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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Phoenix" data-source="post: 2654375" data-attributes="member: 16166">"They call me Gerry, I'm one of the Loremasters around here."  And with that, Ru was gone.The Metropolis Herald was located within The Apartments, its main office high in the Salisan Spyre closest to Ashstone, high up on the forty-eighth floor.  The damnable thing about the Spyres, was that there was no way to climb the stairs within with any actual speed or comfort.  Ru shook his head, there was over a thousand stairs to climb today.The Spyre was packed full of people, with the poorest dregs of society paying the pennies to sleep in the corridors, of the silvers to have their own chamber with a secure door, but little else.As people climbed higher the rooms and corridors got better, though not by much.  People just weren't interested in climbing so high from street level, but of course there were those that were not interesting in climbing down either.Twice Ru had to slip into a corridor as a group of what he thought were halflings ran down the corridor chasing a stray cat.  Once they past he knew his mistake, bloody kobolds, they'd live anywhere there was a chance of food, little more than vermin with opposable digits.On the thirtieth floor he spotted an orc with wings, something he'd never seen before, but the Spyres of the Apartments were legendary, a world of their own actually.  The flaming sword the creature had in one hand, and the body that he was chopping at that he held in the other, was enough to keep Ru walking the other way.The door to the Metropolis Herald finally appeared before Ru, after hours of walking and avoiding psychotic residents.  The door was well constructed, heavy to avoid intrusion, and even had a guard at the door!The guard, standing a little over three feet tall, looked up at Ru.  He was short, fat, and really ugly.  There was something ambiguous about his race that confused Ru, he was kindof a dwarf, but not..."Keep it walkin' sunshine, you ain't got no bisnus 'ere today..."The man pointed a dagger in Ru's direction, waving it through the air as if drawing a pattern on Ru's chest.</blockquote>

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