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<blockquote data-quote="Patlin" data-source="post: 3457528" data-attributes="member: 17264">[sblock=To Elizabeth]Anvuss swears to keep her confidence.&nbsp; He takes on an abstracted countenance while he considers the information.&quot;You are saying that the Ruby is the only mobile portion of an arcane device which is so potent that on at least one occasion it was able to grant a wish.&nbsp; Lucy and her friends have disapeared, and it is entirely possibly that they were in posession of the Ruby at the time.&nbsp; With a device of such massive power, any number of creatures might be willing to go to extreme lengths to obtain the Ruby... not least the Dhakaani, who are always interested in maintaining control over their own artifacts.&nbsp; It is possible the children were scooped up only incidentally in an attempt to obtain the ruby, and a variety of possible methods occur to me.&nbsp; First, utilizing the law of Similarity it is possible that the ruby can be effected by sufficiently potent magics from the machine of which it is a part.&nbsp; Second, troops or construct servants may have been sent to retrieve it.&nbsp; Third, the machine itself may have some ability to repair or reunite itself and might be able to exert its abilities through the ruby even over vast distances, making small or gross adjustments in reality in order to restore itself to one piece.&nbsp; Additional possibilities exist beyond my present ability to recite, but in a large number of those possibilities the Ruby and the rest of the machine are significant players.&nbsp; Unless you have a better suggestion, it would seem extremely likely that our best bet at finding Lucy and the others would be to head for the fixed location at which the Ruby must be used.&quot;&quot;Fortunately, I take it that by the 'undercity' you refer to a location beneath the towers of Sharn... is this correct? If instead you refer to a place in Xen'drick Lucy may well be beyond our reach without substantial additional resources.&quot;[/sblock]</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Patlin, post: 3457528, member: 17264"] [sblock=To Elizabeth]Anvuss swears to keep her confidence. He takes on an abstracted countenance while he considers the information. "You are saying that the Ruby is the only mobile portion of an arcane device which is so potent that on at least one occasion it was able to grant a wish. Lucy and her friends have disapeared, and it is entirely possibly that they were in posession of the Ruby at the time. With a device of such massive power, any number of creatures might be willing to go to extreme lengths to obtain the Ruby... not least the Dhakaani, who are always interested in maintaining control over their own artifacts. It is possible the children were scooped up only incidentally in an attempt to obtain the ruby, and a variety of possible methods occur to me. First, utilizing the law of Similarity it is possible that the ruby can be effected by sufficiently potent magics from the machine of which it is a part. Second, troops or construct servants may have been sent to retrieve it. Third, the machine itself may have some ability to repair or reunite itself and might be able to exert its abilities through the ruby even over vast distances, making small or gross adjustments in reality in order to restore itself to one piece. Additional possibilities exist beyond my present ability to recite, but in a large number of those possibilities the Ruby and the rest of the machine are significant players. Unless you have a better suggestion, it would seem extremely likely that our best bet at finding Lucy and the others would be to head for the fixed location at which the Ruby must be used." "Fortunately, I take it that by the 'undercity' you refer to a location beneath the towers of Sharn... is this correct? If instead you refer to a place in Xen'drick Lucy may well be beyond our reach without substantial additional resources."[/sblock] [/QUOTE]

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