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<blockquote data-quote="Joshua Randall" data-source="post: 9602496" data-attributes="member: 7737">174We crouch in the shadows until the signs of pursuit fade. Then we look for Garn's lodgings. It takes us an hour to find Savenbridge Road, which is a cramped brick street hardly wider than the alley, yet home to several stately apartment buildings. Outside one of them is tethered a huge, dapple-gray horse.We creep up the stairs to the second floor where some lantern light spills out from below a door. &quot;Garn! Dalris!&quot; we whisper.The door opens to reveal Dalris standing at a table in a &quot;tidy, comfortable&quot; room. She smiles and nods at Garn, who was hiding behind the door, sword drawn. &quot;The taciturn bard says nothing, but her eyes are moist as she touches [our] arm in welcome.&quot; [Awwwww!]Garn gives us the manly hand-clasp of greeting and serves us &quot;a heavy crystal goblet of cool wine.&quot; He asks if we now understand the eeeeevil that has consumed Saven and will soon spread to all of Tikandia.We want to know how often &quot;that ritual&quot; takes place. Garn replies that at first it was once a week but is now every night. It has replaced regular vesper services and no one but the Holy Guard may attend. Anyone who resisted the archcleric's call to the services was dismissed.&quot;Oram himself ordered the paladins to attend?&quot; we ask in disbelief.The cavalier lowers his eyes for a moment, then nods with a heavy show of sadness. &quot;I fear that our Venerable Master has grown too old to continue leading the Order of Blessed Dyan. His mind has been deteriorating for several years and it was easy for Arno to convince him that this 'Pazuzu' is an astral messenger from Dyan himself.&quot;From here, we turn to(197) if someone named 'Shanif' warned us about &quot;a creature like Pazuzu&quot;,(213) if we learned from that same person about &quot;a pair of adamantite crowns&quot;, or(192) if we did not talk to Shanif.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Joshua Randall, post: 9602496, member: 7737"] [B]174[/B] We crouch in the shadows until the signs of pursuit fade. Then we look for Garn's lodgings. It takes us an hour to find Savenbridge Road, which is a cramped brick street hardly wider than the alley, yet home to several stately apartment buildings. Outside one of them is tethered a huge, dapple-gray horse. We creep up the stairs to the second floor where some lantern light spills out from below a door. "Garn! Dalris!" we whisper. The door opens to reveal Dalris standing at a table in a "tidy, comfortable" room. She smiles and nods at Garn, who was hiding behind the door, sword drawn. "The taciturn bard says nothing, but her eyes are moist as she touches [our] arm in welcome." [[I]Awwwww![/I]] Garn gives us the manly hand-clasp of greeting and serves us "a heavy crystal goblet of cool wine." He asks if we now understand the eeeeevil that has consumed Saven and will soon spread to all of Tikandia. We want to know how often "that ritual" takes place. Garn replies that at first it was once a week but is now every night. It has replaced regular vesper services and no one but the Holy Guard may attend. Anyone who resisted the archcleric's call to the services was dismissed. "Oram himself ordered the paladins to attend?" we ask in disbelief. [I]The cavalier lowers his eyes for a moment, then nods with a heavy show of sadness. "I fear that our Venerable Master has grown too old to continue leading the Order of Blessed Dyan. His mind has been deteriorating for several years and it was easy for Arno to convince him that this 'Pazuzu' is an astral messenger from Dyan himself."[/I] From here, we turn to (197) if someone named 'Shanif' warned us about "a creature like Pazuzu", (213) if we learned from that same person about "a pair of adamantite crowns", or (192) if we did not talk to Shanif. [/QUOTE]

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