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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mahiro Satsu" data-source="post: 304718" data-attributes="member: 4970">Episode VI To Face the Scarlet Flame part 3Eleint 17There in the chamber, before the huge stone doors marked GRAND PORTAL OF THE DEAD, we slept.Beyond a secret portal, we discovered the tombs of the Kings of Aerunedar, guarded by stone statues of dwarves that sprang to life. They bull-rushed us, one by one, into the massive pit that spanned the room’s center...in the bottom, among the bones, we faced a swarm of starving dire rats. We won through...I am still writing, am I not?But Daziel, our leader, was changed. Her enthusiasm was gone. Perhaps she knows, I thought, that we will allow her to lead us no more. I know this, and yet I write it with regret: she was not a bad leader. She just did not know the difference between us giving our wills to her, and she impressing her will upon us. Too often the latter ruled the day.We found King Cindarm dead under goblin arrows. We found the bard Hathos with his skûl on a strap around his shoulders. We found the dry bones of Shieldcoil, and put them in a sack to return to the lich Flamecoil, unless I can convince them that attack is more prudent.I shall wear the mithril armor we took from Bruugrah, lest she foul it any more with her wretched bugbear existence. But these weapons—Cindarm’s hammer and Hatho’s sword—and the armor they wear shall stay with them, to aid them in the next world.Only now do I realize: I did not come to Aerunedar to die for Clangeddin. I came here to lift a curse, and to speak the Word of Clangeddin. That is what the holy symbol means: I am to take up the life of the Warpriest. My life for yours, Father of Battles. I take it willingly. My axe is ready.</blockquote>

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