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Message: <blockquote data-quote="JohnBrown" data-source="post: 82694" data-attributes="member: 2243">A new age seems to be taking form in the IBKSC.  Due to the power vacuum caused by Iuz’s self-imposed absence, a calmer more stable sensibility seems to taking hold.  The wild swings of politeness to wild brutality are quickly being replaced by cold, determined practicality.  Rary, it seems, is quickly leaving his mark.Rumors start to trickle out of Dorakaa about a brief power struggle between the Boneheart and Rary.  While the details of the various stories are sketchy and conflicting, they all end the same – with the death of Vayne, arch-mage and member of the Lesser Boneheart and the capitulation of the rest.Measures to combat the plague are quickly enacted.  Throughout the military forces the clerics (now being called Culture Officers) move through the forces – by rank -- applying cure disease spells.  The only way to for a solider to receive such a spell is to be at his post when the Culture Officer arrives.  Throughout the IBKSC civilian population the Culture Officers also begin the curing process, again working by rank – government officials, security forces, intelligence forces, scientists, engineers, military industry workers, educators, and finally everyone else.  Once again, they only those who are at work when the Culture Officers arrive are cured.Additional reports trickle out of the IBKSC.  Reports that many might find disturbing.  No mercy is shown to those too sick to be at work or at their posts.  Only so many can be cured a day, and there is not enough time to be concerned about the weak and unproductive.  Critically sick soldiers are allowed to be tortured and brutalized by their former comrades increasing the morale of the cruel creatures, humans, and humanoids that make up the IBKSC armies.The property of terminally ill civilians is redistributed amongst those that are not.  Whether they are actually dead or not is not a consideration.  In some cases entire villages are stripped of wealth or useful materials, leaving only ghost towns.Those that do die find no peace even in death as undead begin to swell the IBKSC armies.Rary sends identical letters to Vecna and Acerak.  They say simply:“Thank you for separating our wheat from our chaff.  We will come out of this stronger.  It seems that you have made your first mistake, and I am sure it will not be your last.”   Letters also go out to the various members of the anti-Vecna/Shade alliance.“We of the IBKSC are not able healers.  Quite the contrary actually.  It may be, however, that our expertise in the infliction of pain and disease may help those of you who are of a more benign disposition.  We offer the services of those necromancers among us who specialize in disease to work with your healers to find a cure to this plague.  Perhaps working on the problem from both sides will bring about a cure faster.”A second set of letters also goes out to all nations and powers“We stand beside those who would not be slaves and pawns of Vecna and the Shade.”“ To those who would stand with the Master of Secrets…consider this a warning.”</blockquote>

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