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Episode 64 (S3E64) · Tale of The Manticore, a Dark Fantasy Dungeons & Dragons Audiodrama

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  Speaker 1: Hi, this is Alan Mitchell, author of Final Chance, and
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  Speaker 1: you are listening to Tale of the Mantacre. The following
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  Speaker 1: podcast is intended for a mature audience. Listener discretion is advised.
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  Speaker 1: Welcome back to Tale of the Manticor Season three. Like
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  Speaker 1: the creature from which it takes its name, Tale of
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  Speaker 1: the Manticor is a mashup, a cross breeding between two
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  Speaker 1: different species of storytelling. Here you will find the unpredictability
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  Speaker 1: of old school paper and dice games with the story
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  Speaker 1: craft of a dark fantasy novel. No character is sacred
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  Speaker 1: and none will be spared if the dice decide their
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  Speaker 1: fate is at hand. According to Lare, the Tale of
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  Speaker 1: a Manticre is barbed with cruel iron spikes. There will
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  Speaker 1: be much pain in the days ahead. Last time on
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  Speaker 1: Tale of the Manticor, the beginning of the last chapter
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  Speaker 1: details the piece's final encounter with Belario, Fimgrin, and the
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  Speaker 1: Iron Tower. In it, the Gnomish magic user summons an
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  Speaker 1: Earth elemental to fight for him. His intention is to
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  Speaker 1: kill every member of Achille's party for the injuries they've
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  Speaker 1: inflicted rightly or wrongly upon him, but Bellario does not
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  Speaker 1: expect Achillia to cancel his most powerful spell mere seconds
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  Speaker 1: after its caste. Possessed by rage, he commands his apprentice
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  Speaker 1: to fight for him while simultaneously hurling abuses at the man,
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  Speaker 1: but when he looks over, Fymgrin is no longer standing
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  Speaker 1: in the open entrance to the Iron Tower. Now fearful
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  Speaker 1: for his life, Belario tries to dash to safety, but
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  Speaker 1: before he can get inside, he slams into what it
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  Speaker 1: first seems like empty air and is knocked dazed to
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  Speaker 1: the ground. Moments later, he is lifted bodily into the
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  Speaker 1: air by the erstwhile invisible and now corporealizing Fymgrin. Fymgrin
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  Speaker 1: breaks Bellario's back, drops him to the ground, and then
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  Speaker 1: retreats into the Iron Tower, which almost immediately disappears into
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  Speaker 1: the ethereal plane and is gone. Under the watchful three
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  Speaker 1: eyed gaze of the Silver Dragon, the pieces try to
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  Speaker 1: figure out what has just transpired while the others are
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  Speaker 1: lost in contemplation. De Renni has the presence of mind
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  Speaker 1: to take a few items from the body of the
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  Speaker 1: fallen gnome before it transmutes into a stone owl idol,
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  Speaker 1: just like the others that can be found here a
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  Speaker 1: Chilia and the others approach the silver beds with their
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  Speaker 1: silver reclining figures, and this is when the Dragon finally
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  Speaker 1: addresses them. It introduces itself Astenegisalfully, Warden of the True Path,
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  Speaker 1: guardian of the Silver Sleepers, and also oddly as the
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  Speaker 1: first Temple of Ahea. It asks which of the companions
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  Speaker 1: have come to petition the goddess, and Achilia says that
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  Speaker 1: none of them have, but that instead they've come to
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  Speaker 1: speak with one of the Silver Sleepers to know Youselfily
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  Speaker 1: warns that the sleeper might not appreciate being woken, but
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  Speaker 1: when Achillia acknowledges and accepts the risk, the dragon performs
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  Speaker 1: the necessary magic to awaken Odok Zaygog. Chapter sixty four,
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  Speaker 1: Part one, Day forty five Mourning mythic event meaning praise
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  Speaker 1: the spiritual party status achillea fifteen of twenty eight points,
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  Speaker 1: Court thirty seven of thirty seven, de any eighteen of
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  Speaker 1: twenty six ten, Tier thirty one of thirty nine, flicker
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  Speaker 1: sixteen of sixteen spells available. Achilia can cast shrink, enlarge,
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  Speaker 1: detect evil, glitter, dust, flame, arrow and wall of fire.
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  Speaker 1: Cord can cast entangle animal, friendship, slow, poison, bark, skin,
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  Speaker 1: old animal, tree shape, water, breathing, speak with plants, pass
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  Speaker 1: plant cure, serious wounds, and protection from plants and animals.
