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<blockquote data-quote="dpdx" data-source="post: 2530894" data-attributes="member: 188"><p>Fendric seems visibly relieved to hear Brother Aramil approach this logically.</p><p></p><p>"<span style="color: PaleTurquoise">I suppose, indeed, kind Sir, that suspicion is warranted throughout this entire quest. Certainly we have felt it, ourselves.</span></p><p><span style="color: PaleTurquoise"></span></p><p><span style="color: PaleTurquoise">If you would permit me to trouble you with our whole story, as brief as I know how to make it...</span></p><p><span style="color: PaleTurquoise"></span></p><p><span style="color: PaleTurquoise">Of the group you see here in front of you, I am who remains of the original party when it began in Hedrogura, excepting Oliver here, who happened to be the entertainment in the bar that night when Sir Exantrius came to us. Sir Exantrius seemed a Knight to my eyes, unaccustomed as they were to anything more than gladiators at the Fighting Pit, and indeed entered my Temple with me, not seeming to be ill at ease.</span></p><p><span style="color: PaleTurquoise"></span></p><p><span style="color: PaleTurquoise">Our first stop the next morning, as we left town, was a hobgoblin village, ostensibly for supplies. When we got there, the village was persuaded to trade with us, but during the transaction, the village shaman attacked and grievously wounded Exantrius. I was able to heal Exantrius after the shaman was slain, but several nights thereafter, Pelor took Exantrius in his sleep. </span></p><p><span style="color: PaleTurquoise"></span></p><p><span style="color: PaleTurquoise">As he died, a dove emerged from his body, and flew off. After I performed burial rites, and put him aboard his steed, sending them after the dove, I remembered what Exantrius had told me shortly after I healed him. <em>Deliver the letters, whatever should happen,</em> he told me. We had to halt the horse to retrieve the letters!</span></p><p><span style="color: PaleTurquoise"></span></p><p><span style="color: PaleTurquoise">Once we retrieved them, we set about to deliver them to the addressees, in as logical an order as would not cost us much time. First to Father Milos Premule, then Visach Cheraul. After we had delivered the letter to Father Premule's adjutant, we encountered Father Premule on our way to the Visach. After we delivered the letter as best we could to the Visach, Father Premule was taken away by Nerullian cultists, and the entire Heironean Guard of Bethel sacked, and replaced with walking corpses!</span></p><p><span style="color: PaleTurquoise"></span></p><p><span style="color: PaleTurquoise">We set off for a while to attempt to recover Father Premule, but could not find him. At that point, most of the Guard split off to continue the search, and Shavah here, came with us.</span></p><p><span style="color: PaleTurquoise"></span></p><p><span style="color: PaleTurquoise">Throughout, we have been beset by things I cannot explain. A druid seems to want to harm me with summoned creatures. A man walks up to us and speaks of a Game being played by two men, one good, one evil, both powerful, whom we will anger if we do not continue. We've met a fortune teller who seemed to transfer us across vast sections of the Realm in order to deliver our next letter. We've been warned by a tribe of orcs not to cross the pass to Eivanrach, then nearly slain by what seemed to be another group of them when we did.</span></p><p><span style="color: PaleTurquoise"></span></p><p><span style="color: PaleTurquoise">As to who informed, well, <em>me</em> that Lord Thedoric had gone rogue and was leading the raiders, that would have been Exantrius, the very first day. I have indeed labored under that assumption throughout. As for the letters themselves, we knew nothing about them until Eivanrach, when Mr. Gaunt, was it? informed us that not only were these letters not from Exantrius, but that they contained a <em>secret page</em> for the addressee alone.</span></p><p><span style="color: PaleTurquoise"></span></p><p><span style="color: PaleTurquoise">I trust in the Radiant Light, as I am certain you do in the Cudgel, that what we do is of benefit to the good of all of us in common. I hope it is so, in fact. But would not you also be suspicious of such a chain of events?</span>"</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="dpdx, post: 2530894, member: 188"] Fendric seems visibly relieved to hear Brother Aramil approach this logically. "[COLOR=PaleTurquoise]I suppose, indeed, kind Sir, that suspicion is warranted throughout this entire quest. Certainly we have felt it, ourselves. If you would permit me to trouble you with our whole story, as brief as I know how to make it... Of the group you see here in front of you, I am who remains of the original party when it began in Hedrogura, excepting Oliver here, who happened to be the entertainment in the bar that night when Sir Exantrius came to us. Sir Exantrius seemed a Knight to my eyes, unaccustomed as they were to anything more than gladiators at the Fighting Pit, and indeed entered my Temple with me, not seeming to be ill at ease. Our first stop the next morning, as we left town, was a hobgoblin village, ostensibly for supplies. When we got there, the village was persuaded to trade with us, but during the transaction, the village shaman attacked and grievously wounded Exantrius. I was able to heal Exantrius after the shaman was slain, but several nights thereafter, Pelor took Exantrius in his sleep. As he died, a dove emerged from his body, and flew off. After I performed burial rites, and put him aboard his steed, sending them after the dove, I remembered what Exantrius had told me shortly after I healed him. [i]Deliver the letters, whatever should happen,[/i] he told me. We had to halt the horse to retrieve the letters! Once we retrieved them, we set about to deliver them to the addressees, in as logical an order as would not cost us much time. First to Father Milos Premule, then Visach Cheraul. After we had delivered the letter to Father Premule's adjutant, we encountered Father Premule on our way to the Visach. After we delivered the letter as best we could to the Visach, Father Premule was taken away by Nerullian cultists, and the entire Heironean Guard of Bethel sacked, and replaced with walking corpses! We set off for a while to attempt to recover Father Premule, but could not find him. At that point, most of the Guard split off to continue the search, and Shavah here, came with us. Throughout, we have been beset by things I cannot explain. A druid seems to want to harm me with summoned creatures. A man walks up to us and speaks of a Game being played by two men, one good, one evil, both powerful, whom we will anger if we do not continue. We've met a fortune teller who seemed to transfer us across vast sections of the Realm in order to deliver our next letter. We've been warned by a tribe of orcs not to cross the pass to Eivanrach, then nearly slain by what seemed to be another group of them when we did. As to who informed, well, [I]me[/I] that Lord Thedoric had gone rogue and was leading the raiders, that would have been Exantrius, the very first day. I have indeed labored under that assumption throughout. As for the letters themselves, we knew nothing about them until Eivanrach, when Mr. Gaunt, was it? informed us that not only were these letters not from Exantrius, but that they contained a [I]secret page[/I] for the addressee alone. I trust in the Radiant Light, as I am certain you do in the Cudgel, that what we do is of benefit to the good of all of us in common. I hope it is so, in fact. But would not you also be suspicious of such a chain of events?[/COLOR]" [/QUOTE]
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