The voice of doom!

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This week finds Our Heroes (tm) in the Dread Realm, passing the time until things blow over on the Prime Material Plane. We're mostly doing planning and scheming, which always leads to interesting, quotable conversations...


[Zath contemplates sticking to Neyrr's shadow to take advantage of his unscryable nature.]
Eric: "From one perspective, standing next to me is one of the safest places you could be. From every other perspective..."

[Diplomacy is all about making sure other people want what you want.]
The Left Hand, Neyrr's brother: "We switched sides?"
Neyrr: "No, but everyone started siding with me."

[Neyrr's lessons in evading the question, part 1.]
The Left Hand: "Do we know anything about Rinn?"
Neyrr: "Yes."
The Left Hand: "...Well?"
Neyrr: "Oh! You want to know!"

[The problem with being both exceptionally powerful and a stereotypical valley girl.]
The Left Hand: "Rinn says puppies are pink."
Neyrr: "When she's around, they often are."

[How to avoid becoming disarmed in combat.]
The Left Hand: "You have the rod, then?"
Neyrr: "I can't hide it; it's fused to my hand."

[Zath has been trying to pick off all the illithids in the Left Hand's retinue, one by one. The Left Hand noticed.]
Bob: "I didn't want to involve him. I just wanted to kill everyone he's with."

[Lyanna's lessons in euphemism, part 1.]
Lyanna: "When they're not servicing you..."
Pelor: "I wish you wouldn't say it like that. They're for my morale!"
Lyanna: "Very well, when they're not 'boosting your morale'..."

[Neyrr has a giant metal serpent that's probably one of the most effective death machines on the planet.]
Pelor: "Did you build it?"
Neyrr: "I don't remember. I think it was a gift."

[Sadly, this is true.]
Pelor: "Why would I tell you about my sex life?"
Neyrr: "Because I'm asking nicely, and every time I ask you something nicely, the fate of the world hangs in the balance."

[Neyrr's lessons in evading the question, part 2.]
Grand High Inquisitor Toth: "Would you like to tell us the whole story now?"
Neyrr: "No."

[Discussing Neyrr's unexpected finding -- and then losing -- of the Hammer of Moradin.]
Neyrr: "The problem is I can only find things when I don't know where they are."
Biffur, dwarven priest: "That's the most useless ability ever!"

[The war council discusses where on the Prime Material Plane to return when we go back. Common consensus seems to be swaying for Shelezar.]
Adam: "Who said this was democratic?"
Eric: "I'm hoping not to have to exercise that point of logic."

[I wonder how many points of damage you take when you get hit by a mile-wide pyramid.]
Eric: "Plus the ziggurat itself is a respectable-sized bludgeoning weapon."


And that's it for now. Tune in on Wednesday when we either rescue Azlo's body from the Astral Plane or go to the one part of the Dread Realm we have been specifically forbidden from entering.