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Message: <blockquote data-quote="painandgreed" data-source="post: 2438135" data-attributes="member: 24969">IMC, the Drow and Illithid don't make allies but they'll put up with you if your money is good. There are various trade points, usually underdark cities, where trade between the two groups is allowed. Both hate each other but aren't willing to let that get in the way of obtaining material components, information, and other items that only the other side can provide. In the Drow cities, anybody is allowed to walk about in the main parts of the city as they please but could be attacked at anytime for being who they are if somebody take offence and are expected to be able to defend themselves in such cases. Defending yourself with too much fevor may be considered "a disturbance" and put down by the guard. Typically, such visitors remian low key and disguised so nobody can find out enough about them to think they can take take them on or they show up with an overwelming display of force and pave the way with bribes. Illithid cities are different as when trade is allowed, there are special segregated areas for traders to live and trade in and are never allowed into the illithid city proper. The illithid cities are somewhat safer as if trade is allowed, they do not want it disrupted and the other traders are too scared of the surrounding illithid to bother eachother. In both cases, the modicum of safety that is had with such trade arrangements can disappear in an instant if hostilities break out between that city and another. In such cases as when hostilities do break out, traders from the opposing city and their allies (real or suspected) are rounded up, their goods taken and probably killed unless their is the possbility of ransom. It is not uncommon for hostilities to break out just after a particularly rich caravan from the soon to be opposed city has arrived.The illithid don't reproduce to form half-illithid but who knows what their experiments may create? It wouldn't be surprising if some mindflayer tried to create a half illithid/half-drow inorder to provide secret agents that could infiltrate the drow. Not all of such expereiments may be successful but even the failures could be put to work somewhere.</blockquote>

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