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  Speaker 1: A few moments after Tatoya saw fully finished the spell,
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  Speaker 1: odoak Zygog's silver eyelids opened, the shining metallic hue of
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  Speaker 1: his robes slowly turned a deep red, the same red
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  Speaker 1: along with its accents of gold that could be seen
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  Speaker 1: in the Seclusium Vestibule's hanging portrait. Meanwhile, his natural skin
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  Speaker 1: tones also gradually replaced the silver, just like in the painting.
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  Speaker 1: His mustaches were longer than the beard on his chin.
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  Speaker 1: Once the transformation was complete, his eyes flicked from one
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  Speaker 1: member of Achilie's company to the next, and the wizard
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  Speaker 1: came fully awake. He sat up, continuing to study the
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  Speaker 1: strange faces to Elvin, a painted wooden one, a canine,
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  Speaker 1: and oh. When Odok looked into Achilia's face, his gaze lingered.
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  Speaker 1: By now he was fully released from the silver sleep
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  Speaker 1: and looked his normal self.
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  Speaker 2: You have a familiar face.
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  Speaker 1: He said, in a voice weak from years of disuse.
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  Speaker 1: Now sitting upright atop his bed of silver, Odok examined
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  Speaker 1: Akilia from head to toe. He squinted at her, and
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  Speaker 1: the deep wrinkles around his eyes webbed.
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  Speaker 2: Do I do I know you?
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  Speaker 1: Achilie was preoccupied with a question of her own and
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  Speaker 1: ignored the wizards. She read her tongue across her lips
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  Speaker 1: before asking, are.
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  Speaker 3: You ojo Zachog?
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  Speaker 1: I am replied the other you news.
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  Speaker 2: Set of your jaw. I vaguely recognized them.
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  Speaker 1: He wore a troubled expression, as though trying to summon
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  Speaker 1: forth a memory that would not come.
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  Speaker 3: You knew, I mean you know, my master.
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  Speaker 1: Said Achilia, putting her hands on her hips and stepping
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  Speaker 1: back as she corrected herself. He was such a small gesture,
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  Speaker 1: but it was one she had adopted from her vapi,
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  Speaker 1: and it was enough to jog the wizard's memory. Muk said, Zygog, you.
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  Speaker 2: Are old vay Muak's pupil.
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  Speaker 1: Achilias replied, he needs your help. His pupil, Zygog repeated,
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  Speaker 1: it was clearly not the answer he had expected.
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  Speaker 2: And you say he needs my help? What help can
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  Speaker 2: I offer?
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  Speaker 1: For the next few minutes, as the Silver Dragon loomed
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  Speaker 1: over them, placidly monitoring their exchange, a chillier recounted everything
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  Speaker 1: that had happened, starting from her visit to the Iron
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  Speaker 1: Tower and returning to find Aldjay turned astone with Odoke's
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  Speaker 1: name scratched in the dirt floor nearby, to the subs
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  Speaker 1: eequent search for him, guided by this sketchbook, Odoke remained
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  Speaker 1: silent as she spoke, listening carefully without interruption. Even when
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  Speaker 1: she was done, he said nothing while she reached into
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  Speaker 1: her bag and withdrew the sketch book from it. He
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  Speaker 1: was in sorry condition now, having been damaged by rainwater
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  Speaker 1: and generally battered during her travels and travails.
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  Speaker 3: I am afraid I have not taken very good care
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  Speaker 3: of it.
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  Speaker 1: Achilia apologized. Odo didn't seem much bothered by that. He
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  Speaker 1: gingerly turned the pages, lost in some old memories. While
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  Speaker 1: Achilia took the opportunity to quickly explain in Elvish all
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  Speaker 1: that had transpired to the brothers, Dranni Intenteers simply nodded
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  Speaker 1: and told her not to worry about them. Odok closed
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  Speaker 1: the book and handed it back. Done to stone, you say,
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  Speaker 1: he had a kind voice, she thought, Do.
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  Speaker 3: You do you think you can help him?
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  Speaker 1: I know a few things concerning their relationship between Odoke
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  Speaker 1: and Aldveai that I have not revealed at any point
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  Speaker 1: in the show. Still, I can say that I know
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  Speaker 1: exactly how Odok would react in this situation. There might
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  Speaker 1: be things I'm not aware of, and besides, I want
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  Speaker 1: to roll some dice. A regular reaction roll is appropriate here.
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  Speaker 1: That's two D six higher is better. Since a killie's
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  Speaker 1: charisma score of nine confers no bonus, it'll be a
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  Speaker 1: straight roll. Here goes, I got an eight. Odok will
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  Speaker 1: offer some help, but that role implies a certain amount
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  Speaker 1: of restraint. Odok has his own goals, after all, and
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  Speaker 1: he's not prepared to completely set them aside to offer aid.
