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[personalwar]

[ Given everything that 76 has learned in the past few days, there's no doubt in his mind that he needs to inform the rest of the refugees about what might be coming. That bandit seems to have been telling the truth, or maybe what 76 saw up on Namarak Mountain was staged, but that seems like way too much work for no real gain that he can foresee.

Enough of the details have checked out that a warning seems necessary. Only a few of the refugee group had actually been on the missions to transport the heart and the skull, and there's no telling that all of them learned what he did.

While this is his first time posting on the network, 76 doesn't introduce himself, but just gets right down to business. Who he is isn't really important here. ]

Word probably got around that Nithor's skull and Ysverai's heart were being transported back to Olympia and Wyver, respectively. Well, things didn't really go as planned. Both caravans got attacked on the way by a group of bandits. I managed to chase down one of them and question him. He was surprisingly forthcoming.

Assuming he was telling the truth, and that's seeming more and more likely at this point, it was the heart that they were really after. These bandits are part of the same group responsible for the abductions, and they took Ysverai's heart up to Namarak Mountain to perform a ritual.

Apparently, that ritual was to revive Ysevrai, and if you've seen some of the skeletons of the old dragons, you know what that means.

I went up to the mountain to see if I could interrupt the ritual, but it was already over and cleared out by the time that I got there. I did find a cryptic note that looked like it was written in blood. It said "He Shall Rise Again."

According to the radical I interrogated, this dragon could mean the end of Olympia and Wyver and everything else. I don't know how much I believe that, but we need to be ready for anything. If you've seen anything, let me know. If you have questions, I can try to answer them, but this is most of what I know.

[ Not everything, though. There's one detail he's still sitting on. But Wyver family drama isn't something he wants to report to all of the other refugees, aware of what kind of unrest that could cause among the natives. ]

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[personalwar]

I don't really have any experience with fighting dragons, but I have fought things that were just as big, if not bigger. You need numbers, but not as many as you'd think. A team of five or six specialized fighters might get the job done.

Depends on how smart this thing is going to be, too.

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Makes sense. I'd rather have five people that knew what they were doing than a hundred just lobbing things at a target anyhow.

Well, if it's anything like the ones in the Fields of the Exalted or another one I ran into? Pretty smart.

[personalwar]

What kind of experience do you have with them? The one I dealt with was pretty tame, all things considered.

[maipokerface]

I help hand raise the babies. And I helped bait one out of the jungles around Wyver one time.

... It wasn't much fun.

[Did she mention she did it in her underwear? Yeah.]

[personalwar]

Yeah, I did that too. I'm guessing dealing with a dragon like Ysevrai is going to be on a whole other level.

[maipokerface]

No kidding.

[Though that brings to mind something she mentioned elsewhere to someone else not so long ago.]

There's a woman who works at the Fields of the Exalted who has her own dragon. I don't remember her name or I didn't get it at the time, one of those. I can tell you she had the lightest colored hair I've ever seen on someone though. Anyhow, she mentioned her dragon was usually much bigger - I guess during the the process of coming here it must have shrunk down? Might work to ask her what she knows about dealing with bigger dragons.

[personalwar]

[ A refugee who has some experience dealing with dragons, and in particular large dragons? Sounds like something worth looking into. ]

All right, I'll try to find her. Thanks for the info.