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Message: <blockquote data-quote="megamania" data-source="post: 2739429" data-attributes="member: 9255">EBERRON11 / 11 / 05SEGMENT 150“Invasion”It stood perfectly still and made no sounds.  It was on guard duty.   It was a warforged of Steel Nation.The gray mists and clouds above did little to alarm it.  They always were there.  In his thirty days of watching this area he had seen nothing except for a lone Living Spell that was too far away to be bothered with.  He blended in with the piled dead bodies of elves and humans with their horses.  They were all struck down by the forces that created the Steel Nation.  This same force now keeps them preserved for eternity.Suddenly the very bodies he was hiding within grab and hold him.  He struggles and finds they have become undead!  He is pummeled and gouged by the undead horde.  Incorporeal forms rise from the ground and begin to attack him while he is held.Soon C-U2 is undone.The undead horde moves onward.  Behind them, a glowing form that commands them.  She is or was human at one point.  She pushes the horde forward towards Steel Nation.  Towards the Lord of Blades.  Towards a piece of the Creation Schema.A mere ten minutes before the horde arrives within the Steel Nation inner settlement the Lord of Blades is given warning.   He musters his troops and they attack but many go down by their savage unnatural attacks.  While busy stopping the horde several animated undead thieves sneak into the settlement.  They seek one thing only- a specific magic item.They explore the Lord of Blades’ home and detect what they seek.  It is hidden and locked.  Three undead are destroyed trying to pick the lock.  The fourth opens the lock and spills the contents onto the ground.  Finally, it finds a round piece of adamantine with strange runes on the edges and several etchings that resemble cracks on it.  Short rods stick out the flat side on the back.  The remaining thieves run for it.The siege lasts two hours before the undead leave the Warforged City of Steel Nation.  The Lord of Blades is quickly angered.  Seeing the undead retreat, he understands at once the reason.   DIVERSION!He races back to his settlement and curses as he finds the destroyed undead and the items of power on the floor.Someone has stolen his piece of the Creation Schema.</blockquote>

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