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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Forrester" data-source="post: 121177" data-attributes="member: 1279">Hey, look! A moron!First of all, it shouldn't need to be said, but I'll say it anyway -- my men will be on the highest of alerts for anyone who plans on breaking Meldork out of his imprisonment (if they even know that he's imprisoned). That includes Acererak, Maudlin, any member of the BB, Zouron (just in case, old friend), and so on. The passage between Greyspace and Realmspace will be COMPLETELY SEALED. Also note what I say to Melkor below, regarding this possibly being a distraction for the *true* mission-of-theft. Can't be too careful. Second of all, an OOC note: I'm currently sick as a dog. I won't be logging in as much as usual, because I'll be sleeping half the time. So don't hold that against me, Edena. I'll log back in tonight. Third -- Edena, I (we, more likely) need the answers to a few questions: 1) If we kill this Avatar of Melkor, how soon can he create another one? A year? Ten years? Less? More? I would imagine it would take awhile, and the Shade should be in some way penalized in power. It's not every day a god loses a 20PL Avatar. Not at all. There's got to be a reason gods don't throw them around casually. 2) If proof of Melkor's capture were to go out over Realmspace and Greyspace, how much would that hurt the Shade's cause, do you think, as far as their followers are concerned?The road my conversation with Melkor takes will depend on your answers, obviously. I need to know whether he has any reason to bargain (does he have anything to lose?) and whether I have any reason to bargain. I'll start up the conversation, though <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=":)" />:--------------------------After consultation with our most powerful seers and 11th level magic-wielding mages, a method is divined to project Forrester's image into Melkor's trapped room without giving Melkor an avenue of escape. (I'm going to assume, for story-purposes, that this can be done. If not, I'll talk to him over a highly protected intercom <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin    :D"  data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" /> ).  "Well, Melkie, you sure have stepped in it this time, haven't you? Unfortunately, you seem to have confused me with an idiot -- that is to say, someone with the strategic and tactical abilities of YOURSELF."Because only an idiot protects something of almost infinite worth as casually as you protected Vecna's Phylactery. I know you're powerful, but did you REALLY think you could just waltz into the heart of the United Commonwealth and take whatever you wanted? Are you really that much of a moron?! I can't help but think that this could just be a distraction for some other, sneakier plan that you and Anabstercorian (or someone else) have put together. Maybe you make an ass out of yourself while he looks for the True Staff, thinking that with this incredibly huge distraction, we'd forget about him? Was that it? You don't have to tell me -- I'll know soon enough.""In any case, Part I of your plan -- making an ass out of yourself -- is now complete. I congratulate you on your fine work."Which leaves me the question of what to do with you. I could kill you, of course. And I'm waiting to hear from my seers precisely what that would accomplish. But I suppose . . . I might be open to the possibility of some sort of bargain, in return for your release. Something about your troops, and all of your lackeys (INCLUDING the dragons) leaving Oerth, never to return. "I'm open for a short (five minute) conversation on the matter. How about it? What can you offer me in return for my not destroying you where you stand?"----------------EDENA -- this *will* be, IC, only a five minute conversation. Forrester doesn't have the time to spend more than five minutes on Melkor. And we *will* be making sure that the True True Staff is just as watched during those five minutes as before, in case Anab or someone else decides this is the opportune time to make a move. (By the way -- EVERYONE ELSE -- these precautions were put in place in case Anabstercorian made a move on the Staff. I honestly didn't think he'd be stupid enough to try for it, but I am a paranoid son-of-a-bitch. Figures that Shade-boy would be the one to think he could walk into my home and take whatever he wanted.)</blockquote>

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