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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Edena_of_Neith" data-source="post: 81276" data-attributes="member: 2020">The Shade and Vecna combined have on the order of 200 PL worth of forces in Shadow Throne.  However, both of them have superior forces due to 10th level magic on Vecna's part, and technology on the Shade's part, so their strength is greater than 200 PL.  Vecna is not attacking.  He has dug in, and his great army has dispersed along the entirety of the Front.  It would appear Vecna intends simply to preserve the Shade for the moment.  Iuz, your plan to entrap Vecna will not work because the Globe was attuned specifically to Iuz.  You will need to build a new Globe, one specifically attuned to Vecna, to entrap him.  The Shade leaders cannot be entrapped in this fashion.  Of course, Iuz finds this out when he teleports in to the Tower - there is nothing stopping him from doing so.  He is able to get in and out without being attacked.  If he wishes to take the Globe in which he was imprisoned for study, that's fine.  If a combined assault on Vecna and the Shade is going to take place, you all must state so.  That is, Turrosh Mak, Dagger, GnomeWorks, Williams, Uvenelei, Forrester and any others must all state they are attacking in concert.  Vecna sends his pledge of friendship and mutual alliance to the Dark Union the Solistarim, and Acererak.  He even sends a token of respect to Acererak (don't ask what it is he sends ...)  - - -  Vecna walks up to Shadowlady Ahlissa, and sweeps her into his arms, and whispers into her beautiful face:  Long have I watched you, Lady Beautiful.  Your dark body is a delight to my senses.  Your dark mind is a joy to my heart.  You dark soul fills me with a hungry lust.  Say you will be mine, and I shall make you my wife and Queen.  You will be mine, body, mind, and soul.    My Queen, my wife, my slavegirl, my delicious plaything.  You will call me Master and Lord and delight in every obedience to my whim.  I shall be your Lord, and my rule over you will be strict.  You shall pleasure me day and night, and everything I command you shall eagerly do.  The Shade will bow to you, and you shall speak for the Lord Melkor above all others.  You shall be Queen of all Oerth and Toril, and they will live or die upon your word.  The worthy ones will serve you, and do your every bidding ... you shall live in the grandest luxury and ease, while the worthy toil and slave for you.  The unworthy ones will be brought and tortured for your pleasure, and given to you as playthings for your delight.  All of this I will bequeath unto you, beautiful girl, if you will be mine.  The worlds and their peoples shall bow before you, and you shall bow before me, and together we will rule over Shade and the Living!  Then Vecna gives her a long, lavish kiss, and it seems to her that she beholds not the elderly one-eyed man, but a man in his youth.  Tall, kingly, filled with health and life, holding in his hands the keys to awesome power.  Gray eyes look into hers, and a stern, solemn face fills her gaze, while his long golden hair falls about her own locks.</blockquote>

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