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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Manbearcat" data-source="post: 9056520" data-attributes="member: 6696971">Goal:  Find out what happened to the remaining Blessed Ten (those trapped here with Qamra) and locate them.1 Successes (0 Hard DC Available)/0 Failures/1 Secondary Skills Available[HR][/HR]"...the sacred number of the carved steps, too exact, too precarious to be coincidence."Indeed.The material world fades away and the ethereal overlay (or underlay) reveals itself to the whisky priest.  He sees the children carving the stones.  He sees the last stone carved and a circle of prayer.  He sees a moon in full bloom in the night sky above.  He seems the purple corona of the celestial orb of Caiphon being burned away by the cold light of the moon.  Momentarily foiled, he sees the purple star retreat into the darkness above.A gasp from the collected children.  A shimmering Moon Stair connecting the top step of their work to a spiral around the pit until sweet deliverance out of the hell of this place.  But now he feels the burning on his feet.  A fiery apparition appears before him.  A voice so old and grating, like the plates of the earth subducting beneath each other and magma pouring out at the interface.  "DRAW OUT THE FAR REALM POISON IN MY FLESH AND I WILL GIVE YOU THE KNOWLEDGE OF AGES, PRIEST..."There feels an embedded "...or else..." to that trailing off.  The Moon Stair and the apparition disappears along with the grinding, burning voice that only Ibhea heard.[HR][/HR]MEDIUM DC</blockquote>

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