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Message: <blockquote data-quote="simmo" data-source="post: 1454875" data-attributes="member: 9744">Chapter 10 Saved by the bellOne of the mephits found the stash of soul prisms that Sethetis had kept hidden away and brought them to its master.”I reckon that I know someone who can sort those out for us, or at least tell us how much they are worth,” Cade said eyeing the prisms with keen interest.“Why do I get the impression..” Serena began, but was interrupted by Caleb asking a question of Yissa.“WHAT ARE THESE?” the earth genasi asked Yissa, holding the soul prisms in his outstretched hand.“Currency,” the bariaur woman replied dispassionately.“WHAT DO THEY DO?” Caleb asked.“Cade, I get the impression that you're the kind of person who knows someone that can sort just about anything.” Serena managed to finish her previous sentence. She tired to give the halfling a hard stare, but it faltered as he smiled back at her.“It's funny that you should mention that,” Cade said with an even bigger grin. “I've got a contact called Montello the Jeweller that I've had some dealings with in the past. He used to work for Shemeshka the Marauder.”“Knowledge and memories.” Yissa the Sage stated after a lengthy pause. “Experiences.”“INSIDE THESE STONES?” Caleb asked as he held one up to the light. He saw a ghostly face moving inside it that moved as if blown about by the wind. Or perhaps it was a ghostly human face crying out silently in distress.“Yes,” the bariaur woman confirmed. She was unhappy about her superior keeping the stones, but Cade could not discern why.“HOW DO YOU ACCESS THEM?” the earth genasi enquired, eager to find out more.“Well, you simply have to...” Yissa began.“They're traded by fiends.“ Cade cautioned his tall friend. “I'm not sure that you'd want to.”“Can I have a look?” Serena asked, taking one of the prisms out of Caleb's hand.“Memories and knowledge, are we talking about a soul?” Littleby asked. Yissa had not bothered to answer Caleb's question, but the dwarf was a little more insistent in getting an answer.“I don't know,” she replied truthfully. Or care, the bariaur woman thought to herself. “It is simply currency to me.”“I'll tell you what, when we get back to Sigil...” Cade was about to launch in to his plan about how to sell the prisms when he found that Caleb was not ready to move on yet.“WHY DON'T WE SMASH THEM?” Caleb asked no one in particular.“It's currency,” Cade stated as if that explained everything. Destroying money was sacrilege to him. “It is of value to someone.”“IF IT CONTAINS A TRAPPED SPIRIT WITHIN IT...” the earth genasi mused out aloud.“If.” Cade reiterated emphatically. “Perhaps we can get it to someone who can value it?”Littleby remembered reading a book awhile ago in which the author claimed that if a soul died away from its destined plane then it was annihilated. Although if these were trapped souls of mortal instead of petitioners, then they would seek to travel to their after-lives.“LET'S SMASH IT,” Caleb stated as he raised one of the prisms in his hand.“At the very least I can find out more about them if you let me have them when we get back to Sigil.” Cade's voice had risen in panic at the thought of the valuable prisms being mashed and he gently lowered the earth genasi's hand.“If we get back to Sigil,” Andrew did not bother to hide the doubtfulness of such a claim.“I certainly think that we should find out more about them.” Serena did not like the idea of smashing the prisms. Perhaps this was because of the creepy feeling that she got when she handled them, or perhaps it was her intuition telling her to keep the prisms close. “But if they really do have souls trapped inside them, then I don't think that we should sell them.”“Well, we can discuss that once we are absolutely convinced of what is inside them.” Cade was about to go over his plan again when the bell started ringing loudly from the watch-tower.Zakar? Serena called out to her guardian.There are riders coming, the hounds archon though back in his normal growling tone of speech.How many and from which direction? Serena asked.There is a column of knight coming from spirewards. Zakar was busy climbing down the tower's ladders to reach the Chosen of Tomeri.What colour? Cade asked, realising that the knights might belong to their allies.Black armoured knights, Zakar replied disgustedly, just as he reached the bottom of the stairs.Black armoured knights? Lets get the hell out of here. The halfling packed his gear in under a minute and was ready to rush off. Osbourne!Yes your Highness. The knight was still holding Greir Crasad protectively in his arms. The other companions could feel the faint rumble of man riders somewhere in the next canyon and all gathered their belonging to quickly leave the Rendering works behind.</blockquote>

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