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  Speaker 1: I think I know how this will go in the narrative.
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  Speaker 1: But before I continue, let's take a quick at break.
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  Speaker 3: Do you think you can help him?
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  Speaker 1: Odoke smiled. I think so, But I wonder, he mused,
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  Speaker 1: scratching his short beard.
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  Speaker 2: Why would Olvae have turned himself to stowe.
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  Speaker 1: Achillia's jaw fell open on his arm, she snapped it shut.
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  Speaker 3: Well, what why would you suggest such a thing?
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  Speaker 1: Odunk regarded her coolly.
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  Speaker 2: Because that is by far the most likely explanation.
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  Speaker 3: Of course, I don't understand Bechilia protested.
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  Speaker 2: Why would you think that because I taught him that spell?
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  Speaker 1: Was the simple reply, you, Achillia, seemed to have lost
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  Speaker 1: the power of communication.
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  Speaker 2: My philosophy is to do the utmost to never harm anyone. Still,
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  Speaker 2: a wizard must be able to defend himself. Flesh to
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  Speaker 2: stew is an excellent spell for neutralizing effect without doing
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  Speaker 2: permanent harm.
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  Speaker 1: You see.
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  Speaker 2: Of course, Olvay shared one of his favorite incantations with
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  Speaker 2: me as well. You told me you make my animated
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  Speaker 2: suits of armor. I admit I was never very good
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  Speaker 2: at life, by not as good as he was, but.
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  Speaker 1: An indicated court who creaked forward in a bow. But
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  Speaker 1: all the same, Achilia felt her face grow hot.
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  Speaker 3: But of course he wouldn't have turned himself to stone.
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  Speaker 3: That's absurd.
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  Speaker 2: I didn't say it was likely, only that it was
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  Speaker 2: the most likely explanation. Perhaps you can think of a
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  Speaker 2: reason why he would have done it.
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  Speaker 1: Achilia recalled something Belerio had said, or rather yelled.
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  Speaker 2: It was me, I killed the weakling old wizard.
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  Speaker 3: I took his spowl book.
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  Speaker 1: But did that help to explain anything? Achilia wasn't so sure. Still,
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  Speaker 1: the cause didn't matter, only the cure concerned her.
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  Speaker 3: Never mind, you will come with us and change him back.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, her voice was full of hope. She was on
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  Speaker 1: the verge of finishing her quest. He was a heady feeling. No,
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  Speaker 1: the feeling evaporated.
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  Speaker 2: I am sorry, Agilia, but I may not do that.
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  Speaker 2: There is something even more important that I must.
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  Speaker 3: Do here, even more important. So you won't. You won't
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  Speaker 3: help him.
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  Speaker 2: I didn't say that. I will show you how to
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  Speaker 2: help him. Give me a hand down from here, will you.
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  Speaker 1: Achilia and Cord helped Odo's descent from his silver bed.
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  Speaker 1: The wizard turned out to be surprisingly short for a human.
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  Speaker 1: Handing back Achilia his catch book, he turned and indicated
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  Speaker 1: something still resting atop a silver bed. It was another book,
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  Speaker 1: and a thick one. He'd been using it as a pillow.
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  Speaker 2: A slight alteration to the spell I taught him will
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  Speaker 2: reverse the petrification.
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  Speaker 1: He said, I will teach it to you. With a
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  Speaker 1: voice tinged with self doubt, Achilie said, I have.
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  Speaker 3: Never been taught a spell before. I have always just
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  Speaker 3: just remembered them.
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  Speaker 1: Odo chuckled.
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  Speaker 2: You Satian wizards and your past lives, notwithstanding, if you
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  Speaker 2: are a pupil to all day, Muak, you should be
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  Speaker 2: able to learn, after all, he could do it well.
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  Speaker 1: I am, that, replied a chillier.
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  Speaker 3: But why do you say, pupil that way? Do you
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  Speaker 3: doubt the truth of what I told you?
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  Speaker 1: Boto unc laughed again, ha ha, of course not.
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  Speaker 2: I believe every word. But by my mind, do you
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  Speaker 2: really not know?
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  Speaker 1: He was looking at her with an expression that might
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  Speaker 1: have been sympathy or curiosity? We both do?
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  Speaker 3: I really not know what a Killia.
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  Speaker 1: Was exasperated all over again.
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  Speaker 2: Dear girl, it is as plain as the nose on
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  Speaker 2: your face, not to mention the line of your jaw,
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  Speaker 2: ape of your bow, and the way you were standing.
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  Speaker 1: Just then. Achilia held her breath. A foolish childhood wish
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  Speaker 1: abandoned long ago, stirred in her heart.
