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Bill T's Second War of the Burning Sky: The Mad King's Banquet [with a smorgasbord of spoilers in the posts]
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<blockquote data-quote="Bill T." data-source="post: 8237726" data-attributes="member: 6795693"><p><span style="font-size: 22px"><strong>Dramatis Personae</strong></span></p><ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>Basel</strong>, an Innenotdaran (aka grey) elf evoker from Gabal's school with his familiar <strong>Simon</strong>, a cat from Seaquen's docks.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>Dämmek</strong>, a brainy and brawny human swordswoman with keen senses and the Living Blade, and her pet rock <strong>Skullcracker</strong></li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>Lucius</strong>, a human wielding a pair of short swords and a silver tongue.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>Seda</strong>, a spellcasting Seela, sick and tired of singing, with her mountain lion companion <strong>Smoke</strong>.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>Balan</strong>, because none of the heroes speak Dwarven.</li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>Seda, with a little assistance from Basel, provided us with the record of the last session of </em>The Mad King's Banquet!</p><p></p><p><span style="font-size: 22px"><strong>Back in the Guardroom</strong></span></p><p>Skullcracker and Simon are still curled up in the corner of the wall under the bed. Skullcracker reports to Dämmeck that Nina Glibglammer briefly visited the inquisitor. "The Book of Eight Lands?" Inquisitor answers, "It's been taken care of."</p><p></p><p>Meanwhile, Simon noticed the Inquisitor do something as we battled our way into the dungeon. Not able to tell anyone, he holds onto the information.</p><p></p><p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>That was actually Serrimus, but no matter.</em></p><p></p><p><span style="font-size: 22px"><strong>The Torture Cell</strong></span></p><p>After taking stock of our condition after the fight with the tonguing zombie, we search the room. Other than Jinis' body, there isn't much there. Time to get outta here. The door opens inward and is locked! Lucius and Dämmeck search for traps. Not finding any, Lucius proceeds to pick that lock. After a bit, Lucius comments "I was making it harder than it was."</p><p></p><p>We exit into a hallway with three doors. This must be the hallway that Skullcracker peaked into earlier.</p><p></p><p><span style="font-size: 22px"><strong>The Stillroom</strong></span></p><p>The first door we come to isn't locked. Lucius and Balon wait outside. Inside we find a room that looks like a cross between a kitchen and a still. There is an apparatus with glass tubes, a sieve and heating device. There is also a stack of empty whiskey casks. Seda looks into the sieve and sees cooked mushrooms. These are Blue Gym mushrooms. They are psychedelic. The active agent can be removed with water. So these must just be the remains.</p><p></p><p>Basel picks up the book next to the still. He starts reading a recipe for making a poison with the whiskey and the mushrooms. Seda takes the book. That book is dangerous in the hands of someone who wouldn't know the difference between a Blue Gym and a toadstool.</p><p></p><p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>I'm not convinced there <strong>is</strong> a difference...</em></p><p></p><p><span style="font-size: 22px"><strong>Door #2</strong></span></p><p>Just a storage room with cages and taskets of various sizes. That must mean the prize is behind door #3.</p><p></p><p><span style="font-size: 22px"><strong>The Guardroom</strong></span></p><p>Not wanting to be lined up in a conga line when the door is opened, Seda and Smoke stay in the storage room. Lucius and Balon wait at the end of the hallway. Basel joins Dämmeck at the door.</p><p></p><p>Dämmeck opens the door. She finds Inquisitor Torax standing inside. There is a fire directly across from the door, a table in the center of the room and a bed in the far corner. At her feet she sees caltrops on the floor between her and Torax. She attempts to sweep them away with her sword. The sword goes through them as if they weren't there. Simon starts to say something as Basel, standing behind Dämmeck, states "They're illusory."</p><p></p><p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>Serrimus wasn't completely useless -- I thought the illusion was pretty clever, but Simon aced his Spellcraft check and Dämmeck effectively eliminated them in a single action.