(4th IR) What does your character write?

[Edena_of_Neith]

BUGBEAR POSTED:

I will advise the gnomes and the Dauntless that this should be a weapon of last resort and to wait. Also, I ask them to continue reasearching the spell, to try and further refine it, and to determine how long it would take for the magic to return to faerun (if this is even possible)

FROM EDENA

The Enlightened Gnomes will wait, then.

BUGBEAR POSTED:

I release it immedatly. The first targets will be the followers of Asmodious. Then the isle of lantan, followed by the other targets.

FROM EDENA

The Antidote begins devastating the Dark Crusaders.
Everywhere it strikes, the devils who were human/demihuman/humanoid, revert to their original forms.
Where the Antidote strikes, the Dark Crusaders eschew devil worship, and some of the Dark Crusader units begin to collapse.

However - SOLLIR TAKE NOTE - the Dark Crusaders have just discovered how to create their own Books of Domination.
I am assuming they start fighting back with this new magic.

FROM BUGBEAR

I shall aim to discover my own pathways to these worlds. I'm not physicaly traveling to these realms, instead using divination magics, projected images, and Simulacriums to explore them remotely.
Also I shall try to divine the nature of the Unexpected traveller which came back with the explorers of earth.

FROM EDENA

Whatever the Gnomes brought back, it is HORRIBLE, and it nearly kills your character Bugbear - he gets away just in time.
It is a great reddish Something, with tendrils - endless millions of tendrils - that seem to flow into people, into the soil of Earth, into everyone and everything.
True Seeing reveals that it has now come to Toril, and it's tendrils are rapidly reaching across the world.
The deities of Toril apparently cannot stop it - if they could have, they would have.

(quoting Saruman from the film: the dwarves delved to greedily and too deep. You know what they awoke in the darkness of Khazad-Dum. That analogy fits here, with the gnomes.)

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TOKIWONG POSTED:

Misha will call for a great Tribunal of the most powerful members f the Dauntless to deal with the threat of the plague, while having the clerics of Corellon study the contagion a smuch as possible, and quarantining Evermeet, and several strategic locations, no one leaves or enters thoe lands, if Queen Amlauril will comply...
Misha puts out the Call to meet ina neutral Demiplane, protected by magics, for all PC members of the Dauntless...

FROM EDENA

Done. The meeting is convened (everyone in the IR is welcome to take part.)
Major rulers, including Queen Amlaruil, also attend.

Evermeet is quarantined, and saved. None of it's people die of the plague.

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TOKIWONG POSTED:

Misha welcomes the Enlightened Gnomes idea, and telkls them to pursue it, as a last resort weapon, but also to push ahead with the Mordenkainen Disjunction Grenades as well, for tactical purposes, and when they are completed to have a shipment sent to his trusted men, and to the forces of Gustav, as soon a possible.

FROM EDENA

The Enlightened Gnomes, comply.

FROM TOKIWONG

Misha goes before Queen Amaluril and presents her the first cpy of his latest tome, The Sword...
(snip)

But that is the way of peace, to prepare for violence, and promote stability. The sword protects the kingdom, it is ruled by the sword. Peace cannot exist without the will of the blade, for their will always be someone who wishes to one’s freedom from them, and often by force or subversion…

FROM EDENA

Queen Amlaruil sighs, and says she knows this all too well.
She would very much like a peaceful world, where all could live together.
However, people - including elves - are not innately peaceful, and thus the sword must be always be sharp and at the ready.

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BUGBEAR POSTED

I suggest to the Dauntless, that they institute quarantines in there respective lands. Those who show signs of the Plauge must be separated from those still healthy. In remote areas Camps should be established where the diseased can live, caring for each other. Supplies can be teleported in, but nothing can be teleported out.
The possessions of the Ill, should be burned to slow the spread of the disease.
If these actions are taken quickly, there is a chance that your nations will live to find a cure.

FROM EDENA

There is general horror at the idea of forcibly quarantining people and leaving them to die.
There is horror at the idea of burning bodies in piles.
Yet, as the number of dead mount, these things start to happen.

