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Message: <blockquote data-quote="BoldItalic" data-source="post: 6758423" data-attributes="member: 6777052">BoldItalic looked startled. "This is uncanny. It cannot be a coincidence," he said. "While you were dreaming, I was reading a little of the book that I picked up. I had just reached a passage in Chapter 34, where it describes the silver image of a goddess, with a face of jagged black stone, sitting in a wagon drawn by oxen. Look, here is the very line of text.""Remarkable," said Rylnethaz. "The gods have indeed given us a portent. But can you heat these silver nuggets?"BoldItalic pulled out a spellbook from his pack and started leafing through the pages. "It's not immediately obvious," he said, "but there must be something we can do." He continued to turn pages back and forth, wishing he kept his book in better order. Then he had a thought. "There might be a way. I have spell that can heat up your sword. It works on any kind of metal thing that has been crafted by mortals. If you apply the heated blade to the nuggets, there is a chance that they will fuse and coat it suitably. You would need to bind your hand or your would suffer terrible burns, and we would need to plunge the blade into water afterwards, to cool it quickly before the heat destroys the steel. How does that sound?"Sir Rylnethaz thought, and nodded slowly. Then he unclipped his cloak from his shoulders and said "I can bind the hilt with my cloak to make it safer to grasp. Will that do, do you think? It is a good cloak of oxhide, but if it gets a bit scorched, well, needs must. I have a little water in my flask, too. Will it suffice?""Water, I can create in quantities," said BoldItalic, "but we need a container of some kind to hold it, and long enough to plunge the whole sword blade into it at once. The smiths use stone troughs or oaken casks, but we have none here.""Your book spoke of oxen and we have the oxhide cloak, and it spoke also of black stone, did it not? Well, we are surrounded on three sides by black stone," pointed out Rylnethaz, "We just need a fourth. We have a pickaxe, and the stairs we have come up by are paved with small black flagstones. If we prise some loose, we could build a parapet across here that would contain water for a while, perhaps long enough.""I think we have a plan," said BoldItalic. And suffice it to say, the plan worked, almost flawlessly. Almost. The one thing that went wrong was that, overcome momentarily by the stench of scorching oxhide, BoldItalic inadvertently dropped Volume VIII into the water where it fell instantly to pieces, the glue from the binding and the ink from the lettering mixing in some strange way that tainted the water and causing the sword blade, when it was plunged in, to be imbued with an essence that would glow forever after with a blue light that could only be masked but never extinguished."Well, blue light or no, we have a silvered sword," said Rylnethaz with satisfaction. "Shall we descend and let it taste battle?"</blockquote>

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