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Message: <blockquote data-quote="megamania" data-source="post: 6287478" data-attributes="member: 9255">CREATION SCHEMASEGMENT 358“THEN WHAT?” 4/12/14VULT 3,  999 Glyder learns that the Fire Giants have also traded the Creation Schema.  They have gone to ruins along the shore line where a dragon bargained for it.   They left two days ago.The five of them hurry along to catch up with the group.   They do encounter them and find they have already left the ruins and the Dragon.  It will take them two more days to get there but Kim senses they are near.Then Glyder asks a simple question.  “Once you regain it, what will you do with it?”Kim has no answer…. In the afternoon of the next day he drops back to Glyder and Calli, figuring the dwarf wants to talk in private, goes to the head of the group to bug Play some.“Yesterday you asked a very good question.  One I have wondered before.   The Creation Schema is a powerful artifact.   I am not even certain of its limits- if it has any.”“What do you know about it?”“I read a reference of it in a tome we found in a ruin in Xen’drik a few decades ago.  Curious but not concerned about it I went on with life but then a professor from Morgrave approached me.  He suspected he knew where one piece was…. Or at least where the first clue was.   All I had to do was retrieve it for him.”“With your resources that could not have been hard.”“Harder than you may think.   It was in Metrol.  The Mourning had already occurred.  I sent in several groups of Wayfinders to locate it.  Few returned and those that did spoke of how the very city changed.  To make matters worse- the tome was kept in a Kundarak back.  It was locked using their special wards.”“Only a Kundarak house member, a high level one at that, could have access then.”“Correct.  To matters worse- one cannot merely ask the bank to release property that was not mine.  I tried but got nowhere.  A few years ago, an informant of mine told me the dwarves were going into the Mournlands to retrieve something of great value.  They needed to stop at their bank for a key.”“No Kundarak dwarf would do that. Don’t even suggest….”“It cost me a lot of platinum but yes, I hired a Kundarak dwarf to “borrow” the tome for me (see John Play: Hero For Hire).  The Morgrave professor studied the book and learned the first piece was actually in Undersharn.  He died before giving me details. (waaaaay back in the first adventure of Creation Schema)  Somehow the Lord of Blades had learned of it and wanted it for himself.”“Amazing.”“I know.”“That was not a compliment Kim.   How many people have you used or died getting this damned Schema for you?” condemns the gnome.  “Go on…”The dwarf lets out a deep sigh.   He had already cursed himself while being held at the Frost Giant prison.  His guilt is deep and sincere.  “As predicted, once one piece was discovered, it became awakened and soon the race was on.”“Yes and many of the players were forces that would have misused the artifact for their own goals.  The Lord of Blades, the Emerald Claw….. I suspect the dragons have been watchful.”“Yes.  I was warned several times.  I wish I took it more seriously but … I want to make amends.”“How do we destroy it?”The dwarf frowns…  “You can’t.”“Everything can be destroyed.”“This artifact was suggested to be linked to the original three dragons.  It is a piece of reality itself.  It would only reappear somehow.   No- I can only think of one thing we can do.  And that is why I asked you to become involved.”“Hide it in time?”“Exactly.”</blockquote>

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