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Message: <blockquote data-quote="babomb" data-source="post: 171127" data-attributes="member: 1316">The old switcheroo"I awoke in a strange place, with bright white light in all directions. For a moment, I wondered if I were on some strange plane, or perhaps dead."Suddenly, I heard Wan's voice yelling, 'Is anyone there?'"Rurik, Aeron, Matthias and another voice answered in reply. I called out as well, but still can see noone. The light finally fades, and when my eyes adjusted, I found that we were in the same room. However, I was shocked to find myself face to face with...myself! I also had on some strange black robes, like the guy who stole the magic aura."Just then, Rurik came up to me and started shouting 'WHAT DID YOU DO WITH THE MAGIC?'"'How should I know where it is, Rurik?' was my reply, and this clearly puzzles Rurik."'I'm not Rurik; I'm Wan. How do you know our names anyway?' answered Rurik."'What do you mean, "How do I know your name?" I've been traveling with you, remember - Cecil the paladin?'"Similar confusion abounds until it ws finally sorted out that Rurik and Wan had switched bodies, as had Matthias and Aeron, and myself and this other guy. (For clarity's sake, I shall refer to each character by his mind, not what body he is in.) My and the new guy's horses, however, do not appear to have switched bodies."So Wan then began shouting at this new guy, who introduced himself as Karn.  I never liked that about Wan. He would alternate between quiet and shouting, and he was impulsive at times, like the time he split up with us instead despite our pointing out that it was too dangerous and that Citadel Fellbar was probably related. He seems to want to take things into his own hands rather than working with others (for instance, the fact that he walked all the way to Ascore to stop Decius, not ever trying to get anyone to help him or anything. He most likely would have died in Ascore had we not shown up. Not that any of my companions or myself are perfect (which is another story), but Wan was the one who never really fit in. Still, it is probably not a coincidence that we happened to run into him that day, and that when he left our party, he ended up rejoining. There must be a purpose behind it, I decided, but what?"Anyway, Karn says that he was only working for this evil group because he was forced to do so. I tried to Detect Evil, but it didn't seem to work. He really didn't know very many details about what the group was trying to do, but said that they were stealing a number of magical auras to power some sort of machinery, and that they set up teleporters (like the thing we jumped was supposed to have been, before the runes were damged) in anumber of places."'Oh man, it's worse than I thought, if they're stealing more auras than just that one!' exclaimed Wan."'Kind of interesting,' I noted, 'considering that one supposedly had the power to destroy the world.' They're trying to kill the gods, unless Wan is a fool or given to exaggeration, I added silently, leaning more toward the latter."Mattias chimed in 'Maybe they want to destroy the universe.'"I believe it was about this point that we found the scenery around us had changed into a forest."Surprisingly, Wan gave him the benefit of the doubt, but added ' I'll be keeping my eye on you!' Maybe he's more reasonable than I give him credit for."As we talked some more, the scenery changed again, to a mountain top in the middle of a blizzard. A strange orb I had on my person gave protection from the wind and cold in a small radius about it, so we crowded together and made for shelter, which we found in the form of a cave."Unfortunately, the cave had another inhabitant: a quite large, fearsome white wolf. His mouth bellowed cold air, but in a rather awkward battle, we defeated the beast."We started a fire, then Aeron and Matthias cooked some of the meat and we ate and slept."The next day, Aeron, Matthias, and Rurik fashioned cloaks from the wolf's hide, and two daggers from its long fangs. Meanwhile, I, with help from Matthias later, fashioned a crude sled. When everything was ready, we slid down the hill toward a small town known as Do-rin."</blockquote>

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