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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Edena_of_Neith" data-source="post: 1965005" data-attributes="member: 2020">TO ALL IN THE IR  <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=":)" />  (chuckles merrily, and ruefully)  Ok, I've looked at all the posts on page 5, 6 and 7.  And, even ... I ... can't quite figure out what the situation is now in the Great City.  Not even after carefully reading each and every post, can I figure out what is happening.  I can take guesses, 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=":)" />  All I can say is, it's ... well ... mess isn't the word.  Chaos, is not the word.  To say the situation is messy or chaotic, is like saying the sun is warm.    I don't even think the word bedlam quite describes the situation at hand!  <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=":)" />  (chuckles again)  Let's see:  Iuz and Eilistraee are battling.  Both are wounded.  Iuz has the Regalia.  The forces of Eilistraee hold part of the city, protecting the drow there.  The Wolf God is trying to pacify the humanoids who hold other parts of the city.  The Elves of the Imperial Elven Armada of Realmspace are here in force, battling the humanoids and the vampires and the others ... and trying to save the drow.  Gallador and a large force from the Concord are there, to face Eilistraee, Morwen, and all comers.  Rhynnon teleported away with Eclavdra, or did he?  Did Sollirs' leader get their first? Or did someone else get there first?  Or did anyone get there at all?  Al'Akbar and his force is there, trying to help Eilistraee and stop the humanoids.  Morwen and her force is there, trying to help the drow and Eilistraee.  Zagyg has intervened, offering himself as a diety to worship, and it's helping the drow through the Withdrawal.  The Tempest of Hell (Uvenelei) has shown up ... what is he doing?  Aerdi has intervened ... I believe Asharadon is calling for a Drow Resolution?  Asharadon sent a large force to the Great City looking for Eclavdra.  Rary is somehow now involved ... how?  Hachiman of Zindia is now standing between Iuz and Eilistraee (?) ...  Now, I'm quite sure I've missed about 5 or 6 of the major things happening right now ...  Does this mean my industrialization of the Great City is interrupted?  <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=":)" /> <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" /> <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=":)" />  The Yuan-Ti aren't doing anything to irritate Iuz.  The Yuan-Ti are sitting in their homes, hoping the Bedlam Below doesn't migrate UP to them ... their capital city is right above it.    Eclavdra hasn't the faintest idea of what's going on.  (I REPEAT, ECLAVDRA CAN BE LOCATED BY ANYONE NOW.  SHE HAS NO MAGICAL DEFENSES AGAINST SCRYING, AND IS PHYSICALLY HELPLESS RIGHT NOW.)  The last thing Eclavdra knew, her plans were going perfectly (just like a computer flowchart.)  Then she started feeling ill, then strange feelings and thoughts erupted in her, then she couldn't act she was so sick, then all her people were suddenly sick and nobody could figure out the faintest clue as to what the sickness was, much less how to reverse it ... then a horde of Gods and Celestials and Infernals and elves and humans and wizards and Lolth knows who else descended all at once on her beautiful Great City To Be, then all hell broke out everywhere, then Eilistraee was suddenly there defending HER against Iuz, and Iuz had HER Regalia, and then a bunch of people and Gods all tried to grab her at once and teleport her somewhere else, and if they succeeded she doesn't know, and then ...  To say Eclavdra is confused and incapable of grasping the situation would be quite the understatement.  Even if she wasn't completely submerged in the Withdrawal!  <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=":)" />  The chaos continues in the 99 mostly abandoned drow cities.  Melkors' vampires are running amok, creating drow vampires.  Iuzs' forces are there, giving Melkors' vampires a run for their money.  And I remember that Airwhales' elves from the elven Imperial Armada were also there, to defend the drow ... I remember him saying that.  And now I am reading that Kalanyr has sent forces to defend the drow of those cities.    So at least four competing powers, two evil and two good, are contesting the 99 abandoned drow cities and the remaining drow within them.  EDIT:  Ok, I just read:  Uveneleis' forces are down in the cities too.  But Kalanyr and Uvenelei are only claiming the cities under their dominions ... Iuz and Melkors' forces are probably attacking those cities, but I'm not sure of that.  I'm fairly sure Airwhales' forces are defending those cities, based on his post.  EDIT:  Ok, I see Williams' forces and Sollirs' forces are in the cities under their powers, claiming them and rescuing the drow there ... which brings them into direct conflict with the forces of Melkor and Iuz also.  Umm ... is anyone else down there?    Nice going, whoever it was who just woke up Vecna!  (Does something that William and Bugbear will understand in a new and profound light:  Yours Truly ................ laughs.)  (Yours Truly laughs long and merrily, at the wild, tumultuous, and totally IRish situation in progress.)</blockquote>

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