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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Hairy Minotaur" data-source="post: 1318099" data-attributes="member: 11574">Tharhack and the freed "prisoners" make their way to the fourth floor of the skull structure, the circular room at one time was probably amongst the finest research chambers on the prime. At some point there was a battle in this room, a few skeletons, coupled with strewn weapons, broken glass, scraps of aged parchment, and splinters of wood litter the floor. "This place is a mess, how are we to find anything here?" Ageanent asks"My master kept his treasured possessions stashed away from those who would try and steal from him." Charekyal answersThe group fans out and begins rummaging through the litter, Tharhack notices that most of the skeletal remains are not human. The two closest to him both have a wicked scorpion-like tail."Looks like your master got someone's attention." Tharhack says to Charekyal while kicking a skeleton "Does anyone see a human's remains?""No." came the unanimous response, Tharhack wondered if what they were looking for had already been pillaged."Found it!" Charekyal called out, lifting up a plain dull metal cylinder about eighteen inches wide and three feet long."Don't you think they would've looked in there?" Tharhack asked"This is a special hiding place." Charekyal replies. She turns the cylinder upside down, spins it half a full turn, then removes the base. Charekyal then pulls out an aged diary, and two glowing diamonds. Empythacoreaus reaches out for the diamonds and holds them up to his eyes. "Amazing." Is all the pit fiend saysAfter a five minutes of silence Ageanent speaks up, "so........ what's in them? Let's crack them open.""Not here." Empythacoreaus replies"What does that mean?" Tharhack asksEmpythacoreaus smiled at Tharhack, which did nothing but make Tharhack's stomach turn and think he must be insane, a pit fiend is smiling at me and I'm ok with that. Tharhack realized therapy was probably going to be in his near future.The pit fiend walked over to Tharhack and offered the two gems to him."Keep these safe, I entrust these to you." Empythacoreaus tell Tharhack"Aw.. come on. I want to know what they are." Ageanent pleadsTharhack resists the temptation to look at gems and places each one in a separate pouch on his belt."Are you not curious?" Empythacoreaus asks"I am, but I'm also trying to maintain some semblance that I control my actions." Tharhack answers"I see, you think I allowed you to hold the gems, and not that I chose you to hold the gems. Would you prefer I give them to the shapechanger?" Empythacoreaus asks"How do you know he's a shapechanger?" Tharhack asks"When you've been around for thousands of years, you tend to pick up on these things." The pit fiend repliesTharhack suddenly felt alone and paranoid. Listening to a creature of immense evil, who says Ageanent is a shapechanger who by their very nature are duplicit, and Charekyal who was able to lie to a succubus. Empythacoreaus left Tharhack to his thoughts, and approached Charekyal asking for the diary. Tharhack thought again about looking at the diamonds, but his mind didn't know if that what the fiend wanted him to do, or if the fiend really did want him to safeguard them. Tharhack thought about asking Kord for help, but Tharhack knew the response would be to just be strong. Unfortunately that wouldn't help, should he be strong enough to resist the temptation to look, or strong enough to deal with the consequences if he did look. Confused Tharhack sat on a broken bench deep in quiet thought."What's that?" Ageanent asked Empythacoreaus, who was handling the diary that Charekyal pulled from it's hiding place."This is what we came up here for, with this, the knowledge of the ancient high elves doesn't die with us. It also means we will be forever hunted." Empythacoreaus replies"So, you intend on furthering the experiment?" Charekyal asks"I intend on finding a way to finish what was started, I remember being in denial that I would ever see mercy as an option. With this we can make mercy a viable option, even for the lowly succubus." Empythacoreaus answersAgeanent wonders away from everyone and rifles through some refuse along the walls, while digging through a pile of broken wood Ageanent feels a slight breeze coming from behind an interior section of wall. Bending down, Ageanent gets a good whiff of the air coming from under the wall."I found a false wall!" Ageanent calls outEmpythacoreaus and Charekyal join Ageanent by the wall."Where does this lead?" The pit fiend asks Charekyal"I do not know, I have no recollection of there being anything behind this wall." Charekyal repliesEmpythacoreaus motions for Charekyal and Ageanent to clear out of the way, and thrusts his fist through the fake wall. Empythacoreaus studies the stone wall on the opposite side of the room, and concludes it's a recent construction, probably within the last ten years or so."Must be that human mage, Emthur. He's the only one who's been here in that time." Charekyal answers"That would be my guess as well, I wonder what's so important, that he would need to hide it in a place no mortal was likely to escape from?" Empythacoreaus wonders</blockquote>

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