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Message: <blockquote data-quote="simmo" data-source="post: 1381240" data-attributes="member: 9744">chapter 4 Each to Their OwnAfter they left the City Barracks Littleby, Caleb and Serena went to the Temple of Tomeri which was located at the edge of the Lady's Ward. Malkir and Andrew went back to 34b Stonecutters Row in the Lower Ward for some rest and relaxation.Back at the temple Serena entered her garden and spent a little time talking to her father. Together they found a bedraggled looking young woman wandering by the stream that fed in to the lake. The young woman wore filthy clothes that were covered in blood and she clutched her arms to her sides. They brought her to the cottage as fast as they could and Zakar found some clean clothes. When Serena asked him to heal the young woman's wounds, the hound archon declined stating that there was nothing that he could do for her.Once the woman had begun to get changed Serena saw that there were no wounds on her body. It slowly dawned on her that the woman, who called herself Inlia, was in fact no longer a part of the world of the living. Her suspicions were confirmed when Inlia told her story about growing up in the Hive and her brother having recently been killed by a group of Xaosmen. Her last memories were of being chased by the same men after they caught her stealing some bread and then cornering her in a dead end alley. The very last memories she could recall before waking in the Garden were of pain and blood.Serena and Inlia went for a walk through the garden and the hiver girl told the seer more about her life. All about her passion for painting and her love for a young Sensate. She asked Serena if she could stay for awhile, the question almost an exact echo of the words that her father had used. Serena answered 'yes' and then left the girl to enjoy walking in the fields of barley as she sought to find a place of solitude for herself.Soon afterwards Serena entered a portion of the garden that she'd not been to before and sat amongst the crystal flowers to meditate on the skill that Sss'ah'tlaha had mentioned. It concerned the ability to peel back the petals of a person's mind to explore strong emotional way points in their lives.Meanwhile Caleb spent a lot of his time polishing his newly acquired hammer and keeping his mephits away from touching it. Eventually the thought of having the item identified by an spell slinger drifted down between the tectonic plates of his mind and he decided to look for a priest or priestess of Tomeri who could perform such an action.Littleby found himself a nice quiet cell in the Temple of Tomeri and spent many long hours reading the small book that he'd borrowed from Kesto Brighteyes' shop, The Parted Veil. He'd left another very valuable book as a deposit and was only able to borrow this book for a week. However, once the dwarven scholar began to pour over the pages of the small book he soon saw the genius  and sinister madness of its author.The small book was very old and written by a scholar called Acererak. The author had an incredible grasp of Negative Energy, far beyond Littleby's who had spent decades immersed in its study. In the first few chapters the author described how Negative Energy could be harnessed using arcane and mechanical means to create automatons that could think for themselves on a basic level and act as warriors.The book made frequent use of the words necrotech, steamjacks and mechanika - especially when the name Lord Turok, of the Scharde Islands, was used in a sentence. Some of the writing was even in Negation (the language of natives to the Negative Energy Plane) and it strained Littleby's mind to grasp the concepts that were being conveyed. Not wishing to lose this precious information he copied down as much as he could in the living tome given to him by Heiron Lifegiver. Before finally falling asleep briefly, having studied and read for eight hours in a row.Malkir spent his time training his kobold students. Despite having seen them in action only a short tie ago they had made some small progress under, what Malkir presumed to be, Annaleese's tutelage. Andrew was shown around the lower floor of the house and left to explore the remainder of the house by himself. The women who had worked in the house (and which Malkir had inherited with the house) had all become novices in the Temple of Tomeri, goddess of Love and Wisdom.One of the bedrooms had been converted to a shrine and Andrew accidentally walked in to one of the rooms in which an attractive elven woman was bathing. Whilst he was busy apologizing for interrupting her during her bath, a second elven woman surfaced from beneath the water in the bath and the two invited him to join them. Andrew's face grew red as he blushed with embarrassment, but he did not forego the opportunity. After a quick tour of the rest of the house he finally gave in to the charms of the two stunning elven maidens and spent the afternoon in their chambers.Malkir sat at the edge of his bed after he having finished his training and listened to his recording in the crystal mimir. Sensing another presence in the room the mystic looked up to see a tall man wearing a black feathered cloak in the doorway of the room. "Something is wrong," said Crowson and vanished. Malkir got up from the bed, whilst the mimir was still speaking, and walked over to the doorway. There was a small puddle of liquid in the doorway and suddenly the voice coming from the mimir became many. All of the voices sounded like the one belonging to the mystic - but each was subtly different from the other. The recording paused and when the next sentence began there was only one voice.</blockquote>

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