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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Gregor" data-source="post: 5809835" data-attributes="member: 11751">"Alright," mutters Kiernan the dwarven abjurer, "let us go over what we know.  It is now obvious that Giorgio the Wayfarer and his allies were employed by that traitor Lee Sidoneth.  They attempted to use the performance, where all council members and international delegates were assembled, as an opportunity to cause mass murder and panic by teleporting the Wayfarer vessel through a flame-filled planar sojourn.  Thanks to our friends from Gate Pass, this crisis was averted."  He begins to pace as he speaks.  "In addition, the assassins fastened a longship filled with the corpses of elves that were burned alive.  Yet, as our astute friend Arnir has shown by way of magical sampling and deduction, it is obvious that these corpses were transmuted in some way through polymorph.  Now, I am no transmuter, but this would imply that these corpses were made to seem to be elves.  When compared against the physical evidence of being bound, discovered by Hrimr and Bannock, then we can also logically deduce that someone actively transmuted and then burned to death a number of unwilling persons.  The end result was likely, as Kirio has pointed out, to make it seem as if the nation of Shahalesti was the culprit."  Kiernan pauses to collect his thoughts before continuing.  "So, the end result of this mission was to eliminate our organized resistance and to drive a wedge between Seaquen, the other nations represented here and Shahalesti.  Since this could only benefit the Empire of Ragesia, we must accept that Lee Sidoneth is in cahoots with the Empire.  This growing storm is likely his doing as well, given his strong grasp of the druidic arts and water magic.  Perhaps the storm is his plan B?  It seems plausible that if left uncontrolled, the storm will continue to intensify until it becomes a hurricane which would scour Seaquen from the peninsula and smash the elven fleet?"Kiernan leans against the desk and rubs his sable-gloved hand through his thick beard.  "We must find Lee.  Find him and stop him at all costs.  Yet he is shielded from Simeon's divinations.  He cannot of fled this plane of existence without incinerating in the flames suffusing planar travel and his personal repertoire of magic does not lend itself to access and control of non-detection spells.  Ergo, there must be some other reason or answer as to why we cannot find him." He turns to the party and echoes Simeon's request.  "Do you have any thoughts or ideas on this friends?  At this point any idea could help: a bit of history, some lore you may have read, anything?"       </blockquote>

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