In the Temple of Lathander - Shadow War
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Folks, if the shadovar specifically targeted Val then I would say it was because they know that keeping her a prisioner or killing her aids them and puts us behind. It's a step forward for them and a step back for us. That's why we need her back.
That, and … well .. if we stop caring about our comrades then what good are we? May as well let the Shadovar just takeover the place if we don't care about each other.
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_Hammer nods in agreement with Helena.
"We'd only waste time and, probably, people trying to find Val right now. It's not pretty, but there's nothing we can do at this point aside from praying for the gods to throw their own weight behind us.What we can do is try and find Cedric, but we shouldn't focus on that too long either. He came here to fight the Shadovar, and he probably would want for that to get done, rather than getting saved at the cost of.. well, probably a lot."_
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Helena comes to speak out her opinion on the matter:
"Val is captured, yes. She knows a lot of our plans. However, look at the matter - it is distracting us from the main goal of defeating the shadovar. Daisy tried to, not only scry on her, she used Discern Location - which was intervened divinely by one miss S.H. Arr. It is my opinion, that to locate and rescue Val, we first must defeat the Shadovar - to make this deity pull her stakes from the game, and thus make finding Val even possible."
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If they grabbed her it's either because they want to use her or they want to keep her from helping us. At the very least, we should recover whatever is left of her so she can be resurrected.
If it's true that she can move in and out of the plane of shadow then she is going to be a key when it comes to defeating them.
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"It has to be said though: while we're putting our time and efforts into finding and saving her, we're not getting closer to defeating the Shadovar. And you can be sure they aren't waiting for us either."
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folks may not have noticed Marty at the meeting. She's short.
Any venture to find and rescue the Bard Val will have the full support of the Legion.
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Then I shall ask where didst they take Cedric?
No paladin would become blooded to that foul place, tis folly in the extreme. If they hath taken him to Oscura twouldst would bode ill indeed.Now Val went missing where, in the barrows under Peltarch?
Hmm hath thou asked the Cerulean Knights to investigate in case of possible magical traces?//Charisma 17 (no buffs)
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Ael'Que responds to Mariston, repeating most of what Troff had said
Val was taken by the Shadovar. The one who took her was a powerful mage. We have had Lady Daisy try to scry for her. So far we have had no luck. We believe she was taken for something she knows. Something she might not even realize is important to them. A search of her room at the colledge revealed no clues.
As far as Cedric, some in Oscura have been trying to get him there for sometime. They even had him considering to be Blooded. I had thought he was over that foolishness. I fear if they have finally lured him there, then a resue party will be needed. I can not imagine why they would have wanted him there, except for evil purposes.
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Toff having calmed down since the inital shock, but still looking more than a littel angry and sad at the whoel ordeal explanes further.
Some 'f us went 't th' pelt barrows, the' crypts under Pelt looking fer shades. Well, we found them. They started throwing up all 'f blades and fire. Hearding us I think, towards one 'f th' ways out.
When we almost got out some shade came 'n he.. he held us all. With big green hands liek Ronans. Then th' shade said he was going 't take her… and she was gone. I couldn't protect her. We have 't find her.
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::mariston arrives for a visit::
What is this regarding Val?
And where is my squire? …..::mutters something about mucking out stables::
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Where exactly was he seen last and which way were they walking?
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@1f53628386=Radiant:
The Paladin Cedric was last seen conversing with Vladimir, Quelcoth and a number of others. After declining an invitation to tea Cedric … walks off with them anyway.
Hasn't been seen since.
"Well, that's not good. Eluriel, do you think it would be possible to track him? Or do we have something in the way we can use to divine his location?"
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María enters the temple, her face a mix of worry and anger
We need to get Val back. What needs to be done.
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Eluriel drops in for a while, a bag in her left hand.
I would imagine Val's capture the result of her being able to cast Shadow Walk and enter their plane at will. When recovered, she may like to learn another spell in its place for so long as this threat persists.
Though likely, all who are capable of casting planar portals are equally at risk.
She stays for long enough to catch up on any other news then leaves, munching on an apple taken from the bag.
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Aelthas, having been there most of the time simply stays to the back, leaning on his staff, watching and listening to all around.
//So many threads and pm's, gets confusing after long days at work! Will try and re-read this and catch up on what was said when I get home tonight.
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Having arrived late, pack bulging and rustling with paperwork and smudges of ink on her fingers and cheek, Lycka frowns in concern at the news. Softly, she notes to Troff:
"Most magic is said to function normally on the shadow plane, so scrying should be possible. I've a mirror focus which enhances the spell - if you have need of it, just ask."
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A very broken looking Troff Legion enters the temple with a bang of the doors. He wipes away the tears on his face to deliver his mesage, with a wild look in his eyes and a voice sounding hoarse
Val, th' damn shadows took Val. I don, I don't know where. They- they took her in th' Pelt Barrows… I lost her again.
He pauses for more than a moment gathering himself to continue.
Daisy, she tried scrying fer her. Nothing. Please any caster more powerful at scrying try and find her.
The shades have also claimed th' crypt to the underdark as there home. Feckers can't have it!
We need- we shoudl try and capture a shade. Make it tell us where she is, so we kin find her. They need shadow to espace any shadow. So mabye tiemt hem up with a rope that glows reallyb right or something. I- I don't know.
She might be on th' shadow plane, we could go there and try scrying. I we she just.. we have to
At this point Troff gets to choaked up with his rabling and loss of ad ear friend to go on. He murmurs a lot about losing her again and needing to find her.
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Priest Janick
"Fadia, Perhaps we should scour the Rawlins to the best of our ability to either find one of these locations these riddles speak of or at the very least rule it out."
"That Oscuran did speak of a Rod possibly being somewhere in the Forest, but I am wary to trust the word of any who cannot enter this temple"
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They arrive from within patches of magical darkness, yes? These rifts their means of travel.
Rather than perhaps following ever one step behind them, we might like to search places which have not these weaknesses in the barriers between the planes which seem to ease their travel.
That is, places which while they may or may not be easily accessible to us, are highly inaccessible to the Shadovar. Places near which these pools of darkness are yet to be seen.
((Charisma 10 incidentally))
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Scoured or no, valuable evidence could still have been left behind.
