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Portella
Learned Scribe
United Kingdom
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 Posted - 25 Mar 2009 : 13:59:35
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Alisttair
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Markustay
Realms Explorer extraordinaire
USA
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Posted - 26 Mar 2009 : 03:27:10
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I believe you meant 'mortals'. 
I remember that quote from something I re-read just last month, but I re-read so much I couldn't possibly remember which book in a million years. 
Edit: and once again the page-update problem here has me answering something three posts too late.  |
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The Sage
Procrastinator Most High
Australia
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Posted - 26 Mar 2009 : 06:22:23
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quote:
Originally posted by Markustay
Edit: and once again the page-update problem here has me answering something three posts too late.
Aye. I've alerted Alaundo to this problem popping up again -- since it's occurring rather frequently in Ed's scroll too.
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Portella
Learned Scribe
United Kingdom
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Posted - 26 Mar 2009 : 16:02:07
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Markustay
Realms Explorer extraordinaire
USA
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Posted - 26 Mar 2009 : 19:38:09
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No no no... I already stated that I had no idea where it was from, even though I do indeed remember reading it.
Eagerly awaiting the next question.  |
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Portella
Learned Scribe
United Kingdom
247 Posts |
Posted - 27 Mar 2009 : 12:34:52
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Question:
From the ancient legends of Mystryl what does the Spine of the world, the Great Glacier, Vilhon Reach and Moonshaes have in common to very few and rare historians know about the first three and the last one is only known to the high mages of evermeet. |
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Markustay
Realms Explorer extraordinaire
USA
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Posted - 28 Mar 2009 : 15:02:07
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They never got their own sourcebook in 3e?  |
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Fillow
Master of Realmslore
France
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Posted - 28 Mar 2009 : 16:24:45
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quote:
Originally posted by Portella
Question:
From the ancient legends of Mystryl what does the Spine of the world, the Great Glacier, Vilhon Reach and Moonshaes have in common to very few and rare historians know about the first three and the last one is only known to the high mages of evermeet.
I feel hard to understand the question !
Would this rephrasing be correct :
" The Spine of the world, the Great Glacier, Vilhon Reach and Moonshaes have something in common ? This is known by some rare historians about the first three locations. And about the Moonshaes, only the High mage of Evermeet knows it " ? |
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Portella
Learned Scribe
United Kingdom
247 Posts |
Posted - 28 Mar 2009 : 18:06:49
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ok i will rephrase.
In ancient Mystryl legends drawn up in times long past, the spine of the world, the great glacier and vilhon reach had and still have something in common that is only know to few historians and archmages. However there is another place the moonshaes which is part of the same legends that only the high mages of evermeet would know or even be able to recall.
One clue:
There is a guardian in one of the places, a dragon.
The answer will be in one of the 2ed books. |
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Christopher_Rowe
Forgotten Realms Author
USA
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Posted - 28 Mar 2009 : 21:55:00
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Originally posted by Portella
ok i will rephrase.
In ancient Mystryl legends drawn up in times long past, the spine of the world, the great glacier and vilhon reach had and still have something in common that is only know to few historians and archmages. However there is another place the moonshaes which is part of the same legends that only the high mages of evermeet would know or even be able to recall.
One clue:
There is a guardian in one of the places, a dragon.
The answer will be in one of the 2ed books.
I think you might be talking about the time gates described on page 14 of The Winds of Netheril, the campaign guide in the Netheril: Empire of Magic boxed set.
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Portella
Learned Scribe
United Kingdom
247 Posts |
Posted - 29 Mar 2009 : 15:03:51
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Yeah so you are right. the floor is yours.
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Christopher_Rowe
Forgotten Realms Author
USA
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Posted - 29 Mar 2009 : 16:44:51
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Excellent, thanks Portella.
And here we go.
This assassin did not cause the death of a member of the court of Lord Nasher, but it was his expertise that identified the cause of death. He realized that a tome the courtier had just handled was trapped with a needle coated with a deadly insinuative poison. Who is he, and where did you hear of him?
Cheers,
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Portella
Learned Scribe
United Kingdom
247 Posts |
Posted - 30 Mar 2009 : 11:11:59
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The assassin Nathode
Dragon 62
"Nchaser’s Eiyromancia” Appearance: This tome is thin, bound in black leather, and bears the title Eiyromancia on the cover, stamped and inlaid with mother-of-pearl. The edges of the tome have all about been protected with beaten copper strips, and these are fitted with two clasps. The clasps are unlatched by twisting a silver knob on each; if the bottom knob is twisted without first twisting and removing the top one, a poisoned needle springs up the side of the knob. The assassin Nathode says it is coated with Type D (or equivalent intensity) Insinuative poison, apparently renewed from a reservoir under the binding. Nathode did not handle the tome himself, but observed its effect upon another. His testimony verifies a folk legend which says that all who try to open Nchaser’s Eiyromancia die. Nathode’s recollection dates back seven winters, when the book was brought to the court of Lord Nasher by a merchant, one Furjur the Flippant, who told the Lord that the tome was sold to him by a band of adventuring dwarves he encountered in a clearing deep in the northern forests. One of the members of Nasher’s court attempted to open the book, with fatal results (this is what Nathode observed), and it was placed unopened in the Lord’s library (Furjur had gifted it to the Lord in return for a charter). It was subsequently stolen during the riots of the Five Fires Rising, and its present whereabouts are unknown."
