44" w="" st="on">20:44</st1>]
| |
| - | * Durroth flinches slightly
| |
| - |
| |
| - | <br>[<st1 time="" hour="20" minute="44" w="" st="on">20:44</st1>]
| |
| - | * Legault watches intently.
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| - |
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| - | <br>[20:44] <Damsel> "Yes, sir.<span style=""></span>I would wish to know into whose care such a
| |
| - | remarkable thing has been given."
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| - |
| |
| - | <br><b style="">[<st1 time="" hour="20" minute="44" w="" st="on">20:44</st1>] <Figure> My name is Emechbaniri<o p=""></o></b><br><b style="">[<st1 time="" hour="20" minute="44" w="" st="on">20:44</st1>] <Figure> Emechbaniri<o p=""></o></b><br><b style="">[<st1 time="" hour="20" minute="45" w="" st="on">20:45</st1>] <Figure> Emechbaniri Untustestkim
| |
| - | Lerirunttan<o p=""></o></b><br><b style="">[<st1 time="" hour="20" minute="45" w="" st="on">20:45</st1>] <Figure> At your service<o p=""></o></b><br>[<st1 time="" hour="20" minute="46" w="" st="on">20:46</st1>]
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| - | * Damsel inclines her head respectfully.
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| - |
| |
| - | <br><b style="">[<st1 time="" hour="20" minute="46" w="" st="on">20:46</st1>] <Figure> I am from Serirashalde<o p=""></o></b><br><b style="">[<st1 time="" hour="20" minute="46" w="" st="on">20:46</st1>] <Figure> Which is a world far
| |
| - | from this one<o p=""></o></b><br><b style="">[<st1 time="" hour="20" minute="46" w="" st="on">20:46</st1>] <Figure> Though I have been the
| |
| - | Caelestian keeper of the oracle for<o p=""></o></b><br><b style="">[<st1 time="" hour="20" minute="46" w="" st="on">20:46</st1>] * Figure thinks carefully<o p=""></o></b><br><b style="">[<st1 time="" hour="20" minute="46" w="" st="on">20:46</st1>] <Figure> 3 millenia<o p=""></o></b><br>[20:47] <Damsel> "The Caelestian keeper?<span style=""></span>You mean there are other keepers upon other
| |
| - | realms?"
| |
| - |
| |
| - | <br>[<st1 time="" hour="20" minute="47" w="" st="on">20:47</st1>]
| |
| - | <Legault> That's... A while.
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| - |
| |
| - | <br><b style="">[<st1 time="" hour="20" minute="47" w="" st="on">20:47</st1>] <Figure> "Oh yes... you see
| |
| - | the booth is but a connector"<o p=""></o></b><br><b style="">[<st1 time="" hour="20" minute="47" w="" st="on">20:47</st1>] <Figure> "When you are in
| |
| - | there you can see that"<o p=""></o></b><br><b style="">[<st1 time="" hour="20" minute="47" w="" st="on">20:47</st1>] <Figure> "All of the oracle
| |
| - | in all places is one oracle"<o p=""></o></b><br>[20:47] <Iago> "About the same amount of time
| |
| - | Falerin has know Mariel..."
| |
| - |
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| - | <br>[<st1 time="" hour="20" minute="47" w="" st="on">20:47</st1>]
| |
| - | * Iago says that in a hushed voice
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| - |
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| - | <br><b style="">[<st1 time="" hour="20" minute="47" w="" st="on">20:47</st1>] <Figure> "I am in fact about
| |
| - | to come to the begining of my contract though"<o p=""></o></b><br><b style="">[<st1 time="" hour="20" minute="48" w="" st="on">20:48</st1>] <Figure> "And then I shall
| |
| - | be succeeded"<o p=""></o></b><br>[20:48] <Durroth> the begining?
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| - |
| |
| - | <br><b style="">[<st1 time="" hour="20" minute="48" w="" st="on">20:48</st1>] <Figure> "Or preceded"<o p=""></o></b><br><b style="">[<st1 time="" hour="20" minute="48" w="" st="on">20:48</st1>] <Figure> "Its all very
| |
| - | complicated"<o p=""></o></b><br>[20:48] <Durroth> you travel in reverse?
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| - |
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| - | <br><b style="">[<st1 time="" hour="20" minute="48" w="" st="on">20:48</st1>] <Figure> "Yes and No"<o p=""></o></b><br><b style="">[<st1 time="" hour="20" minute="48" w="" st="on">20:48</st1>] <Figure> "We travel
| |
| - | something like laterally"<o p=""></o></b><br><b style="">[<st1 time="" hour="20" minute="48" w="" st="on">20:48</st1>] <Figure> "I remember time
| |
| - | forward<o p=""></o></b><br><b style="">[<st1 time="" hour="20" minute="49" w="" st="on">20:49</st1>] <Figure> "But I age in
| |
| - | reverse"<o p=""></o></b><br>[<st1 time="" hour="20" minute="49" w="" st="on">20:49</st1>]
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| - | <Necro> Ineteresting...
