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Message: <blockquote data-quote="akira1" data-source="post: 4456381" data-attributes="member: 64437">AftermathDr Zhindzhe looked around as he stood on the semi crowded street in the 9th district of Rath. The three story black building before him had only 1 entrance and the Doctor waited patiently as he stood before the door. Thinking on his last meeting, the Dr Zhindzhe reflected on the nature of the group he had decided to chronicle and mused at their ability to land in the middle of things. As these thoughts were rolling through his head, a large eyeball appeared in the door and dimly within the magical orb a figure of a man appeared and said in a high pitched voice, "Yes, may I help you?" Straightening his black travel suit the Dr said, " I am Dr Adiago Yurobo Zhindzhe and I am here for my appointment with Brickface." "The door is open come up the stairs and nock on the door at the top and I will let you in." The high pitched voice replied. Silently the door opened into a large dimly lit interior room. Sitting along the back wall and floating 3 feet off of the ground was a large black bow approximately 7 feet long and 4 feet wide. For an instant, Dr Zhindzhe stared at the Death Box and then he began to climb the narrow stair that led to a solid looking wooden door with no landing. Wrapping on the door lightly it opened and the Doctor stepped into the room beyond. The waiting room to Brickface's office was plain. The floors were made of wood and the walls had wooden panels, all plain and non descript, covering the stone wall. There were 4 chairs along the far wall and seated behind a cluttered looking desk sat the man the Doctor had seen in the Orb below. There was one other door that was opposite the one the Doctor came into this room from and it also had that solid look to it. Eddie 2 Wand as he was known on the streets was an odd looking man. His features were square and blocky, almost like they had been hand crafted instead of born naturally, and he had black hair and sparkling over bright green eyes. He was dressed simply in a cotten shirt and trousers and strapped across his chest was a billaro with 5 visible wands tucked into it. With a broad smile Eddie 2 wand said, " Come in Dr Zhindzhe, Brickface wil see you in a minute." "Thank you" Dr Zhindzhe replied and at a gesture from Eddie he sat down along the far wall and waited. Eddie for his part, once the Doctor was seated, began to go through a large ledger. After a few minutes, the other solid looking door opened and a Female Drow strode out purposefully. She moved with the grace of a hunting cat and only spared the Doctor the briefest of hard stares as she passsed him. Her tight fitting leather armor made soft whisking sounds as she passed and her mohawk of brilliant white hair gave her an exotic look that was not, the Doctor noted, a bad thing. In the wake of her passing a gruff voice said, "Send in the Doctor Eddie." With a smile and a nod of his head toward the room with the gruff voice Eddie continued with his work. Doctor Zhindzhe stood and then walked into the Office of Brickface, Turf Boss of 1/4 of District 9 and employer of the adventuring group known as The Tainted. Brickface's office was as simple as the waiting room was. The wood panels in here though were replaced with opaque glass stell windows that allowed Brickface to look out on the streets below but not be seen doing it. There was a large heavy looking desk and a single chair opposite which the Doctor took for his own. The only ornamentation on his desk was a large adamantite gauntlet that had gems embedded in the knuckles and in the center of the palm and top of the hand. Brickface himself was a hideously deformed Orc. His left hand had its three middle fingers fused into one single lump of rough looking flesh and the left side of his face looked as if it had been pressed into a brick wall and the imprint of the bricks had stuck with him. He was also muscular but in his squinty black pig like eyes, the Doctor noted, there was a devious intelligence and animilistic cunning. With an expansive gesture Brickface said gravely, "Welcome Doctor. I hope your stay in Rath has been a good one so far." "It has Brickface. There are some pecularities here that simply do not exist in the south." Dr Zhindzhe replied. "I would imagine so, but you did not come here to debate me about the differences of the Northern city states and the Kingdoms of the south." Brickface said. "No, I did not. I came actually to talk to you about a group of mercenaries that you employ, the Tainted and specifically their involvement in the last 6 days of the month of Skullsflame Year 5 N.E." Dr Zhindzhe replied. "Ahhh, of course." Brickface replied, "but I was actully expecting this call to come from one of the Cadre and not an outsider to the city." Brickface grumbled. "Why is that?" Dr Zhindzhe asked. "Let me explain. That 7 days encompased alot of strange happenings." Brickface said simply. "By all means Brickface proceed." Dr Zhindzhe prodded. "Well you know that I was the one who gave them the warehouse protection job with the Death Box right?" Brickface asked. "Yes, I believe I have that here in some of the notes I took when I talked to