Editing Midnight RPG - Chapter 10.61 (section)

== Kyuad / Bill ==

"Zal'Kazzir, you bring up a good point.  I shall do some study of the undead creatures that Vrolk seems to favor so that we are better prepared if we encounter opposition of that type.

"I have some other thoughts about Vrolk's intentions.  It is almost certain that the warg who escorted the skeletal bull-men did not send the beasts to drive us off or to slay us.  The intentions of Vrolk should be evident: he is sizing us up.

"The best purpose I can deduce is that he thinks he can use us somehow.  He has the means and resources to have finished us off in the woods long ago, as you say Durgaz.  The warg could have brought a score more than three skeletal beings our way and we would have stood no chance.  He has no reason to wait for us to come into his home before killing us, other than perhaps to have our corpses more immediately on-hand.  No, it is clear that he wants to know how strong a force we can muster and whether our strengths will be enough to set against some foe of his own.

"I may have some more insight into Vrolk's greater purposes, though it is only through an educated guess.  My.... "friend"... who studied with Vrolk was once of a like mind as myself, and the pursuit of knowledge was his greatest ambition.  He chose the coward's path and I did not, but his goals are likely still the same.  If it is Vrolk he studied under, then Vrolk's resources of knowledge must be considerable.  Perhaps it is Vrolk's greatest purpose, in fact.

"How this may be of use to us is unclear, but it is something we should keep in mind, especially if we encounter him ourselves.  Our tongues should be held with shackles of control at all times."  As he says this he pointedly stares at Zal'Kazzir.  "Be wary of what you hear and of what you say, for either could be our undoing.

"Now is the time to begin a regimen of herbalistic bolsters, Eranon.  I have been imbibing the clear-thought oil you gave me, and I suggest the rest of you do all do what you can to likewise ensure that wisdom prevails in the face of someone who expects to be able to elicit our services.

''OOC: Kyuad is going to use his Foe Specialty ability (it's one of the h. channeler's tradition gifts or Lorebook powers) to gain special knowledge of undead creatures.  Kyuad is also beginning to benefit from the +1 Int oil soon.  Does Kyuad know of any reference to an item like the Shard, or similar material, causing a curse?  Anything about the curse in the swamp at all?  (I haven't cought up on everything, so it might be answered already, I'll look.)''