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| - |
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| - | <br>[20:49] <Damsel> "I think I understand."
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| - |
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| - | <br><b style="">[<st1 time="" hour="20" minute="49" w="" st="on">20:49</st1>] <Figure> "You see the Oracle
| |
| - | in order to work is stored at the end"<o p=""></o></b><br><b style="">[<st1 time="" hour="20" minute="49" w="" st="on">20:49</st1>] <Figure> "After all it would
| |
| - | be pointless if it were at the begining"<o p=""></o></b><br><b style="">[<st1 time="" hour="20" minute="49" w="" st="on">20:49</st1>] <Figure> "You cannot see a
| |
| - | tree by the roots"<o p=""></o></b><br>[20:49] <Durroth> you can see part of the tree
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| - |
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| - | <br>[20:50] <Damsel> "The end of all?"
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| - |
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| - | <br><b style="">[<st1 time="" hour="20" minute="50" w="" st="on">20:50</st1>] <Figure> "A very narrow
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| - | part"<o p=""></o></b><br><b style="">[<st1 time="" hour="20" minute="50" w="" st="on">20:50</st1>] <Figure> "From the canopy
| |
| - | you can see all"<o p=""></o></b><br>[20:50] <Durroth> point conceded
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| - |
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| - | <br><b style="">[<st1 time="" hour="20" minute="50" w="" st="on">20:50</st1>] <Figure> "The end of the
| |
| - | Oracle"<o p=""></o></b><br><b style="">[<st1 time="" hour="20" minute="50" w="" st="on">20:50</st1>] <Figure> "The End of All
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| - | implies there is such"<o p=""></o></b><br><b style="">[<st1 time="" hour="20" minute="50" w="" st="on">20:50</st1>] <Figure> "Which in so far as
| |
| - | I can tell would mean that the future is fixed"<o p=""></o></b><br><b style="">[<st1 time="" hour="20" minute="50" w="" st="on">20:50</st1>] <Figure> "But it is no more
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| - | fixed then the past"<o p=""></o></b><br>[<st1 time="" hour="20" minute="51" w="" st="on">20:51</st1>]
| |
| - | * Iago sighs, finally releasing some stored up inhibitions
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| - |
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| - | <br><b style="">[<st1 time="" hour="20" minute="51" w="" st="on">20:51</st1>] <Figure> "and less fixed
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| - | then the present"<o p=""></o></b><br><b style="">[<st1 time="" hour="20" minute="51" w="" st="on">20:51</st1>] <Figure> "The present is the
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| - | most fixed of course"<o p=""></o></b><br><b style="">[<st1 time="" hour="20" minute="51" w="" st="on">20:51</st1>] <Figure> "because we are
| |
| - | actively paying attention"<o p=""></o></b><br>[<st1 time="" hour="20" minute="51" w="" st="on">20:51</st1>]
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| - | * Damsel inclines her head again. "That is what troubled me. Though does
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| - | not the end of the Oracle also imply that there is at least some
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| - | another adventure<o p=""></o></b><br><b style="">[<st1 time="" hour="20" minute="52" w="" st="on">20:52</st1>] <Figure> Clearly eventually the
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| - | Oracle moves on<o p=""></o></b><br><b style="">[<st1 time="" hour="20" minute="52" w="" st="on">20:52</st1>] <Figure> I suspect another takes
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| - | this ones place<o p=""></o></b><br><b style="">[<st1 time="" hour="20" minute="52" w="" st="on">20:52</st1>] <Figure> just as this took the
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| - | place of <st1 place="" w="" st="on">Delphi</st1><o p=""></o></b><br><b style="">[<st1 time="" hour="20" minute="52" w="" st="on">20:52</st1>] <Figure> "SO then"<o p=""></o></b><br><b style="">[<st1 time="" hour="20" minute="52" w="" st="on">20:52</st1>] <Figure> "Who shall see the
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| - | wonder"<o p=""></o></b><br><b style="">[<st1 time="" hour="20" minute="52" w="" st="on">20:52</st1>] <Figure> "Who shall commune
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| - | <Legault> Hmm... I'll go.
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| - | * Iago looks at Legault, "Good luck, buddy"
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| - | sir"<o p=""></o></b><br><a href="http://psyham.googlepages.com/sessionxlii-legault">[20:54] * Legault nods and walks in.</a>
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