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Message: <blockquote data-quote="airwalkrr" data-source="post: 6049536" data-attributes="member: 12460">Alise arrives in Overlook to attend The Gathering Light and meet with Hanamelk. In Overlook, the spires of over a dozen identical towers rise to the sky. While the towers are drab gray granite, bits of color are scattered about—an occasional window of stained glass, a small hanging garden, a tapestry of Riedran design. When she reaches The Gathering Light, she can see that Selkatari, an elder kalashtar monk within these halls, is training several dozen students in the ways of traditional Adaran martial arts. She skirts her way along the side of the main gymnasium to go and find Hanamelk in the library.The library of The Gathering Light is merely a collection of scrolls, all of them written in Riedran, the language of the people who live on the distant continent of Sarlona. It is an alien language to Alise, written in strange characters from top to bottom and right to left instead of using phonetic letters to form words left to right and top to bottom like the Galifaran Common language she has seen all her life. Hanamelk's kind eyes spot her from across the library where he has several scrolls upon the table. A shudder runs down Alise's spine when she sees one of the scrolls has a simple drawing of a red moon upon it."Welcome back, my child," Hanamelk says, bowing to her as a teacher does to a pupil. It takes a moment but Alise remembers to bow back in deference, as is the kalashtar way. "Your thoughts are known to me. I have sensed the distress you experienced last night even across the boundaries of this city. And the celestial event of last night is known to all. I can see this picture disturbs you. It should. It is an ancient scroll carried by my brother-ancestors to these shores which tells of a battle between the Quori and the Giants, one in which an artifact known as the Moonbreaker was used to banish the Quori back to the Region of Dreams. It is a harrowing tale. But that is a story for another time.""I have need of your special skills. A student of mine has refused to come to The Gathering Light today. He resides just a few towers away in Highwater in one of the poorer tenements there. He is an elf by the name of Quarion. I believe he fears going out into the street for his life, as there are many wicked rumors surfacing about a part that elves may have played in the bringing of the Blood Moon; it is of course ignorance and foolishness. Please convince him of the error of his ways and persuade him to come to The Gathering Light that he might assist me in studying this phenomenon. I have use of his particular talents, but I am too busy to be drawn away from my work myself. I believe you will find this a most fulfilling task that will aid your soul in its pursuit of enlightenment."Hanamelk provides you with Quarion's address and then leaves you to continue his work.[ooc]I have Alise's skill points spent. Everyone else please remember to include where you spent your skill points in your next post.[/ooc][sblock=Plot Hooks]Party: Speak to Denion at The Crystals of Denion about his missing daughter.Party: Find and speak with Beige at the House Phiarlan enclave.Dorius Mini Hook: Speak to Mandyran about the rumor.Vigil Mini Hook: Find Brother Wayden at the Cathedral of the Cleansing Flame. (active)Berrent Mini Hook: Visit the Rat's Market and press the goblin Skaken for information on the Cults of the Dragon Below.Brad Mini Hook: Find the dwarf grifter in Foundation before the Tyrants do. (active)Alise Mini Hook: Seek Hanamelk at The Gathering Light for his counsel and meditation. (active)[/sblock]</blockquote>

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