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[ 40] Vivienne: The great Rift
Sun Nov 1 03:00:54 1998
To: all
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On this all Hallow's Eve a great evil arose, a evil like this world has never known and we pray to our Gods never will again. A great rift opened in the forest and from it came the vilest creatures. But that was not the worst of this rift. It took no sides it was neither good nor evil. Its mission was simple, to destroy our world. It attacked our magic first, removing the spells bless, sanctuary, healing, giant strength pass door, fly and armor. A list of items was compiled in hopes that their combination would mend this rift. The items were gathered through the effort of our entire civilization and placed into the rift. 13 shrunken heads were required. A shaman can not release his heads so the mighty Shaman, Tsi sacrificed his life into the unknown and stepped into the rift in order to complete the item list. Still the rift did not close. The Grand Mistress of Magic poured over her scrolls and books to find the final remaining ingredient the heart of a pure and good man, the heart of a Paladin. Bravely, Gunnar Draugrbane, Captain of the Crown stepped forth He would give his life to save our world. An arch enemy, Diamante slain him and the Paladin Muse Liefendahl Squire of Kuldan placed his heart into the rift. Slowly the rift faded and in it's place grew a lovely tree.

And so it is written in our History books...