The Faerie and Dragons, simply withdraw to their isolated homes, to protect themselves.
The Sharn, withdraw to the Underdark.
The dwarves, seal their caverns.
Luiren, closes it's borders.

The situation in Waterdeep and other major cities of the Free Nations, is something out of a gothic nightmare, but that nightmare is all too real, and there is no awakening from it.

 

[Edena_of_Neith]

TO BUGBEAR AND EVERYONE ELSE

There is amazement in the Imperial Empire of Germany, on the European Continent, at the arrival of the emissaries.
It is not like anything they have ever seen before.

The Kaiser of Germany will immediately talk with the emissaries.
He has about as many questions as you might imagine (I will not write them down, since it would take 50 posts to do so.)
However, he is eager to answer your questions also.

What do you ask of him?

Of course, the news of ANOTHER WORLD spreads all over Earth very quickly.
France, Spain, Great Britain, Russia, Austria-Hungary, Sweden, the United States, China, India ... they all have emissaries who want to talk to your emissaries, with a million questions.

 

[Bugbear]

The Antidote begins devastating the Dark Crusaders.
Everywhere it strikes, the devils who were human/demihuman/humanoid, revert to their original forms.
Where the Antidote strikes, the Dark Crusaders eschew devil worship, and some of the Dark Crusader units begin to collapse.

However - SOLLIR TAKE NOTE - the Dark Crusaders have just discovered how to create their own Books of Domination.
I am assuming they start fighting back with this new magic.

I call for those who have been freed from the Diabolic influence to be wary of future attempts to contoll their minds and souls.
Don't fall for the same trick twice!

And for those who still willingly follow the path of Asmodius, those who are now free should fall upon them and eradicate them from the face of Toril

 

[Tokiwong]

Misha smiles to the queen, a forced smile in these trying times, "It is a hard time, a time of troubles, where men live as shadows, subsisting on the dust. But their will be a better day, my loving Queen, that day will come, though it will be long in coming, and it will be amidts great sacrifice, but there will be a better day for tel'quessir. it would do me the honor for you, or for one of your proxies to attend the Grand Tribunal, my liege, for your guidance is much appreciated in this dark time.

Misha kneels and takes the Queen's hands and gives it a soft kiss, "It is with my whole fiber that swear myself to the defense of the Dauntless, though I shall always serve Evermeet first in my heart, and the will of Corellon... I shall serve the will of my Queen, and I shall be your gentle hand for the people, and the sharpened sword against the darkness. This is my oath to the Crown of Evermeet, this is my bond, Misha Koldun will hold to it, till the end of his days. I will defend you, our people, and the Dauntless with my life."

Misha stands and smiles, flicking his hair beads, "by your leave my Queen, I must go and prepare," and turns to attend the meeting...

 

[Bugbear]

TO BUGBEAR AND EVERYONE ELSE

There is amazement in the Imperial Empire of Germany, on the European Continent, at the arrival of the emissaries.
It is not like anything they have ever seen before.

The Kaiser of Germany will immediately talk with the emissaries.
He has about as many questions as you might imagine (I will not write them down, since it would take 50 posts to do so.)
However, he is eager to answer your questions also.

What do you ask of him?

Of course, the news of ANOTHER WORLD spreads all over Earth very quickly.
France, Spain, Great Britain, Russia, Austria-Hungary, Sweden, the United States, China, India ... they all have emissaries who want to talk to your emissaries, with a million questions.

The Dauntless seek an exchange of Ideas and Knowledge. We seek to commense trade with the enlightend nations of Earth.

We also seek what knowledge may be found concerning the horrible pluages which ravage our world.

 

[Tokiwong]

Misha will send elven emmisaries, with the permission of the Queen to America, and England, to speak on behalf of Evermeet and the Dauntless. The bring many of Misha's books, and other tomes detailing Faerun, in detail, and wish to exhange with them for their knowledge...

 

[Edena_of_Neith]

The Blame Stops Here ... on Toril

New Astral Gates open to Toril from Krynn, Oerth, Aebrinis, and from Athas.
The Chosen, try to stop this, but they apparently cannot.

