STORIES B
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.54. CEPTIENNE'S WELCOME:.."WELCOME TO M Y HOME," THE IMAGE SAID, SMILING. "MY N AME IS CEPTIENNE, AND I KNOW THAT YOU AR E HERE TO STEAL THE STATUETTE OF THE SOU TH FROM ME." SHE WAITED FOR THE EFFEXT OF THIS PROCLAMATION TO TAKE HOLD..."YOU HAVE PROVEN YOURSELVES WORTHY ADVERSARI ES TO HAVE GOTTEN THIS FAR, AND I ENJOY THE CHALLENGE OF A CLEVER ENEMY. I SHAL L KILL YOU...YES, THAT MUCH IS CERTAIN. BUT I SHALL GIVE YOU A CHANCE TO FIND T HE OBJECT YOU SEEK."..A GREAT CRYSTAL GL OBE BESIDE HER FLICKERED TO LIFE, AND TH E STATUETTE APPEARED WITHIN IT. "MY FOR TRESS HERE HAS MANY PORTALS. TWELVE NOW STAND BETWEEN YOU AND YOUR OBJECTIVE. I SHALL FOLLOW YOUR MOVEMENTS WITH INTERE ST."..SHE SMILED ONCE MORE AND THE IMAGE FADED FROM VIEW...55. KING REDAXE TELLS OF THE PURPLE ROCKS:.."THE PURPLE ROCKS MAY BE THE ISLES YOU SEEK," SAID THE KI NG. "THEY HAVE BECOME A SAD PLACE. THE IR PEOPLE WERE LIKE OTHER ISLAND FOLK, H ARDWORKING, MANY OF THEM SEAFARERS. A F EW GENERATIONS AGO SOMETHING STRANGE OCC URRED, AND MANY GATHERED IN A SECRET CUL T WHICH HAS BECOME VERY POWERFUL, CALLED THE KRAKEN SOCIETY. THEY WORSHIP THE S YMBOL OF THE KRAKEN, A HUGE SQUID THAT C AN EASILY DESTROY GREAT SHIPS..."THERE A RE TWO ISLANDS IN THE PURPLE ROCKS, UTHE RAAL AND TRISK. THE PEOPLE OF TRISK. T HE PEOPLE OF UTHERAAL ARE IMPOVERISHED, BUT CONTINUE TO LIVE AS BEFORE. THE PEO PLE OF TRISK, HOWEVER, HAVE BEEN COMPLET ELY CONSUMED BY THE KRAKENS AND ARE CONT ROLLED BY THEM..."I KNOW YOU HAVE BEEN T O TUERN ALREADY, BUT IT SI THERE THAT YO U HAVE THE BEST CHANCE OF FINDING SOMEON E WHO WILL TAKE YOU TO THE PURPLE ROCKS. MAY SELUNE GUIDE YOU ON YOUR JOURNEY." ..56. THE MAN OF MIRROR'S STORY:.."I SEA RCH AND RESEARCH... I FIND THE HIDDEN... I SOLVE THE UNSOLVABLE. I FIND REASON WITHIN CHAOS AND HARMONY FROM THE STARS. .."VAALGAMON HAS ENTRUSTED TO ME THE RID DLE OF THE MIRROR-MAPS AND THEY SHALL NO T DEFEAT ME! ALREADY I HAVE CONFIRMED M UCH OF WHAT THEY TELL, AND SOON I SHALL GIVE THE GENERAL EVERYTHING HE SEEKS AND MORE!"..57. THE MAGIC MOUTH'S STORY:.." YOU HAVE DONE WELL, ADVENTURERS," THE ST ONE FACE SAID. ITS VOICE WAS DEEP AND I TS FEATURES EXPRESSIONLESS, BUT THE TONE OF ITS WORDS WAS WARM, ALMOST FRIENDLY. .."IT IS TIME FOR YOU TO REAP YOUR REWAR D. LOOK WITHIN THE WATERS OF MY FOUNTAI N AND DISCERN WHAT RICHES CAN AWAIT YOU! "..EVERONE LOOKED AT THE SPRAYING WATER AS AN IMAGE BEGAN TO FORM THERE. THE VI SION SHOWED A POOL FILLED NOT WITH WATER , BUT WITH GOLD. EACH MEMBER OF THE PAR TY WAS SWIMMING IN IT, LEAPING ABOUT AND LAUGHING AND TOSSING COINS IN THE AIR.. .THE IMAGE FADED. "THAT WAS A DREAM, MY FRIENDS, BUT IT IS A DREAM THAT YOU CAN MAKE REAL. DROP THE STATUETTES IN MY W ARM WATERS AND THIS OCEAN OF GOLD SHALL BE YOURS!"