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Message: <blockquote data-quote="the Jester" data-source="post: 580544" data-attributes="member: 1210">In HeavenHeaven is the perfect place.  The skies are beautiful and the stars are ordered.  The halos of angels fly across the sky like fast-moving comets.  The plants grown strong and healthy, as do the beasts and animals.  The souls of the dead- at least, those worthy of coming here after they die- are at peace; they know eternal bliss under the Light of Galador.Even here, however, there are those who are discontent.Alcar, the Angel of Food, has been on the outs for years now.  He's spent several years in the Heavenly prisons, followed by several more spent working his way through the courts of Heaven.  He was once a mortal elf himself, with a slightly different view of how Galador wanted things than the one accepted by the church hierarchy.  Declared a heretic, he eventually went through a sort of celestial apotheosis, and now he wears the wings and halo just like the celestials born to the service of the Light. But even here he's run afoul of rules and order.Alcar has never been one to get caught up in the letter of the law; he's more interested in Good.  And though he's been given several chances to get back into Galador's good graces, he's failed each time.But not this time, he thinks grimly to himself.  His last court appearance gave him one more chance.  He's had a quest laid upon him by the forces of Heaven... to break the curse, whatever it is, on Bile Mountain.  To make the River of Bile run clean again.  And by Galador, he vows to himself, he will not fail this time.The last time he was given a chance to prove himself he was driven away by an old friend, who persuaded him to allow the adventurers he'd been sent to stop to accomplish their goal.  If he hadn't done that, who knows whether the Conflict would be building so rapidly now?  But in any event, the past is done; Bile Mountain awaits.  He burns some incense of meditation and begins winging his way to the Prime Plane....Next Time: The party heads towards Bile Mountain, which we get a first look at; a kitty; old enemies- will they be new friends??</blockquote>

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