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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Rystil Arden" data-source="post: 3999004" data-attributes="member: 29014">*Headmaster Umbryn Albion raps his staff on the ground three more times.*"Hrrm?  Hmm...oh yes.  We must assemble again.  Hmm, it is time to continue at last, hrrm?  But we shall do so in an orderly fashion, yes?""Rayne Liore...hmmm....explain the proof of your claims, hrrm?""Yes Headmaster," Rayne agrees, "I have cast numerous Divinations, including Contact Other Plane, that have informed me that the Lichwyrm's cult has achieved more power and come closer to waking him now than ever before.  Though the future is not yet clear, as it is what we will make of it today, the gods see at least one future where Orussus and Fallon are in ruins, the whole Silverwood engulfed in flames.  Furthermore, I went on an expedition into the depths of the Lands of Fire, and I found the original resting place of the Phoenix Shard, but it was gone, stolen from its pedestal.  My lords, since as I said the shard itself was stolen, I don't know if any harder evidence could exist than what I have said.  If you do not trust me to perform any of the verifications I mention, then I will be happy to give you the details to independently verify their truth.""Very well.  Each delegate will make an initial response, in turn.  We will proceed clockwise starting then with...Monemvassia."*Frump gives a slight grimace and looks around at all the other representatives, then gulps slightly before beginning.*"I...err...we...err..." he straightens his robes, "The esteemed people of Monemvassia are not convinced by this evidence..." he begins, but then quickly adds as he feels many eyes on him, "But neither are we completely inclined...to disbelieve.  We await...further revelations.  Yes...that's it.  Uhh, thank you?  Is there any food here?""Rivenblight.""Thank you.  Fellow representatives, there is no danger such as this creature speaks.  For milennia, the elves have held the evil in check that this mongrel wishes to credit to the Medibarians, and it is clear that all of her so-called 'evidence' is a matter of fabrication.  She offers no proof for your eyes but an illusion, a lie weaved of magic.  She proclaims this far-away tomb because she knows that no nation that cares for its people would waste the effort, time, and lives to send people all the way through that dangerous land to check her facts.  And since her statements are false, that begs the question:  Why?  Why go to all this trouble then to organise the Council?  She will tell you that she wants to protect you, but since you are, in fact, safe, it can't be that.  So think.  She told you a story about seven shards.  The first one would start the Lichwyrm's Awakening but was not sufficient to completely free him from his bonds.  Clearly she was going to ask you to help her gather the shards.  Now, when the shards are all safe and the Lichwyrm is in no danger of breaking free, who would be the only person who would have it in their interest to recover the shards and 'protect' them herself?  Why, a cultist of the very Lichwyrm, of course!  In helping this monster, you would be causing the very apocalypse her flimsy velvet lies seek to convince you that you are preventing.  That is all," he sits back down."Orussus."(OOC: Rinaldo speaks here)</blockquote>

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