</em></p><p></p><p>Lucius moves up behind Basel. Torax puts up a <em>wall of fire</em> along the length of the room separating him (and Simon and Skullcracker) from the party. It's warm in here. Luckily for Lucius, Basel provides an effective buffer. Dämmeck moves into the room and upsets the table through the wall of flame with her sword, setting the sword on fire. Seda moves into the room and sends a storm bolt through the fire, resulting in a pleasing yelp. Basel and Lucius pull out their bows. Basel throws a softball sized fireball at Torax. Torax acts as if he just took a pleasant shower. Dämmeck, tired of standing around, decides to bullrush her way through the fire and slam Torax into the wall with a sound of cracking bones. Another bolt of lightning and Torax goes down. The fire burns for another minute and goes out.</p><p></p><p>Searching the body, we find two scrolls, an amulet, a mask and a wand. Seda reads the scrolls. The first is <em>Detect Poison</em>, the second <em>Speak with Dead</em>. The inquisitors' supply clerk must buy things in bulk. <s>The amulet looks similar to one that Lucius and Basel are wearing</s>. Basel looks at the wand. It's another one of <em>Knock</em>. He hands it to Dämmeck. Seda keeps the <em>Detect Poison</em> scroll and hands the other to Dämmeck along with the amulet.</p><p></p><p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>I goofed here -- the amulet looks very different from the one Lucius and Basel are wearing. Alas, the mistake seems more memorable than my correction.</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>I love the comment about the inquisition buying things in bulk.</em></p><p></p><p>Dämmeck picks up the pieces of the slate that was lying on the table before she destroyed it. There is a message on each side: "Guthwulf, good news in Dassen....Rumors of new safe passage.”</p><p></p><p>The other door our of the room leads to the cell block. It is empty other than the halfling head cook whose soup set Basel swooning. We let him out and he's outta there, after reporting Torrax's diabolical plan to poison the nobles.</p><p></p><p>Now what? Do we head straight to the banquet or stop to check for the Book of Eight Lands in the vault? The vault is one floor up while the banquet is three.The Book of Eight Lands, as well as tracing the family trees of the nobles, also protects them from mind-affecting effects. If it is gone, the nobles will be susceptible to the poison that was being distilled in the dungeon. But the vault is warded. Only those of human and Dwarven heritage can enter with a phrase that Balon knows. The book can't leave. In theory.</p><p></p><p>We decide to make a quick stop at the vault room. There is bored-looking guard standing outside. He looks at Seda and Smoke and says that they can't go in. Balon repeats the Dwarven phrase. Balon along with Lucius, Basel, Dämmeck, and small friends enter the vault. It's not on the lectern. They take a look around. Feel the lectern. It's not invisible on the lectern. The book is missing!!!</p><p></p><p>Talk to the guard. There were bigwigs and others in today. The last was some dwarf. "What do you mean, the book is missing?" He takes a look in the vault. "The book is missing! This is really bad. I gotta tell the king." He runs off to the banquet hall yelling "The book is missing! I need to talk to the king!" We follow behind him.</p><p></p><p><span style="font-size: 22px"><strong>The Banquet</strong></span></p><p>The vault guard opens the doors to the banquet hall. "The Book of Eight Lands is missing!"</p><p></p><p>Basel shouts out that the soup was tampered with. Everyone looks concerned -- did someone swap the broth with something vegan? "No, it's poisoned!" yells Lucius. At this, King Steppengard shouts out a vaguely-coherent rant: "Poison? Truly.... This land I kill!"</p><p></p><p>King Steppengard stands up holding his flail. He turns to his right and swings it at Lady Namen. She goes down in a heap. One more swing for good measure. Before anyone has a chance to react, he turns to his left and down goes Lord Gallo.</p><p></p><p>Balon walks in and attempts to put Steppengard into a <em>Deep Slumber</em>. The guests shout, "He's attacking the king!" Seda sends Smoke to defend Balon. Stepping just inside the door, Seda, having heard Nina's gleeful giggling, starts singing the Song of Forms. Nina, standing in a corner that we can't see, shrieks and undergoes a quick and startling transformation. Nina’s legs, arms, torso, and, lastly, her smile are absorbed into a huge coiling form...we know its name is Madness. Lucius enters the banquet hall. Before Basel and Dämmeck can enter, Nina moves into the area in front of the doors managing to close one of the two. Seda is blocking the other. Lucius manages to jump out of the way. Seda, Smoke, and Balon are not so lucky. They are caught by the snake heads.