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Message: <blockquote data-quote="megamania" data-source="post: 2490018" data-attributes="member: 9255">EBERRON08/13/05SEGMENT 099The creature stood before a heavy reinforced door made of Adamantine and Steel.  It had an image of a Gorgon and an anvil with the numbers 2-213 engraved onto it.  It reached up and waved its scaled hand before the door being careful not to touch it.  A snort that one would expect from a wild animal emits from the creature.  It backs up and looks around the hallway.  This is the way, it is quite certain of it.  It crosses its arms before it then begins to melt.  It clicks and clacks though.  It slides under the large heavy-warded door.  On the other side it wiggles and reforms first into a hunched over position then to its full position.  It’s tail wiggles in agitation then steps slowly forward.  It passes several other doors including one heavily warded and marked as door 2-566.  Light emits from the room but it feels …wrong to it.  It ignores the door and seeks another door.Finding it, it once more shrinks and falls apart into hundreds of thousands of small vermin insects and slides under the door without incident.  Shortly the door marked as 2-566 opens.  A man of great power and influence steps out.  His man- Merrix d’Cannith.  He speaks with several people including Lady Elaydren ir’Vown.  The two men leave.  Multiple wands are visible on their hips and thighs.  Elaydren also has a similar outfit.  They wait for the men to disappear then embrace and kiss passionately.  “Soon my love.” She purrs into his ear.  “Very” he answers then they move away from the door to exit the secret hallways of Cannith within UnderSharn.The creature has found itself within a large library of rare tomes, notes and research papers.  Second to Metrol, Cyre, this is the largest library of House Cannith and it is very secret.  The creature eyes rapidly the volumes and looks for something specific.  Two hours pass before it snarls in anger.  In a voice part snarl and part hiss it speaks to itself.  “Patience.  It is all about patience.” And it resumes looking again.  Another hour passes and it stops.It reaches up and pulls down impossibly large and heavy book containing maps.  It must weigh over 300 pounds but it holds it easily.  It turns pages and sputters to itself.  Then begins to slow down.  “Ahhh… here it is.  The secret facility in the ice formations.  With this I will learn where to search for my prize.  The artifact I most prize.”It places the book back on the shelf and turns.  It escapes with little signs of having ever been there.  It makes it into the sewers edge and looks to reach the surface before dawn.“Hey You!  Stop!” a man calls out.  The light from a wand flashes over the creature’s scarred and scaled face.“Hiiiiissssss.  You have no idea what you face.  Begone!”  It backs into a corner and disappears.  The guard runs up and finds the corner bare except for a few maggots and a centipede.  “How do I explain this to Merrix?!?”</blockquote>

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