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Message: <blockquote data-quote="megamania" data-source="post: 4648751" data-attributes="member: 9255">SEGMENT 24“Aftermath”One day has passed.The six adventurers rest under the watchful eye of the halflings of Jorasco and the Silver Flame.   Donnerson and his men are given a leave of absence as well.   Though not treated as city heroes they also are given recognition for doing their jobs so well.  A moment of silence has been ordered for the dead and grieving by King Boranel (61).  Not wishing to miss an opportunity for recognition and a reason to throw a large party Celyria ir’ Tain (62) has begun setting up a party for the heroes of Sharn.  Strangely enough, Kim Elderich has become very quiet during this time.  Most would expect him to try to steal some of the spotlight but has not.Epilogue one: Elderich FamilyDura is caught day dreaming when there is a knock at her door.  She refuses to answer it as there have already been three reporters and several florists that day already.  No, instead she is day dreaming about the recent events.  The undead.  The foe behind it.  Her new friends.So caught up in her inner thought, she doesn’t hear the click of a key in the lock.  The opens and closes quietly and it is only when a ring covered pudgy hand softly touches her arm.  “AHHHH!” She exclaims.“Hello gran’ daughter.  I did not mean to startle you.”  Kim Elderich walks to a chair near by and stares at, as if deciding if it was safe to sit in it or if it may present some sort of unseen danger.  “You have been busy.”“Yes Gran’ Kim.  It has.  What brings you here?”“I own this apartment.  Do I need a reason to come to it?”“No.  I’m just…..  This isn’t like you.  Is there something wrong?   Do you need help?”He sighs and sits down gently allowing his wide bulk to slowly sink into the Aundairian made chair.  “Hmmmm  Comfortable.”Dura watches him, her eyes begging for him to get on with it.  Though she knows he loves her, he has always been distant.  He was always too busy with his schemes of grandness to ever take time to see her…. Unless he needed her help.  “What brings you to Sharn then?”“I…. Nothing much.  I am merely traveling about looking into my various projects and other activities I fund.”“Anything interesting?”He fidgets briefly like a child caught his hand in the cookie jar then smiles.  “My Kyber Crawler is almost complete.  I am looking for a crew to act as guards to the professors that I have employed to travel within it.”Here we go she thinks to herself.   He wants her to go and watch over his project while he does something of more interest to him.“I unexpectedly bumped into an old friend of mine.  She was attacked by the diseased people but another group protected her.  I have asked them to go.  They agreed.”“That is wonderful gran’ Kim.  But you didn’t come here to tell me that.”“No.  I did not,” He looks at the plants from Talenta Plains including the cacti from the Blade Desert he bought just for this apartment,  “.…. may not see you again.  At least for a long time.”Dura listens.  He has a habit of not being in touch for months at a time.   She remains patient for him to say whatever he believes he needs to.In a rush and with a brightness in his eyes that startles her Kim quickly says, “ I am on something big!   Possibly the biggest thing I have ever researched and sought to attain.”“Tell me more.  Is there danger involved?”“Danger…. Yes.  Many groups seek the same items and I fear look to misuse the artifacts.  I have a group seeking it now.  They will need to go to Xen’drik.  I…I will be going to Xen’drik also to join them.”  He waddles his large frame to the edge of the chair and holds out his arms in a pleading manner.  “There is so much I want to tell you.  So much I must tell you.   But so little time.”“Then begin with the most important.”“I would like you to travel back to our ancestral home.  I want you…. To know more about your family…. Your clan… your history.”Silence“I know enough already.   We are it.  We are the last of the Elderich family.”Kim can not look at her in the eye suddenly.  A forlorn look washes over his face.  “Please promise me you will go.”   She thinks about it.  She thinks about the new unwanted fame she has in Sharn.  “Very well gran’ Kim.  I’ll go.”A wide broad smile crosses his face.  His eyes sparkle more than the ruby earring he wears.  He gets up and begins to leave.  With his hand on the latch to leave he stops and pauses.  He thinks about what the strange gnome said to him.  “There is something else I need to say.  Something more important than even that.   No matter what I have done in the past, present or even in the future…   I… I love you Granddaughter.  You made me proud yesterday.”   That said he abruptly leaves.Dura stares at the door and wonders what has brought this on.  What has he gotten himself into now and what awaits her in the Mror Holds.Epilogue Two:  Mania’s CurseThe sewer is quiet.The undead are destroyed.  The living are hiding.  And the others…. Are also staying out of harms way.Mania is tired.  He has been burned, stabbed, crushed, poisoned and many other things in the past few days.  He is hungry.In the past he has fed mainly on vermin.  Rats mostly.  Occasionally a street worker or the such.  But now he wants to feed.   He left the group mainly because his urges were becoming stronger.   He …. Was ashamed of this.  He has never wished he were normal more than now.   But of course if he was normal he could not have destroyed the mist creating the undead horde.He searches for a specific secret passageway.  One used by the slavers of Darguun.  He hates them and has decided to feed on some goblinoids.  But then what?Epilogue Three:  The evil behind it allThe dark figure gazes at his crystal globe.  His black hands and fingernails play over the smooth surface of the glass globe looking at half- vampire as he hunts down a fleeing hobgoblin.  The images twist and churn an apartment appears.  The mage is here.  She is talking to a dark clad man.  They seem to be fighting then stop and hold each other.  She is crying and sobs onto his chest.  The look on his face is dark and filled with anger.“So much confusion.  So much Chaos.   It is a shame they do not work for me.  I know not how they came up with a means to neutralize my magics so quickly but it provides excellent entertainment.  The rare sweet emotions….. the uncertainty… the mayhem.”The completely black thin and gaunt figure leans back into his chair.  An eerie smile crosses his face.  New plans and schemes cross his mind.  Many of them involve these seven heroes.</blockquote>

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