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Message: <blockquote data-quote="DEFCON 1" data-source="post: 4089548" data-attributes="member: 7006">For the entire group, the two days go by rather quickly.  It is amazing how fast time flies when you are in a bustling city.  With places to go and things to see and do, the hours rush by.  Fortunately, each of the group accomplishes the tasks they set out to do.Brother Donovan purchases the cloak and the silversheen he wanted, and is able to reconnect with many of his parishioners.  The time is well spent and he feels reconnected with his soul.  (Gain Cloak of Resistance +1, a flask of silversheen, and the Cause Fear 1/day Least Aberrant Dragonmark feat)Rogan begins casing the streets and bars, hoping to find information on Dura ir'Marellan.  For the most part he gets nothing, other than the name is from a noble family line in Karrnath.  The family is rumored to be extremely religious and self-righteous.  Other than that, he earns a nice chunk of change playing Three Dragon Ante back at the Guardian compound.  (Gain 50 gp and the Dimension Leap 1/day Least Orien Dragonmark)  Jango and Jina spend a day together preparing the girl for her travel back to Seawell.  When she leaves, Jango sets out and buys a new shield, and as the day progresses, he notices that his constellation mark is in fact slightly different than it was before... the design has grown ever-so-slightly in size.  Perhaps he in fact was affected by the altar like everyone else after all? (Gain Mithril Buckler and 1 extra Prophetic Favor per day)Ari finds that there are no tourneys going on in town at the moment, however there are daily workouts and duels at the Deneith guildhall to participate in.  He is able to work up a very good sweat both days, and it is on the second day that he also notices an ever-so-subtle additional change to his mark.  Apparently he was affected by the altar too, but nowhere near to the same degree the others were... probably because he already had been marked, and had gone through a much more severe change as a Child of Khyber.  (Gain 2 Potions of Cure Moderate Wounds and 1 additional use of Least Aberrant Dragonmark per day)Khalia goes through all the formalities necessary at the Flame temple for the Elder, then goes on a bit of a shopping spree.  Following that, she returns to the Guardian compound to assist Sur'Kil with his research, and her contacts with her father back home open up some avenues that make Sur'Kil's discoveries more enlightening.  Without her help, he might not have discovered what he does.  (Gain a new hat and cosmetics, and gain the Shield 1/day Least Aberrant Dragonmark)**********At the end of the two days, everyone returns to the compound.  In the same meeting room as before, the party sits with the Valenar elf and a few others of the order to discuss what it is they all found.  Sur'Kil stands at the head of the table and looks out over the rest of you."In the course of my research... so gratefully assisted by Miss ir'Indari... I have uncovered what I was looking for.  I unearthed a tale about a group of explorers of the Q'Barran peninsula.  Five of the members of this group were said to have all simultaneously developed the so-called aberrant dragonmarks in the course of an expedition.  Such an event would be rare enough, but one true dragonmarked among their number claimed to see her mark change in shape at about the same time."Ari and Jango mention during the meeting that their current marks have indeed gone through a similar change like the woman experienced... and thus all the members of the group who had been down below in the chamber of the Altar of the Dragon's Eye have experienced its draconic transformative magic."I have determined that this group of explorers were led by one named Jheamast, a Sarlonan.  No direct account hints at Jheamast or his band having visited the Temple of Kha'shazul, but the congruence of his party's manifesting the same strange marks that you have manifested seems clear.""Jheamast was said to have sought a weapon for use against some foe in his homeland of Sarlona.  It is my belief that he must have claimed the missing relic and/or the Dragon's Eye from the Temple of Kha'shazul prior to your arrival.  More than a thousand years prior, to be precise.  If you are amenable, I would like to procure your services for another few weeks.  I will increase your wages, providing you with an additional 500 gold pieces each."</blockquote>

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