</p><p></p><p>Dämmeck attacks Madness from the doorway. He sword keeps bouncing off her scales, so she switches touching it with her fingertips. Say what? Balon plays the small pipes, inspiring courage in our heroes. Lucius moves into a position to sneak attack Madness. He needs help. Seda directs Dashgoban into a flanking position. Smoke attacks while grappled. Seda continues to sing. Madness learns that holding onto seela stings. Lady Timor sends a giant snowball into the swarming snake heads before turning to stab Lady Dene. I hope that doesn't leave a scar! Around the room, the guests start to attack each other. It's sheer madness.</p><p></p><p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>Ironically, Dämmeck cleverly switched to the </em>hammer<em> power because she kept missing with the sword, but every touch attach she made would have been enough to have hit with her sword. Oh well!</em></p><p></p><p>Steppengard steps in front of the pillar between his table and Lady Timor's. A couple of swings and Lady Timor is down. Basel pushes in front of Dämmeck. "I'm going to stop the king." He traps Steppengard in a large transparent bubble ("<em>resilient sphere</em>", Basel says pedantically). The heroes manage to put an end to Madness. Around the room, the madness continues. How do we stop this?</p><p></p><p>Basel runs to the high table to assess the condition of the downed nobles. Seda tries to stop the attacks by obscuring the vision of the combatants with some mist. Lucius goes around with his sap to knock the bodyguards out. Dashgoban takes charge of the room and calls guards in from the hallway. Basel observes that Namen, Gallo and Timor are not breathing. Steppengard settles down, putting his head between his hands. Lucius directs Seda to use his wand to bring the nobles back. This is incredibly generous. Seda hopes that they do not give all the credit to her since it isn't her wand.</p><p></p><p>We discuss the option of dismissing the sphere entrapping Steppengard. His bodyguard agrees that he and Dämmeck will grapple the king to the ground if he is violent. Before that, Seda summons a unicorn to neutralize the poison that we assume the king has ingested. Not just any unicorn, Nelle from the Forest of Innenotdar shows up! After treating the king, Nelle heals those around the room.</p><p></p><p>The king is beside himself. He apologizes to his downed nobles. He throws away his crown. Basel implores him to pick it back up and put the country back together — with an elegant and very diplomatic monologue. <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite6" alt=":cool:" title="Cool :cool:" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":cool:" /></p><p></p><p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>Guess which part Basel contributed!</em></p><p></p><p><span style="font-size: 22px"><strong>The Book of Eight Lands</strong></span></p><p>We head back to the vault along with Gallo's chaplain. She is the strongest spellcaster with <em>Detect Magic</em> available who can enter the vault. After a brief discussion, Basel suggests that it is possible that the book could technically still be in the room, but in a different plane. We request that the guard brings a ladder. Dammek climbs up the ladder until her head disappears into an extra-dimensional space. Dammek sees the Book of Eight Lands and a rope (coiled up) and decides to pick up the book and burn the rope. Once the rope has been completely burnt Dammek's head re-appears.</p><p></p><p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>Basel was biting his tongue, wanting to tell her not to worry about the rope, but, with her head in an extradimensional space, there was no way she could hear him.</em></p><p></p><p><span style="font-size: 22px"><strong>Dämmeck Dreams</strong></span></p><p>The night after the mad king's banquet, an elf comes to Dämmeck in a dream with information about Indomitability and Deception, the seela formerly known as Vuhl.</p><ol> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">Indomitability is a trillith, a creature of dream, born in the darkness below the world where his mother eternally sleeping lies. His true form.... He currently travels the mountains south of Ragesia, contemplating his identity.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">Deception is a trillith, a creature of dream, born in the darkness below the world where its mother eternally sleeping lies. Its true form.... It is seeking the torch of the burning sky.