A Perilous Ladder                                      NW     -     NE
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 WARNING: You are in a CHAOTIC PLAYER KILLING room.     -      -      -

  A massive network of scaffolding and ladders covers the entire terrifying
surface of a massive clockwork artifice.  Scrambling about on the beams and
rickety boards looks terribly dangerous, but it's still better than the
alternatives- the wrought ironworks, half-finished and ticking horribly, the
massive pendulum that would cleave a village, the twisting gears with teeth
the size of ogres.  The ladderworks here are better than that, but not by
much.  They're still dangerous, afford little camouflage should whatever
built this monstrous mechanism return, and function like fire escapes- one
way only.  
     A bright ball of golden light shimmers in the air.
[CLAN 140] (Red Aura) ***High Priestess Sensi High Witch is here.
Xane drifts in from the east.
Mischka drifts in from the east.
Toothgnasher drifts in from the east.
Bahamutt drifts in from the east.
Insanity has arrived from the east.
A cyclonic column of air drifts in from the east.

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Duende arrives to deliver unto you a tall, steaming hot mug of JUSTICE.

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Xane puts spikebit of the rapacious ganza in Vandemaar's Trunk.

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Sensi attempts to throw a bright ball of light, but it simply disappears with a flare.

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Duende thinks, 'Hmmmm.'

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Insanity screams EEEEEEEKKKK!@#

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Insanity stops using the ring of the dead.
Insanity stops using the ring of the serpent.
Insanity stops using the Medallion of Alyria.
Insanity stops using a bloody iron breastplate.
Insanity stops using neverwhen millinery.
Insanity stops using neverwhen shinguards.
Insanity stops using neverwhen boots.
Insanity stops using neverwhen elbowpads.
Insanity stops using neverwhen mail.
Insanity stops using neverwhen wrapping.
Insanity stops using a twisted holly wood wand.
Insanity stops using an arcane spellbook.
Insanity stops using {wicked}.
Insanity stops using {psychotic}.
Insanity stops using {insanity}.
Insanity stops using {madness}.
Insanity stops using a gold wedding band.
Insanity stops using {maniacal}.

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Xane ::xXx:: uh oh

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Insanity puts neverwhen elbowpads in {insanity}.
Insanity puts neverwhen shinguards in {insanity}.
Insanity puts neverwhen mail in {insanity}.
Insanity puts neverwhen millinery in {insanity}.
Insanity puts neverwhen boots in {insanity}.
Insanity puts neverwhen wrapping in {insanity}.
Insanity puts an arcane spellbook in {insanity}.
Insanity puts the ring of the dead in {insanity}.
Insanity puts the ring of the serpent in {insanity}.
Insanity puts {wicked} in {insanity}.
Insanity puts {psychotic} in {insanity}.
Insanity puts {madness} in {insanity}.
Insanity puts a bloody iron breastplate in {insanity}.
Insanity puts {maniacal} in {insanity}.
Insanity puts a gold wedding band in {insanity}.
Insanity puts a twisted holly wood wand in {insanity}.
Insanity puts the Medallion of Alyria in {insanity}.

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Toothgnasher says, 'Lol'

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Duende says, 'What did you just did'

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get spellb tru
You take an arcane spellbook from Vandemaar's Trunk.

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Duende says, 'Dooooo'

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l spellb

You focus your powers of observation on an arcane spellbook:
Item 'an arcane spellbook' is type spellbook, alignment 0, made of leather,
has keywords 'book spellbook arcane odd power'.
This item weighs 0 stones and 1 pebbles, and is valued at 23,375 gp.
This level 55 item has the attributes: identified insulated unbreakable nodecay
An arcane spellbook is in excellent condition.
Contains the spells: stone skin, sleep, weaken, summon elemental, haste, magic dart
A total of 6/20 spells and 205/250 complexity points.
*This item may be repaired 4 times.
This tome must be ancient, considering the thick layer of dust which has
covered the tome it must have remained untouched for several centuries.  As
you carefully blow the dust and cobweb away from the front page, several
golden runes are revealed, you recognize them as the most powerful runes of
the school of alteration.  As you flip through the pages of the tome and
read its content, you become more and more aware of the very strong
enchantment this tome holds.  

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                                                                 tock

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Mischka cowers in a corner and snivels softly.

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wear spellb
You have deactivated 1 feature of the 'The Animate' equipment set.
You stop using an animate sceptre of songs.
You hold an arcane spellbook in your left hand.

