| Synzn looks up at Lord Fred, ears twitching, and then nods.
"Perhaps if I demonstrated why that wouldn't work," the little mage
explains, pulling the glass figurine out of a pouch and placing it on the
floor. The demi-fox then takes his staff and slams it down on the glass
figure. Rather, he smashes down to a point something like two inches from
the figurine. Some type of invisable force seems to prevent contact.
"The makers didn't want such a powerful item to be so easily destroyed,"
the demi-fox explains. "The thing generates a field of force that prevents
any blow that would crush it. I can't drop it nor smash it. Nor can anyone
else do it for the matter. There is only a few ways that I know of that
can destroy this thing.
"First," the were-fox continues. "Let me explain what exactly this thing
is. Not only can this magical item change the shape of a person or thing.....infect
or cure a person of lycanthropy.....or alter my lycantrhopy to something
more managable, it is also a key to the slipgates that the Atlantian built!
You can tap into that system with this and transport somebody or something
else anywher in the world....even to places devoid of the gates. In the
wrong hands, your enemies could transport his troops into your keep....or
transport anyone he meets into the ocean. Or dozens of other horrible things."
Fred mulls this over, and it looks grimmer and grimmer as Fred looks
at this from every angle.
"I begin to see what the problem is," murmurs Fred, sitting down. "And
you say that others are after you. Who?"
"The Dragon Circle that Minestus belong to is who's after this item,"
Synizn says. "They can't move directly against me, because of the rules
of engagement laid down by the Dragon Council. Ironic that the same bunch
of lizards that prevented Malachi from doing more of what her creed demanded
now allows a friend a fighting chance. Anyway, I said that there were two
ways of destroying this item. One involves puting myself in danger so it
would override the safegaurds that prevents transporting the owner via
the Crystallic. The other is much surer."
"What about this first way?" Fred asks, curious.
"Well," sighs Synizn. "I could put myself in harms way and thus be able
to transported. However, that's DANGEROUS! I might not be able to transport
in time, and get killed. I might get stuck between worlds....forever in
limbo. Either way, I estimate only a one in ten chance of destoying the
Crystallic in this fashion. I can't do someting like this without a better
chance of success! I'd risk my life to destroy it, but......." The demi-fox
shrugs.
"As for the other," Synizn says. "It involves taking this item back
to the place of it's origin, along with it's last few customers.....and
when we get there, YOU can take the hammer that forged it and smash it
to atoms!! That is how to do it.
"When the Mage Lord Tessla set off the earthquake that sank the island,"
finishes up the monologue. "The building that the Crystallic was forged
in remained intact. That is where we must go."
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