</li> </ol> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>I decided it was about time the heroes learned some details about the trillith, so I had the elven wizards investigating the case of vital military intelligence cast </em>legend lore<em> on the two names. Dämmeck got the </em>dream<em> because the wizards were ordered not to communicate with people of Seaquen, but the heroes aren't technically people of Seaquen.</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>If the heroes think to bring pieces of Madness back to the Lyceum, someone (probably Simeon) can cast </em>legend lore<em> on it and get full details about her. They're fretting that Madness may rejuvenate, so they'd sleep a little better if they knew that Madness was truly dead because she was Song o' Formed when she died.</em></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Bill T., post: 8237726, member: 6795693"] [SIZE=6][B]Dramatis Personae[/B][/SIZE] [LIST] [*][B]Basel[/B], an Innenotdaran (aka grey) elf evoker from Gabal's school with his familiar [B]Simon[/B], a cat from Seaquen's docks. [*][B]Dämmek[/B], a brainy and brawny human swordswoman with keen senses and the Living Blade, and her pet rock [B]Skullcracker[/B] [*][B]Lucius[/B], a human wielding a pair of short swords and a silver tongue. [*][B]Seda[/B], a spellcasting Seela, sick and tired of singing, with her mountain lion companion [B]Smoke[/B]. [*][B]Balan[/B], because none of the heroes speak Dwarven. [/LIST] [INDENT][I]Seda, with a little assistance from Basel, provided us with the record of the last session of [/I]The Mad King's Banquet![/INDENT] [SIZE=6][B]Back in the Guardroom[/B][/SIZE] Skullcracker and Simon are still curled up in the corner of the wall under the bed. Skullcracker reports to Dämmeck that Nina Glibglammer briefly visited the inquisitor. "The Book of Eight Lands?" Inquisitor answers, "It's been taken care of." Meanwhile, Simon noticed the Inquisitor do something as we battled our way into the dungeon. Not able to tell anyone, he holds onto the information. [INDENT][I]That was actually Serrimus, but no matter.[/I][/INDENT] [SIZE=6][B]The Torture Cell[/B][/SIZE] After taking stock of our condition after the fight with the tonguing zombie, we search the room. Other than Jinis' body, there isn't much there. Time to get outta here. The door opens inward and is locked! Lucius and Dämmeck search for traps. Not finding any, Lucius proceeds to pick that lock. After a bit, Lucius comments "I was making it harder than it was." We exit into a hallway with three doors. This must be the hallway that Skullcracker peaked into earlier. [SIZE=6][B]The Stillroom[/B][/SIZE] The first door we come to isn't locked. Lucius and Balon wait outside. Inside we find a room that looks like a cross between a kitchen and a still. There is an apparatus with glass tubes, a sieve and heating device. There is also a stack of empty whiskey casks. Seda looks into the sieve and sees cooked mushrooms. These are Blue Gym mushrooms. They are psychedelic. The active agent can be removed with water. So these must just be the remains. Basel picks up the book next to the still. He starts reading a recipe for making a poison with the whiskey and the mushrooms. Seda takes the book. That book is dangerous in the hands of someone who wouldn't know the difference between a Blue Gym and a toadstool. [INDENT][I]I'm not convinced there [B]is[/B] a difference...[/I][/INDENT] [SIZE=6][B]Door #2[/B][/SIZE] Just a storage room with cages and taskets of various sizes. That must mean the prize is behind door #3. [SIZE=6][B]The Guardroom[/B][/SIZE] Not wanting to be lined up in a conga line when the door is opened, Seda and Smoke stay in the storage room. Lucius and Balon wait at the end of the hallway. Basel joins Dämmeck at the door. Dämmeck opens the door. She finds Inquisitor Torax standing inside. There is a fire directly across from the door, a table in the center of the room and a bed in the far corner. At her feet she sees caltrops on the floor between her and Torax. She attempts to sweep them away with her sword. The sword goes through them as if they weren't there. Simon starts to say something as Basel, standing behind Dämmeck, states "They're illusory." [INDENT][I]Serrimus wasn't completely useless -- I thought the illusion was pretty clever, but Simon aced his Spellcraft check and Dämmeck effectively eliminated them in a single action.