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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Kelleris" data-source="post: 1857622" data-attributes="member: 19130">It is a bright Astrulayr day in Dromus, and the clouds look entirely innocent of any intentions they may have of maybe, possibly drizzling something nasty on the city below.In Khorvaire's Square*, it's business as usual.  All around you you can hear the sounds of an exceedingly active bazaar.  The voices blend into the sweet hubbub of unmitigated commerce, and there's no better day than today to see if it's really true that anything anyone could possibly want can be found in Dromus.As you make your way through the winding rows of booths and more permanent buildings, for whatever reasons drew you here, you come out onto a great plaza, strangely lacking in people.  At the center of the plaza stands one of Dromus's most well-known landmarks, the Grand Orrery.  This titanic sphere represents the ebb and flow of planar energies in and around Dromus, and stands some forty feet tall.  Of those studying it, there seem to be a preponderence of scholarly types.You involuntarily gaze up at it for a moment; even those of you familiar with the ways and places of Dromus have probably never seen it in person, so to speak.  As you do so, you see a small, scorpion-talled and bat-winged figure crouched on one of the Orrery's many intersecting bars and icons.  He passes his gaze from one of you to the other, slowly and deliberately, but nobody seems to notice him.  Even the guards whose duty it is to guard the Orrery remain placidly standing in place, despite the obviously malevolent appearance of the being.Once it is sure it has your attention, it reaches across from the bar it is perched on to one that is slowly swinging by it, representing who-knows-what minute fluctuation of energy.  With a tiny, clawed hand it very deliberately reaches out and bends a specific pin, pulling it out of alignment just a bit with its fellows.  It then turns back to you, it's impassive gaze apparently waiting for your reaction.{Yes, I know Eberron already called Khorvaire.  They're no relation.  And remember when you write your "this is how I got here" post that this is the center of Dromus and possibly very, very far from your suburban home.}</blockquote>

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