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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Lazybones" data-source="post: 1784716" data-attributes="member: 143">Thanks for the feedback, all.  Seems there's a definite bias toward the "ass-kicking" characters; few seem to like the brooding, tormented types.  <img src="http://www.enworld.org/forum/images/smilies/devious.png"  class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":]" title="Devious    :]" data-shortname=":]" />  I enjoy writing Mole, and personally can't see how anyone can hate her, but I know that there's a powerful anti-gnomian movement here at ENWorld, and this may be related... <img src="http://www.enworld.org/forum/images/smilies/paranoid.png"  class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":uhoh:" title="Paranoid    :uhoh:" data-shortname=":uhoh:" />  As for Zenna... hmm... don't think I'll say anything at this point. *cue evil cackling in the background*I am well ahead in the story at this point (more than a full module ahead), and while I won't give anything more now, suffice it to say I've made a few general shifts in the story to reflect the feedback I've gotten thus far.  A major new character will be joining the saga soon, and we'll see some old familiar faces as well.  I appreciate all of the kudos I've gotten from my readers, and greatly enjoy reading all of your feedback.  I'm pleased that I can inspire both love and hatred for these characters. Since I am so far ahead, I will go ahead and start the next part of the story on Monday instead of taking my customary week off.  P.S. Much insight, wolff96... <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />  * * * * * Chapter 233For a long minute they just stood there, watching, silent.  Finally Mole spoke.  “Is that it?” she asked.  “He’s just... gone?”Zenna lowered her eyes.  “I don’t know,” she said.  “I honestly don’t know.”“Should we wait here, then?” Dannel asked.  “There is no need,” came a voice, from the fire. They turned to see Morgan step from the geyser, falling from the embrace of the pillar to drift softly several feet to the ground.  His armor was gone, his body covered only with a shimmering white tunic.  His skin was a clean white, the accumulated dirt and blood that they all wore from their travails in Occipitus scoured away.  Most alarming was the fact that his left eye was gone, replaced by a bright point of fire that danced within the socket. “Morgan?” Mole asked. The man smiled.  “I am still Morgan Ahlendraal,” he told them.  “And I am something else as well, though the full knowledge of what that is has yet to be fully revealed to me.  But I have begun a journey, a new road that may end in something new not only for this place, but for all of us.”“Speak clear man,” Hodge growled.  “What do this mean fer us?”“It means that the dark road has come to an end,” Morgan said.  “I must remain here, to explore what my own new destiny has in store for me... but for you, my friends, it is time to return to your home.  Cauldron waits, and I fear that she will have need of you sooner, rather than later.”“Are you certain, Morgan?” Zenna asked.  “To remain here, alone?”He nodded.  “As certain as I have ever been in my life, Zenna.  And I will not be alone.  Already we have met some allies here; the avoral, perhaps even Saureya, someday.  And there are others, whose presence I can now feel upon the sadness that is Occipitus.  You will hear from me again... this, I promise.”“Good luck, knight,” Arun said.  “Aye,” Hodge said.  “I’ll be glad to leave the stink o’ this place behind.  No offense,” he added, with a nod to Morgan. “So I wonder what’s been going on in our absence?” Mole asked.Dannel and Arun gathered up Morgan’s discarded possessions—he had no need of them now, he insisted—and they gathered again in the center of the room.  Zenna unrolled one of their scrolls of plane shift. “Are you all ready?”“Take us home, Zenna,” Dannel said.Zenna read the words scribed upon the parchment, and the air around them shimmered briefly... and then they were gone.THE END OF “TEST OF THE SMOKING EYE”COMING SOON... “SECRETS OF THE SOUL PILLARS”</blockquote>

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