Twisted Infinity

[Wrahn]

"I didn't ask for anything. If I can prevent that from happening, that'll be enough of a reward to me. But now you got me curious: what are the other paths? Or to stop that future from becoming reality we all must walk the Path of Contention?"
Elly again wonders if they can really trust this being that doesn't show himself. He listen to his voice carefully looking for those little signs that label a lie.

OOC: Sense Motive +15

It is difficult to read him, since you can't see much of his expression. But from Elly's experience and his voice gross body movement, you would guess he is not being deceptive.

[OOC: arbitary and capricious -3 penalty to sense motive because he can not be fully seen. Roll of 14 + 12 = 26, results above]

"There are many paths, no all are known. Path of Evil seems to be the one that is most prevalent. Just as the Path of Good usually is found to oppose them. Great champions of deities are some times empowered. There is the path of Fate, where by certain heroes and villains spontaneously gain power to fulfil some destiny.”

“I am not offering the Path of Contention to you solely as a reward. You will need the power it offers to you if you are to succeed. I should also point out that there are no guarantees in this. The test that you will need to undertake is dangerous and your mind and body both will be tested.”

 

[Someone]

[ooc: True Seeing reveals nothing except what your eyes see.]

(OOC: I thing he was referring to his character, not Gha´uem)

Tares watches Elly screaming, and silently wonders if his lack of emotion when the end of the world was shown to him says anything about his life: is he a solitary freak with a stone heart, as many in the castle think he´s? He dismisses the thought as something minor: if he indeed is, they should prove that´s a bad thing.

“But I do not expect you all to do this out of the kindness of your hearts. As some of you have undoubtedly noticed, your personal development has reached a kind of plateau. In fact you have reached the apex of what mere mortality can achieve.”
[…]
“In return for agreeing to stop the fiends, I offer you access to the Path of Contention.”

“Now you really caught my interest” says Tares. “This is a very tempting offer, you may know that I´m loathe to work to unknow agencies or powers with so little information –specially knowing how tangled are politics in Sigil-”

 

[Wrahn]

"Caution is wise in this situation and I wish that I could provide you with more information. But, unfortunately situations dictate that I can not. The choice is yours."

"Please, time grows short, are there any more questions?"

 

[Pyrex]

Seeing Elly's reaction, Dimitri realizes that what he has seen of the 'future' is not what everyone else has seen, and that what each individual may have seen more than random snippets of destruction, but quite likely witnessed key events which must not be allowed to pass.

"Gha'uem, you have shown us slices of the avalanche and the devastation it has left behind. Can you tell us anything of how or at least when it begins?"

 

[Ashy]

Ata stands stone-still, like a pillar of rock with a frown deeply etched upon his features. When all have spoken, he speaks, slowly and with a measured air as if each word were heavily weighed and considered before being spoken.

"Ata I am. Why are we to trust he who will not show his own face?"

The ugruu falls silent, as if he said said all that needs to be said for the moment.

 

[Someone]

"Caution is wise in this situation and I wish that I could provide you with more information. But, unfortunately situations dictate that I can not. The choice is yours."

"Then I´m going. That doesn´t mean I´ll not continue, er, exercising my caution." Tares´ smile flashes a moment. "Are you going to return us to our previous locations, or in a group?"

(in the former case...)

"Then I´ll have to gather us. If you shortly have an eerie feeling of being watched, do not resist." says.

 

[Lichtenhart]

"Ata I am. Why are we to trust he who will not show his own face?"

Elly puts her hand on the little dwarf's shoulder and says sadly: "Because if what he says is true, we can't afford not to believe him. If he's a liar, we made a trip to Sigil for nothing; if he's true, we lose the world."

 

[Wrahn]

"The events you have seen take place hundreds of years in the future. The cause is a war between the higher and lower planes. The fiends, unable to breech the walls of heaven, try and destroy the source of light in the mortal planes, only to lead to their destruction as well."

"As far as my "face", you have seen it, or the lack of it. I am nothing more than a caretaker for this place, a memory of something greater. I am nothing less and nothing more than what you see in front of you. But I am of little consquence in this."

"Power of the magnitude being used will not go unnoticed by people who are looking. Returning you to your points of origin will cause the least attention to be directed at you."

He walks to a wall and seems to be fiddling with a control, "We are out of time, prepare yourselves and may Fortune bless you."

You all have one brief moment to slip in any last questions as he makes his last adjustments.

 

[Lichtenhart]

"Will we meet again, and you'll tell us more then? Or everything we need to know is in what you left in Sigil?"

 

[Someone]

"Only one lats thing" says Tares while examining the things the being is controlling with a curious look. "Who, or what are those that could be watching and we have to be so careful about?"