Belg #6..." Dr Zhindzhe said as he began to flip back through his notepad. "Yes, well after that all ended, they covered the Deathbox with a tarp and came here to my offices and spoke to Eddie 2 Wand." Brickface said. "They were wandering what to do with the Deathbox and Eddie of course did not know what they were talking about. He directed them to go get some sleep and then come back tomorrow to talk to me. They returned to the Devil's Cup where the Necromancer conveniently stated that he had to go to the bathroom and ran into Ivanor who had curiously been absent during the protection racket. They explained to him what had happened and he immediately drew his sword and went looking for the Necromancer." "Why would he do something like that?" Dr Zhindzhe asked. "Some obscure point in his faith I would guess." Brickface replied, "But anyway he never got to find him because he was confronted by Iris at the bottom of the stairs and she told him in no uncertain terms what would happen if there was blood shed in the Cup." "I see, that Iris is quite a remarkable lady. If I had not married all of my wives for my current station in life I would definitely take her in." Dr Zhindzhe mused. "She is at that but has a tongue on her thay can flay the hide off of a dragon at 30 paces and her temper...." Brickface said. "Those are things that can be smoothed out with time." Dr Zhindzhe replied, " so what was their next move?" "Ivanor decided that he would go track the beast down but before he could get going good, the Priestesses of the Scion moved in in force and quarantined my portion of District 9 and imposed martial law." Brickface grumbled, "I lost alot of money over those 2 days." "So Ivanor never got to search for the beast?" Dr Zhindzhe asked. "No he was stopped just outside of the Devil's Cup by a Squad of Priestesses and Templars and redirected to return to the Inn until further notice at which point he began to say that he worshipped the god of Death and offered his faiths services." Brickface said. "To one of the Scions Priestesses!?" Dr Zhindzhe spluttered. With a dry chuckle Brickface replied, "Yeah I would have paid real money to see the look on her face when he said that." "Indeed. So they were confined to the Inn for how long?" Dr Zhindzhe probed. "Until the next morning. When they had been told to come see me. They were heading down the stairs with the Deathbox when they saw one of the Scion' Priestesses, Iselia, in the middle of the common room with 3 armed templars taking peoples names. At this point Damien and Kalanaghar returned to their room while Ivanor pressed on intent on returning to his church to report the information that he had been given by his companions." "The description of the beast?" Dr Zhindzhe asked. "Yes, apparently he has seen a creature like this before and thought this was significant." Brickface replied. "Ahhh it would seem so." Dr Zhindzhe said as he nodded for Brickface to continue. "Iselia, directed Ivanor to get in line and wait his turn when he simply attempted to walk out of the Cup." Brickface replied. "What did he do then?" Dr Zhindzhe asked. "He got in line and waited his turn. When he was directed to talk to the Priestess he went and she asked him his name and if he was staying in the Cup." Brickface grunted. "He replied approrpaitely to these questions I take it." Dr Zhindzhe said. "Yes he did. He did ask what was going on and the Priestess told him that there was a mage duel somewhere in #9 and in the fight last night and a potentially deadly interdimensional disease was released and they were here making sure that it got contained and did not spread. She also stated that they would be around on the next day to collect blood samples from the people in this area." Brickface said in his gravely voice. Narrowing his eyes Dr Zhindzhe said, "That would be the same night that the creature was released from the Deathbox?" "Your sharp Doctor. Ivanor then began to offer his churches services to this Priestess and she took an interest in him and asked what his stake in all of this was while he was within her zone of truth spell." Brickface replied. "She had a zone of truth spell cast!?" Dr Zhindzhe exclaimed. "She was a member of the Scions Secret Police, the Cadre and they were looking for information and people." Brickface replied blandly. "Ivanor was unaffected by the spell though and managed to squeak by but not before he stuck his foot in his mouth." "What do you mean by that?" Dr Zhindzhe asked. "He was informed by the Priestess that he would be watched mainly because of his questions and he was directed not to leave District 9 for fear of spreading the contagion." Brickface said. "Thats interesting." Dr Zhindzhe said. "Yeah well Ivanor left District 9 anyway and went to his church." Brickface replied. "In direct defiance of the Priestess directive!" Dr Zhindzhe exclaimed. "Yes he did. He bluffed his way by one of the Templar Guardsmen and made his way into District 10 and to his church. He noticed to that the Scions guardsmen were not stopping people from coming in but they were not letting anyone leave." Brickface answered. ************************To Be Continued*******************</blockquote>

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