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Message: <blockquote data-quote="megamania" data-source="post: 4642562" data-attributes="member: 9255">SEGMENT 23“A Joint Effort to Save Them All”“Any word from my Granddaughter?” Asks the concerned dwarf.“No sir.  Perhaps Lady Nadia could…” begins the dark lantern agent but is cut off quickly by Elderich.“NO.  I mean no thankyou.  I am sure they are okay.”  Answers Kim Elderich.  He is well aware of Nadia’s psionic abilities and doesn’t want her getting involved in his affairs when he is so close (56).  No, he will find answers elsewhere.Earlier, a strange gnome named Glyder Freetime came to him.  He held a scroll dated two years ago that was given to him this morning.  It had a list of ingredients and people to gather.  The ingredients were not inexpensive and the people to be contacted were not the easiest to reach.   In truth, except for Breland’s government, Kim Elderich may have been the only one with the resources and will to do so.  100,000 gold had been used already and now the gathering of specific people was nearly complete.  There were members of the Dark Lanterns, The Trust (57), Silver Flame and specific doctors and professors.  When asked, Glyder had no idea what this was about but Elderich noted the lie in his eyes.  He knew more than he knew. It didn’t matter.  His granddaughter was caught up in this event.  He was going to see it through.Then he was going to Xen’drik to retrieve the Creation Schema.The strangest person and hardest to bring about was a member of House Ghallanda.  Siedon d’Ghallanda (58)     This Dragonmarked member of the house of hospitality was in the Shadow marches (59) exploring an area said to have a magical tree.  Even stranger, the instructions specifically said for him to bring back a few leaves from the tree.  It took several favors with House Ghallanda and House Orien to get him here and as quickly as we did.They were in a lab looking at the scroll given me and hard at work.  The Silver Flame was casting various blessing spells on the workers themselves.  It was very unorthodox.  Then it was done.  Then came the House Lyrandar (60). They were to create a rainstorm that was centralized to the area of the mists and drown out the mists.The rain was just beginning.  This must mean they have finished the formula.  “Where is she?!?” he grumbles out loud.Then he hears a commotion.  Looking there are people rushing to a grate leading down.  “Get the Silver Flame NOW !!!” he commands and three separate runners leave him to locate the clerics.As he arrives there are several guardsmen men on the ground.  They are curled up and not looking good.  Their skin is pale with patches of yellow.  They were exposed to the mists!Slowly the members come up.  Leeya, her eyes are yellow and her hair wiry, Vander, gasping for air and not doing well.  Bora, also with yellow skin, insists on the others to be seen first.  Dura is next and seems fine (passed).  Donnerson finally comes up.  He is obviously infected.  His skin is pale, his eyes yellow and he stares at the hands that help him up.There is no sign of Mania.The Silver Flame members begin their enchantments on the survivors.  Some of them, especially Donnerson, look to be in pain.  He requires being held down.  Shortly all is calm.  The rain still falling.  It is a driving rain, designed to wash away the horrors that were set onto the city of Sharn.Hundreds were infected and killed in the past few days.   Innocent people.  “You should go and talk to her.”“Huh?   Oh you Glyder.  And just what are you talking about our mystery man.?”  Kim looks at the gnome trying to figure him out.  Looking at him, the gnome seems… older and more mature somehow…“She loves you and wants your acceptance.   Go to her …. Tell her you care.”  And with that the Gnome turns and walks away to Kim’s right heading deeper into the city.  Kim ponders this for a moment.  There is something about that gnome that he both likes and distrusts.  He looks up and far away, on the other side of the adventurers he can see Glyder watching within the crowd.  “How….”  Kim begins to wonder how he got that far to his left when Nadia approaches him.“There is something to him.  A secret.”  She answers after habitually scanning his mind for thoughts.“Out of my head Mindbender!” shouts the dwarf as he raises his mental shields.  “I want to see my granddaughter now and no assassin spy mindbender is going to stop me.”  And thus he storms off very quickly away from her.  She watches him with renewed interest.</blockquote>

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