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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Edena_of_Neith" data-source="post: 127858" data-attributes="member: 2020">Well, it doesn't say anything about protecting the wielder against a nuclear attack.  Which is what the Shade were going to do, I believe, on Turn 6 - but now, their plans are more devious and subtle, if more terrible yet.    In the IR, the Crook of Rao enables all the people of the Kevellond League (I mean, everyone, period) to manifest energy from the Positive Material Plane.  This energy can be channeled into an opponent during battle by physical touch.  The opponent then explodes, overloaded by positive energy.  The person channeling the energy is typically unharmed, shielded by additional positive energy flowing into him or her.  The energy can also be flung through the air, as a form of Spellfire, hitting any target that is within sight, or - if it misses - hitting the ground or rocketing off into space.  For this reason, the Kevellond League gained 100 PL (already noted in the Lists) for this combat capability given to all it's people.  Archcleric Hazen carries the Crook of Rao, and he has most certainly lived up to the standards required to carry it, in the Moderator's opinion.  Not that the Moderator was going to make Hazen give it up, whatever he did.  The Moderator does not subscribe to the idea that Good equals:  Do, behave, and think as I tell you to, or you lose.  That is what Mina preaches.  Good is about tolerance, justice, love, mercy, caring, joy, beauty, fulfillment, pleasure, and other things of worth, in the Moderator's opinion.  - - -  If the Crook of Rao has a problem, it is that it philosophies over everything, and telepathically discusses with it's wielder all reasonable courses of action.  Since what is reasonable is often subjective, the Staff will muse over all the possible courses of action, carrying on like one of the Gnomes of Mt. Nevermind would discuss a new invention (with the listener tied up in a chair, so he could not flee for his life.)  If the wielder can get used to this endless monologue of philosophy (telling the Staff to shut up, or shut the (10 to 15 words deleted here) up, or shut up or be tossed into the caverns of Ultimate Doom, has no effect - the Crook will simply point out the user is being unreasonable, and should calm down, and listen, for if it is listened to, then the proper course of action is to ...) then there will be no problem using the Crook of Rao.</blockquote>

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