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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Tashtego" data-source="post: 6297031" data-attributes="member: 5373">Seregal enjoys the fine delights arrayed before him.  He tries a pinkish biscuit, studded with tiny dried lavendar fruits, and finds it quite delightful.Seregal clears his throat.  "Let me start with a story; it's about a map I came into possession of under rather tragic circumstances."  He pauses, draws out a handerchief and dabs at one eye.  "I once worked in a hospice, where I cared for a dying man called Zorak of Redstone.  He was a numenera hunter.  He told me that twenty years ago, he had gone into a strange city at the behest of an Augur - one Jastor Kannop by name - who wanted him retrieve a strange, green orb from the centre of the city.  Zorak said that the city had some strange properties - one moment all ruined, and the next, all shiny and new.  Zorak told me that map belonged to his wife, and she was the real brains behind the expedition. She used the map to figure out the right time to get into the city, using some sort of clock or device.  Anyway, so Zorak's expedition got in there and they found the green orb. But when they had it, time went all awry.  Buildings were crumbling to ruin while Augur citizens walked unnoticed through parklands.  Zorak panicked and fled the city before his wife could get the clock working properly.  She crumbled into dust, and Zorak was left with part of his body aged like an old man, and part of him eternally young. He had the map but couldn't figure out how to get back into the city. He told me he smashed the green orb in his fury, and so he lived the rest of his days, a bitter old man, haunted by the memory of things past."  Seregal pauses and wipes the tears from his eyes.  "Zorak gave me the map and told me to find out what happened to his wife.  I decided to carry out his last wishes, for we had become close friends, but I couldn't decipher the map.  However, Echo here has had some success with it.  We found our way to a strange, underground location...  I was wonderng if you could tell me if there's any truth in Zorak's story, for often I did not know whether Zorak's words were based on madness or his own truth.  And tell us what you may know about this 'Call', and what grim portents it may hold."Seregal turns as Duncan blurts out: "Did you say you have been having visions? What do you know of them?"Seregal drums his fingers on the table and helps himself to another purple treat.  The former gladiator has a way of smashing right through Seregal's fine performances.</blockquote>

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