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Message: <blockquote data-quote="dimsdale" data-source="post: 5976552" data-attributes="member: 79956">[sblock=Vermitrax]Orb?...yes that was once important and the beginning of my doom. I craved them so that I could use them against the black dragon. In my lust for power, I cast a spell too power for me to control. In the process, I was turned into what I am now. I was once like you. Now I am a slave to Zal'Ekthees. [sblock=Vermitrax's knowledge of Zal'Ekthees]You have clearly heard of him. He is a demi-god, a master of negative and necrotic energies. A couple years ago one of his worshippers and servents, the now deceased Slardazial Verikos Barthilfast, stole an artifact that had the power to raised the dead (see the adventure: Long Arm of Lauto: Broken Wards). The fallen cleric of Lauto was killed by a group of adventurers and the artifact was returned to the temple. It was rumored that Slardazial had spent vast amounts of time researching necrotic energies, and with the guidance of Zal'Ekthees, scribed many spells, which was later bond into a sealed tome. The tome, however, has never been seen. Could Vlastoes had discovered the tome and tried to cast a powerful spell contained among the pages of the tome? [/sblock][/sblock][sblock=Vermitrax]Oh...young mage...you can't be more farther from the truth. It is true that my skeleton form will soon be defeated here, but Zal'Ekthees, through his dark magic, continues to pour negative and necrotic energies into my soul, which he now possesses, and create barriers to protect the phylanctery. I will rise again young mage, much more stronger than my current state. I am now bound to serve Za'Ekthees and do his bidding. He clearly wants to make much more of a presence in this land, I and I'm his vessel to see that his bidding is done. Vlastoes then chuckles an evil laugh and responds in a sarcastic tone. You, Vermitrax, with your lust for power and glory whatever the cost, are only satisfied with what you can take from me at my present form? Bhah! If that is the case, then I misjudged you. Back to his regular voice...Why settle for these insignificant items when you can have the opportunity to obtain and possess something so much more! Prove your worth be slaying my present form. Once this is done, go back and recruit others to help you in the quest to find my phyianctery and destroy it. This will not be an easy task. You will not be able to do it alone, as I will be much too strong for you.  But with the aide of others, if you succeed, you will have access to everything I have!...items of wealth and power!...gold! Your name will be known and feared all over the land! So what say you mage!ooc: This is a hook for another adventure VV. It will take Vermitrax, and three other heroes (or in Vermitrax's eyes...pawns to achieve a means to an end <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /> ) well past lvl 10, launching Vermitrax the next phase of his evil life . Let me know [/sblock]</blockquote>

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