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Message: <blockquote data-quote="IronWolf" data-source="post: 5817884" data-attributes="member: 21076">The crazed painter listens eagerly to the description of the statue outside and frantically begins painting upon a blank canvas again, ignoring any further comments from you as he paints. After about twenty minutes he whirls and holds the painting up for you to see through the barred door.It shows a twisted perspective. The beautiful statue described has been twisted to one with a demonic snarl. Short humanoids with large black eyes torment cowering prisoners in the painting's background. Brandishing a radiant holy symbol a lone figure fails to fight them off. He waits, holding the painting towards you and then sets it down and retrieves another painting separate from the others.This one depicts a stately, white stone building which appears to be Cassomir's Imporeial Hall of Records. The walls at the ground level though are warped and twisted in the the art of the crazed painter. Similar short humanoids with large blacke eyes stand atop the hall's steps and seem to punish criminals, all of whom are wearing robes of Taldan government officials. At the southwest corner of the building, the bas-relief grows a bright white. The same lone figure from the other paintings attempt to sooth a group of frightened children by playing a flute, the notes are actually painted above him on the canvas.The third painging depcis the northeast retinaining wall that shores up parts of the ruined Quickfall Abbey in Cassomir. It shows dozens of the short humanoids with black eyes smashing brightly painted urns against the retaining wall, while the same lone figure from the other paintings frantically attempts to push down an obviously barred door in the middle of the wall, presumably to escape another group of mennacing short humanoid creatures.The crazed painter sets the paintings down again near the door and wobbles back and forth, his arms crossed across his chest, holding himself tightly. He finally begins speaking again."My master, my master resides in the Crypt of Fools!" The crazed painter stops there, a worried look flashes across his face as if he has said too much. He continues to hold himself tightly, rocking back and forth.[sblock=OOC]The short humanoid figures with wide eyes are recognized as derros by several in the group who have encoutered them before in earlier parts of this series.[/sblock]</blockquote>

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