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1492 slayer imrainai died and went to the abyss and came out of the worldwound
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She fetches her a map. "The Worldwound's here. This is Avistan, that's the Inner Sea, that's Casmaron, that's Tian Xia - you look Avistani, though - here's Cheliax and here's Taldor and here's the breakaway Chelish provinces and here's Varisia and here're the River Kingdoms..."

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Well, some things are vaguely the right shape, but there's no Italian peninsula, and she feels like that's usually kind of hard to miss. 

"How accurate do you know this part to be?" she asks, and points to the center of the northern edge of the Inner Sea.

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"That's, uh, my country. So I'm pretty sure of it."

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"Hmm. None of these are where I am from. It's - possible that when I came back through the hellmouth - your Worldwound - I arrived in a place that is beyond any map I have ever seen. I suppose."

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"It's the Abyss on the other side, not Hell," she corrects her absentmindedly. "I guess you might have. The Abyss is infinite and probably people from other places can go there as well. ....though mostly they'd immediately die."

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"It looked like that sort of place, yeah.

" - do you have any food."

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"Oh! Of course, I'm sorry - the mess hall's this way -"

It's not serving a meal right now but they leave leftovers out for people returning late or still hungry; there's some cold stew and some bread.

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Might as well be a feast.

Her training has not precisely covered how you go about coming back from starvation diets responsibly, so she scarfs down everything she can get her hands on. Slayer constitution being what it is, this doesn't go as terribly as you might expect.

"Thank you," she says, when it occurs to her. "You've been very hospitable. I'm sure I'd be politer under other circumstances, but it's been a very difficult few days, recently."

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"We're very glad to have you! And I have a million questions about the sword, but that can wait until you've slept."

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"Oh, did the flying men pick it up? That's convenient. Wrestled it off a demon, I don't know much about it in particular."

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"I enchant magic arms and it's very well made. I don't think demons can do that kind of work, so probably they stole it at some point?" Shrug. "I bet you can keep it, if you're willing to help at the Worldwound. ...you know how to use it? It looked, uh, very successfully used."

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"Well, I ran a few of them through with it. It's not what I'd pick out of an armory if I had access to anything, but it was a big improvement on fists, I can tell you that."

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"....I guess it....would be. What do you want, I could melt down the sword for a light weapon and have enough spellsilver for three enhancements probably."

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"Well, I do like lighter, faster swords when I use them. I'm actually most well versed in the use of a stake, but you only really want them when fighting vampires, they're not best for any other types of demons. What's it do in its current form, do you have any idea? I confess I wasn't looking very hard when I was freezing to death."

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"It's a called weapon - you can teleport it to your hand - and it's mimetic - steals other creatures' energy resistances - and it's sharper, moves quicker and hits harder, like all magic weapons do. I can put other stuff than that on it, though." Carissa really wants to get to play with the extremely expensive sword.

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"You can teleport it to your hand??"

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"Yeah. Uh, if you've already had it for more than a day, it needs some time to learn you - otherwise it won't work yet."

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"Ahhh. I don't think it's been a whole day since I got it, but that does sound very useful. Awful to be without weapons, really. I don't know what taking energy resistances looks like, can you say what it would look like in practice - ?"

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"Uh, demons are resistant to physical damage - fire, cold, acid - and immune to electricity and poison - and the weapon, when it injures them, can copy that, like the spell Resist Energy, protecting you - do you usually fight without a wizard or a cleric -"

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"Christians don't rely on wizards. - I suppose you've probably never heard of us, if you're so far away that I've never heard of you. I know on occasion some of the watchers - the members of the organization that trained me - have resorted to use of the dark arts out of desperation, but that's the sort of thing that always goes badly in the end. Anyway, none of them go into combat with me, they're strictly preparatory support. And we've got priests, of course, but I generally don't call on them for combat situations unless there's an unquiet spirit involved."

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"Your god...prohibits working with wizards??? Are spell-like abilities in swords allowed or it supposed to be no arcane magic at all."

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"I'm really not an expert on all the different types? I'm really kind of specialized. It'd be better to have studied more, but I'm always so busy. My watcher would know if he were here, that's his job. I don't think swinging a sword is the sort of thing the Almighty would object to in itself, not unless it's one of those intelligent dark swords that steals your soul or requires you to make a pact with it or tries to convince you to end the world or sacrifice babies or something - it isn't one of those, you don't think, is it - ?"

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“It’s not intelligent and I don’t think sacrificing babies would even improve its function, they don’t have energy resistance to steal. This is a ….Lawful Good god?” It sounds like it, with all the very stupid rules, though the cleric said the girl herself reads Lawful Neutral. (And strong; the kind of fighter who’d run with sixth circle casters, if she is indeed a fighter).

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"I don't know what your classification scheme is for your own. I'm not sure He'd fit within it at all, He's not even really the same kind of power as any of the other ones people worship or go around making pacts with. - oh, I'm a terrible person to introduce you to the concept, really, but I suppose I'm the only one here."

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“Does He grant his priests the ability to do miracles and have teachings people follow and gather the souls of his followers to Him when they die?”

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