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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Joshua Randall" data-source="post: 4493790" data-attributes="member: 7737">Er, wait. I thought that in light* of what happened towards the end of the party's Het Branoi adventures, we did know what Step's poem meant.* Get it? In light of? <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f61b.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":p" title="Stick out tongue    :p"  data-smilie="7"data-shortname=":p" />Here is Step's poem; or technically... well, read on.One Certain Step meets the party:[sblock]Step had a dream some weeks ago about that he believes concerns the party: he saw a dense jungle, and a small bamboo hut hung over with vines; he saw a jet-black tower inside a ring of rock, with a gate of giant ribs; he saw two great swinging anvils, with small figures running between them; and he saw a huge black circle hanging in the air, with armies of evil pouring through them.  Still dreaming, he saw a scared text of Kemma, pages dry and cracked and long unused. He saw the book open, and words blazed out of them, but he could not read them. The next morning when he awoke, he went to the church library and found the book from his dream. In it he found an obscure poem whose meaning had never been gleaned, but which he believes is referring to the party.[/sblock]The poem itself:[sblock]read the signs as the shadows flow see a fearsome emerging foe light must rive the last of five but don't expect to come back alive read the signs, you are not alone those from lands that the foe called home are fighting the war on a distant shore to barricade the circle door know them then by their mix of blood man and holbytla and child of wood know them each by their foreign speech in the court of cats on the day of reach tell them the door is close at hand the foe can come forward in any land his armies will roll through a skysteel hole and turn their home to a bed of coal go with them to your certain doom and be the one in the lightless room if the light will thrive you must contrive to go with them to the last of five[/sblock]Everything in the poem seems to make sense, in the way of things once you know all the answers. (Which of course the players didn't at the time.) So what, if anything, remains to be explained?</blockquote>

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