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<blockquote data-quote="Ancalagon" data-source="post: 7030330" data-attributes="member: 23"><p><strong>4: The running man</strong></p><p></p><p>One of the flying buttresses that supports the great Mortuary in Sygil is a somewhat well known portal to the City of Brass on the elemental portal of fire. As these are both major cities for planar travelers, the portal is of great commercial value.</p><p></p><p>However, only 4 keys are known to exist - each of them a lock of hair from a specific individual. A 5th one was destroyed by a stray fireball in an ambush by ambitious hivers on a party of interplanar merchants, hoping to steal whatever trade-goods had been acquired from the City of Brass. At the moment one of the 4rth remaining key is presumed loss, and another has been locked away in a treasure vault, with rumors it may be put on auction at a later date.</p><p></p><p>But what about this specific individual?</p><p></p><p>Karl of Pickleton is a human farmer who got transported to Sygil by mistake. After a few years of scrapping a living in the Hive, he accidentally discovered the portal to the City of Brass (from which he immediately retreated). With the help of a more experienced planar travel, it was determined that his *hair* was the key. Initially this was good for Karl and he sold locks of his hair for a reasonable amount of money (that experienced traveler still has one of the keys). However, he came to realize that some people wanted to capture him and hold him captive as a source of planar keys, while others, who now had a key, wanted him dead to ensure exclusivity. His life or liberty in grave danger, Karl went into hiding. </p><p></p><p>For the last 12 years, Karl has been on the run in the multiverse. Every day is a new adventure as he faces a bewildering arrays of race, cultures and beliefs he is not equipped to understand. He shaves daily and burns the hair, less said hair be used to track him magically somehow.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Ancalagon, post: 7030330, member: 23"] [B]4: The running man[/B] One of the flying buttresses that supports the great Mortuary in Sygil is a somewhat well known portal to the City of Brass on the elemental portal of fire. As these are both major cities for planar travelers, the portal is of great commercial value. However, only 4 keys are known to exist - each of them a lock of hair from a specific individual. A 5th one was destroyed by a stray fireball in an ambush by ambitious hivers on a party of interplanar merchants, hoping to steal whatever trade-goods had been acquired from the City of Brass. At the moment one of the 4rth remaining key is presumed loss, and another has been locked away in a treasure vault, with rumors it may be put on auction at a later date. But what about this specific individual? Karl of Pickleton is a human farmer who got transported to Sygil by mistake. After a few years of scrapping a living in the Hive, he accidentally discovered the portal to the City of Brass (from which he immediately retreated). With the help of a more experienced planar travel, it was determined that his *hair* was the key. Initially this was good for Karl and he sold locks of his hair for a reasonable amount of money (that experienced traveler still has one of the keys). However, he came to realize that some people wanted to capture him and hold him captive as a source of planar keys, while others, who now had a key, wanted him dead to ensure exclusivity. His life or liberty in grave danger, Karl went into hiding. For the last 12 years, Karl has been on the run in the multiverse. Every day is a new adventure as he faces a bewildering arrays of race, cultures and beliefs he is not equipped to understand. He shaves daily and burns the hair, less said hair be used to track him magically somehow. [/QUOTE]
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