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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Eccles" data-source="post: 3479431" data-attributes="member: 5675">After dinner, we received an invitation from Eligos, and visited him the next day for lunch, where he announced that he had finished his investigations into the various matters we had asked him about. Whilst Endo the orc satisfied his newfound base instincts by cramming canapés into his mouth by the dozen, Eligos explained that the ‘Talisman of the Sphere’ which we had found in the sarcophagus of the air-lord was inactive. He also explained what he had learned from Theldrick’s captured journal and the preserved worm – they all harkened back to the figure of ‘Kyuss’, a lesser deity of the undead, whose cult was expanding. His researches indicated that the cult had been enveloped by the Ebon Triad, absorbing its teachings of the End of Days into their own beliefs.“The teachings of Kyuss,” he went on, “are set out in a number of fabled documents, such as the Necronomicon or the Apostolic Scrolls. These scrolls were reputedly penned by Kyuss himself, and detail the creation of a great worm-like entity, which could simply snatch up living beings and swallow them before vomiting them back up as the undead.”We were terrified by the possibility of such a set of documents having fallen into the hands of someone who was actively trying to kill us, and said so to Eligos. He, however, was swift to disabuse us of the idea of striking at Racnian, who was wealthy and popular within the Free City, and we would likely find ourselves captured and facing charges within an alarmingly short period. Instead, the mage mad a different suggestion – that we join the Games as a team of champions, with a view to getting close to Racnian and possibly both confronting him and recovering the scrolls. To that end, he put us in touch with his comrade Celeste, who met us at our mansion the next day with a friend of hers, who explained that he could sponsor us as a team within the arena. I managed to negotiate his suggested 80:20 deal (in his favour) to a more reasonable 70:30 ration (in ours), and we received the rules to the area combats, as well as signing a contract.“The Rough Diamonds” (named from the town which many of us had grown up in) would fight in the arena, and the fate of the world would rest on our shoulders as we did so.</blockquote>

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