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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Eccles" data-source="post: 1496836" data-attributes="member: 5675">The hot sun was beating down, as a wailing ululation echoed from the top of a tower that dragged their eyes skywards. The tower was topped with a strange curving structure, and from behind it flew… a carpet?Then the people around them started to react, crying out in strange languages, animals brayed and squawked, coins changed hands, and a sea of faces stared at them from the surrounding marketplace and minarets."Well, Halbrinn? We ain't in Clearwater anymore," Rand muttered to his wizardly colleague.---After some time of confusion and mis-translations, the group eventually cast the right combination of spells, and found a hostelry where they could rest for a time, whilst they traded their enormous collection of goods and arranged for new items to be manufactured. Despite the recent bad dreams, auguries, prophecies, and the document lost at the bottom of a bag saying that the sinister "Great Revenance" would be taking place within a few days, the group decided that taking a tenday to rest, get to know Calimport, and shop was the right decision. Hearing this, Halbrinn immediately teleported back to Dagger Falls, so as to spend some time with his wife and use the resources in his study.He was amazed to find that his wife had sold his house, and had moved his study (and the carefully constructed teleport chamber) to a newer, much larger, house. Her sudden largesse was brought on by her discovery of a mystical talking staff in one of the guest rooms, topped by a lump of green rock. This item (an incredibly powerful artifact which had been carried by both Yvgeny and Rand for a time), had attracted the interest of a traveling mage, who had paid her a fortune in silver and gems to buy it from her.Halbrinn's reaction was initially concern, but the longer he mused over it, the more he thought that it was in improvement. The staff was now someone else's problem, not theirs. Soon thereafter, he forgot all about it.In Calimport, and outside the area of dark magic, healing was easy, and the group made the most of their time in the rooms of The Sherbet Fountain, where their Landlord was most happy to feed them roasted camel, and pander to their other bizarre requests. (Abdul, their host, was most confused when Miles' first request was for a camel to eat. "But then" he mused, "these infidels are a funny sort. Maybe they eat camels where they come from…")---After the tenday had passed, Halbrinn teleported back to The Sherbet Fountain, and the group packed their bags and backpacks (frequently ensorcelled), oiled their weapons (usually enchanted), and heaved their heavy boots (mostly magical) back onto their feet.Swinging heavy packs onto their backs, they turned for the door, when a brilliant golden light suddenly shone from Aeron's eyes and mouth, and he began to chant in a commanding female voice."Weak, unwilling, ALL SHALL RISEOld and ailed, ALL SHALL RISEStrong, yet failed, ALL SHALL RISEBold, unwary, ALL SHALL RISEIt is coming, ALL SHALL RISEThe time is coming when the strings, steel and hearts of nations shall be found equal. And then shall be found again."Then, like a dancing doll with its strings suddenly cut, he dropped to the ground.</blockquote>

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