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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Droid101" data-source="post: 1825586" data-attributes="member: 942">Eltharion falls and lands on his head quite unceremoniously.  He sits up and looks around.  Bink, Balophan, and Bloodthorne are also nearby, looking around curiously.Buildings with ostentatious metallic blades and stone spikes line a wide cobblestone boulevard.  Sculpted faces and gargoyle-like figures perch over every door, pillar and rainspout.  Fanciful iron grillwork covers many windows, and evil-looking vines sporting serrated leaves grow wild in the shadowed side streets.  Despite the stranges designs, all the buildings are in good condition.  Save a 200-foot wide swath of utter destruction that blasted through the heart of a block of buildings.  The swath still glows with the residue of a massive power release.  The path of destruction leads off into the city, in the direction of a distant pillar of smoke and fire.“Don’t even tell me, I don’t want to look.  I just want a drink…” Eltharion says dejectedly.  Nobody argues, and they all head down a nearby street.  “Where’s a bar?  Hello?  Nearest bar please…”“Thataway,” a rough looking dwarf passerby answers.The Heroes head straight in.  Eltharion walks right up to the bar.“Hard liquor, hardest you got.  Give me the bottle,” Eltharion grabs the bottle and four glasses, taking them to a table Bink had picked out.  Eltharion pours everyone a glass, and he downs his in one gulp without hesitation.  He fills it again.“I can’t believe Grog is… gone…” Bink says quietly.“I told you not to say that…” Eltharion takes another drink.“No you didn’t.  Where are we?” Balophan looks around at the strange people in the bar, finally taking notice.Every type of person imaginable is present.  Dwarves, elves, humans; creatures seemingly made out of elements, people with horns, tails, scales, and just about anything else one could think of.“What happened to my staff… and my amulet?  Where’s all the stuff I got?” Bink curses.  Nobody else has any of the items they got from Vecna’s armory, either.“Where are we?” Balophan asks a nearby halfling.“Are you daft?  Yer in Sigil, the greatest city in the multiverse!” the halfling answers ecstatically.“I heard of this place when I was in Limbo with Trek,” Bink says.  “Supposed to be the center of the universe or something.”“Who cares…” Eltharion drinks again.“Remember how Grog always used to tug on my robe?” Bink chuckles.“He was very strong, not even just for a goblin.  I think he was stronger than I am.  Quite brave too,” Balophan adds.“ ‘e was willin’ to lose ‘is ‘and for yer cause.  Something can be said for that kind of fool’ardiness,” Bloodthorne says.“Remember when we first met him?  He tried to attack us, and Ogrim threw his axe in the fire.  He was so angry.  And now he’s gone…” Eltharion’s mood lightens slightly, but after his statement he goes sour again, taking another swig.Bink felt a tugging on his robe.  His eyes lit up and he spun around……but it wasn’t Grog.However, it was Ogrim.“What in the world… why are you here?” Bink asks, shaking his friend’s hand.“Adlai sent me to check on an adamantium shipment that went missing.  I had to come through Sigil to get to Rigus.  You all want to come?” Ogrim says.“Sorry, end of the world pending.  Get back to you later…” Eltharion drinks.“Your timing is a might bad, I’d say.  Vecna tore through this city and I’m sure we aint done with ‘em yet,” Bloodthorne says, as he was keenly listening to other patrons of the bar.  “Name’s Bloodthorne.  Pleased to make your acquaintance.”“Ogrim Oakenshield.  Vecna?  End of the world?  What’re ye about?”  Ogrim asks curiously.The Heroes relate everything that happened to them up until now, including the circle of stones and all the portals, the inner sanctum, the relics, the evil plane of Ravenloft, the tower, and Grog falling into the depths right before their eyes.“That’s quite a tale…” Ogrim responds after soaking in the information.“I guess we should go see what happened in the center of the city,” Bink says reluctantly.“Not until I have another drink…” Eltharion gets a new bottle from the bartender, and pours everyone a glass.  They all raise their glasses to the center of the table.“To Grog.”</blockquote>

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