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Message: <blockquote data-quote="GruTheWanderer" data-source="post: 669362" data-attributes="member: 3119">True to her word, the Battlepoet waits a week before giving you another serious assignment.  In the meantime you recuperate, conduct training exercises, and try out your new gear.Arramor is away, responding to a medical emergency in the Chain of Tears.  Leopard is sharpening her tracking skills in the deserts of Ashen.  Erenal has drawn diplomatic bodyguard work.So when you assemble, you see that the current team consists of Marcus, Amanu, Theryndil, Akodo, Grillon, and Chjargal (a bugbear druid).The Battlepoet speaks, "As you all know, Delta Squad draws the strange assignments.  I have a feeling that this one will be unusual even by our standards.  You are being assigned to escort a alien researcher who is tracking down evidence of a elder spelljamming race in another sphere.  He has supplied his own ship and crew.  According to our calculations, the journey and return will take the better part of five weeks.""Although artifact reclamation is usually left to the command of individual sphere commanders, the nature of the researcher presents some difficulties.  Once you see him, I am sure you will understand the delicacy of the situation."She walks to one wall of the room and waves her fist over an array of gemstones.  One of the walls fades into transparency, although you suspect it remains opaque from the opposite side (the technique is often used in interrogation rooms).In a waiting room a tall figure sits alone at a table, with a kobold squatting placidly nearby.  The figure raises its head.  White eyes without pupils catch the light, and glistening purple skin ripples as four facial tentacles move in a complex pattern.  "I greet you."  The words sound cool and sharp in your brains.</blockquote>

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