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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Keht" data-source="post: 5639739" data-attributes="member: 6678799">Kevlin attempts to intimidate the thug with no luck.  As the questioning begins the thug has little reason to give much up but his input is not necessary.  As soon as you start to question the thugs, yargos comes clean and fills in the blanks.  The Black Echelon was the advance force of a fleet of Taldor soldiers that meant to attack Absalom’s hundreds of years ago.  The Black Echelon would come ashore and take out Absalom’s defenses then they would signal the rest of the fleet.  They would signal the rest of the fleet using prearranged light signals.  When Yargos found the code book he used it to replicate the first of the signals that would call forth the advance force.  He quickly realized that there was magic in the book and the signals still worked.  He watched the Black Echelon rise from the dead and begin to fulfill their tasks.  Recognizing his own foolishness, Yargos tried to alert the city and avert disaster. But before he could hurl the codebook into the sea to abort the Silent Tide once and for all, a young crime lord named Nessian intervened.  Nessian has a better plan for the codebook. He intends to manipulate the undead operatives and take advantage of the disruption their sabotage wreaks. As the bearer of the codebook, Nessian alone knows the lantern signal to abort. The codebook is his chance to blackmail the populace as he wishes and finally secure his place in Absalom’s underworld.  Yargos tells you that you must quickly find the code book so you can transmit the right set of codes to forever call off the attack.  Vig notices a flashing red light coming from the top of one of the buildings in the city.  When he points it out it seems to make Yargos uneasy.  “Nessian!” shouts Yargos. “He’s signaling Black Echelon --- The undead! Six flashes of red – I remember that signal….  By the gods! That’s the granary!  Nessian has sent those monsters to poison the granary!  C’mon! I don’t know how, but we’ve got to stop them – we’re the only ones who know what’s happening.”   [sblock=more information]check out the first post on this thread, that will give you all the information Yargos can[/sblock]</blockquote>

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