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Brier manages to teach some of the resting civilians what little he knew of mining. Luckily, Brier can sense the ore deposits growing faster than they can mine, so there's no wasted materials to worry about while they're learning. While surveying the new miners, Brier wanders back to the statue room.
The statues seemed to be in worse shape than his last visit, but it wouldn't be incredibly noticeable to anyone who wasn't a deep elf or dwarf. When he asks his question, he's told that the apple is a parasite. When consumed by its victim, it destroys the body and reconstructs it into something more suitable to house its body. For the rest of the host's life, the parasite leeches mana. There's no way to get rid of the parasite without killing the host, so the Urists warn him not to tamper with it.
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Veranus searches for Asa to find some answers. A long conversation yields what she was seeking.
The residents were slaves to a faction of reactionary psychopaths who disapproved of the guild system and were trying to build a country led by their leader, who is now the most wanted criminal in the two habitable realms. The first slaves were captured from guild villages, and later generations were a mix of people born into the caste, captured in wars, or kidnapped from within the "empire." In recent years, the leaders of the CGA have started sending mercenaries to free slaves, and assassins to take out the "nobility"
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Tince and the high priest help Forrel get to the CGA building. It's large, and very finely created. The detail put into building this structure can be seen very clearly, even through the blizzard. Heavily armed guards who look no less powerful than the mercenary leader Forrel saw with Tince before leaving help the trio into the building, where a receptionist greets them. Tince handles the details, and a secretary arrives to bring the papers to a guild leader.
Forrel notices a board not present in the other guild building he was in. It seems to hold Priceless Bounties.
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Cicatrix, impatient as ever, becomes increasingly frustrated at the lack of hatchlings, nearly smashes her queens in frustration. Her royal tantrums were legendary, but she calms herself. She wasn't a ruler anymore, she can't go doing things like that when there's work to be done. She decides to pass some time calming down by inspecting her familiar. The thing isn't terribly suited for combat, and seems like it would fall apart if something as weak as a lesser goblin slave got its hands on it. She makes its stinger-like tail and actual stinger, and has it produce a sleeping toxin to give it some form of defense.
With that out of the way, she looks over the avatar's new butler suit. Upon touching it, she absorbs a small bundle of knowledge. The suit seems to act as a type of shield, absorbing portions of both physical and magical damage. The avatar didn't perform spectacular movements either, so none of the movements it does is hampered. The only issue Cicatrix can find wrong is that it keeps her from modifying the avatar for her own personal use, and there's no way to remove it.
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Ba and Cyrano reach the gates. Cyrano talks to a woman who seems to be attending the gate, then comes back after flashing some kind of card at her. After a short wait, the portal in the gate opens, and the two go through it. Outside the portal is a small island, cluttered with other gates of varying shapes and sizes. Surrounding the island is nothing but a black void. There are other people on the island, but they seem intent on staying for as short a time as possible.
Cyrano leads Ba through a gate with an attendant who seemed exactly the same as the one he just saw guarding the gate they came through. She turns the gate on, and Ba steps into the blizzard of the capital. When Ba inspects his white chains, he notices that a second has formed. He can either go north, or east.
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Seiyas has her dolls golems carry as many tools as they can, which doesn't prove to be many. The dolls are simply too small to carry more than three each. The rest is hauled by Seiyas herself, who's none too please that she has to do such a thing. After a while of wandering the outer walls of the buildings, some people offer to help carry everything, to which Seiyas, as cheerfully as she can, agrees.
After a while of wandering, Seiyas has to thank her helpers and give up on finding any stones. There were simply no areas with a usable amount of bare stone, and she was beginning to get tired of wandering. She and her group of people take everything to the study where she's more comfortable.
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Topic: Runners of Hyperion -- one spots open (Read 36108 times)