[/I][/INDENT] Lucius moves up behind Basel. Torax puts up a [I]wall of fire[/I] along the length of the room separating him (and Simon and Skullcracker) from the party. It's warm in here. Luckily for Lucius, Basel provides an effective buffer. Dämmeck moves into the room and upsets the table through the wall of flame with her sword, setting the sword on fire. Seda moves into the room and sends a storm bolt through the fire, resulting in a pleasing yelp. Basel and Lucius pull out their bows. Basel throws a softball sized fireball at Torax. Torax acts as if he just took a pleasant shower. Dämmeck, tired of standing around, decides to bullrush her way through the fire and slam Torax into the wall with a sound of cracking bones. Another bolt of lightning and Torax goes down. The fire burns for another minute and goes out. Searching the body, we find two scrolls, an amulet, a mask and a wand. Seda reads the scrolls. The first is [I]Detect Poison[/I], the second [I]Speak with Dead[/I]. The inquisitors' supply clerk must buy things in bulk. [S]The amulet looks similar to one that Lucius and Basel are wearing[/S]. Basel looks at the wand. It's another one of [I]Knock[/I]. He hands it to Dämmeck. Seda keeps the [I]Detect Poison[/I] scroll and hands the other to Dämmeck along with the amulet. [INDENT][I]I goofed here -- the amulet looks very different from the one Lucius and Basel are wearing. Alas, the mistake seems more memorable than my correction.[/I][/INDENT] [INDENT][/INDENT] [INDENT][I]I love the comment about the inquisition buying things in bulk.[/I][/INDENT] Dämmeck picks up the pieces of the slate that was lying on the table before she destroyed it. There is a message on each side: "Guthwulf, good news in Dassen....Rumors of new safe passage.” The other door our of the room leads to the cell block. It is empty other than the halfling head cook whose soup set Basel swooning. We let him out and he's outta there, after reporting Torrax's diabolical plan to poison the nobles. Now what? Do we head straight to the banquet or stop to check for the Book of Eight Lands in the vault? The vault is one floor up while the banquet is three.The Book of Eight Lands, as well as tracing the family trees of the nobles, also protects them from mind-affecting effects. If it is gone, the nobles will be susceptible to the poison that was being distilled in the dungeon. But the vault is warded. Only those of human and Dwarven heritage can enter with a phrase that Balon knows. The book can't leave. In theory. We decide to make a quick stop at the vault room. There is bored-looking guard standing outside. He looks at Seda and Smoke and says that they can't go in. Balon repeats the Dwarven phrase. Balon along with Lucius, Basel, Dämmeck, and small friends enter the vault. It's not on the lectern. They take a look around. Feel the lectern. It's not invisible on the lectern. The book is missing!!! Talk to the guard. There were bigwigs and others in today. The last was some dwarf. "What do you mean, the book is missing?" He takes a look in the vault. "The book is missing! This is really bad. I gotta tell the king." He runs off to the banquet hall yelling "The book is missing! I need to talk to the king!" We follow behind him. [SIZE=6][B]The Banquet[/B][/SIZE] The vault guard opens the doors to the banquet hall. "The Book of Eight Lands is missing!" Basel shouts out that the soup was tampered with. Everyone looks concerned -- did someone swap the broth with something vegan? "No, it's poisoned!" yells Lucius. At this, King Steppengard shouts out a vaguely-coherent rant: "Poison? Truly.... This land I kill!" King Steppengard stands up holding his flail. He turns to his right and swings it at Lady Namen. She goes down in a heap. One more swing for good measure. Before anyone has a chance to react, he turns to his left and down goes Lord Gallo. Balon walks in and attempts to put Steppengard into a [I]Deep Slumber[/I]. The guests shout, "He's attacking the king!" Seda sends Smoke to defend Balon. Stepping just inside the door, Seda, having heard Nina's gleeful giggling, starts singing the Song of Forms. Nina, standing in a corner that we can't see, shrieks and undergoes a quick and startling transformation. Nina’s legs, arms, torso, and, lastly, her smile are absorbed into a huge coiling form...we know its name is Madness. Lucius enters the banquet hall. Before Basel and Dämmeck can enter, Nina moves into the area in front of the doors managing to close one of the two. Seda is blocking the other. Lucius manages to jump out of the way. Seda, Smoke, and Balon are not so lucky. They are caught by the snake heads. Dämmeck attacks Madness from the doorway. He sword keeps bouncing off her scales, so she switches touching it with her