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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Erf" data-source="post: 1389972" data-attributes="member: 16663">It was too easyThe ease of the temple assault has Vincent worried.  Why was Darros so horribly unprotected?  Was he just cocky enough to assume nobody would come anywhere near the pillar of flame?  Did he have more firepower (so to speak <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /> ) that he just didn't have time to call upon?  Or were his resources already tapped for some other purpose we know nothing about?There's more power around than we've yet seen.  Somebody called up that Pillar of Flame -- which represents a channel straight to one of the Infernal Planes, as far as Vincent knows.  Somebody has sufficient control (or rapport) with the barghests and other monsters to have them patrolling the city.  Somebody brainwashed a crowd of normally non-violent citizens into a murderous frenzy, for political gains.  Somebody had an Osyluth show up to ensure the New Order of Things took hold properly.These are symptoms of what's going on.  All this takes power or connections or both.  Where is that power?  If the ease with which we took down Darros was any indication, it wasn't him.  Is he just a pawn?  A sidekick, perhaps?  Maybe an opportunist?Vincent's recommendation is to 'interview' Darros, and search the temple from top to bottom.  We need to find out what's going on so that we can fight the source of the problem, not just take down the symptoms while the real plan is executed under our noses.</blockquote>

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