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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Isida Kep'Tukari" data-source="post: 1142735" data-attributes="member: 4441">*Atlas, Ui-Kasora tells you she was visiting the grave of her great, great, grandmother, a woman of uncommon intelligence and wisdom.  The girl had need of her ancestor's guidance for a personal matter.  She knew that her ancestor had been quite the night owl, and out of respect for that had gone to the cemetary very late.  During the conversation it has slowly gotten lighter outside, and dawn will be coming shortly.**Phaern, you find your way to the library, while Kelthet goes to scour the city.  Your searches of the stacks costs you a mere two deuce for the privilage.  A couple hours into it, you find a particularly dusty section of the stacks that looks like it hasn't been touched in months, or maybe years.  On the bottom shelf you find a huge tome, three times the height of you.  With difficulty you move it off the bottom shelf.  Your heart beats with excitement as you realize the covers are made of thin sheets of stone, and the pages from hammered steel.**The book is in Draconic, a particularly ancient form of it, written in a dialect lost to the mists of time.  It takes you a while to get the hang of it, but eventually you are able to wrest the following information from the book.  spoiler[spoiler]This book was written by a mojh explorer over two hundred years ago by the name of Secaras.  Apparently it was seeking great power of magic below the earth, and came across a place in its wanderings that evoked such a sense of awe and wonder that it devoted an entire chapter in the book to describe it.  To your frustration, it goes on at length about how the place felt like, looked like, and even smelled like before it even hints at what this place is or how to get there.  It calls the place "The Spine of the World."*  *It describes the place as an enormous chamber filled with staggeringly huge rock columns of every type of rock ever known.  Secaras describes the place as being particularly beneficial for magic dealing with the earth, even healing magic of the Green.  It also says that it saw many unusual phenomona in the chamber, and thought that perhaps very powerful beings either had been there or even continued to live there.  Though the directions it gives are annoyingly vague, a few things are clear.  Apparently one can begin underground at almost any place to start out going there.  Three clear landmarks that indicate that one is on the right path are "The Lair of the Shadow Serpant," the "Twilight Chamber," and "The Sunless City of Grayfolk."**But it is the last page in the chapter that holds most of your attention.  The last page has an engraving of what the Spine of the World looked like.  It is as if your dream/vision has become real upon the page.  The recognition is so strong it is almost painful in its intensity.[/spoiler]/spoiler**Kelthet, you wander the streets, searching high and low for any of the others in your vision.  You go in and out of the various marketplaces, scour the shopping districts, slip through the less savory regions of the city, and go through inn after inn, with no luck.  As you're slowly making your way back towards the library, you turn a corner and find yourself eye to eye with a spryte woman.  Recognition flares in your mind immediately, and you can see she knows you instantly; she is the memory master from your vision.**Leesea, in the early morning you began searching the streets of Ka-Rone, searching for the faces from your dream.  Your skill in watching comes in very handy, and after a while you find one man that seems to be familiar.  After seeing his face in profile, you're certain; it's the swordsman with the inborn magic talent.  It's an easy manner to get ahead of him, and you turn a corner the same moment he does, putting yourself eye to eye.  He recognizes you, you can tell right off.**Indacalis, when you went into Ra-Toqu, the first inn you entered, in the very early morning, was the Fountain of Beer.  The innkeeper, an older human man with a fair share of scars, listens to your list of names in slight bewilderment.  Finally he gives his head a shake and speaks, his voice like gravel.*"Darthallys and Wil, aye, I've seen them.  They're staying here, along with Atlas.  Haven't seen the giant around much tonight, but the other two... Say, there they are!" he says, nodding his head over to a door at the back of the inn.  "Mind you, Darthallys was in a poor mood a bit ago, so I might tread carefully."*Indacalis, you see a pale, greasy-haired human and a short, muscular, red-furred sibeccai with a viscious-looking blade on his back come out of the door.  It's Darthallys and Wil, you would know them anywhere... which is somewhat strange as you didn't know them at all until last night.**Darthallys and Wil, having decided to go find Atlas to see if you can figure out what this vision is all about, you realize that it's close to dawn, and the sky is starting to become gray rather than black.  As you come out of the bath house and go through the common room, you realize there's a short, lanky sibeccai staring at you both.  In each of your minds you suddenly hear a very faint rumbling echo of the voice from the vision, but it's gone almost as soon as you notice it.*</blockquote>

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