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Message: <blockquote data-quote="megamania" data-source="post: 2914957" data-attributes="member: 9255">THE CREATION SCHEMASEGMENT 2336/24/06“The Forgotten”There are five mis-shaped humanoids this time.  They approach with greater caution than the others.  In common, one calls out to the party.  “What do you want?”Cedious looks around to his teammates and ponders the next step.“Why do you ask?” he says shrugging his halfling shoulders.“We saw you come last week and knew you would be killed as all the others and including the Forgotten.  Are you House Cannith?”Cedious pauses as he thinks about how to answer this.  “We come from them.  Yes.”“Did Callus send you?”Callus is silently mouthed to his teammates.  They have never heard of the name either.  “No.  Jorlanna sent us.”Silence then- “I know no Jorlanna.”“She leads the Cannith house within Aundair.”Silence.“What or my people below?”“We were forced to defend ourselves.”“Borg is … resting then.  That leaves but us then.”“We came seeking something here.  Something important to House Cannith.”“What is so important that you and other humans would come to this land?”Cedious is careful not to say too much.  He fears a double-cross.  “Where may something very very very important be kept here?”“In the master vault.”“Which is ….?”“Sundered by the demons.”Cedious shakes his head in disgust.  “We are coming out.  We are not here to harm you.  We merely seek something for the current leader of Cannith.”   Cedious tries to always remember these creatures have had no human contact in 100 years.  They may not even know about the war.They lead Cedious to the master vault.  The creatures tore through the door and walls to reach what was inside.  Searching for existing traps and magical effects, Cedious steps inside carefully and cautiously.  This room is much like the vault they found downstairs but much much bigger.  He wonders what must have been kept here in the glory days of this facility.“The demons …  what are these?  Where do they come from?”“You may have faced them already.  They scout this place in hopes of catching us unaware.  They have been very active since your ships came.  They live in the torn lands.”Cedious remembers seeing an area marked as lava and volcanic on the island.  This must be the torn lands.  “So these creatures came here to steal everything within this vault?”“Yes.”“Why?”“We do not know.  We are simple people with no ability to weave magic and miracles.  We are the Forgotten.”“Can I sleep now?” asks a tired and battered Pebbles.“Can we stay here to rest?”“Yes but they will come.”“We can help you defend your home then.”“Yes then.  Rest.”</blockquote>

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