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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Aust Thale" data-source="post: 9587716" data-attributes="member: 6804768">Locke: “I’ve seen all manner of dark and evil, yet what you describe is hard to grasp.  Taint? So our presence in this place subjects us to risk? Simply traveling through it?  Does that mean that all we will encounter are beyond hope?  Hmm.  That makes this easier in a sense.  We don’t have to wonder about evil intent, and if not evil, we’d be doing them a kindness dispatching them.  Fine then.  How long can we stay in the Gloom without becoming irrevocably part of the landscape, and when we leave, how and how long to recover?”Locke was mentally steeling himself for the carnage he believed would ensue.  He knew torture, the lacerating touches of the undead, the howling and gnashing of teeth and claw against bone and flesh.  He’d witnessed atrocity against horror and incapacity.  He’d fought the mind games and anguish inflicted by priests and necromancers.  The cult of the spider god, the mechanizations of the lich,  the vampire thrall’s bloodlust, and the sheer moronic evil and destruction wrought by the wight.  He’d had to endure all of this while searching for the relics and others’ lost treasure.  He’d survived when many hadn’t. He’d always carried the thought that in the end he’d be rewarded by an ethereal mountain pond or pleasant meadow, or perhaps another life.  The idea of losing one’s soul to this place ought to terrify him.  Yet it did not.  He felt…strangely compelled, not unlike the geas he’d been subject to years ago.  But this was coming from him, or perhaps Cyrna.  Hmm.“What’s the plan?  And how is the best way to get to this Elke?  Why in all the places terrestrial and otherwise would he come here anyway? ”</blockquote>

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