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Message: <blockquote data-quote="megamania" data-source="post: 6243200" data-attributes="member: 9255">CREATION SCHEMASEGMENT 351“PICKING THE BONES OF THE DEAD” 1/9/14ARYTH 11,  999“This thing is HUGE!” exclaims John Play to anyone willing to listen.  “Why so big Kim?”“It is my greatest legacy… the Siberys Heir.  She was to become my new home.   No longer would I be held accountable by the warlords of the ‘Holds.   Aye…   I would be free.” Says the dwarf looking at the walls and gently touching the doorframe in the dark.  “She was the most beautiful thing I ever made with the Zilargo Gnomes…..  That damned Dragon and artifact better well be destroyed.”“Nothing could have survived that explosion.” Answers the archer.Kim, Play and Glyder look sadly at each other.Glyder, a time traveler, looks about the innards of the colossal airship that was dropped out of the sky months ago between the combined assault of an ancient White Dragon named Blizzard and a very powerful artifact that blocked all forms of magic. “In time… maybe it will ride the winds again… after a fashion.”Kim looks to his friend and gives a sad smile and a heavy handed resting on his hand on the Gnome’s shoulder.  “I would like that….. but first we have the Schema to deal with.”“Why is this thing so important?” asks Calli d’Sivis.  She is a reporter for the Korranberg Chronicle and love interest to Glyder.   She has been in and out of the lives of three of these men for a decade now.  There is only silence as they crawl over debris made up of collapsed and broken furniture and belongings.  The Siberys Heir was a multi- hundred foot long multi-leveled airship run by twin fire elementals.  It housed dozens of skilled adventurers.  All of them either killed by the crash, the Frost Giants or the dragon.  When Jasyne came with a rescue team, they came to this ship.   They used it for shelter and discovered the Frost Giants, using zombies, were taking anything of use from it.  Now Kim has returned to collect whatever he can salvage himself.   Much was destroyed or lost.Jasyne and John take up the rear.  Jasyne breaks the ice first.  “So…. I guess the big question is…. When are you from?”“997….. the traveler found me on a deserted rock in the middle of nowhere.” Play smiles.  I had no other way off the damned island and Glyder said he could help me with…. This.” And Play waves over his arm… the red aberrant Dragon mark.“What does it do?”  Jasyne likes to know what his soldiers can do.“Makes me faster.”Before he can go on about it, Calli calls out.  She and Kim Elderitch have entered his private chambers.  Kim is opening secret doors that are mere thin sheets of compacted space.  He pulls out various staffs and wands.   From another drawer of dimensional space he pulls out potions and a ring of keys.  “Ah- this is the main thing I came for.” The cleric / Mage dwarf takes up the keys.They follow Kim as he makes his way deeper into the ship.  He arrives at the cargo area.  “We’ll need those doors opened.”Play and Symtex go to work on that.  Glyder looks at a crate marked with serial numbers.   He knows this item.  Kim had him get this years ago.   Being a Time Traveler gets a little weird at times.  Sounds of snow being removed singles Kim to act.  He goes to a sturdy and heavy duty crate in the back.  “Open this one could you Glyder?”  and he moves up and finds another of similar size, “and Calli- this one?” and he moves on to eight total.“Statues?” answers Calli in disappointment.  “Statues of horses.”“Gifts from House Cannith before…. Well you know.” Kim lets the thought drift off.  “They are a variant of warforged.  A simple command word awakens them.  We will need them to follow the Schema.”“Why can’t we magically pop in on it?” asks the reporter.“The schema blocks all scrying on it once assembled.  She can be sneaky that way.”“She?” asks Calli.“The Creation Schema is more than an artifact.  It is alive.  The individual parts have little to offer but now that they are together, or worse- assembled, they are alive and trying to gain power.  It has been manipulating people to get here.  It has masterminded the entire thing.  Me. Us. The Claw. The Dragons…. Everyone.  Even the Giants.”“We sleep tonight then head out first thing in the morning.”Kim and several of the others turn and leave.  Play looks at Glyder.  “This isn’t going to end well is it?”Glyder says nothing as he walks past the Dark Lantern.</blockquote>

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