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| <p align="center"><font face="Times New Roman" color="#FFFFFF">The </font><strong><font | |
| face="Times New Roman" color="#FF80C0">1247 GUE</font></strong><font | |
| face="Times New Roman" color="#FFFFFF"> is the year that the Great Diffusion occurred | |
| through the </font><font face="Times New Roman" color="#FFFF80"><strong>Great Underground | |
| Empire</strong></font><font face="Times New Roman" color="#FFFFFF">. It have been an | |
| attempt to put an end to evil magic in the land. All most notable wizards, holy men, and | |
| clerics of the time gathered to design a plan for the extinction of evil once and for all. | |
| All doers had to be eliminated; powerful magic items had to be dismantled or destroyed; | |
| and existing magic had to be diluted and made useless, even the </font><font | |
| face="Times New Roman" color="#FFFF80"><strong>Underground Empir</strong></font><font | |
| face="Times New Roman" color="#FFFFFF">e also had to be sealed off.</font></p> | |
| <p align="center"><font face="Times New Roman" color="#FFFFFF">But evil magic didn't just | |
| wait to see it's own distruction. Deep in the ground, the tiny specks of evil dust began | |
| to shift and move. Slowly, the particles pushed and etched their way through the soil and | |
| formed veins--much like gold veins.<br> | |
| And the particles had a special quality, too. When they pushed their way into certain rock | |
| formations, they produced light! The impact of this new geological formation was not felt | |
| above ground in the valley, but underground. Throughout the hallways and mazes of the old, | |
| forgotten Empire, the effect was monumental.</font></p> | |
| <p align="center"><font face="Times New Roman" color="#FFFFFF">At the same time, another | |
| miracle was happening; a particularly dense cluster of particles had developed some | |
| unusual characteristics and started to behave like a magnet, drawing more particles and | |
| absorbing the energy from them. The cluster grew... pulsated. It began to emit strange | |
| sounds and energies. <br> | |
| This strange cluster was discovered first by the </font><font face="Times New Roman" | |
| color="#80FF80"><strong>Dwarves</strong></font><font face="Times New Roman" | |
| color="#FFFFFF">. The </font><strong><font face="Times New Roman" color="#80FF80">Dwarves</font></strong><font | |
| face="Times New Roman" color="#FFFFFF"> were the best (and only) miners in the land. Their | |
| tunnels and tracks catacombed the mountains in the Northeast. From these mines, they | |
| extracted minerals needed for metals, as well as silver and gold. There seemed to be no | |
| geological sense to the wealth found in the mountains, but the </font><font | |
| face="Times New Roman" color="#80FF80"><strong>Dwarves</strong></font><font | |
| face="Times New Roman" color="#FFFFFF"> did not care to question it. They mined the | |
| luminous substance, too, naming the material Illumynite. The usefulness of the Illumynite | |
| was not immediately known, but quantities of it were still mined and stored for research.</font></p> | |
| <p align="center"><font face="Times New Roman" color="#FFFFFF">With this material a new </font><font | |
| face="Times New Roman" color="#FFFF80"><strong>Underground Empire</strong></font><font | |
| face="Times New Roman" color="#FFFFFF"> begun to be raised. And parts of the older cities | |
| begun to be relocated, transported magically to the new underworld. Illumynite lighted | |
| this new world and the transported people did not seem to mind. Eventually, all but a few | |
| buildings in </font><font face="Times New Roman" color="#FFFF80"><strong>West Shanbar</strong> | |
| </font><font face="Times New Roman" color="#FFFFFF">were drawn into the new environment.</font></p> | |
| <p align="center"><font face="Times New Roman" color="#FFFFFF">One of the many changes in | |
| the Empire involved the </font><font face="Times New Roman" color="#FFFF80"><strong>Valley | |
| of the Vultures</strong></font><font face="Times New Roman" color="#FFFFFF">, once called | |
| the </font><font face="Times New Roman" color="#FFFF80"><strong>Valley of the Sparrows</strong></font><font | |
| face="Times New Roman" color="#FFFFFF">. Needless to say, the sparrows have been replaced | |
| by vultures and people begun to disappear misteriously.<br> | |
| These vultures were also the eyes and ears for the evil force. Able to zero in on subjects | |
| who spoke or acted against the force, they would swoop down and carry the offender away, | |
| never to be seen again.</font></p> | |
| <p align="center"><font face="Times New Roman" color="#FFFFFF">When the </font><font | |
| face="Times New Roman" color="#80FF80"><strong>Wizard</strong></font><font | |
| face="Times New Roman" color="#FFFFFF"> and </font><font face="Times New Roman" | |
| color="#80FF80"><strong>Rooper</strong></font><font face="Times New Roman" color="#FFFFFF"> | |
| caught on to enough of the evil process, they set out to destroy it before it reached an | |
| unstoppable point. It didn't take long for the Force to respond to the presence of the two | |
| snooping humans. The </font><font face="Times New Roman" color="#80FF80"><strong>Wizard</strong></font><font | |
| face="Times New Roman" color="#FFFFFF"> was the first to be turned to stone, having | |
| stumbled upon far too much information.<br> | |
| This disappearance of </font><font face="Times New Roman" color="#80FF80"><strong>Trembyle</strong></font><font | |
| face="Times New Roman" color="#FFFFFF"> caused </font><font face="Times New Roman" | |
| color="#80FF80"><strong>Rooper</strong></font><font face="Times New Roman" color="#FFFFFF"> | |
| great concern, and reacting in typical adventurer spirit, he donned his battle gear and | |
| prepared to find and defeat whoever or whatever was responsible.Prior to the earnest | |
| beginning of the investigations and the disappearances, </font><font | |
| face="Times New Roman" color="#80FF80"><strong>Rooper</strong></font><font | |
| face="Times New Roman" color="#FFFFFF"> had prepared a help message disguised as a | |
| public-relations package to be sent to everyone in the </font><font face="Times New Roman" | |
| color="#FFFF80"><strong>Westlands</strong></font><font face="Times New Roman" | |
| color="#FFFFFF"> on his mailing list. This package contained a notification that the | |
| bearer had just won the grand prize of the Dizzy World Resort sweepstakes, a map to </font><font | |
| face="Times New Roman" color="#FFFF80"><strong>Shanbar</strong></font><font | |
| face="Times New Roman" color="#FFFFFF"> in the </font><strong><font face="Times New Roman" | |
| color="#FFFF80">Eastlands</font></strong><font face="Times New Roman" color="#FFFFFF">, | |
| and a gift Tele-Orb as a bonus. All the bearer needed to do to claim the prize was to | |
| journey--at his own expense--to </font><strong><font face="Times New Roman" | |
| color="#FFFF80">West Shanbar</font></strong><font face="Times New Roman" color="#FFFFFF"> | |
| and hear a presentation by </font><font face="Times New Roman" color="#80FF80"><strong>Rooper</strong></font><font | |
| face="Times New Roman" color="#FFFFFF"> and </font><font face="Times New Roman" | |
| color="#80FF80"><strong>Trembyle</strong></font><font face="Times New Roman" | |
| color="#FFFFFF">.</font></p> | |
| <p align="center"><big><em><font face="Times New Roman" color="#FFFFFF">One of those | |
| winners is you...</font></em></big></p> | |
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