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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Shoel Sweeny" data-source="post: 2930287" data-attributes="member: 40608">[sblock]OOC: Crosstrade, it's a cant term which refers to illicit and or illegal acts.  Blackmail, theivery, espionage, all are acts of "the Crosstrade".  You can look up this and other Cant <a href="http://mimir.net/cant/cant2.html" target="_blank">here</a> [/sblock]The smell of rouge and brimstone is slightly stonger atop the table, so you don't entirely blame The Marauder for the *Ahem* she gives her mooks, causing them to scurry from the table top as Colook gently sets down her mirror and moves to his mistresses side, placing two careful fingers against Shemeska's muzzle, presumably where her nostrils lie.  The tables contents are massive and writhing under a black thatch shawl, large enough to spill over slightly even its thirty by twenty foot wide expanse.  Without so much as a "watch this" Shemeska waves at her toadies, signaling them to reach up and take one end of the shawl and throw it upon the floor.The scent which had maintained only a presence before blossoms out from under the cover like a high tide on low coast.  The stench is sulfur, choleric, and lust sweat; and it comes from the creature held under restraints upon the huge table.  The things is relatively human shaped with two legs, two arms and a head, but that's where the resembelance ends.  Its head is earless, wide, thick, and neckless with warts and calusses in swaths across its temples, chin, and brow like a great swollen toad.  It complection is a swirl of plauge flesh pink and green but muddy yellow where its thick coating of rouge is worn away.  The eyes are sharp yellow and slitted like a reptiles, and its grossly obesse body (wider then it is tall) is constricted inside a black leather dress stretched tight as a Carcerian baloon.*  It's arms are long and powerfully muscled, but the fingertips are raw and bleeding from recent wounds and a newly aquired lack of fingernails.  Where its legs should be are desiccated stumps, lastly a thick strip of leather marked with eldritch runes is tied around its bloated head and constricts its mouth.  With the grace of true showmanship the prima donna fiend gingerly descends the ladder onto the table top, careful not to touch her captive.  Colook follows after her, somehow managing to cover her nose as they move."This my dear binder is Julecaoth.  What exactly "is" Julecatoh?  Well your guess is as good as mine.  We found it, and trust me when I say it, you don't want to examine "its" gender, wandering outside of the Wasting Tower in Kihn Oin.  It sprang forth fully formed from the waste like a hordling, accosted a number of us and attempted to provoke a battle, even slaying number of fools and idiots who were attempting its capture.  According to our divinitations the thing has no origion, no hisotry, and no idea what it is other then its name.  Julecaoth has a vast intellect for a non-yugoloth and a powerful will for the malicious certainly, but no idea of its own origion.  We believe it has been affected by amnesia or is a cruel joke of Hades itself, but we have had no success in putting it into the right state of mind to torture knowldedge from its deplorable head.  I was close to giving up hope and simply cutting the ugly brutes throat and casting speak with dead, but then I noticed this-"  A tiefling that remained on the table top moves to the captives chest and peels away a strip of leather from the captive, the ugly yellow flesh is painted in puckered in signs and runes you immeadiately recognize as the eldrictch language of binders."Certainly you can imagine my pleasure at finding a piece of the puzzle so obviously linked to your kind.  I want you to tell me what you know about those symbolys, name any price you'd like"[sblock]OOC: Knowledge: Arcana or Knowledge: The Planes should work.  Think of the symbolys like Druidic in that someone could have a huge Knowledge nature score but still not know druidic.  Shemeska has more knowledge about the planes then any thousand scholars in existence, but binder language is unique to binders only.[/sblock]</blockquote>

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