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Message: <blockquote data-quote="rgoodbb" data-source="post: 7314966" data-attributes="member: 6801229">to the quayside where they found ...seven Gnomes all with their hands chained up in front of them. Four women and three men. There was something else uncanny about the way they appeared. They moved their heads a lot to listen to each other. Jeli figured it out. They were blind. There was no-one overseeing them.She move in.  "Excuse me. Who are you and what are you doing here?""We are part of a religious Order. I'm the fa...spokesperson. My name is Gard'eh."Jeli felt relieved. She had indeed taken Cleric today. What were the odds? "I have never seen an Order like this. Please tell me more."Enthused that someone actually took an interest in them, another one of them piped up. "We are the Order of Blind & Bound. It's a very small Order, in fact we may be the only ones. We are also very seasoned sailors but no-one will take us on.""I'm not really surprised, are you? How can you run a ship in your double....conditions?"At which point fourteen mage hands lifted Jeli off her feet. "That's clever. So you can detect where I am without sight and you can muster up fourteen instead of seven hands.""The order of Blind and Bound removeth but also receiveth. Blindsight for our eyes and double mage hands for our bindings. There may be other benefits but they have yet to manifest."Discussions and arguments started to bounce back and forth:We can't take them. We'll crash into the rocks.We can hear rocks, well before you can see them.They don't have their hands.Our Mage Hands are twice as strong as our own hands. And we can still use our hands, although with slight limitations.We can't afford them. We don't have any money.We're free.They won't know the intricacies of the vessel that we have to try and find.We have a boat.We're hunting The Phase Rider for goodness sakeWe've tracked her many times and over long distances with our Blindsense. When all the arguments had run aground..."I guess you are hired then."The Order bobbed and fizzed about on the quayside enthusiastically and led the party to their boat. It was........</blockquote>

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