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*WH Irvine ggets up and walks into the portal.*

 

*Davin stays behind a bit, picking up his weapons. Looking at the corpses.*

 

Davin *to flax* "Go on ahead. I'll be a minute or two."

 

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WH Irvine "What a bazzare dimension. If only there we're some time to study it." ((Diablo 2 eat your heart out :D))

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*Nothing answers*

 

H'lena: This place seems to be blocked out from the outside world. Maybe even the Aeges can't enter here...

 

*Rwos, testingly, tries to put his hand through the portal. It stops against an invisible field*

 

Rwos: The portal's one-way only. We can't go back.

 

Che`: Then let's go the only way we've got left - up.

 

*The group advances up the mountain and into the castle. H'lena lights a magical torch, illuminating a vast, empty, magnificent hall*

 

H'lena: That's strange...I sense...

 

*She tries one of the gigantic doors in the hall. She cannot reach the latch, and when she tries to move it via telekinesis it doesn't move*

 

H'lena: Stuck.

 

*She pushes against the double doors, but they only creak. Rwos and the others join her, and finally the latch snaps and the doors slide open inward.

 

Inside is a gigantic room with a dust, bubbling cauldron. At the far end of the room, near a lightless window, is a cage bearing the dust of centuries. H'lena runs over to it*

 

H'lena: K'Warra?!

 

*A translucent figure opens its eyes and turns towards her*

 

K'Warra: Not quite. But close. *the apparation giggles madly* I fooled him. I tricked him, I outwitted him...

 

*H'lena touches the cage and is knocked backwards in a shower of magical sparks*

 

K'Warra: Don't bother. I've already gotten out. Just this sad little spectre left here to let the magic of this cage believe it still holds its occupant!

 

H'lena: What is this place?

 

K'Warra: The Castle of the Dragon Shunaria, self-styled Greatest of the Old Ones. *mad giggling again* He thought he could use me to gain immortality. Oh, he became immortal alright. Undying, forever and ever! *He, or it, dissolves into giggling again*

 

Rwos: This Shunaria...he is the creature that wants to destroy the other gods, and set himself up as the only god?

 

K'Warra: Yes, yeeeesssss indeed. He could swallow the spirits of anything, and he shall, hoping to gain back what he once was. But he will never outlive the curse he has put on himself! Never! We will stop him. A wraith, a wraith, a wraith doomed to consume and never be filled! He will eternally devour, and never be satisfied!! *An even longer bout of insane giggling* He will consume all...if he can...yes, all that he cannot rule, he will make part of himself...oops, small side effect to the lovely trick I played on him...no matter, soon the Devourer will be devoured himself...

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[before the group advanced]

 

*Davin takes his steps towards the portal, inches away from entering it, he speaks into the corpses, knowing there still laid a living being.*

 

Davin "I know that trick you play now. But I'll let you live, for now. Tell your masters that I'll see them personally, with out the company that I now travel with."

 

*Davin walks through*

 

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[after]

 

Davin "How long where have you stayed here, ghost? Gone mad with time passing?"

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[Look: K'Warra's become Gollum, precioussssssssss]

 

Deac: You look like.... *he looks at Rwos* I've...seen you before! I don't know where, but I know it!

 

Hammerhead: So. A dragon. Not seen in my world for ten thousand years. Now one seeks to consume the multiverse.

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((Hee - a seven foot tall Gollum with wings and a tail? Interesting :D))

 

 

K'Warra: Never seen you before, nor any of your friends, no, except of course my dear sister...shouldn't you be long dead by now, H'lena? Never mind that, it doesn't matter...

 

H'lena: This dragon Shunaria wanted to become immortal. You said you played a trick on him. What did you do?

 

K'Warra: He wanted to bathe in the Cauldron of Life to live forever... *He gestures at the eerily still-bubbling enormous cauldron in the corner* He imprisoned me to take my stone skin...but I tricked him, yes, I imbued my skin with magic so that the potion would not work...couldn't take the chance that he could succeed in using the Cauldron...it didn't work exactly the way I intended, but it was much better...destroyed his body, but his spirit lives on, a consuming wraith...Consume the multiverse? I suppose he could...After all, he swallowed the spirit of the Phoenix to escape here... *The sprite points to a small object in the corner, next to the cauldron* Maybe only that could satisfy him now...

 

*H'lena picks the object up. It is made up of a rounded flat blue stone inside a gold matrice depicting a phoenix curled around it, forming the shield shape. It's the size of her palm*

 

H'lena: It...it can't be...the Phoenix Gate?