The Chosen of Mystra, have all suddenly become very ill.

The Realms of Ergoth, Solamnia, Qualinesti, Thorbardin, and of course Kenderhome send their greetings to their Torilian brethren.
With a question - why did Toril send a plague to kill half of Krynn?
And why shouldn't Krynn invade Toril, and mete out retribution for this attack?

From Oerth, Keoland, Furyondy, Nyrond, the Great Kingdom - they all send their greetings.
Along with a statement that Toril is the cause of the massacre (the plague) afflicting them, that Toril is an enemy planet, and that Toril will be invaded and subjugated.

Athas is not so polite.
The Dragon Kings immediately invade Toril.
The lush green world of Toril is a bananza for the Defilers of Athas.
Very quickly, they gain toe-holds across Faerun.

Of course, the Red Death spreads to all of those worlds now.

Meanwhile, on Earth, the nations and peoples continue to await the discussions with these amazing Visitors from Another World.

 

[Edena_of_Neith]

(will wait for others to read the IR and digest the bad news ...)

 

[Creamsteak]

(Way, way, way... way too over the top. Why Edena? Why do you have to complicate this sooo far...)

Gustav will deal with it as any leader should, he will send envoys of diplomacy, encourage public sanitation programs, produce doctors of both magical and mundane means through field training, and begin the contruction of magical and mundane research for counter-measures for the problems.

He also continues to attempt to fight the war with the Dark Crusaders, using an equal force of celestials along with the most wiley and counter-manding tactics possible, including having the gnomes he has let in use their mass-contingency spells on marbles to be dropped in mass on converging enemy units. These marbles will be contingencied with fireballs, confusion spells, fear spells, holy spells, and every other spell that a wizard can prepare for offensive deployment. No reason to stop there, we'll start preparing as many scrolls of remove disease as can be made in cities that havn't been infected yet.

It's pretty much impossible to start plans of his own when the people are in dire need of protection, so the best efforts he makes is to continue his efforts and establish new methods to fight and to treat the problems.

His diplomatic Envoys are questioners. Asking simple questions like, "How is it going?" "So, what's culture like here?" "What language do you speak?" and basically establishing himself as a guy with questions, and no intentions towards or against their countries.

 

[Bugbear]

New Astral Gates open to Toril from Krynn, Oerth, Aebrinis, and from Athas.
The Chosen, try to stop this, but they apparently cannot.

The Chosen of Mystra, have all suddenly become very ill.

Then they have to go to the quarentine camps, sorry. Perhaps they can help find a cure.

The Realms of Ergoth, Solamnia, Qualinesti, Thorbardin, and of course Kenderhome send their greetings to their Torilian brethren.
With a question - why did Toril send a plague to kill half of Krynn?
And why shouldn't Krynn invade Toril, and mete out retribution for this attack?

The Dauntless (Iguess I speak for them now?) reply that this was not an intentional attack against there worlds. They point out that Toril is suffering from the red death as well.

From Oerth, Keoland, Furyondy, Nyrond, the Great Kingdom - they all send their greetings.
Along with a statement that Toril is the cause of the massacre (the plague) afflicting them, that Toril is an enemy planet, and that Toril will be invaded and subjugated.

Same ansewer as above

Athas is not so polite.
The Dragon Kings immediately invade Toril.
The lush green world of Toril is a bananza for the Defilers of Athas.
Very quickly, they gain toe-holds across Faerun.

where do the athasians gain terretory? We send emesaries to them asking for a cease-fire and councel.
Of course, the Red Death spreads to all of those worlds now.

Meanwhile, on Earth, the nations and peoples continue to await the discussions with these amazing Visitors from Another World

okay, here goes
1> Opening trade between our worlds, those who have an aptitude for magick may learn it. We ask that those of us who have an aptitude for earths technology and sciences be allowed to learn as well.

2> We want a cure for the diseases ravaging the worlds of Krynn, Toril, Athas, and Oreth. If they don't have a cure, we willl ask there aid in finding one. Also, any information that thay have concerning the entity which came to our world through the gnomish gate.