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Message: <blockquote data-quote="the Jester" data-source="post: 721093" data-attributes="member: 1210">The party goes about their shopping, though Lester's priorities have changed somewhat.  After talking with Horbin, he's decided to seek a true resurrection for Orbius, since he doesn't want him to lose some of his life energy to death.  He expects it to be expensive, so he's selling rather than buying.  After some deep contemplation, he decides to sell his frost brand, but first he asks his intelligent sword, "What do you think of me selling this?" "You don't need it," Felix Optima Maxima's feminine voice snorts.  "You have me." "You really should give me another wish sometime," Lester mutters.  The sword, had it face, would smirk at that.  It granted Lester a single wish many years before, in fighting its true enemies- the clockwork horrors.  But Lester and his old group, including King Malford, Hobbes the tabaxi, Thimbleton and many others defeated them at the source- drove off Master Control and turned off the horrors.  The sword doesn't anticipate any more trouble from them.*After selling some valuable items, Lester combs the city for a scroll of true resurrection but there just doesn't seem to be one to be found.  He curses to himself, long and loud, and then goes to Boccob's temple.  Orbius was a devout worshiper of Boccob and had donated many thousands of gold pieces to him here in Var; so Lester appeals to the priests for help.  They offer to raise the Eye from the dead, but cannot perform a miracle of the magnitude he seeks.Frustrated, Lester prays, making a large sacrifice.  He implores Boccob for aid, and he meditates and prays for almost an hour.  Then, perhaps because of the level of power of Orbius as a worshiper of Boccob, perhaps because he's doing Boccob's work, perhaps because of the value of all the sacrifices that the L and Orbius have made for Boccob, Lester is granted a vision.He sees a ruined church in a ruined city that stretches all along a huge dirty lake.  There are burn scars and entire neighborhoods that look like they've burned away; walls in ruins everywhere, with few rooftops still intact.  It's a huge city, or at least the corpse of one.Lester comes out of the vision, but the image of the church and the ruined city is a starting point.  He asks the priests about ruined cities around a lake and is told he should speak to Brother Nelly, who is apparently the historian and geographer of the church of Boccob.  When the L finally speaks to Brother Nelly, working in the gardens, Nelly tells him that the city is likely to be Makon, once the largest metropolis known to exist, the capital of Imperial Wotan- a country that vanished with the coming of Fuligin.  It's far away, but Brother Nelly offers to blindfold Lester and Angelfire and get them there along a secret way, and they accede.  *Astute readers may note that the band of adventurers that Horbin was with about five years ago traveled on a ship covered in clockwork horrors and reactivated them.  Whether or not this will have any long-term or large-scale repercussions has not yet been revealed.  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /> Next Time: What price must Lester pay for Orbius' true resurrection?</blockquote>

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