..58. A MIRROR MAP FROM THE HI GH WALL...59. THE OLD THEIF'S STORY:.."I WAS ONCE AN ADVENTURER LIKE YOU, IN SER VICE TO THE LORD'S ALLIANCE, AND A FINE PICKPOCKET WHEN IT CAME TO RELIEVING OUR ENEMIES OF THEIR DOCUMENTS...AND PERHAP S AN OCCASIONAL JEWEL TO COMPENSATE ME F OR MY TROUBLE!.."HE WAS A CONTEMPTUOUS B UFFOON, VAALGAMON WAS, PUSHED ME DOWN IN THE STREET AS HE PASSED BY FOR NO GOOD REASON. I MAY BE AN OLD MAN, BUT I STIL L HAVE THE TOUCH! I SAW TO IT THAT VAAL GAMON DIDN'T LEAVE SUNDABAR WITH EVERYTH ING HE'D BROUGHT!" HE HELD OUT AN AGED BUT STEADY HAND, PRESENTING AN ENVELOPE WITH A BROKEN WAX SEAL...WE OPENED THE E NVELOPE AND REMOVED WHAT SEEMED TO BE A HASTILY SCRIBBLED NOTE:.."FOOL! YOU ALL OW ONE TINY BAND OF MONGRELS TO THREATEN EVERYTHING OUR LEGIONS NOW PURSUE!..GET TO THE PYRAMIDS AT ASCORE WITHOUT DELAY ! LET NO ONE PASS THROUGH THE STRONGHOL D! GUARD EVERY PATHWAY- I CARE NOT TO H EAR YOUR TALES OF HOW MANY THERE ARE. I F THE ROAD FAILS YOU WILL PAY FOR YOUR C ARELESSNESS!"..THE NOTE WAS SIGNED WITH A LARGE, SCRAWLED LETTER "M"...60. NOTES FROM A PRISON CELL:..AS I SIT AND WRITE MY JOUNAL THE UNRELENTING COLD SPREADS DEEP WITHIN MY BONES. THE STONE FLOOR A ND THICK WALL OF MY CELL HERE IN ZHENTIL KEEP DRAIN EVERY LAST OUNCE OF WARMTH F ROM MY BODY...WE NEVER UNDERSTOOD THE SI GNIFICANCE OF THE STATUETTES, NOR THEIR POWER. WITH ALL FOUR IN HIS POSSESSION, VAALGAMON ACHIEVED HIS GOALS, AND ALL T HE NORTHERN REALMS FELL UNDER THE ZHENTA RIM SHADOW...OUR RICHES HAVE AVAILED US NOTHING. WE WERE HUNTED DOWN, CAPTURED, AND BROUGHT TO THIS PRISON, WHERE THEY KEEP US ALIVE ONLY OUT OF A DESIRE FOR R EVENGE. IF ONLY WE HAD THE CHANCE TO LI VE THE PAST OVER ONCE AGAIN.....61. A MI RROR MAP FROM THE HIGH WALL:..62. A LONE LY LAMENT:..I HEAR THE SOUNDS OF MANY FO OTSTEPS APPROACHING. I'M SURE THAT THEY WILL FIND US SOON...IF WE HAD KNOWN OF CEPTIENNE'S TRUE ROLE AS AN OPPONENT OF THE ZHENTARIM, THE REAL STATUETTES WOULD HAVE BEEN OURS INSTEAD OF THE FALSE ONE S WE NOW HOLD...WE MUST ASSUME THAT VAAL GAMON'S BOASTFUL SPEECH WAS CORRECT, AND THAT THE HIGH FOREST HOLDS THE SPOT WHE RE THE MAGICAL PATH ACROSS THE DESERT EN DS...BUT TO KNOW THIS NOW IS USELESS. W E HAVE FALLEN INTO HIS TRAP AND WE ARE H IS TO PLAY WITH, AS A CAT PLAYS WITH THE MOUSE IT IS ABOUT TO DEVOUR...PERHAPS O THERS WILL FOLLOW US ON THIS PATH AND FI ND THAT VICTORY AWAITS THEM INSTEAD OF D EATH..
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