 

K'Warra: No, an empty trinket. Its spirit lives in Shunaria now...

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Rwos: The Phoenix Gate? I always thought that was a legend...like the Time Matrix...

 

K'Warra: Everything's a legend for you people, isn't it? Avatars...yes, I remember now...the Starkiller...the Starkiller and his friends who abandoned me and Elizabeth to our fates when the dragon took me...all for the best, though, was it not?

 

Rwos: The Phoenix Gate was said to contain the very spirit of time itself. With the right incantation, one could use it to open the gates of time and travel through them, and go wherever one wanted. *to Deac* Remember the Time Matrix? The Gate is different. It cannot be used to alter the past. It was said that every time the Gate has been or will be used is already part of the history, or the future...

 

H'lena: I don't think we'll be getting the chance to test that theory. It's nothing better than a paperweight now. *She drops it* Not that it matters. None of us know the incantation.

 

K'Warra: I wouldn't worry about that anyway. Just as I made Shunaria what he is, so will I unmake him. Remember the poor, insignificant, alien girl that you deserted to her fate, Starkiller ...remember...remember?

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Deac: You want to know what happened to Jiyle after he got the Avatar? He couldn't help you there, and then he got to chasing after various demons and had to follow the church. But it ate him alive, drove him insane! He had to have the Avatar exorcised from him and died in an asylum!

 

Hammerhead: Maybe that's why you're here now, Deac. Maybe you're here to make up for that man's mistake. I don't know much about planar travelling or history, but I know that sometimes we must follow in the footsteps of heroes, or be destroyed. And even when we aren't the hero that they thought we were, we can become one.

 

[Whoa! I just saw a parrel with Arcanum and Morrowind!]

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((Deac: Read your PMs! :D))

 

K'Warra: Mistake, Starkiller? Oh no...happy chance...happy chance indeed...you see, she went to the vampires alone, trying to find me...

 

H'lena: Vampires?

 

K'Warra: Yes, vampires. They saw her potential...what she could become...and what they could make her...

 

*The sprite pauses and grins coldly*

 

K'Warra: You want to know what happened to Elizabeth after she joined the vampires, Starkiller? Would you like me to tell you?

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K'Warra: "Rectify", Starkiller? What makes you think I want you to "rectify" anything?

 

H'lena: I'm sorry, K'Warra, but we don't have time for this. We need to stop Shunaria. You need to tell us where we can find him.

 

K'Warra: Haven't you been listening? That won't matter. Soon, in the world outside this place, Elizabeth will rule all Mrear. Why stop there? With my help, with the dragon's death, she can rule the multiverse. To think, before this...they almost had K'Warra convinced...of THEIR way... *He cackles maniacally* But no. Finally, Kejim's curse turns against him, and one of his precious Green bloodline has seized the power it was so clearly destined for. No more helping the weak, no more saving the unworthy...

 

*The wraith shoves its face against the bars and gives the impression of grasping them with hands that could clearly no longer grasp anything*

 

The Kings of Mrear are dead, Starkiller. Long live the Queen!

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*The sprite vanishes*

 

H'lena: *after a moment* Still there. Ignoring us. Quite disturbed, if I may say...not sure how much of that we can believe.

 

*She sets to looking around the room*

 

H'lena: This dragon was a wizard. He would have had some kind of magical transportation system out of here, if only as an emergency measure. We only need to find it.

 

Rwos: How long ago is this, anyway?

 

H'lena: Oh, hard to say. Eons.

 

A'melie: Eons?! He called you his sister!

 

H'lena: We are both are very old...in a way. *quickly* That's all I can really tell you.

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H'lena: Remember, Deac, he could have been completely leading us on...wouldn't put it past him...ah, found it.

 

*H'lena puts her hand on the middle of an enormous desk and chants a single word. A translucent map of Mrear's surface, landmasses, bodies of water and all, appears floating in front of them*

 

H'lena: *walking around it* If I'm not mistaken, here's how it works. We place our finger on the representation of the place we want to go to on the map, and we're transported to a magic marker that's been placed there. *She points to a series of stars on the map, without touching them* Those represent important places. Most of them are probably major cities. I expect this is our way out.

 

Deac...since none of us but your avatar has been here before...your guess is better than mine. Unless someone else recognizes these landmasses?

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((OOS: Read my post, Scar XP))

 

H'lena: Like I said, if I'm right...

 

*She touches the representation of Dawnfire on the floating map. Instantly, she disappears*

 

Che`: This better not be a trap.

 

*She puts her hand on the same place. She disappears as well*

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