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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Deuce Traveler" data-source="post: 4056033" data-attributes="member: 34958">"Truth."The old man nods to his advisor and to Dartis.  "Very well.  We will discuss this more later, but you shall stay for the rest of the questioning.  I think you will find it as valuable of an experience as I."He turns towards Collasti as his advisor recasts his truth discovering spell and asks, "Now Collasti, let's ask you some questions.  How do we cure this plague?"The man licks his lips and doesn't answer until the guard behind him drives a blade into his shoulder.  The exposed skin shows a green, plant-like tint: the blessing of Festios.  Despite this the man does still scream out like a normal human would, and the fear in his eyes quickly causes him to answer, "There... there is no cure.  We experimented just in case, but found that even divine magic did little to the affliction except cause it to temporarily recede just as your own priests know.""...tr... Truth..."There is a stunned silence as the crowd of Senators and advisors turn pale.  Two men become sick and run to the corner to loose their vomit.  Only the old man stands firm, his expression bearing anger as he reaches for a knife at his belt.  "You created this plague!  How did you do it?  My priests and mages can at least figure out how to undo the damage you caused with that information!""We didn't create the plague, we only altered it!  One of our priests had a vision that a foreign party would release a plague into the nearby water supply.  In his vision he saw the time and the place that this would happen, as well as the ceremony necessary to alter the plague to save ourselves once it was released.  We were skeptical, but we still waited at the seen place and time and ambushed the foreigners and killed them.  We did not stop them in time from dumping at least some of the plague, but we took the leftover metal containers filled with the plague and experimented with them until we found a way to transform our bodies into plant-like life using the plague and our own divine faith.  We thought that humanity might be doomed, but at least we could have our three gods would reign over the remnants of humanity through us and our teachings.""Truth.""Yes, maybe some truth but he makes his fellows seem almost heroic, which knowing what we do about him brings doubt to his story.  Stilll, who was this foreign party?  Who poisoned the water and likely made this disease?""I don't know who they were, or where they came from since we killed each of them.  I only know that they were elves.""Strong truth."</blockquote>

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