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Message: <blockquote data-quote="megamania" data-source="post: 7284016" data-attributes="member: 9255">THE HIDDEN: BEYOND NEW WATER08  EXPLORE THE HIDDENSEGMENT 154“JOCASTA THE HALF-ELF”11/14/17RHAAN 27, 995“Is the Forge ready?” commands the warforged legend.“Affirmative my Lord.”“Then let it begin.”Several warforged artificers, once loyal to House Cannith, work the controls.  Their leader and Master, The Lord of Blades, watches with keen interest.When the warforged leader that would summon the others to the Mournlands came to the just created Mournlands, he had visions.  Visions of the Steel Nation.  Visions of Undead hordes that would fight for the use and control of the land.  Visions of the Forge….. and its great creations.The forge was damaged but fixable.   The Lord of Blades sought artificers to follow him and to repair the Forge located within the Mournlands…. The ruins of Cyre.  The first two creations were all mutated in strange ways.  Good ways.   The warforged built took on new looks and appearances after being given life.   This was to be the third creation.But not all peoples agreed or believed in the Steel Nation.  =========================================================================================The five of them have been traveling for several weeks now.  They met in Korth, Karrnath then traveled south.  The Mournlands were a dangerous adventure….  The team consisted of three Dark lanterns, John Play, Nadia and Felix.  Also joining them were two Royal Eyes, Caleb and Jocasta.They had fought ghouls, spell-like energy with feral intelligence and pirates from Darguun.    They found the damage rended onto the country of Cyre was immense and beyond description.Scryers from both Breland and Aundairian governments felt there was something developing within the destroyed lands.   Fearing a new undead nation, a joint mission was agreed on.They discovered raw energies leaking from a secret Cannith Forge.   It is built within a short hillside with rocks and a small stream.  The stream turned out to be an illusion.  It was really a road and an entrance.====================================================================================Unknown by them, the Emerald Claw was still active and looking to mine and salvage magics and weapons from Cyre’s corpse.  Vollax, a very dangerous and violent member was leading the group currently in the Mournlands.Together with Quintos and a small group of seasoned warriors, they followed the spies to the forge where the Lord of Blades was experimenting yet again.========================================================================================“Then let it begin.” Commands The Lord of Blades.The other warforged move about pulling switches and pushing buttons.  They are still learning how to operate the Forge.The theory was sound and gave birth to the race known as the Warforged.  Inert bodies were made from wood, stone and metal.   Some even had gems or glass that often reacted to the energies being poured into the “statues”.  “Power is building for #SN 003 Lord.”“Excellent.”   The Lord of Blades looks over this creation.  It has a slender body.   Magic conductor stones have been placed within the arms and chest.  Number SN (Steel Nation) #3 should be a sorcerer or warlock by nature.   A warrior magic user.Suddenly the window on the roof created to resemble a series of rocks in grass (by illusion and design) suddenly bursts in.“Wah-hoo!!!!!    Guess who!” calls out a black leather dressed young man whom throws down a rope.  He slides down it quickly with a woman also dressed in tight black leather follows him.   A half-elf dressed in dark and light blue Dimension Doors to the floor.“This will stop now.   This Forge is reported to be illegally operating by non-House members.”“That means you Lobster.”“What?!?”“Lob-ster….. Lord Of Blades and ster.   Get it?” calls out John Play as he pulls out a sword that begins to glow.“I will deal with these interlopers…. Finish it and bring #3 to life!” he declares.Suddenly the doors rattle as sounds of a new combat begin.   They burst open with a vicious TK blast from a skeletal being.   The two warforged guards are massively damaged by the blast.   A long haired elf dressed in dark green and black steps past his troops.   “Take the machine.   Our Queen will demand it for her own use!”“The Claw!” calls out Nadia as she telepathically attempts to learn whom they are and how many are with them.   Most are living members but there are others here.  Unique members from a special crypt…. Force 387.Vollax, part rogue, part cleric and all evil moves behind Jocasta and pins an arm and places his magical dagger onto her throat.   “Stop attacking us or I kill the slut!”   The demented elf grabs her ear by his teeth and bits hard enough for blood to flow and yanks until she calls out.“No Vollax!    We end this now!”  calls out Nadia.Caleb freezes.   His fellow Royal Eye is in grave danger and this hesitation costs him greatly as the warforged known as Shaft enters the lab.  It places an arrow into Caleb’s neck (nat 20….. confirmed with a 20….. with a sneak attack).   Jocasta loses it and moves to tend to him.   Instead , her head is removed by the powerful negative energy dagger.“Oh poo….. I had hoped to break you later when I had time to play.”“Play-   the mission has failed…. Plan C.” calls out Nadia, the psion.    The plan is for everyone to gather up and use a one way teleport disk to leave.   One problem, as most of the team gathers, including holding the dead bodies, Play charges Vollax.The two battle and trade crude quips and barbs at each other.   Left with no other options, Nadia snaps the clay coin and they teleport back to a safe distance in north-western Cyre near the Aundarian border.Vollax notes that many of his undead have been destroyed as new warforged guards arrive.  He gives one last crude gesture to the Dark Lantern and Lord of Blades when he too teleports away with a few survivors.“What was your name deadman?” asks the warforged leader.“Play.   John Play.”</blockquote>

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