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  Speaker 2: Tell me, she whispered, I would stake every word I
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  Speaker 2: have ever written on it. You are Old Way Muogg's daughter.
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  Speaker 1: Oldvay was her father. This Odo had only just hit
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  Speaker 1: her with one crazy idea, and now here was another.
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  Speaker 1: It was crazy, wasn't it? Because the words felt true,
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  Speaker 1: and privately had she not always wanted them to be true?
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  Speaker 1: Old Way was her father. She knew it all the
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  Speaker 1: same Agilia found herself shaking her head at the other
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  Speaker 1: wizard and insisting that he was mistaken. Odo, for his part,
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  Speaker 1: did not pursue the topic and gracefully pivoted to asking
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  Speaker 1: about Achilia's wondrous companions and the adventures they'd had together.
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  Speaker 1: She was grateful to change the subject and told them
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  Speaker 1: all about Cord and Robin, how she'd met dur Any
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  Speaker 1: intent here, their discovery of the Kymore Ruins, and their
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  Speaker 1: time with fair Wind, the crypt, the Dorothy Caves, the
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  Speaker 1: fight with the giant forest troll, meeting Flicker, and everything else,
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  Speaker 1: including the reception they'd had at his seclusium. Odok was
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  Speaker 1: most fascinated to learn about the Kaymore Ruins and the
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  Speaker 1: Dorothy Caves, and as for their trouble in his home,
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  Speaker 1: he apologized and expressed regret for having left Nautchia on
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  Speaker 1: her own.
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  Speaker 2: This may come as a strange question, he asked, when
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  Speaker 2: she was done, But what year is it?
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  Speaker 1: Achilie let out a little wild laugh. At this point
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  Speaker 1: everything seemed so completely absurd. She said that even though
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  Speaker 1: she could not give him the numerical year, she did
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  Speaker 1: know that he'd been asleep for two years. Odoke did
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  Speaker 1: not laugh or smile at that. In fact, he looked
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  Speaker 1: preoccupied as he answered, two years.
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  Speaker 2: It might have been worse, I suppose. I am glad
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  Speaker 2: it was no longer than that. Enigmatically, he added, there
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  Speaker 2: will still be time. The Killier could not miss the
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  Speaker 2: change in his tone.
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  Speaker 3: Master Zagog, why did you come here? What's so important
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  Speaker 3: that you would risk so much to speak with the goddess?
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  Speaker 1: Odoc looked away. He seemed to peer into infinity for
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  Speaker 1: a few moments before responding slowly.
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  Speaker 2: History as a way of showing us the future. Sometimes
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  Speaker 2: I have studied history, and I have seen the future
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  Speaker 2: of Merith.
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  Speaker 1: His expression darkened further.
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  Speaker 2: The world as we know it is impeded, not now,
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  Speaker 2: but soon in the next several years. A great shadow
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  Speaker 2: is rising. I have come here to beg the goddess
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  Speaker 2: for a chance to fight it.
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  Speaker 3: And have you spoken to the goddess?
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  Speaker 1: The Killier wanted to know.
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  Speaker 2: Briefly, Yes, She asked me to make a.
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  Speaker 3: Choice between law and chaos.
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  Speaker 1: Odok favored her with a tired smile.
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  Speaker 2: You know a thing or two about this place, I see.
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  Speaker 1: A Killias shouted that, which did you choose? And you not? Yes,
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  Speaker 1: a Chillier shook her head.
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  Speaker 2: I choose chaos.
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  Speaker 3: Chaos, the dangerous choice, I have heard, very dangerous, but
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  Speaker 3: only for me. But why did you not choose law?
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  Speaker 3: Why take such a risk. You must have many things
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  Speaker 3: to offer her.
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  Speaker 2: Sadly, I do not. There is only one thing of mine.
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  Speaker 2: The Goddess would value my library, and I cannot give
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  Speaker 2: that away.
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  Speaker 1: The Chillier's thoughts went to Sager, his reluctance to give
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  Speaker 1: up his amulet, and what that had cost him.
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  Speaker 3: What happened when you choose chaos?
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  Speaker 2: As perhaps you know, when one chooses chaos, they must
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  Speaker 2: accept the will of fortune. A boon may be granted
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  Speaker 2: or a punishment. The chance for either is equal. But
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  Speaker 2: before the cosmic dyce, a throne, as it were, a
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  Speaker 2: small sacrifice is required.
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  Speaker 1: Odok pointed out the row of other reclining figures, the Slot,
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  Speaker 1: the Gnome, and the alf.
