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Message: <blockquote data-quote="the Jester" data-source="post: 2859372" data-attributes="member: 1210">9 p.m., Sigil, the City of DoorsUpon reaching Sigil, the adventurers quickly identify- via analyze dweomer and the portable store- the items that they have acquired from their most recent series of battles.  When all is said and done, our heroes are impressed with the number and variety of magic items that they looted from the Bile Lord Tamult and his followers.  There are potions and oils, rings and weapons, belts and cloaks.  The real prize- taken, of course, from Tamult himself- is a ring of epic wizardry that doubles spells of the sixth valence.  “That is a potent item,” Lillamere says.  Orbius nods.The party traditionally divides treasure by rolling dice to see what order people choose items in; thus it is that the ring goes to neither Orbius nor Lillamere- but to Gerontius!  Grinning, he tells them, “Perhaps we can arrange a trade, eh?”There are several other items of interesting nature, including a cloak of halflingkind (which apparently increases the wearer’s skill in climbing, jumping, sneaking and swimming.  There are also two unusual ioun stones (which Thrush ends up with) that give airy water and feather fall effects to him.  The evil cleric that the party slew also had a +5 unholy mace, which Lester ends up with although Alcar and Horbin urge him to destroy it.The party next discusses the idea of filing an injunction against Law.  I don’t know if that would stop them, Horbin muses telepathically, but it might at least slow them down.Lester brings up the Eyebrarian’s time dilation demiplane.  “We could use some subjective time,” he states with a smile.  But when the party sends to the Eyebrarian asking whether they might use it, they are disheartened by the response.It is not safe.  Marius has raided it and laid many traps.  He will be alerted if you go.“Damn!” swears Horbin.  “I want to take some time to make some magic items.”“We don’t have a whole lot of time,” Gerontius points out.  He adds telepathically, We have to go raid the Bastion soon, too.We should finish Bile Mountain first, Lester declares.We have already agreed on a time frame, Lillamere projects insistently.I’m with the Baron, Sybele sends.  I’m going when we agreed to go.Lester shrugs.  “All right,” he says doubtfully.Meanwhile, Horbin takes Inoke off to the side for a moment for a private conversation.  “Inoke,” he says, “I’d like to offer you the position of Defender of the Faith of Western Dorhaus.”“Well, it sounds good in theory.  But- uh- what does this position entail?” “Well, you just kind of have to be available to defend the faith.  Frankly, you’re mostly a symbol.  But a symbol can be very powerful.”***Over the next week, Lester gets corporate sponsorship (being paid to wear the patch of a company in Sigil for a year).  Inoke acquires and reads a tome of understanding +4.  And, of course, Orbius does some divining.  Unfortunately, he doesn’t discern much immediately useful information.  He does learn the name of a powerful enemy of the the Arrows of Law- Jibber Jr.  Hmm, he muses, Jibber was a singing slaad... I wonder if this could be his offspring?[/i]Gerontius, Orbius and Lester take a trip to the Glen Lands, home of the halflings on Valonia.  They are being persecuted by orcs wielding terrifying sunpowder-based weaponry.  Gerontius and the rest of the party have previously made attempts to persuade them to abandon Valonia and come to Dorhaus, which is still very sparsely settled since the Fuligin Years (when Fuligin and his fiendish armies destroyed everything they could that was not evil for slightly over a century).  However, on this trip they find that Zenvo Delais, a charismatic halfling that they met briefly on one previous occasion, has been rallying the halflings to stay and fight!Lester shrugs.  “You can’t blame them for wanting to defend their homes.”“Ahh, but I was hoping... well, perhaps some of them will come, now or later, before the orcs attack them again.”  Gerontius sighs philosophically.  “There are so many orcs, and even if we kill a thousand there are millions more.”“I’m sure we’ll come up with something,” Lester smiles. ***Then there was the issue of the salesman.  It came to Inoke’s attention that a salesman who had dealt with him had been murdered.  With Orbius’ divinatory assistance, he found that the murderers were devils, but could not discern who had sent them.  Then it’s time to go back into the mountain.Next Time: Back into Bile Mountain!</blockquote>

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