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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Gregor" data-source="post: 5657168" data-attributes="member: 11751">"Excellent!" says Kiernan who rubs his hands together eagerly.  "There are two missions which I believe could use your various skills.  As you heard at the council meeting, we need to begin forming and training our own army.  Commander Foebane is ideally suited for this task.  However, two key problems stand in the way of making that a reality.  First, there is insufficient shelter and living space to house the refugees - our potential soldiers.  We cannot house them and their families in damp tents in the rain.  We also lack fortifications and other defensible structures that now need to consider not only a Ragesian advance, but perhaps an assault from the sea should the elves decide that they have tired of negotiating with us.  Though we have plenty of construction materials at hand and can site a quarry and fell trees, we lack skilled labourers and more importantly, time."  He pauses for a second and then continues. "The second issue is related to the first.  Given the size of the new population, we do not have enough sanitation and clean drinking water.  We cannot expect to run a larger city and support an army without this basic utility.  Our students here at the Lyceum are able to site and design a system but we need an actual source of clean water - the ocean is not ideal for obvious reasons." He pauses once again to let you think on this.  "There are two magical items that can greatly assist with these problems, and both of them are close at hand.  As you may know, there is a female green dragon who lives here on the peninsula.  Her name is Naizelasa and she makes her lair at a place called the Crystal Delve, a deep lake in the middle of the woods about 6 miles to the south-east of the North Harbour.  Ringed around the lake are various buildings that the dragon constructs and destroys on a routine basis.  Dragons of her age and variety rarely possess the innate magical abilities to conjure structures, so it is my belief that she has a Lyre of Building within her hoard.  If you were able to obtain the Lyre, we could use it here to rapidly construct shelters, fortifications and more.The second item is a Decanter of Endless Water.  It will, upon command bring forth fresh water from the Elemental Plane of Water in a variety of ways.  We foresaw the need for the item and asked a hermitic druid by the name of Dubovir Marshwalker to craft it for us.  He makes his home in a small grove near the edge of the swamp on the south coast of the peninsula.  The item should have made it here by now and we have not heard from him in over a week.  If you could journey to his home, determine the delay and ideally return with the decanter, we would be in your debt."If you accept these missions, I would be pleased to vacate a building for use as your home and will gladly offer monetary recompense.  Arnir, I will also allow you the full use of our archives and libraries as well as access to our instructors and item crafters to pursue your own research or knowledge."</blockquote>

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