fingertips. Say what? Balon plays the small pipes, inspiring courage in our heroes. Lucius moves into a position to sneak attack Madness. He needs help. Seda directs Dashgoban into a flanking position. Smoke attacks while grappled. Seda continues to sing. Madness learns that holding onto seela stings. Lady Timor sends a giant snowball into the swarming snake heads before turning to stab Lady Dene. I hope that doesn't leave a scar! Around the room, the guests start to attack each other. It's sheer madness. [INDENT][I]Ironically, Dämmeck cleverly switched to the [/I]hammer[I] power because she kept missing with the sword, but every touch attach she made would have been enough to have hit with her sword. Oh well![/I][/INDENT] Steppengard steps in front of the pillar between his table and Lady Timor's. A couple of swings and Lady Timor is down. Basel pushes in front of Dämmeck. "I'm going to stop the king." He traps Steppengard in a large transparent bubble ("[I]resilient sphere[/I]", Basel says pedantically). The heroes manage to put an end to Madness. Around the room, the madness continues. How do we stop this? Basel runs to the high table to assess the condition of the downed nobles. Seda tries to stop the attacks by obscuring the vision of the combatants with some mist. Lucius goes around with his sap to knock the bodyguards out. Dashgoban takes charge of the room and calls guards in from the hallway. Basel observes that Namen, Gallo and Timor are not breathing. Steppengard settles down, putting his head between his hands. Lucius directs Seda to use his wand to bring the nobles back. This is incredibly generous. Seda hopes that they do not give all the credit to her since it isn't her wand. We discuss the option of dismissing the sphere entrapping Steppengard. His bodyguard agrees that he and Dämmeck will grapple the king to the ground if he is violent. Before that, Seda summons a unicorn to neutralize the poison that we assume the king has ingested. Not just any unicorn, Nelle from the Forest of Innenotdar shows up! After treating the king, Nelle heals those around the room. The king is beside himself. He apologizes to his downed nobles. He throws away his crown. Basel implores him to pick it back up and put the country back together — with an elegant and very diplomatic monologue. :cool: [INDENT][I]Guess which part Basel contributed![/I][/INDENT] [SIZE=6][B]The Book of Eight Lands[/B][/SIZE] We head back to the vault along with Gallo's chaplain. She is the strongest spellcaster with [I]Detect Magic[/I] available who can enter the vault. After a brief discussion, Basel suggests that it is possible that the book could technically still be in the room, but in a different plane. We request that the guard brings a ladder. Dammek climbs up the ladder until her head disappears into an extra-dimensional space. Dammek sees the Book of Eight Lands and a rope (coiled up) and decides to pick up the book and burn the rope. Once the rope has been completely burnt Dammek's head re-appears. [INDENT][I]Basel was biting his tongue, wanting to tell her not to worry about the rope, but, with her head in an extradimensional space, there was no way she could hear him.[/I][/INDENT] [SIZE=6][B]Dämmeck Dreams[/B][/SIZE] The night after the mad king's banquet, an elf comes to Dämmeck in a dream with information about Indomitability and Deception, the seela formerly known as Vuhl. [LIST=1] [*]Indomitability is a trillith, a creature of dream, born in the darkness below the world where his mother eternally sleeping lies. His true form.... He currently travels the mountains south of Ragesia, contemplating his identity. [*]Deception is a trillith, a creature of dream, born in the darkness below the world where its mother eternally sleeping lies. Its true form.... It is seeking the torch of the burning sky. [/LIST] [INDENT][I]I decided it was about time the heroes learned some details about the trillith, so I had the elven wizards investigating the case of vital military intelligence cast [/I]legend lore[I] on the two names. Dämmeck got the [/I]dream[I] because the wizards were ordered not to communicate with people of Seaquen, but the heroes aren't technically people of Seaquen.[/I][/INDENT] [INDENT][/INDENT] [INDENT][I]If the heroes think to bring pieces of Madness back to the Lyceum, someone (probably Simeon) can cast [/I]legend lore[I] on it and get full details about her. They're fretting that Madness may rejuvenate, so they'd sleep a little better if they knew that Madness was truly dead because she was Song o' Formed when she died.[/I][/INDENT] [/QUOTE]
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