Mega-Adventure Prologue--The Council and the Fellowship

[Rystil Arden]

Jace walks away from the people ignoring him to stand behind Quozen. Do you mean that your divinations did not reveal its location, or that you were so frightened by this news that you did not attempt to locate the harbringer of destruction?

"The shards themselves are immune to divinations, even the most powerful spells. There is no way to determine through magic where that one rests."

 

[InVinoVeritas]

"The shards themselves are immune to divinations, even the most powerful spells. There is no way to determine through magic where that one rests."

Quozen's brow furrows, as his wanderings take him near the Rivenblight delegation. "Please forgive my ignorance, Rayne, but if you cannot tell where it is, how can you tell where it is not?"

 

[Dungannon]

Rinya scans the room until she spots Lucien. She hurries over to him asking, "Lucien, have you seen Richard? He needs to tell these people about the dragon."

Lucien turns to scan the room, then faces back to Rinya. "No, m'lady. I have not seen him since arriving at this gathering. But I agree, the tale of our meeting with the dragon should be told."

 

[Rystil Arden]

Quozen nods, and turns to the Rivenblight delegation.

"Great sage, where is the Phoenix Shard?"

*It is much less turning and more of walking all the way across the room to where Sage Thiliaerin is talking to the other elf*

(OOC: Remember, we're in recess, so people are sort of just milling about in groups)

"You need not worry yourself. We are safe from the crazy theories of these fear-mongers," the sage shakes his head, "You just go back and sit down. If we're lucky, when everyone stops yammering we can start up again so we can end this."

 

[InVinoVeritas]

(OOC: Remember, we're in recess, so people are sort of just milling about in groups)

(OOC: Oops, duly noted. He finishes asking Rayne before asking Rivenblight. The Enworphant's doing the mambo or something.)

 

[Rystil Arden]

Quozen's brow furrows, as his wanderings take him near the Rivenblight delegation. "Please forgive my ignorance, Rayne, but if you cannot tell where it is, how can you tell where it is not?"

(OOC: I will assume this occurs before he heads over to the Rivenblight delegation?)

"Divinations on tangentially-related information are the best we can get, but I am in a position to know that the Lichwyrm is a very real threat, so I focused my efforts on the Phoenix Shard. Plus, when the divinations revealed the danger, I traveled to the place where the Phoenix Shard once rested, and it is no longer there. When it comes to something you cannot find, it is far simpler to prove where it is not than where it is."

 

[jaker2003]

"The shards themselves are immune to divinations, even the most powerful spells. There is no way to determine through magic where that one rests."

Jace continues, Is no one worthy enough to speak to the higher powers? Can we not simply ask the gods or their servants, beings whose capabilities are not as limited as ours?
After a moment to calm down, Jace tries a different route. It has been moved. I presume it was stored in a vault of some sort? And that you know where this place is. There are many of us gathered here. Why not a quick expedition, take a small group and an appropriate honor guard to this site. There, even the stone walls could be interagated.

 

[Rystil Arden]

Jace continues, Is no one worthy enough to speak to the higher powers? Can we not simply ask the gods or their servants, beings whose capabilities are not as limited as ours?
After a moment to calm down, Jace tries a different route. It has been moved. I presume it was stored in a vault of some sort? And that you know where this place is. There are many of us gathered here. Why not a quick expedition, take a small group and an appropriate honor guard to this site. There, even the stone walls could be interagated.

(OOC: Oops--check above; Rayne already went there I'll assume he only mentions the use of Contact Other Plane)

"Asking higher powers is my preferred form of divination," Rayne agrees, "This is included in the list of divination magic that will not work on the shards. I can tell you at least three legends as to why this is so."

 

[InVinoVeritas]

Quozen shakes his head as he turns and walks away from Rayne.

He poses the same question to Sage Thiliaerin.

"You need not worry yourself. We are safe from the crazy theories of these fear-mongers," the sage shakes his head, "You just go back and sit down. If we're lucky, when everyone stops yammering we can start up again so we can end this."

Quozen blinks. Such an odd thing to say, he thinks. "We have all the time in the world..." he responds in elven, heavily accented by the Fire Lands. "We are safe, and if we must stay until it ends, then perhaps we can tell stories. Every minute is like a year to these humans. If these Councils are your life now, then you have my sympathy. Every day the same, every decade different. I would love to hear the story of the Phoenix Shard, and if the humans talk themselves into old age, then they can."

 

[Rystil Arden]

Quozen shakes his head as he turns and walks away from Rayne.

He poses the same question to Sage Thiliaerin.



Quozen blinks. Such an odd thing to say, he thinks. "We have all the time in the world..." he responds in elven, heavily accented by the Fire Lands. "We are safe, and if we must stay until it ends, then perhaps we can tell stories. Every minute is like a year to these humans. If these Councils are your life now, then you have my sympathy. Every day the same, every decade different. I would love to hear the story of the Phoenix Shard, and if the humans talk themselves into old age, then they can."

*Sage Thiliaerin sighs and replies in Elven.*

"I have never understood why some of the The People think that our longer than normal life span is any excuse to waste our gift with pointless trivialities. The true story is...similar, but not quite what the Medibarians would have you believe. It never is. Then again, after such a long time for a human, it is no wonder that the story is distorted. It was more like..." the image Rayne created on the ceiling of the group of mages appears in the elf's hand, but then he shifts it--Rayne's had a strong and powerful-looking blonde-haired woman wizard in the centre in charge of the ritual, but in Aliaster's version, the circle is focused on an elven mage of great age and power, and there is a blonde-haired little girl playing with dolls somewhere along the edge, "...this. In truth, it was Elven High Magic that bound the Lichwyrm, and so the elves in tune with it will know if there is a threat before anyone else does. And that makes it all the more easy to detect a hoax such as this."