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Message: <blockquote data-quote="megamania" data-source="post: 2363747" data-attributes="member: 9255">EBERRON06/18/05SEGMENT 083“ GREATSWORD and DAR”Greatsword labored all day and night crossing the Zilargo countryside.  The Gnomes had no idea that this creature of destruction was in their lands.  He entered the woods of northern Zilargo and headed to Darguun.  Soon he would enter the Mournlands and return home.  Return to the Steel Nation.  The woods were typical.  Brush tried to block his way and trees created stupid barricades he could sidestep easily enough.  Then he entered a clearing.  What he saw he did not expect.Before him, standing alone, was a bugbear.  It sat calmly sharpening its Scimitar.  The Bronze, red and black armor seemed to glisten in the sun.  “Welcome Greatsword.  I have been waiting for you since this morning.  I was beginning to believe you would not survive the gnome countryside.”  He turns and his bright blue eyes wink in excitement.Never slowly down the warforged continues to walk straightforward.  “If you value your life, step aside and shutup.”“So rude!”  Dar stands up and swings his blade a few times over his head.  “You should be more polite to strangers.  You never know who they may be.”Now a mere twenty feet away, the warforged warrior pulls his Greatsword free of its holding sheath on its back.  Not saying another thing he swings at the Bugbear.  It easily blocks the hit.  The bugbear reaches out and grasps the warforged by his shoulder.“AHHHHH!”He lowers his greatsword and stares at the bugbear.  He tries to stare at the bugbear’s eyes but they glow to brightly.“I know what you have and where you bring it.  I also know the Trust await for you nearby.  They will stop you.  You have not even tried to hide your presence.  Very foolish for a country of nosey gnomes.”  The bright glowing eyes stare harder into the warforged.  “Allow me to redirect your path to the west then follow the river that is near Thrane.  Enter the new Steel Nation through there.”  The bugbear lets him go and the warforged shudders in pain and discomfort.  It has never known fatigue but this has to be fatigue.  He does not treasure the sensation.  He promises the death of this creature.  He repeats his promise again as he turns to the west and travels to Thrane.Three miles away, a garrison of gnomes wait for a destructive rogue warforged that has killed thirty-three innocent gnomes so far.  They will give up the wait in four days.  By then, the warforged will be in the Mournlands.As for Dar, When the warforged looked over his shoulder last, the bugbear was missing from view.</blockquote>

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