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Message: <blockquote data-quote="gideonpepys" data-source="post: 7114794" data-attributes="member: 79141">Leon's DowntimeLEON DOWNTIMELeon could not return to Flint openly.  Effectively rootless, stateless and without a home, he reverted to wandering this world and the Dreaming. He spent the first few weeks supporting Korrigan in Ber, shoring up allegiances and smoothing future diplomacyLeon took part in Rumdoom’s extra-curricular undersea mission (see Rumdoom Downtime, below).He also persuaded Uru to let him create a permanent teleportation circle in Uru’s garden.  They placed it on an artificial island in the pool next to the main chamber.  With the help of the Clockwork Count, they designed the circle to shift every few minutes, thanks to a clockwork mechanism which was mirrored in a small clockwork toy carried by Leon.  At any given time, only he could know the sequence of sigils required to use the portal.Using this portal, and under a magical disguise, Leon also visited the bayou beyond Pine Island and the cave where the Thinker resided.  It was not necessary for him to travel to commune with this being – who had granted him access to many strange powers, in addition to those he gained from his pact with the Unseen Court - but he chose to do so as a kind of pilgrimage.  There, he discussed the matter of certain idols, some of which had already come into his possession, all of which were sought by Jenny Greenteeth and her coven (whose efforts to obtain them he had consistently thwarted).  The Thinker enquired after any further reports of gidim activity, for this being of pure thought greatly feared the thought-eaters, but Leon was pleased to report that there had been none for many years.  The Thinker helped Leon refine his teleportation magic.While visiting in Pine Island, Leon heard rumours from the High Bayou: Large trees were spontaneously sprouting in massive clumps along the banks of rivers in the northern reaches of Risur’s Weftlands, then dying almost as quickly. The trees either diverted the flow or collapsed and created dams and new lakes. Trappers in the area had reported finding long-dead animals, some nearly rotted to the bone, caught in traps they laid only days earlier.  He shared his findings with Uru, who bridled at the thought that Voice of Rot was still awake and working mischief in the world.He also met with the Vekeshi Mystics.  The Old Stag wondered what had happened to Kasvarina Varal since she was taken away by Asrabey.  Kasvarina was one of the founders of their order and it would be good to have her guidance in these troubling times, he said.  The Vekeshi were also perturbed by the loss of an irreplaceable eladrin artefact: the golem, Conquo, creation of Lavanya.  Leon had not given her much thought in recent years, as if the enchantment she once held him in had faded.  The Old Stag told him that she had aged in her Risuri jail cell and become wizened like a hag.  Leon knew that this was not the real Lavanya at all, but a simulacrum he had replaced her with when he persuaded her to stand down prior to their fight on top of the colossus.  (A fight which, had it taken place, would have resulted in the deaths of at least two unit members.)  But where was the real Lavanya now?  He did not know.When Leon returned to wandering he kept an eye out for news of Borne, and followed the colossus insofar as it was possible. Beran peasants reported local nature spirits wreaking havoc and mysterious massive footprints tracing a path from the Anthras Mountains toward Seobriga.  That was many months ago (though time in the Dreaming passed differently as Leon knew only too well.)  Where was the colossus now? Crossing the strait from Ber to Elfaivar. Curious titan-watchers had been gathering rumours of all the footprints that marked the machine’s path. The colossus’s invisible approach was heralded by thunder as it collapsed the ground beneath its enormous feet, so most animals were smart enough to get out of the way. Inquisitive on-lookers had not fared as well.  One unfortunate ship had been dragged in to an inexplicable whirlpool near the coast where Borne had entered the sea. Had the creature reached Elfaivar yet? There had been no reports from the coastal settlements or colonies as yet, though large stretches of the jungle lands were uninhabited. (Leon did hear an unrelated rumour from the colonies: Colonists in Elfaivar talked of eerie whispers in the woods. Near the Sharavathi Falls, a site claimed to be sacred to the fallen eladrin empire, several caravans had disappeared except for a single survivor each. All had reported their compatriots vanishing, hearing only whispers and seeing only foot prints of mighty jungle cats.)</blockquote>

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