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Message: <blockquote data-quote="JoeNotCharles" data-source="post: 4841815" data-attributes="member: 79945">[sblock=Kamotz]The clerk at the <a href="http://www.enworld.org/forum/living-4th-edition/246446-temple-lauto.html" target="_blank">Temple of Lauto</a> relieves you of your burden, the looks at you strangely. "I can sense that you are of the faith, and you've done your duty well, but you wear no sign. Have you lost your sigil?" she asks. Without waiting for an answer, she rummages in her desk and pulls out a small emblem on a chain - a holy symbol of Lauto.  "Wear this to proclaim your faith," she admonishes. "The servants of Death are oft misundersood, but Lauto commands us not to hide our darkness, but by example to be an exemplar to prove that Death is but a part of Life."As your fingers close over the symbol, however, you feel differently.  A presence uncurls in your head - not a voice, exactly, but a feeling of great will and intention.  You are my favoured child, it says, and great things are before you.  Your path will be long and hard, and Hell lies at the end of it.  Be ready!The presence vanishes, but the amulet pulses in your hand and you feel the barest echo of the power still within it.  You realize that you have fallen to your knees, and the acolyte has rushed over to stand worriedly over you.  She doesn't seem to notice anything unusual about the symbol.[sblock=OOC]The symbol is now a Holy Symbol +1.  When you're ready to leave here, you'll arrive back at the Hanged Man just as Reggie does so you won't miss the denouement.[/sblock][/sblock]As Kamotz carts the body off to the Temple of Lauto, the rest of you make your way back to the Hanged Man, where a crowd of people are standing around gawking at two idiots punching each other.  You bypass the crowd and slip into the back room.You scribble a note to Reggie and settle down to wait.  To your surprise, he appears in just a few minutes, hair and clothes rumpled.  "You must really like that magic paper," he yawns. "You could have just come upstairs and knocked on my door."[sblock=OOC]I re-read the Back Room thread, and it turns out that when Reggie gave you the paper, he also said he was getting a room here at the tavern for the duration - and he gave you a crystal that would teleport you back here.  So that bit with the guard wasn't really necessary.  Oops.[/sblock]"So... um... you say you found my ring?  And... I know I said it wasn't important, but... Gwendolyn?  I confess, I said I didn't care any more, but I WAS hoping to see her again... maybe..."His face pales when you tell him what happened to her. "But that's HORRIBLE!  Oh, what did she get herself mixed up in?  Abducted by orcs!  Could that have happened to ME?  I suppose mother was right, she really WASN'T our kind of girl."  He sighs.  "Well, let's have an end to this."  He pulls out a large purse and drops it on the table.  "500 gold for the ring and then I'll be on my way.  That's what we agreed, isn't it?"</blockquote>

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