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Message: <blockquote data-quote="megamania" data-source="post: 943658" data-attributes="member: 9255">UNDER A DARKSUNSEGMENT 78“Bruce the Druid” The cave was cool and secure.  Light came from three torches set onto the ground.  A pool of water sat in the back.  It was a greenish white in color.  Bruce had referred to it was mineral water.  Cosa slept beside Mania.  The toxin the halflings used on her to “calm” her wore off but left her tired.  Cosa was still convinced these halflings would eat her during the night.  She had heard many a story of Cannibal halflings in the Ringing Forest and the halflings here originated from them.Mania looked about and found Bruce was knowledgeable in herbs all right.  He collected the kinds smoked by the rich or lost.  Others included ones used by psions to reach deep into themselves for power.  If taken to often, it stunted psionic growth or worse- stopped it entirely.  A colorful bird watched from a perch away from the torches.  It cocked its head and blinked several times.  “Brucie bad boy Errragh”  It repeated this several times before deciding to watch him by hanging upside down.  Mania looked at it and shook his head.  Bruce has a talking bird for a pet he thought to himself.  Getting bold now, Mania began to move around wood boards suspecting they hid things.  He found a very familiar sight.  Three emblems used by Nibenese templars to focus their powers.  Bruce had secrets.“Ah you’re awake young man.  Good to see you are feeling better.”  Bruce the druid was a short fat human whom stinked like he lived in a cave in the deep forest (which he does).  “Come…sit, I have fruit for you and your misses when she comes around.”  He motioned for Mania to sit on a large stone.  He looked at the bowl.  “Ahhgh- more purple berries”, he thought to himself.  Aloud he thanked the druid.  “These berries were a favorite of another forest protector we meant recently. “mmmmmmmhurm?  Yawned and stretched Cosa.  She scratched her self and turned “Oh!”  Embarrassed she sat beside Mania and reached for the bowl.  “Oh- I am so hungry!”  She looks at it.  “Oh..purple berries. how ….nice.”  Bruce understood the joke and chuckled.  “Not much to choice from around here as of late.  That berry picking beast has been stripping the area clean of other goods.”“Other Beast?” asked Cosa“Why not kill it or drive it away” asked Mania wincing from the sour taste of the berries.“Klurs are no simple beast and they belong to the forest more than I do.  No, he can continue.  It is the way of the Forest.  Obad-Hai would understand.”“Oh  bad whom?” exclaims Mania.“Obad-Hai was / is the divine power that oversees nature.  He once had a great deal of power here but left our world when so much of it was defiled to what we have now.  Other gods left then also.  Some to go to another world, others to return to the universal weave to be reincarnated later.”Cosa was certain he had eaten too many of the purple berries.  Mania figured it was the herbs.“Where are you going?  I can direct you better I believe than the spirit.  I assume you were speaking of the spirit of the earth as a protector nearby.”“Ah yes…the protector,” says Cosa wondering how long she was asleep.  “We seek a beginning point to find Mania’s parents.”“Here is as good a place to begin as anywhere.  Beginning at the bottom of Grog’s pool was not a good place.  Good thing Grog had already eaten.”“Grog…?”“An albino Alligator with psionic powers of hiding in plain sight.” Says the druid like it is an everyday occurrence.  “Seeking one’s parents…. I must admit, it has been a while since I left the forest but the Silent One was helpful then.”“Who and where is the Silent One?” asks Cosa secretly wondering if she was a mutant also.“Very knowledgeable in secrets and myths.  Last I knew she was moving to Salt View to settle down and out of sight of a certain King Kalak.”  Bruce flips a berry towards the bird.  The berry stops in midair and floats to the bird that greedily grabs it  “Sour but tasty  Erragh!”.  The bird shuffles back and forth on it’s perch as if spasming out from the berry.  “Brucie bad boy  Brucie bad boy  Arharharh  Erragh!”“You will have to excuse my friend.  He gets that way with purple berries.  He can be such a showoff with his Telekinetic.”“To reach her is a test in and itself.  She lives east across the salt fields, which are barren of life.  Only those avoiding authorities or are undead dwell there.”Cosa wonders which the Silent One is to her.“It will take many days.  There are undead, thieves, rowdies and others there.”“Why go there at all?” asks Mania“There is said to be a ruin with a great deal of wealth nearby that many look to plunder and it is far away from the Sorcerer- Kings and Queens.”“Curious” says Cosa out loud.“Awesome-  lets go Cosa” exclaims Mania sarcastically.“Then tomorrow you begin to a new beginning.”“Brucie bad boy” thinks Mania as he takes in another purple berry.</blockquote>

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