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NonconsensualSurgery

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Where's the custom slab?
« on: November 21, 2013, 09:03:32 pm »

In 1, Hiņer Dotrhyming became the sacred law of the Cathedral of Webs of the Gleeful Faith in the town of Foldchanneled. After being attacked by a minotaur, she became obsessed with her own mortality and was gifted with a legendary obsidian slab from the gods known as the First Noble of Menacing in 27.

This was no ordinary slab, not something authored by a necromancer. It contained a custom secret to transform readers into powerful living weapons for the destruction of undead. There are only one or two of these slabs per world, and those few who read them become paladins.

In 27, the First Noble of Menacing was stored in Foldchanneled. As far as the legends indicate, it has not moved since then.

History marched on. Dotrhyming herself was forced into retirement after the people became suspicious at her lack of aging. The Cathedral of Webs was profaned multiple times (the deity involved ironically turned all who did so into vampires), and was finally razed in 175 by the aptly-named Coalition of Attacking.

In late fall of 244, the dwarven archaeologist/swordmaster Uvad Guildanguished the Soapy Guise of Decency arrived in Foldedchannels and began searching for the lost slab in the ruins of the Cathedral of Webs. The upper temple is gone but the basement is still present, albeit home to multiple mummies from Dotrhyming's era and a severe kobold infestation. After some difficulties and savescumming, the place seems pacified.

There are no signs of the slab in the cathedral.

Could it have been destroyed forever when the upper temple was razed by the Coalition of Attacking? Or would it be in a long-abandoned house somewhere in the sprawling city of Foldchanneled? I am unsure.

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Re: Where's the custom slab?
« Reply #1 on: November 21, 2013, 09:15:46 pm »

A custom secret, I'm guessing?

Your paladin may have taken the slab out of town with her when she left. If paladins don't build towers, then she wouldn't have a place to store the slab, and will probably be carrying it still.

In vanilla, necromancers who do not have a tower may reside in a bandit camp near town. Try asking the villagers and seeing if there are any camps nearby, or if they mention the paladin's location. I'm almost certain that she will still have the slab.
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Re: Where's the custom slab?
« Reply #2 on: November 24, 2013, 12:32:52 pm »

Custom slabs can be stored in places other that towers, but if you go there they can't be found. A shame, but is one of the limits of modding.
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Re: Where's the custom slab?
« Reply #3 on: November 24, 2013, 06:20:34 pm »

Anyone want to fill me in on what a custom slab is? Is it modding related?
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Re: Where's the custom slab?
« Reply #4 on: November 24, 2013, 06:59:50 pm »

Anyone want to fill me in on what a custom slab is? Is it modding related?

In vanilla, necromancers are given slabs engraved with the secret of life and death. You can make your own secrets through an interaction, for whatever you would like. Pyromacy, druidic powers, or in this case paladin powers. A custom slab would be a slab with a custom secret on it.
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