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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Radiating Gnome" data-source="post: 587219" data-attributes="member: 150">Another PlaceholderBack in DyversThe party had a little time to kill between their return to Dyvers and the battle with their former spelljammer ship.  The ship, which had been called The Mystery Machine, was now called the Herald of Ashardalon, and was bringing Gulthias, Anathe, the powerful necromatic artifact the Heart of Ashardalon (from Nightfang Spire), and a whole lot of undead and construct flunkies to Dyvers and the seat of the new DragonFaith in Greyhawk.There are a lot of details to come here -- the party mucked around trying to come up with good ideas for dealing with the ship.  Pah got herself in trouble with a crime ring run by Rakshasa, and the party had to bail her out.  And they met the Fangs of the dragon -- warrior priests of the Dragon Faith, trained to ride young red dragons into battle -- who would accompany the goonies when they went to face off with the Herald.  They also found out that the Herald was being escorted by one more more white dragons, somehow loyal to Anathe despite his split from the dragon faith proper. And they got news from outlying towns -- the Herald had veered off course a bit, and was skimming close to the earth when it got near small settlements along the way.  As it neared those villages, the dead buried there were clawing their way out of theirgraves and rising up to kill the living in the village.  They had reports from several villages reporting the same sort of floor of zombies.  in preparation, the Magister had ordered the Dyvers army to set about digging up the dead in all graveyards and catacombs and destroying (burning, mostly) all bodies that they found.  The citizens were not happy about the solutionl, but it made the most sense at the time, as for centuries the poor had not been able to afford the sort of rituals and enchantments that would protect a body from being animated, and the city did not have the resources to perform those spells and rituals in the time left before the Herald's arrival.  So, they had a lot to think about.  -rgThis will all be fleshed out later . . .</blockquote>

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