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Christopher_Rowe
Forgotten Realms Author
USA
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Posted - 30 Mar 2009 : 13:04:04
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That's correct, Portella! Man, I thought I'd come up with a tough one that time.
Anyway, not that it's a big deal, but I think you're supposed to wait five days before you answer another one, aren't you? Wooly? |
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Portella
Learned Scribe
United Kingdom
247 Posts |
Posted - 30 Mar 2009 : 13:14:14
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Ah no way so sorry just had a guick look at the start of the thread after reading your post above.. my apologies.. it wont happen again.
Please ask another one and i promise i will keep out. |
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Christopher_Rowe
Forgotten Realms Author
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Posted - 30 Mar 2009 : 20:08:09
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Originally posted by Portella
Ah no way so sorry just had a guick look at the start of the thread after reading your post above.. my apologies.. it wont happen again.
Please ask another one and i promise i will keep out.
Heck, it's not big deal. I'm not sure whether I should ask another one or you should, or we should throw it to a third party or what. Hopefully a mod will weigh in. |
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Portella
Learned Scribe
United Kingdom
247 Posts |
Posted - 30 Mar 2009 : 21:57:53
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Wooly Rupert
Master of Mischief
USA
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Posted - 30 Mar 2009 : 22:43:29
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| Why don't we just throw the questioning open, for the moment, for whoever gets to it next? I'll wait several hours, myself, and then I'll put forth a question if no one else has. |
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The Sage
Procrastinator Most High
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Christopher_Rowe
Forgotten Realms Author
USA
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Posted - 31 Mar 2009 : 01:27:29
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Well, I'll jump back in, if nobody minds. And I'll even provide a clue right off the bat!
Question: Where does the trader Berrek Wyvernmere make his home?
And the clue relates to the able answer to my last query, and is simply this: A coder will find the answer if he does a sum; simply add the (decimal) square root of 11101111010000100 to Portella's source.
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The Hooded One
Lady Herald of Realmslore
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Posted - 31 Mar 2009 : 02:42:39
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I'd just like to pipe up here and note that Furjur the Flippant (in Portella's answer, above) is ANOTHER of Ed's unjustly neglected original Realms NPCs. Like Sammereza Sulphontis and Mirt and Durnan, an eccentric, bent merchant trader of great interest, whose life story I hope we all get to hear/read more of, some day.
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Wooly Rupert
Master of Mischief
USA
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Posted - 31 Mar 2009 : 03:50:23
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Originally posted by Christopher_Rowe
Well, I'll jump back in, if nobody minds. And I'll even provide a clue right off the bat!
Question: Where does the trader Berrek Wyvernmere make his home?
And the clue relates to the able answer to my last query, and is simply this: A coder will find the answer if he does a sum; simply add the (decimal) square root of 11101111010000100 to Portella's source.
11101111010000100 = 122500
The square root of that is 350.
350+62=412
Uh... Dragon 412?  
I don't think math is the best way to give someone a clue... |
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Christopher_Rowe
Forgotten Realms Author
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Posted - 31 Mar 2009 : 12:44:55
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quote:
Originally posted by Wooly Rupert
quote:
Originally posted by Christopher_Rowe
Well, I'll jump back in, if nobody minds. And I'll even provide a clue right off the bat!
Question: Where does the trader Berrek Wyvernmere make his home?
And the clue relates to the able answer to my last query, and is simply this: A coder will find the answer if he does a sum; simply add the (decimal) square root of 11101111010000100 to Portella's source.
11101111010000100 = 122500
The square root of that is 350.
350+62=412
Uh... Dragon 412?
I don't think math is the best way to give someone a clue...
Hah! At least not when you were an English major! I was trying to get to Dragon 362, not Dragon 412! Sorry! 
Cheers,
Christopher
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Fillow
Master of Realmslore
France
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Christopher_Rowe
Forgotten Realms Author
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Posted - 01 Apr 2009 : 12:18:52
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It's the heartbreak of innumeracy! Yes! Now just give the title of the article and end my pain! 
quote:
Originally posted by Fillow
[quote]Originally posted by Christopher_Rowe
Hah! At least not when you were an English major! I was trying to get to Dragon 362, not Dragon 412! Sorry!
Cheers,
Christopher
I would have said that Berrek Wyvernmere is quoted in Dragon 372 and not in Dragon 362. Don't you agree ?
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Wooly Rupert
Master of Mischief
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Posted - 01 Apr 2009 : 15:06:28
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Originally posted by Christopher_Rowe
It's the heartbreak of innumeracy! Yes! Now just give the title of the article and end my pain!
No more math-based clues, please. |
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Fillow
Master of Realmslore
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Christopher_Rowe
Forgotten Realms Author
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Posted - 05 Apr 2009 : 22:21:26
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Correct!
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Originally posted by Fillow
The quizz seems near to be out of breath...
So the question was
Where does the trader Berrek Wyvernmere make his home?
I propose the city of Tarmalune, which is described in the Dragon issue 372, p.46 to 60.
If this answer is the one Christopher was waiting for, the floor is available for another scribe to ask the next question.
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scererar
Master of Realmslore
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Posted - 06 Apr 2009 : 03:36:56
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If the floor is open then. Thanks Fillow, I will give it a go.
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