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  Speaker 2: These are the silver sleepers, waiting for their turn to
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  Speaker 2: play the Goddess's game. In time they will. If they win,
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  Speaker 2: a request will be granted. However, if they lose, they
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  Speaker 2: must face the consequences.
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  Speaker 1: Achillia wanted to know more about Odoak's dark shidings, but
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  Speaker 1: the wizard was unwilling to say any more on the subject. Instead,
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  Speaker 1: he suggested that if she was ready, it was time
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  Speaker 1: for Achillie to learn the spell that could release Altva
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  Speaker 1: from his stone prison.
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  Speaker 2: Are you ready? A Chillier said that she was, Then
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  Speaker 2: let us begin.
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  Speaker 1: Odok Zygog opened a spell book in motion for her
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  Speaker 1: to stand to hiss. He flipped through the pages, and
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  Speaker 1: Achillie found herself impressed by the sheer number of spells
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  Speaker 1: that it contained. As he searched, something else caught awry.
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  Speaker 1: In the center top of Odoak's silver bed, an image
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  Speaker 1: of a butterfly had been lightly etched. She pointed it
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  Speaker 1: out of course, the old wizard.
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  Speaker 2: Said, the butterfly is one of a hair's symbols.
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  Speaker 3: I was only aware of her fondness for the owl.
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  Speaker 2: The killer replied, yes, the owl is well, especially among
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  Speaker 2: the elves. But a hare uses many symbols. While the
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  Speaker 2: owl symbolizes wisdom and knowledge, the butterfly represents change.
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  Speaker 3: Change.
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  Speaker 2: What is magic after all, returned the old wizard. What's
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  Speaker 2: the power to change things? Ah, here's the spell flesh
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  Speaker 2: to stone.
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  Speaker 1: The two magic users spent the next several hours going
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  Speaker 1: over the incantation line by line. When they reached the
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  Speaker 1: last word, they returned to the beginning and started again.
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  Speaker 1: Achillia struggled to keep up, even though Oduke was a
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  Speaker 1: patient instructor, and she tried her very best. To spell
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  Speaker 1: proved too difficult for her to learn. Ultimately, she had
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  Speaker 1: to admit defeat.
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  Speaker 3: I just I just can't.
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  Speaker 1: Achilia has come so so far, she's best, had tough
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  Speaker 1: challenges into your Pain and Loss, and risked her own life. However,
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  Speaker 1: it seems like it may all have been for nothing,
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  Speaker 1: because here at the end of her quest, she finds
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  Speaker 1: out that she is not skilled enough to learn Notoak's spell.
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  Speaker 1: The D and D Expert rules are pretty clear on this.
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  Speaker 1: In order to cast a sixth level spell like Stone
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  Speaker 1: to Flesh or its inverse, Flesh to Stone, a magic
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  Speaker 1: haser must be at least eleventh level, not to diminis
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  Speaker 1: sure accomplishments, but Achilia can't even handle a fifth level spell.
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  Speaker 1: Level nine is required for that, and Achilia has only
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  Speaker 1: gotten as far as level seven. Therefore, Stone to Flesh
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  Speaker 1: is far too difficult for her to learn, and it
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  Speaker 1: appears that for her to have any chance of saving
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  Speaker 1: al Fay, she will have to find a different solution.
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  Speaker 3: It's too difficult. I can't learn it. Master Zygog, you
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  Speaker 3: have to come with us and cast the spell yourself.
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  Speaker 3: You just have to.
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  Speaker 1: Quotook looked at the owl idols arranged all in a
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  Speaker 1: double line before the row of silver beds, and noticed
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  Speaker 1: the additional new one nearby. He had no idea that
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  Speaker 1: it had once been the nomish wizard Belrio, but he
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  Speaker 1: did seem to understand something of what had transpired.
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  Speaker 2: Death comes for everyone, he said sadly.
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  Speaker 1: Then his features hardened.
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  Speaker 2: And held itself incroaches. I have lost time, lady, be
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  Speaker 2: too late, and I dare not linger any longer.
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  Speaker 3: But Anthre was your friend, and here is my Please
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  Speaker 3: do not turn your back on him. You must come.
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  Speaker 2: I am sorry. I cannot offer any more than I have,
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  Speaker 1: Faith.
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  Speaker 2: Have faith in yourself, and have faith in a hair
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  Speaker 2: Achilia Muogga.
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  Speaker 1: She wanted to beg to fall down on her knees
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  Speaker 1: Perhaps it was her pride, or perhaps it was the
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  Speaker 1: she simply watched as he laid back down upon the
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  Speaker 1: silver bed, spell book under his head as a pillow
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  Speaker 1: once again, and gradually turned into metal. Oduk had rejoined
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