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'What?' Sensi asks.

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c sleep duende
You begin to speak the words of the spell...

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You have completed your casting.
A feather from a roc, a browning mandrake leaf, and a sunstone flare brightly and vanish!
Duende goes to sleep.

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Xane begins reciting an invocation...

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Xane has completed her invocation.
Xane stiffens for a moment, then blinks and shakes her head.

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l due
Duende is a force that dares us when we empty ourselves, approach
ourselves to see truly taunts us into being serious battles order.  All that
has black sounds has duende.  Garcia Lorca says:
 
The duende...  Is a power, not a work.  It is a struggle, not a thought.
I have heard an old maestro of the guitar say, the duende is not in the
throat the duende climbs up through the soles of the feet.  Meaning this: It
is not a question of ability, but of true, living style, of blood, of the
most ancient culture, of spontaneous creation.  
  -In Search of Duende, Garcia Lorca, page 49
 
Garcia Lorca says the duende
 
will not approach at all if he does not see the possibility of death
  -Poet in New York, Garcia Lorca, page 162
 
and
 
We only know that he burns the blood like a poultice of broken glass,
that he exhausts, that he rejects all the sweet geometry we have learned,
that he smashes style.  
 
  -In Search of Duende, Garcia Lorca, page 51
Duende's hair looks like it's never been cut, and is: a shaggy, stringy mess
He is a young drow approximately 5'7" tall.
Duende is sleeping.
Duende is in good health.
Duende looks thirsty.

You peek at the inventory:
     a page of parchment
( 10) Vandemaar's Trunk (new)
[C]ontinue [R]edraw [B]ack [E]xit:
Sensi says, 'We walked up'
[C]ontinue [R]edraw [B]ack [E]xit:
Insanity says, 'Hahaha'
[C]ontinue [R]edraw [B]ack [E]xit:

     (Red Aura) the exoskeletal thorax of a massive scorpionhound (new)
     the exoskeletal legs of a massive scorpionhound (new)
     some skeletal remains
     (Gold Aura) an alveolate Trigaelian sword (new)
     (Gold Aura) Suzarra's Breastplate (new)
     Thereste's magic forge (new)
     a coal bucket (new)
     a woven silver bag (new)
     the archaeologist's bonebag (new)
     (Invisible) (Gold Aura) the Book of Eight (new)
     a trapper's utility bag (new)
     a secure bag (new)
(  2) a brass divination tray (new)
(  3) Vandemaar's Magic Forge (new)
     the selecting bag (new)
     a bag of tricks (new)
(  2) a heavy, leatherbound bookcover (new)

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Satisfied with the carnage that has been wrought, Duende rides away, mounted on an overweight great dane.
Duende arrives to deliver unto you a tall, steaming hot mug of JUSTICE.
Toothgnasher tells the formation 'lol'

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                      tick

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KABOOM! There is an earth-shattering explosion as a fiery meteor crashes through the ceiling and smites you!
You stop following Sensi.
[CLAN] Gulin has been slain!
You feel your movements slow to normal.
You no longer feel blessed by the Powers.
The white aura surrounding you fades away.
The Glove of Lady Undya hums softly as it reconfigures itself.
You slowly settle back to the ground.
Your disembodied soul rises from your ravaged corpse.
'Ah, Gulin.' the incarnation of death says. 'I've been looking for you.'
The incarnation of death swings a Scythe of Soul Rending in a long, lazy arc...
Goosebumps wash over you as the world starts to look a little bit more real.
You turn translucent.
You feel a soft prickling on the back of your neck as your senses are heightened.
You feel a prickling on the back of your neck as your senses are heightened.
Your feet rise a few inches off the ground.
You feel a sharp prickling on the back of your neck as your senses are heightened.
A haze of crimson and gold sparks flit across your field of vision.

 Ethereal Void                                          -      N      -
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 WARNING: You are in a CHAOTIC PLAYER KILLING room.     -      S      -

  You are floating in a featureless gray mist.  Sights and sounds from
other dimensions flit about you in a confusing tangle.  
     A nondescript glass vial has been dropped here.
     A strange-looking flower grows here, seemingly out of nothing.
(Gold Aura) **The undead shade of Mordred is floating here...
The world turns blue as you are temporarily shrouded by a strange nimbus of energy.
The reason for this event: :( :( :(