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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Whitey" data-source="post: 1430720" data-attributes="member: 15994">Iuz's foot bone's connected to his ankle bone, his ankle bone connected to his leg bone -Let's try to incorporate as many previous plot points as we can.  Iuz is not 'a thing of this world', and needs particular circumstances to exist in Greyhawk.  The abilities of the Seven Stones created the opportunity for him to arrive, but not to persist.  Iuz was in a suspended state, like an ethereal traveller, being partially present and partially not.  Only when there's an abundance of Evil on the gitty-up is a plane suitable for Iuz and his bony evil subtype self to arrive.  The Crook of Rao shot a huge gaping hole in the Iuzian plans, and the heroics (or failures, depending on how you look at it) at the Temple made it worse.  As rotten as he is, Iuz is still subject to the same restrictions on fiends that apply to a manes.  No gate means no opportunity for Iuz to manifest.  Remember what the angel there said - without the demon invasion and the increasing radius of nasty, Iuz merely postures.When the baddies lost one of the stones, Iuz started to crumble.  Each virtue represented by the emotes counteracts a particular component vice of the Abyssal Keith Richards, and without other factors to hold him together Iuz went all to pieces.  At that point destroying the emotes wouldn't do any good for the bad - their overlord is still confetti.  Instead, the forces of evil are working on the Evilest Jigsaw Puzzle of all, not just negating but subverting the power of each mote by binding it to the High Tyrant.  The dregs like Maskaleyne, Festering, and even Faustal represent a lesser version of this same corruptive process.  In a larger cosmological sense, it's what Iuz plans to do to the whole world - thrall it to his evil.It's the showdown between the Liberators and the Enslavers.  Between good and evil.</blockquote>

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