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[USEC_OFFICER]

So... You still need replacements? I'm kinda interested in jumping back in this again. Except I haven't been paying attention to this at all, so... Anything I should know?

[My Name is Immaterial]

The big bad guy was a total flop. It turned out he was just a cheap magic trick.

[USEC_OFFICER]

That's... oddly uninformative. How so? And do we know why?

[Tawa]

Well, he had been driven insane, but it appears that he cracked his head on a conveniently placed pointy rock when he fell down. His previously bright blue eyes are lifeless and dull. You decide that he is, indeed, dead.

There is an ornately worked spellbook in a sack on his back and a curved dagger with a ruby set in its hilt tucked into his belt. The dagger could probably go for some cash (and for some reason, a voice in the back of your head tells you that it's "+2", whatever that is supposed to mean) and the spellbook probably has some information in it.

Flipping through the book reveals a page that contains that entire crappy series of haiku poems he'd recited and presented as a prophecy, with a scribbled note: "USE TO LURE IDIOTS TO TEMPLE TO KILL".

Another page presents a small ritual for summoning (admittedly weakened) trolls that is written so sloppily, there is no hope of copying it and keeping all its meaning. Another hastily scribbled spell seems to be a set of instructions on a simple illusion spell, presumably used to summon that "specter" from before. There are also directions to the building you're in right now, along with hastily written notes on how to change the images throughout the temple; you'd bet a few gold pieces that the images of yourselves are completely gone now. It would also appear that the magic items he had given you before were faulty, but on purpose. David's helmet was actually one of reverse alignment; Rhogar's crown was enchanted to make him seem annoying and make him less diplomatic; Cromwell's boots actually worked, but they also look so ridiculous that they reduced his own diplomacy skills as well. Everybody else's items did absolutely nothing. The items you have now, however, are real.

Your insight tells you that this was, indeed, all a very elaborate and complicated setup.

[USEC_OFFICER]

Okay then. So... Why do you need replacements?

[Tawa]

Three people didn't post within the one-week deadline that I used to sort out the people who didn't really want to play or didn't really log onto the forum anymore.

[Sirus]

So Taw, I just want to make sure: my headband is a real magic item, but the golden knuckles are not. Is that correct? If that's true, what does the headband do again?

[USEC_OFFICER]

Ah. Alright. So what kind of people do we need?

[My Name is Immaterial]

We have two Strikers, and two leaders, so we could use a controller.

[Tawa]

So Taw, I just want to make sure: my headband is a real magic item, but the golden knuckles are not. Is that correct? If that's true, what does the headband do again?

That is correct.

*flips back*

+1 perception and insight.

Ah. Alright. So what kind of people do we need?

Arcane caster would be handy.

[USEC_OFFICER]

Oh. Okay then. I get working on my character soonish then. What level will I be joining at?

[Tawa]

Tres. III. (1000000 - 999997). Three.

[My Name is Immaterial]

How's the sheet coming, USEC_OFFICER?

[USEC_OFFICER]

Short Answer: None of the classes in 4e seem to interest me for some reason.

Long Answer: I made a bunch of different characters, but I didn't feel like playing as them. Even when I looked at classes that weren't Controllers or Arcane based.

[Sirus]

None of them? Really?