Break of Dawn [Manzanita judging] COMPLETED

[B4cchus]

"I have no desire to leave my duty as the guardian of the amulet. If you wish to help me, then take out this employer of yours and return the other half, assuming he has the other half offcourse."

 

[Rystil Arden]

"You still haven't told me your name," Ally makes a slight joking pout, "And besides, you can't expect me to believe that you wouldn't rather be enjoying the pleasures of Elysium with your friends than sitting around here alone for Eternity, right? I understand that you want to protect the amulet, but isn't there some way that the evil could be stopped once and for all so that you can finally rest?"

 

[Rae ArdGaoth]

Quarion frowns as Aletheia pesters the Guardian, but he remains silent.

 

[Someone]

"Actually, I find underestandable that he doesn't want to reveal his name - knowing a outer plane's inhabitant's name gives an accomplished caster a modicum of power over him. And if we're working with aliases, Guardian is a perfectly good one and very descriptive." says Odno. "Anyway I'm not keen on the idea of retrieving the amulet from our employer, since it'll likely require using violence against him, a prospect I fnd both undesirable and unprofitable."

 

[B4cchus]

"My true name is indeed not something i wish to reveal. The name 'Guardian' sounds good to me. It is my duty to guard the amulet. That duty surpasses any desires I would have." It stoicly answer Ally's questions. "I know of no way to permanently close the breach. The amulet must remain to keep evil abusing the breach and so i must remain to guard the amulet.
It saddens me that you are reluctant to help by retrieving. If it is profit you seek I might be able to compensate you for your troubles."

 

[Rystil Arden]

"I don't much care if there is profit, though if there is I will gladly take it as a gift from you. I think my friends speak of the infeasibility of assaulting a lord of the land and taking his possessions. It could brand us outlaws."

"As for the fact that there is no way to close the breach...that's unfortunate. By simple probability, then, it would seem to me that some day someone will gather the amulet halves together. All it takes is one unscrupulous but not quite evil being of sufficient power to take interest and then that's it for this world. Isn't there some way to make it safer?"

 

[Someone]

"A bit of both, actually" says Odno "To speak frankly, retrieving he amuet's half sounds like a stopgag measure to me, and while it may be important in the grand scheme of things it doesn't look like it'll afect me personally, being part of a tale that has spanned centuries or milennia. On the other hand attacking our employer could indeed brand us as outlaws. I'd agree on travelling back tere and explaining him he situation - I can't promise to to more."

 

[B4cchus]

"If both amulets ae present here it will prove mcuh more difficult to breach the perimeter as more defenses will become active. It is true that there remains a risk that someone with enough power and knowledge might open the breach once again but obscurity is also a good defense. The knowledge of the amulet and the breach and becoming more and more vague in the memory of mortals. We hope that in time it will become forgotten."

"You are afraid to be branded outlaws whilst your employer probably seeks to fullfill his evil desires by unleashing unspeakable evil upon your world? Perhaps the society you live in has changed much from what I remeber of it but this sounds very... strange to me."

 

[Someone]

"You are afraid to be branded outlaws whilst your employer probably seeks to fullfill his evil desires by unleashing unspeakable evil upon your world? Perhaps the society you live in has changed much from what I remeber of it but this sounds very... strange to me."

"Maybe. Today, groups of individuals can't take preemptive actions on their own based on posessions of forgotten artifacts. Those actions tend to be difficult to explain to the authorities - and in any case furthe divulging the amulet's abilities would be counterproductive. Picture us being interrogated by law officers and explaining how the amulet can be used to summon and control fiends. That's not something I want to experience." says Odno.

"In any case, I repeat I agree to visit him and try to reach some kind of solution to this. It's the least we can do. The only problem would be the money he advanced us, I suppose we should have to return it, but I'm penniless."

 

[jkason]

Eanos, human monk

"Maybe. Today, groups of individuals can't take preemptive actions on their own based on posessions of forgotten artifacts. Those actions tend to be difficult to explain to the authorities - and in any case furthe divulging the amulet's abilities would be counterproductive. Picture us being interrogated by law officers and explaining how the amulet can be used to summon and control fiends. That's not something I want to experience." says Odno.

"In any case, I repeat I agree to visit him and try to reach some kind of solution to this. It's the least we can do. The only problem would be the money he advanced us, I suppose we should have to return it, but I'm penniless."

"We stocked up before our advance, so I think we could come up with replacement for what we paid our doorman above," Eanos offers. "And those rings might be worth something. Come to think of it--" here he turns to the Guardian, asking. "We found two magical rings in the outer chambers. Do they do anything useful?"

[sblock=OOC]We never doled out the advance to individuals, so there's still a mostly-unspent pot of it to return, I think.[/sblock]