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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Binder Fred" data-source="post: 6151032" data-attributes="member: 63746">But then - says the echoes of his internalized Bosco - does he ever do *anything* wordlessly? <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin    :D"  data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" />Still, as they file-in in front of her inviting hand, Antares can't help noticing that (maybe?) she was waiting for something before inviting them in. He really, really should have brought a gift! Frantic mental inventory of the content of belt pouch and hanging scroll case bring up absolutely nothing of use as a proper present. Unless...Carefully nudging it with his left thumb, behind his back, he progressively dislodges the polished steel ring he put on that hand as a pendant to her own wooden one on the right, until it falls in his grasp. "Oh, that reminds me. It is but a small thing, but in celebration of your return..." and he presents it to her, overlapping palms and stance naturally settling in the proper gift-giving pose -- humble mode, of course. "It is a bit plain," he self-consciously admits, "and of no historical significance that I know of, but it has been in my care for some years...?" He can't quite look her in the eye, suspecting that she suspects this is pure improvisation on his part. And the presence of Muzdin and Stellan, watching, is not helping his embarrassment either...<Response Dysare/Muzdin/Stellan?>[A bit later, inside]Is he... positing some sort of connection between the two incidents? A pause to blink. Ah, Perhaps too soon to really say theorizes the young mage with an understated hand gesture...? Though they are likely in the perfect place to find out! "You believe this was enchanted of late then, Teacher? With my limited skills I could not myself hear much beyond the thrumming note that conceals the active principles within; could not tell if demon or simple spell hid beneath that single, discordant note at its core." The one that sought to change, to make others travel its path. A thoughful pause as he tries to recall exactly what was said in the early mist of the day just past... "Jorgen tells that he acquired it from caravan unspecified a year and a half ago, and so it could be but happenstance, the unlucky passing along of items unknowingly cursed and but recently triggered -- though there might still be more from that shipment, to be tracked and disposed of? But -ah- if the magics are more recent though, then... then perhaps someone might perhaps have wished Jorgen himself a specific ill-fate?" he hopefully proposes. The lesser, much preferable of possibilities when compared to that other one mentioned earlier; the one obviously trotting through master Stonehand's ever-suspicious thoughts, the one that involves wide-ranging, perhaps town-covering malice...<Response Dysare?><And, assuming it is a recent spell cast on the bell:Ah, now that is interesting: "How elaborate is this ritual, do you know? Could it be done, for example, while the bell hung there and patrons walked the isles unknowing?" [sblock=OOC]So enderise is female now? Not that I mind, but she was a rather taciturn male <a href="http://www.enworld.org/forum/showthread.php?310474-Legacy-of-the-Silver-Dragon-(S-amp-W-4th-ed)&p=5699211&viewfull=1#post5699211" target="_blank">before</a> (or does he/she change sex with the moon or something? A curse? The reason behind his/her studying of magic, or perhaps an accident during said study? <img src="http://www.enworld.org/forum/images/smilies/devil.png"  class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":devil:" title="Devil    :devil:" data-shortname=":devil:" /><img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />).[/sblock]</blockquote>

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