Az-Sho appears, his head half surfacing out of the ground, resembling a gigantic red hill with a terrifying orange eye.
12 hours and 16 minutes ago, something appeared on the other side of this world, in a vast stretch of mountainous wastelands that suck the life out of whoever goes there. I ... thought I recognized the object. Hoped it was what I thought it was. But I could not go through with it.
The great eye blinks regretfully.
The particular magic contained in those lands does not affect me, but the thing that has appeared there and I have a history. I cannot bear another heartbreak, so I send you. I will extend my protection to you against the soul stealing, but you must go to this location - the listeners have a sudden imprint of a location - crater, miles wide / slag covering area / the ground is as glass / - at a spot approximately 5000 miles from where they are.
I leave it up to you how you travel there, though I warn you against teleporting or using magic to get there - the wastes drain magic from the caster and have a peculiar resistance to spells. Go there, seek out this object, and bring it back to me. If you succeed in this - at this an absolutely massive block of a peculiar jem that appears to be crystallized magma rises out of the ground - and you all shall have as much of the earth's wealth as you can carry.
What say you?