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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Lazybones" data-source="post: 2515333" data-attributes="member: 143">Mid-Week Update time... and yes, I have a big cliffhanger in the wings for Friday.  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin    :D"  data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" /> * * * * * Chapter 443A simple question, yet it opened a great many uncertainties. “We cannot do any more,” Dana said.  “We have to leave this place, return with our dead to Faerûn… and then, do what we can.”“Just leave him here?” Beorna said, with surprise. “There is nothing more we can do,” Lok said.  “Dana is right.”“He doesn’t look so tough… Arun’s blade through his back should solve our problem, demon prince or no.”“I do not think that would be advisable,” Cal said.  “But this may require further deliberation.  There are two things that we need to remember.  The first is that if we do depart now, we may not get another chance to stand where we stand now.  The second is the response we received to Dana’s commune.”“If we do nothing to intervene, then Adimarchus escapes his prison,” Dana said, nodding as she recalled the information she’d received in her last bonding with Selûne. “Um… should we be talking about this in front of him?” Mole asked.  “He’s not doing anything, but he’s still really creeping me out.”“There is still the fate of the prisoners here, including the Cagewrights, to consider as well,” Arun said.  “What is it that you propose, Cal?”The gnome did not respond for a moment, rubbing his chin with one hand.  “We need more guidance,” he said.  “And to study this situation further.  At the moment we seem to be at a détente, but that could change at any moment.”“Including the return of our host,” Lok said. “I have not forgotten that possibility.”  “Let him come,” Dana said.  “I agree with your sentiment, Dana, but getting ourselves killed or enslaved is not going to help Benzan.  We shall not forget him; this I swear.  But as to… the master of this prison… it’s far more likely that he would send emissaries, rather than come in person.  To be honest, I am more than a little surprised that we have not heard from him already.”“All the more reason to leave,” Dana said. “I think I see what you are getting at,” Arun said.  “We can raise Dannel here, and cast the spells you need to learn more, without returning to Faerûn.”“Not without rest,” Dana said.  “And this is not my idea of a campsite…”“I can erect a private sanctum here, in this very room,” Cal said.  “It blocks sound and vision, both mundane and the sort accessed through scrying magic.  I can sculpt its confines to suit our exact preferences.  We would have to post a rotating watch on the exterior, in order to detect any threats before they became apparent.”“If Hodge were here, I believe he would make some comment about gnomes all being crazy,” Arun said.  “Settle down to share a quiet night’s rest with a demon prince who’s cage may be more precarious than we know.”“We’re all crazy, we who choose this life,” Cal noted simply. “What about him?” Beorna said, indicating the prisoner. “Well, he isn’t going anywhere,” Cal said.  “And while our dreams may not be placid, I suspect that his cage separates him from the physical world, at least while he is in it.  I will have to make a more detailed analysis, but I believe that even your threatened sword thrust would have no effect upon him, so long as the cage is intact.”“This is nuts,” Dana said.  “But as long as we can find a way to hurt Graz’zt, then I am in.”</blockquote>

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