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<blockquote data-quote="KenHood" data-source="post: 4992932" data-attributes="member: 4413">&quot;Hmmm,&quot; ponders the Drivan bobble-skull, &quot;It must be Drivan, because he's a complicated guy, and he did recently acquire a new outer garment.&quot;&quot;I concur,&quot; says the Vaunea bobble-skull, &quot;Uh...*caff*...I mean, me think so too!&quot;*sigh* Lord, help me, but sometimes I'm not that bright...As Drivan wanders the shelves, an imp peers around a corner and coughs for his attention. The mage follows as the little creature beckons. The imp points with exagerrated excitement at a tome near the bottom of one shelf. Drivan examines the title, 'The Lanthorn of Diogenes'. Opening the book, Drivan finds an illumination that appears to depict the lantern he had found in the pawn shop--assuming the lantern had not been burnt by fire, seared by acid, and blasted by force. The book describes the lantern as an ancient artifact, once possessed by Diogenes, a philosopher who made his home in the mouths of sewage drains and would occassionally pop out at night to shine his lamp in the face of passersby in the hope of finding an honest man. Unfortunately, Diogenes did discover his honest man--one of a large, violent sort, who was honestly startled by a maniac leaping out of a culvert and waving a light-source at a socially uncomfortable distance. As his life-force departed for other realms of existence, Diogenes' spirit imparted a magical essence upon the lamp, causing it to generate divine radiance when fueled with the residuum of other magical items. The book goes into additional, esoteric details about the various functions of the Lanthorn, permitting Drivan to determine that the lenses of the lantern may be used to convert elemental force into divine radiance. However, the cracked lenses will probably not be able to do so for long, and will probably shatter after two or three uses. The imp stands back as Drivan reads. The creature radiates a smug satisfaction with its own abilities...</blockquote>

[QUOTE="KenHood, post: 4992932, member: 4413"] [COLOR="red"]"Hmmm,"[/COLOR] ponders the Drivan bobble-skull, [COLOR="Red"]"It must be Drivan, because he's a complicated guy, and he did recently acquire a new outer garment."[/COLOR] [COLOR="Magenta"]"I concur,"[/COLOR] says the Vaunea bobble-skull, [COLOR="magenta"]"Uh...*caff*...I mean, me think so too!"[/COLOR] [COLOR="DarkSlateGray"]*sigh* Lord, help me, but sometimes I'm not that bright...[/COLOR] As Drivan wanders the shelves, an imp peers around a corner and coughs for his attention. The mage follows as the little creature beckons. The imp points with exagerrated excitement at a tome near the bottom of one shelf. Drivan examines the title, 'The Lanthorn of Diogenes'. Opening the book, Drivan finds an illumination that appears to depict the lantern he had found in the pawn shop--assuming the lantern had not been burnt by fire, seared by acid, and blasted by force. The book describes the lantern as an ancient artifact, once possessed by Diogenes, a philosopher who made his home in the mouths of sewage drains and would occassionally pop out at night to shine his lamp in the face of passersby in the hope of finding an honest man. Unfortunately, Diogenes did discover his honest man--one of a large, violent sort, who was honestly startled by a maniac leaping out of a culvert and waving a light-source at a socially uncomfortable distance. As his life-force departed for other realms of existence, Diogenes' spirit imparted a magical essence upon the lamp, causing it to generate divine radiance when fueled with the residuum of other magical items. The book goes into additional, esoteric details about the various functions of the Lanthorn, permitting Drivan to determine that the lenses of the lantern may be used to convert elemental force into divine radiance. However, the cracked lenses will probably not be able to do so for long, and will probably shatter after two or three uses. The imp stands back as Drivan reads. The creature radiates a smug satisfaction with its own abilities... [/QUOTE]

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