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Message: <blockquote data-quote="the Jester" data-source="post: 695807" data-attributes="member: 1210">In VarThe party trumps in to Var in the middle of the day.  There's plenty of time for them to do stuff, so they split up to take care of business.Orbius uses a crystal ball of exceptional power that he made after reading the libram and tries to scry both Angelfire's father and Sybele's daughter, but for some reason he can see neither.  "They are obscured somehow," he muses to himself.  Then he decides to spy on the Champion of Elemental Evil, Lareth.  What he sees shakes him to his core.  "I saw him in the middle of a human sacrifice," he reports.  "And he saw me.  He said he would destroy me, and he killed the man in front of me and tore out his guts and waved them at me!""Come on, Orbius," says Lester, "to the Temple of Elemental Good!"Established in Var by Lester as a response to the Temple of Elemental Evil, the Temple of Elemental Good holds many of his followers.  He checks in with the head adept, Unger."Has your brother gotten ahold of you?" his follower asks."Brother?" Lester exclaims.  "I don't have a brother!  What's this guy look like?""Like you, pretty much," Unger says.  "One arm, similar features... older than you, though.""Well, if he comes back you haven't seen us, all right?"  Lester shuffles out his trumps of two old buddies who live in Var, Malford and Thimbleton.  However, neither one responds to him.  "I wonder what they're up to?" he mutters to himself.  Then Lester and the Eye go to the local temple of Boccob, where there's a new high priest, Polis.  He tells them that he's replacing the old high priestess, who recently died.  The L tells Polis the tale of his greatest adventure: traveling back in time to another, previous universe, where he and some other adventurers- "King Malford was there, and Thimbleton, and even Dexter himself was with us on that one!  In fact, that's where Dexter became the Harvester of Water, but that's another story"- retrieved the objects required to recreate nature and defeat Fuligin, the powerful evil being who had destroyed almost all non-evil life on Dorhaus.  He brags on, "And Boccob and Froth and some of those other gods came back with us in this little thing.  And when we got back to Cydra, it popped out of Thimbleton's head.  Everyone else wanted to destroy it, but I stopped them.  So you see, without me, there wouldn't even be a Boccob here!"They make a substantial donation, and then Orbius prays to his deity in front of the altar and communes.Who am I speaking with?  Boccob.I ask for protection for Lester and open my mind to you.How did the old high priestess of Boccob die?  Not your concern.Which side is ahead in the Great War of Ethics?  The battle is just beginning.Does Boccob side with Law or Chaos?  No.Does the Ethic of Chaos overall lean towards Good or Evil?  No.Where are Thimbleton and Malford?  Goldstone.What is the purpose of their visit?  Expansion.What is the best way for us to serve Boccob?  Penetrate the hidden secrets.Where can one begin to look for the hidden secrets?  Upper Bile Mountain.What will be the biggest danger we face in upper Bile Mountain?  Unknown.May I have the name of a weak-willed creature in upper Bile Mountain so I may scry?  UnknownIf we penetrate the hidden secrets will you reward us with a personal visit?  No.What can we do to earn an audience with you?  Get for me the Codex of the Infinite Planes."Darn," says the Eye.Next time: Horbin gets chastised!  Is that guy crazy, or is he seeing something that we can't?  Then- back to the mountain!</blockquote>

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