Player: hi
Gerimor: Greeting, Travelers! I welcome you to this sacred {place}. If you are interested in missions just ask.
Player: place
Gerimor: This place is a sanctuary of Crunor and provides {me} with a opportunity of spiritual contemplation.
Player: me
Gerimor: I'm a member of a {circle} of {persons}, that joined wisdom and resources for a common purpose. Let's say, we have an eye on the greater picture in the matters of our world. ...
Gerimor: We are watching and evaluating what is happening in our world. Trying to avert the worst and offering a helping hand where we deem it needed. ...
Gerimor: We usually avoid to interfere directly in the affairs of the world and vain politics are not our concern at all.
Player: circle
Gerimor: We focus our interest on this we see as threatening for live and the laws of nature itself.
Player: persons
Gerimor: Well, while I focus more on the matters of life, some of my peers have different {approaches} and emphasize other aspects of the world more in their observations. ...
Gerimor: Regardless we share a common goal of balance and harmony.
Player: approaches
Gerimor: We might not be many but we are diverse. Our rather informal order came together in the {dawn} of time, when the wars of the gods ravaged the world.
Player: dawn
Gerimor: Even we know the individual that was somewhat of our founder, only as the wise man. ...
Gerimor: He was the first to bring bright and dedicated minds together, to bring at least a little order and {guidance} into troubled and chaotic times. ...
Gerimor: The order predates mankind and never bothered to give itself a name. Such assumptions of pretence and vanity have no place in our mindset.
Player: guidance
Gerimor: Most times we are silent watchers and keepers of knowledge that share what they have learned with each other. We are more concerned about knowledge and wisdom and power means little to us. ...
Gerimor: To solve problems we usually try to convince the right people to do the right thing. We usually even lack the means for a more {direct} interference.
Player: direct
Gerimor: Sometimes it's necessary to do something about a situation that became threatening to the world itself. ...
Gerimor: It is gladly a rare occurrence and usually it is sufficient to somewhat offer a guiding hand to avert a course that would lead to more dire consequences. Nonetheless sometimes we have to {interfere}.
Player: interfere
Gerimor: Interference comes in different forms. In this particular case there is sadly little time for subtlety and a more direct {approach} is necessary.
Player: approach
Gerimor: This time I'm looking for heroes. Men and women of action that are capable of dealing with a quite physical {threat}.
Player: threat
Gerimor: I can sense the spirits of nature are in disarray.This is not a mere imbalance of life and death, this is something more disruptive and {abominable}.
Player: abominable
Gerimor: It is like nothing I have sensed before or had been recorded. ...
Gerimor: Not only has some kind of layer formed that slightly muffles all things natural, there are also culminations of this force forming all over the world. ...
Gerimor: And as horrible as it feels, I can reach out and sense that {something} is nurturing these nodes, that are a defilement of all that is right and natural.
Player: something
Gerimor: A sinister force is at work here. While some of those nodes of unnatural taint are spreading randomly, waning and waxing with no pattern, ...
Gerimor: there are others, more persistent, more permanent and constantly {growing}.
Player: growing
Gerimor: It is like something is stabilizing them on purpose. In the light of recent {events} this even makes some sort of sense.
Player: events
Gerimor: When the mortal magician Ferumbras tried to attain godhood, he fractured the fabric of reality. His actions opened our world to an ever hungry {intruder} that seemingly lusted for our world since aeons.
Player: intruder
Gerimor: This ancient force from beyond is something absolutely foreign, defying all our concepts of existence, purpose and comprehension. ...
Gerimor: What is clear though, is that this contact is {devastating} for our world and our existence.
Player: devastating
Gerimor: As I said, the thing from beyond defies all tries of comprehension, but its presence and influence are something we would perceive as disruptive, destructive and nihilistic. ...
Gerimor: Its very existence drains our world, disrupts the laws of nature and those of the gods. ...
Gerimor: And whatever its intentions are, if it's even capable of intention, what it does ultimately means the end of {existence} as we know it.
Player: existence
Gerimor: Even with this dire perspective, there seem to be some sentient efforts on behalf of this force to further its goals. ...
Gerimor: We can only guess what the motive for some twisted individuals might be to serve such a threat to everything, but my recent scrying has revealed a sentient {power} that is furthering those goals.
Player: power
Gerimor: Ancient stories speak vaguely of the fall of the Yalahari and how they probably succumbed to the mind twisting force from beyond. ...
Gerimor: Maybe again some have fallen to that low and allied themselves to that horrible entity. Perhaps it's, as some say, the Yalahari themself that are returning in service of their master. ...
Gerimor: Perhaps it is something unspeakable that Yalahari and other fallen have become after exposure to that {fiend} from beyond.
Player: fiend
Gerimor: Regardless of the nature of the enemy, there is something evil abound.
I and my colleagues have pooled our resources, contacts, informants and allies and looked into that {matter}.
Player: matter
Gerimor: We located the places where this abominable forces had taken a {foothold} and had them investigated.
Player: foothold
Gerimor: It seems in recent times several cults have risen into prominence in these areas. ...
Gerimor: {Cults} that seem not to revere to known gods or their aspects but to some more obscure powers.
Player: Cults
Gerimor: It doesn't seem that the cults share a common theme or object of reverence but there has to be some connection beyond being at the centre of culminations of disruptive power from beyond. ...
Gerimor: The connection is of second thought though. Connected or not, they further the death of our world. That alone makes it imperative to dig those cults out and destroy their cores. ...
Gerimor: We won't be able to root out each and any movement but if we manage to neutralize the {worst}, we gain some time and deny the enemy much of its leverage on the future of our world.
Player: worst
Gerimor: We have located some of the worst culminations of otherworldly presence and our sources returned information about them with different results of success. ...
Gerimor: Some information I can provide you will be rather sparse and much is left to speculation but you should have at least some lead where to go and {investigate}.
Player: investigate
Gerimor: Those cults have to be stopped by any means possible. These are desperate times and they demand desperate {actions}.
Player: actions
Gerimor: Spare lives where you see it fit but the cults may not be allowed to exist and disrupt the {fabric} of the world even more.
Player: fabric
Gerimor: The weakened fabric of our reality still repels the unnatural intruder. The cults provide the thing a hold and supply it with more power, even if we couldn't figure out yet, how this {works} at all.
Player: works
Gerimor: We haven't completely figured out what our enemy exactly is. For one, this thing defies all laws of nature and comprehension, ...
Gerimor: that understanding it is either impossible or twist a mind in ways that are not meant to be. Also the Yalahari who figured out way too much about the thing, became tainted and changed by this knowledge ...
Gerimor: and ultimately not only fell and became his, they also provided the thing with something of their own, be it knowledge, understanding or even direction, purpose. ...
Gerimor: In some way their tainted knowledge brought the unthinkable into a resemblance of existence. ...
Gerimor: That is why we can't dabble too much in figuring this out and rather concentrate on our fight to sever its {ties} to our world.
Player: ties
Gerimor: I have several missions available that deal with severing the ties of the corrupting influence on our world.
