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<blockquote data-quote="MrR_" data-source="post: 6939712" data-attributes="member: 33216"><p>I've attached a copy of the original page printed to an oxps file. Just in case you can't read that, here's the text ...</p><p></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'">[SIZE=-1]<span style="color: #000000">During the creation of The Serpent and the Scepter, the 2nd part of the </span>[/SIZE]</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'">[SIZE=-1]<span style="color: #000000">Serpent Amphora Cycle series, the following text was accidentally omitted </span>[/SIZE]</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'">[SIZE=-1]<span style="color: #000000">from the bottom of page 7:</span>[/SIZE]</span></p><p></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'">[SIZE=-1]<span style="color: #000000">In either case, he continues as follows.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="color: #000000"></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="color: #000000"></span>[/SIZE]</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'">[SIZE=-1]<span style="color: #000000">"We've managed to translate a portion of the tome found in Chardun's tomb, </span>[/SIZE]</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'">[SIZE=-1]<span style="color: #000000">and the information we've discovered isn't good. It confirms that, with the </span>[/SIZE]</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'">[SIZE=-1]<span style="color: #000000">proper rituals, the servants of the Serpent Queen could access and use the </span>[/SIZE]</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'">[SIZE=-1]<span style="color: #000000">power contained within the Amphora! This is the power and the blood of a </span>[/SIZE]</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'">[SIZE=-1]<span style="color: #000000">titan, my friends. It's a hideous, twisted relic that cannot, under any </span>[/SIZE]</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'">[SIZE=-1]<span style="color: #000000">circumstances, be allowed to fall back into the wrong hands. "Unfortunately, </span>[/SIZE]</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'">[SIZE=-1]<span style="color: #000000">the book doesn't tell us how to destroy the damned thing. It does, however, </span>[/SIZE]</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'">[SIZE=-1]<span style="color: #000000">allude to the possibility that Chardun's priesthood might hold that secret, </span>[/SIZE]</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'">[SIZE=-1]<span style="color: #000000">even if they didn't put it down in writing. Several times, it mentions a ritual </span>[/SIZE]</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'">[SIZE=-1]<span style="color: #000000">powerful enough to destroy even a Titan-created artefact.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="color: #000000"></span>[/SIZE]</span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'">[SIZE=-1]<span style="color: #000000">"And that," he says with a rueful grin, "is where you come in."</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="color: #000000"></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="color: #000000"></span>[/SIZE]</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'">[SIZE=-1]<span style="color: #000000">Kelemis gestures to a map, spread out across an oaken table in the center of </span>[/SIZE]</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'">[SIZE=-1]<span style="color: #000000">the room. "Someone has to speak with a man named Fiarun, Archfiend of </span>[/SIZE]</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'">[SIZE=-1]<span style="color: #000000">Chardun's temple at Castle Durm in Lageni. No safe or easy route exists. </span>[/SIZE]</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'">[SIZE=-1]<span style="color: #000000">The best you'll manage is probably a trip down the Eni River, and then </span>[/SIZE]</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'">[SIZE=-1]<span style="color: #000000">overland straight to Durm. A long journey through hostile territory, yes, but </span>[/SIZE]</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'">[SIZE=-1]<span style="color: #000000">Fiarun is by far the closest man who might have the answers we require. </span>[/SIZE]</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'">[SIZE=-1]<span style="color: #000000">After the-incident-with my former aide, I cannot trust many of my own </span>[/SIZE]</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'">[SIZE=-1]<span style="color: #000000">people enough to send them, and those who can be trusted are needed here </span>[/SIZE]</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'">[SIZE=-1]<span style="color: #000000">at home. You've served us well so far, however, and so I'm afraid I must ask </span>[/SIZE]</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'">[SIZE=-1]<span style="color: #000000">you to serve again." At this point, he offers the party a token with his </span>[/SIZE]</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'">[SIZE=-1]<span style="color: #000000">heraldry on it, like the one carried by his messenger. "You'll need this along </span>[/SIZE]</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'">[SIZE=-1]<span style="color: #000000">the way," he tells them, assuming they'll eventually agree to help.</span>[/SIZE]</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'">[SIZE=-1]<span style="color: #000000"></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="color: #000000">(Alternatively, if the party hasn't served him before, he should explain how </span>[/SIZE]</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'">[SIZE=-1]<span style="color: #000000">he's heard good things about them from those few whom he still trusts.)</span>[/SIZE]</span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'">[SIZE=-1]<span style="color: #000000"></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="color: #000000">He then discusses potential rewards, ranging from training among the </span>[/SIZE]</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'">[SIZE=-1]<span style="color: #000000">Vigilants to money. If they turn up nothing, he will compensate them up to </span>[/SIZE]</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'">[SIZE=-1]<span style="color: #000000">400 gp each for their troubles. If, however, they do discover information, the </span>[/SIZE]</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'">[SIZE=-1]<span style="color: #000000">rewards will certainly be greater, from fine equipment (though not </span>[/SIZE]</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'">[SIZE=-1]<span style="color: #000000">necessarily magical) to training to grants of land or money. Alternately, if <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'">[SIZE=-1]<span style="color: #000000">the PCs have other goals, he may be willing to assist them in completing </span>[/SIZE]</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'">[SIZE=-1]<span style="color: #000000">these goals.