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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Rkhet" data-source="post: 2596123" data-attributes="member: 31318">Moreth: /ooc: Shapechange and Mindblank is active.  The rest have worn off.seeing nothing alive save for plants and insects, you reach for a fat catepillar on a branch beside you.  You close your grip around it, and is startled when thousands of tiny spines shoot out of its body, impaling your hand.  Fortunately, being incorporeal, you are unharmed.The catepillar screeches furiously as you drain its life away.  The spines shiver in the air, oozing a yellowish liquid from the tips, possibly poison.Its life-force is unusually strong for a creature of its size, filled with a mad primal urge to kill, consume, and mate, but tastes every bit as vile as the creature looks.You search is fruitful; half an hour later you chance upon a trail, which eventually leads to the elven city.  You cannot shake the feeling that you are being watched, however.The elves have made this place much more pleasant than the jungle outside.  The city is a mixture of Human and Elven architecture; some of its buildings are living wood; giant intertwining trees hollowed out by magic.  Others are the no-nonsensical stonework favored by the Empire.  Beautiful, living sculptures of wood and marble lined the streets.  The jungle seemed to thin out and become more subdued around the city, the trees smaller and straighter, losing much of its menace while allowing the sun to shine through its foilage./ooc: need actions from Rhakzan here...Cann:"Killing a large number of slaves would be shooting myself in the foot, for elven slaves are in demand all over the Empire and, as I have said, account for much of Vinecastle's wealth.  The elves know this as well as I do.  Also, the elves too have their diviners and spies.  While there are ways of hiding the movement of large forces, it is prohibitively expensive.  Therefore moving my troops to the north would be immediately obvious to them, as would a ruse of reinforcements.""The elves will have reasons aplenty to attack me; all I need from you is the hair that will break the camel's back - without making it look like a trap."</blockquote>

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