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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Edena_of_Neith" data-source="post: 1952125" data-attributes="member: 2020">To Kalanyr and others sending diplomats:  The incoming elven diplomats are put up in luxurious and protected quarters in the yuan-ti capital (I'm betting the elves find this much more acceptable and palatable, being with the yuan-ti on the surface, than with the drow underground.  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />  )  Other diplomats are also housed in the yuan-ti city with full honor.  What is going on beneath their feet?  A lot!  But the diplomats are kept away, for their own safety, and Eclavdra isn't lying when she says she can't guarantee their safety amidst the massive construction project Below (she has her hands full just keeping the situation under control period.)  Eclavdra personally speaks with the elves, in her usual soft, gentle voice, ignoring their inner, concealed (but obvious to her) hatred, horror, and disgust:  Please understand that a new reality faces us all, with the closing of the Crystal Sphere.  I do not do what I want to do.  I do what I have to do.  In this crisis, I think we all must do things which otherwise we would find unthinkable.  You are quite safe here, and will be treated with all honor by my people and the yuan-ti.  Likewise, our ambassadors to Miranda will behave according to your laws.  -  The refugee drow in Miranda have to be captured.  They are so terrified of the elves they will not surrender, and since flight is not possible for them they will fight to the end.  If the elves capture them and do not kill them, these drow - after a very long time - slowly adjust, realizing the elves are not quite the horrific monsters they were made out to be, and begin slowly changing towards neutrality and good, and some even to the elven ways.  If Miranda sends notice to Eclavdra that these renegade drow are threatening the elves (by their refusal to surrender) Eclavdra offers to send an elite team of drow in to deal with these renegades.  Of course, if this is allowed all the refugee drow will be killed, down to the least and very last.  But no elves will lose their lives trying to capture or kill these terrified refugees.  (Wryly notes it is not easy playing a chaotic evil power, where the main population of drow are all worse than mad dogs, and that said with an apology to mad dogs for the comparison.  The yuan-ti are not nearly so evil, but nevertheless hate and loath the other peoples around them.  Eclavdra, of course, is the maddest of all the mad dogs ... if she wasn't, she wouldn't have come to rule the drow.  Eclavdra is fully as evil as Iuz, just more soft spoken ... truly, a Dark Ozma.)</blockquote>

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