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Message: <blockquote data-quote="the Jester" data-source="post: 1885334" data-attributes="member: 1210">7/24/370 O.L.G., 4:30 p.m., a small settlement on Lake Bellurnus, DorhausInoke, Veil and Gerontius seek out Horbin the MFKG Holy.  He is tending the community’s sick, but he comes at their call.  Sir Maxwell takes his place, ministering to whatever sprains and bruises he can and spreading Garnet’s gentle word.The others explain to Horbin about Von Dial.  “We think he was part of this ritual that summoned this worm thing,” Inoke tells the cleric.  “And there was this prophecy we found on this giant cleric- we think he might have been behind it all, but we’re not sure.”“Behind what all?” Horbin asks, puzzled.“We don’t really know,” Veil answers, “but I think we’ll be seeing a lot of worms in the future.”***5 p.m., a chapel to DexterHorbin regenerates Von Dial’s eyes.  The man keeps raving about worms and chaos as the cleric tends him, and when he vision returns he gives a wheedling cry.Horbin glances at the others.  “Are you guys sure we want to restore this guy’s sanity?”“He might know something important,” Inoke says.Horbin nods, then casts heal on the madman.  He frowns when it fails.  “That should work, unless there’s powerful magic at work,” he muses, and then prays to Dexter.  “Oh Dexter,” he invokes, “blind son of Galador, grant that your father’s Light may wash away the madness that grips this man’s mind!  Grant me this miracle, I beseech you!”And with that, Von Dial gasps and his words cut off.“Are you okay?” asks Gerontius.Von Dial licks his lips, then, slowly, looks around.  “How am I alive?” he whispers.  “It seemed...”  He looks at the party members gathered around him.  “Who are you?” he wonders aloud.“You were mad,” Horbin says.  “I healed you.”“Now, tell us who you are!” Inoke looms above the (apparently) now sane man.  “What were you doing with those giants?  What part did you play in this?!”  The warrior’s hands clench and unclench, balling into fists.  Inoke makes quite an intimidating figure.“I thought... I thought I was dead.”  Von Dial shakes his head in confusion.  “The worm- we didn’t know what would happen, it lay about and destroyed us!”“That’s the danger of Chaos,” quips Horbin.“You were part of the group that summoned it,” Veil said abruptly.  “The leader was Fnogghi Chaos-Hand, that giant we killed.  I know everything.”  She grins at Von Dial.  “So you better not lie.”Von Dial is rendered momentarily speechless, but recovers in only a few seconds.  Then he tells the group the truth (at least, as far as Veil can tell): he was a priest of Na’Rat, commanded by the far more powerful Fnogghi to aid his ritual.  It was to summon a great power of Chaos.  “But who are you?” Von Dial wonders.“I am Horbin the MFKG Holy,” Horbin declares, “and-““Horbin!” cries Von Dial, and drops to his knees and presses his forehead to the ground.  “Of course!  Only a healer of power as legendary as yours could heal a mind as shattered as mine must have been after the worm destroyed it!  Horbin, the Holy!  Horbin, the Magnificent!”“Wow,” comments Gerontius. Horbin, nonplussed, starts, “Uh, I-“ “Horbin!” cries Von Dial, half-rising before prostrating himself again.  “Horbin, the healer!  Horbin, the holy!  Horbin!!  Your legend precedes you, sir!”“Right,” Horbin mutters.  “Anyway, listen, what do you plan to do now?”“I will humbly preach the word of Na’Rat, on the street,” Von Dial declares. “And no more summoning Far Realms creatures, okay?”“As you command,” Von Dial replies, and genuflects again.  “Horbin!”“Right, right,” Horbin gulps, highly embarrassed by the whole thing, “then I guess you’d best be going.”“Yes, Horbin.  HORBIN!!!”When the man has left, Inoke comments, “I’m not at all certain that you fully cured his madness.”Horbin sighs.Next Time: A new friend from the Delphinate arrives with what may now be the party’s favorite magic item as a gift!</blockquote>

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