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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Edena_of_Neith" data-source="post: 176108" data-attributes="member: 2020">AN OPEN LETTER TO EVERYONE IN THE IRWe can stop.  We can stop now.  If we stop, all that you have created in 3 IRs will remain, preserved.  Alyx will have his Sunrise Alliance and the Dragon Isles.  The Church of Toril will stand tall.  Anabstercorian will have his Penumbral Hub, in all it's glory.  Alzem will have his shining Celestial Army and his two Hope Isles.  Black Omega will have the Faerie and the wondrous Underworld Forest of the Vesve.  Creamsteak will have his Mana Fortress, ungodly in it's incredible might.  The Church of Mercy will stand tall.  Dagger, loyal ally of the Alliance of Oerth to the end, will retain the Kingdom of Ulek.  Although Darkness is no longer with us, the Baklunish-Esmerin Alliance will remain, along with their unique and ghastly discoveries about necromancy and self-defense.  Mr. Draco and Serpenteye will retain their mighty Union of the Worlds, and the Pantheon, and their colonies, ruled over by the God Emperor and Kas.  Festy Dog will still play the money-hungry Scro Star League.  And his Under-Oerth Alliance will still be searching for ancient secrets under the Sea of Dust.  Forsaken One's Hive Cluster will grow stronger, and create more Broods, and all his creative inventions will come to light.  Although Forrester is not with us now, the Humanoid Alliance will stand tall, knowing it defending it's leader, champion, and hero, and probably they will reconcile with the UC, and perhaps even there will be peace between UC, HA, and the Union of the Worlds.  GnomeWorks Lortmil Technomancy will continue to uncover incredible secrets from the Second City of the Gods.  Kaboom's Chosen of Mystra will continue to grace Toril (some might not call it gracing Toril, I suppose) and his Isle of the Phoenix will yet rise tall and proud out of the Solnor Ocean.  Kalanyr's Alliance of the Elves of Dneiper, the Drow of Oerth, and the Yuan-Ti, will flourish (and, with the Yuan-Ti, give a new definition to the word French-Kissing.)  Maudlin is no longer with us, but Acererak will happily blend in with the Negative Material Plane.  He won't bother Oerth anymore ... he has achieved what he sought.  Melkor will find that Ravenloft has indigestion with Lord Melkor, and spits him out.  The Shade will remain, along with their gigantic city (the size of New York, and growing), and the Church of Shade will endure.  'O Skoteino's great cube city (ala the Borg) will be completed, and the assimilation with the Hive will be completed.  Mina will return to Krynn and it's affairs, leaving Oerth in peace.  I am betting Paladine will return to deal with her (I don't know until the book comes out, of course, in June.)  Reprisal's creation, the magnificent United Commonwealth of Toril, the cumulation of all the efforts of the 2nd IR, will remain, slightly smaller, but nevertheless vast, powerful, enlightened, a nation at peace, a paradise for it's people, a beckon of tolerance and civilization.  Rhialto's Black Brotherhood will remain, to everyone's grumbling.  Sollir's deadly forces will remain.  If you stop, that is a prerequisite, of course.  However, Sollir can state he is halting the assault on the hundreds of Crystal Spheres.  THAT would be a prerequisite for stopping.  The damage Sollir caused CAN be cured, and the deaths he caused can be reversed, given enough time, 11th level magic, and a willingness to work hard to accomplish this end.  Tokiwong's fiendish and clever Empire of Iuz, and the magnificent Eternal Empire of Oerth, will remain, much to the annoyance of many, and the delight of others.  Uvenelei's very staunchly good Power - staunchly ethical, and a very loyal ally of the Alliance of Oerth - will thrive and grow, and the secrets of Arlon will be theirs.  Venus's Emerald Order will grow and flourish, and Oerth will be a green-blue world again.  All the harm caused by the war will be repaired.  The Blood Waste will be healed, and the Welkwood and Wild Coast returned to life.  William's lofty and altruistic power, the Kevellond League, will recover from all the war, and Hazen will find peace at last.  Zelda's Thillronian Alliance will finally know peace, too.  Erg-Noth (I hope that spelling is right) will finally be able to take a rest.  Although Zouron is not with us, the Eternal Order will forge true friendship with the people of AnaKeris and Aquaria, and perhaps one day true friendship with the Union of the Worlds and the Alliance of Oerth.  All of this could be, if we stop now.  - - -  If we do not stop ...  If we continue ...  I must resolve the Attacks.  You will see mass destruction.  You will see Powers obliterated.  You WILL see your creativity and your projects destroyed, all your work ruined.  You will see war on a scale that dwarfs anything that has happened up until now.  I know.  I have the completed list of Attacks and Coup de Graces in front of me right now.  Prepare to be hurt.  Prepare to see your efforts wiped out.  Prepare to be angered.  Prepare to see it all go down the drain.  I'm not joking, folks.  I have seen the declarations, and they are bad.  I'm not kidding about 50 billion deaths.    Prepare to remember the IR as the game in which you built up a beautiful conception, built many creative things, then saw them all (probably, in your mind, totally unfairly) destroyed.  Just destroyed.  Gone.  - - -  I need a vote.  Do we stop?  Or do we continue?  The choice is yours.  I wanted you to appreciate what it means to go on.  You already appreciate what it would mean to stop.  I am not offering this because I am tired.  I am not offering this because I am burned-out.  I am not offering this because I am angry.  I am not offering this to protect any one person.  I am offering this because I know what is about to happen.  What is about to happen, is staring me in the face, on this computer screen, right now.  I know how people may well react, after what is about to happen, happens.  Edena_of_Neith</blockquote>

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