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Hello-hello! Following up on the House of Manouk event —

RECAP: There are three necromancers exiled in the secret dimension, stuck on different levels of the House: Manouk on the terrace, Lisanther in the Grounds and young Deckarius, jailed in the dungeons. They seem hostile towards each other. Lisanther at once point interacted with the visiting Dawn's Reach Trade Company, trading for scrolls to break his chains and exit the House. At some point, the Dawn's Reach Trade Company decided to cruelly honour its commitment to Lisanther by ripping apart the chain-breaking scrolls and hiding them.

What we know or has been shared so far:

■ Literature found in the House speaks of a necromancer of Taravast, who was found guilty after killing hundreds in a bid to gain immortality for his master.

■ Wrath confirmed the viciousness of Taravast's necromancers.

■ Stephen Strange suspects Manouk, Lisanther and Deckarius might be the same person at different points in time.

■ Licyn shares Deckarius plans to kill the other necromancers.

■ Lisanther was trading on rather perverse terms with the Dawn's Reach Trade Company...

■ ...who found out something bad enough about the House of Manouk that even it cut tiees.

A couple more clues were doles out — please share them, ideally in your own posts, or in the posts already made ♥

The event is set to draw to a close by 12 August, but in practice you have until around 17 August to wrap up before — courtesy of the waypoint tokens that have been found! — the party is transported back to Akhuras.

■ Characters who have obtained a chain-breaking scroll piece can have a final check-in if they want to give their parchment pieces to Lisanther and free him. (Decision deadline: 23:59 BST, 11 August)

■ Lockwood would industriously like to set fire to the necromancers on the way out, to avenge the spirits stuck in the House of Manouk. Chip in help or thoughts (Decision deadline: 23:59 BST, 11 August)

Comments

CHAIN-BREAKING SCROLLS

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Hello! If your character has already obtained half of a chain-breaking scroll piece, you have until 23:59 BST on 11 August to say if they'd like to surrender the piece to Lisanther. This would be an IC decision.

Lisanther will need two scroll pieces to be set free.

Please state in your comment whom your character threaded out finding the scroll piece with, to avoid counting the same scroll piece twice. You're welcome to check in with your thread partner on the decision. Thank you!

ARSON?

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Lockwood would be interested to burn the necromancers and/or their place down on the party's way out, to satisfy the trapped spirits within.

A couple of notes:

— this unfortunately wouldn't free the spirits of the House, but it would bring them quite a bit of pleasure

— the exiled necromancers cannot technically die, but can be greatly crippled and inconvenienced

— the House walls cannot burn down, as the House is the entire pocket dimension. But you could trap the necromancers in some rooms and light a match.

If you'd like to help and join the arson plot, visit any other kind of violence on the necromancers, or perhaps save them — plot here by 23:59 BST on 11 August.

You'll get mod input by that deadline.

The only request is to not handwave every part of this, and to please make at least one kind of post (network/log/whatever works!) to record the event.

Thank you!