</span>[/SIZE]</span></span>[/SIZE]</span></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="MrR_, post: 6939712, member: 33216"] I've attached a copy of the original page printed to an oxps file. Just in case you can't read that, here's the text ... [FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=-1][COLOR=#000000]During the creation of The Serpent and the Scepter, the 2nd part of the [/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT][FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=-1][COLOR=#000000]Serpent Amphora Cycle series, the following text was accidentally omitted [/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT][FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=-1][COLOR=#000000]from the bottom of page 7:[/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=-1][COLOR=#000000]In either case, he continues as follows. [/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT][FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=-1][COLOR=#000000]"We've managed to translate a portion of the tome found in Chardun's tomb, [/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT][FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=-1][COLOR=#000000]and the information we've discovered isn't good. It confirms that, with the [/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT][FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=-1][COLOR=#000000]proper rituals, the servants of the Serpent Queen could access and use the [/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT][FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=-1][COLOR=#000000]power contained within the Amphora! This is the power and the blood of a [/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT][FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=-1][COLOR=#000000]titan, my friends. It's a hideous, twisted relic that cannot, under any [/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT][FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=-1][COLOR=#000000]circumstances, be allowed to fall back into the wrong hands. "Unfortunately, [/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT][FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=-1][COLOR=#000000]the book doesn't tell us how to destroy the damned thing. It does, however, [/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT][FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=-1][COLOR=#000000]allude to the possibility that Chardun's priesthood might hold that secret, [/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT][FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=-1][COLOR=#000000]even if they didn't put it down in writing. Several times, it mentions a ritual [/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT][FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=-1][COLOR=#000000]powerful enough to destroy even a Titan-created artefact. [/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=-1][COLOR=#000000]"And that," he says with a rueful grin, "is where you come in." [/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT][FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=-1][COLOR=#000000]Kelemis gestures to a map, spread out across an oaken table in the center of [/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT][FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=-1][COLOR=#000000]the room. "Someone has to speak with a man named Fiarun, Archfiend of [/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT][FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=-1][COLOR=#000000]Chardun's temple at Castle Durm in Lageni. No safe or easy route exists. [/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT][FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=-1][COLOR=#000000]The best you'll manage is probably a trip down the Eni River, and then [/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT][FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=-1][COLOR=#000000]overland straight to Durm. A long journey through hostile territory, yes, but [/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT][FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=-1][COLOR=#000000]Fiarun is by far the closest man who might have the answers we require. [/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT][FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=-1][COLOR=#000000]After the-incident-with my former aide, I cannot trust many of my own [/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT][FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=-1][COLOR=#000000]people enough to send them, and those who can be trusted are needed here [/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT][FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=-1][COLOR=#000000]at home. You've served us well so far, however, and so I'm afraid I must ask [/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT][FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=-1][COLOR=#000000]you to serve again." At this point, he offers the party a token with his [/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT][FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=-1][COLOR=#000000]heraldry on it, like the one carried by his messenger. "You'll need this along [/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT][FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=-1][COLOR=#000000]the way," he tells them, assuming they'll eventually agree to help.[/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT][FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=-1][COLOR=#000000] (Alternatively, if the party hasn't served him before, he should explain how [/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT][FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=-1][COLOR=#000000]he's heard good things about them from those few whom he still trusts.)[/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=-1][COLOR=#000000] He then discusses potential rewards, ranging from training among the [/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT][FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=-1][COLOR=#000000]Vigilants to money. If they turn up nothing, he will compensate them up to [/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT][FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=-1][COLOR=#000000]400 gp each for their troubles. If, however, they do discover information, the [/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT][FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=-1][COLOR=#000000]rewards will certainly be greater, from fine equipment (though not [/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT][FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=-1][COLOR=#000000]necessarily magical) to training to grants of land or money. Alternately, if [FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=-1][COLOR=#000000]the PCs have other goals, he may be willing to assist them in completing [/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT][FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=-1][COLOR=#000000]these goals.[/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT][/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT] [/QUOTE]
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