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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Urko" data-source="post: 2224104" data-attributes="member: 30822">A late night visit (continued – Eff Flat, Erin, Sanae, Xavier)(I think we were all waiting for Eff Flat to let the visitor in, but I just noticed a post on the setup thread saying that he will be gone until May 16. I’ll NPC him for now.)Erin is on a vast, level plain, strewn with humanoid corpses and broken warforged. The clouds form a menacing black roof over her head and she can hear thunder in the distance. She notices a man squatting over one of the 'forged. He stands and turns to face her and she realizes with a shock that it's old Quellam, her first tutor. Erin runs up to hug him. At her touch, Quellam bursts into flame. She turns away in horror and finds her parents standing behind her, with outstretched arms. Erin takes their hands and screams when they, too, are consumed in fire. The world seems to spin around her, bringing up faces from the past: schoolmates, friends, House factors she always looked up to. She tries to avoid touching them, but can't help herself and the result is the same every time - flames and cries of agony. The thunder above becomes a hammer blow, punctuating each death she cannot keep herself from causing.Erin awakens with a gasp and realizes that the thunder was actually someone tapping rhythmically on her door. A groggily muttered "What is it?" brings the tapping to a stop and Eff Flat answers quietly. "Soft one who is called Erin, forgive me for waking you.  A stranger came in through the window and wants to talk to all of us.”Sanae and Xavier are similarly awakened. In a short while, the three of you are assembled, yawning a bit, in the drawing room. The cloaked stranger stands near the window, as if trying to avoid intruding further into the room without invitation. Eff Flat sits in a chair, rocking it back and forth on its two back legs, engrossed in the creaking noise this creates. When you are all assembled, she throws back her hood.She is a human woman, about thirty years old, you would guess. She has red hair, pale blue eyes, and even paler skin. She is very thin, with sharp, almost androgynous features. There is something about her that each of you finds (except perhaps Eff Flat, immersed in the sounds around him) vaguely repellent, although you would be hard pressed to say why. She speaks with a rich contralto, with an slight accent none of you can place. ”Please forgive my coming at this hour. I wanted to speak to you privately, without attracting attention and possibly putting you in danger. My name is Aldinis and I am a student of the Prophecy.”</blockquote>

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