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Transcript of part of a conversation overheard near the astral plane, somewhere between the Prime Material and Outer Planes, suspected to be generated by a group of unknown humanoids located within a localised stability vortex (or extra-dimensional space) generated by the Prime magical field known as "Rope Trick".
"Are they gone yet?" whispered voice 1.
"Just passing below us now" replied voice 2, "heading back the way we came."
"Damn bones" stated voice 3, "if they weren't so damn fast we could have easily got well into the foothills before having to stop"
"Yeah, and if there weren't so damn many, we could have turned and smashed them" yelled voice 4, "I feel so bloody helpless just sitting here, hiding"
"Sshh" whispered voice 1, "they'll hear you, you idiot"
"Don't worry" stated voice 3, "there is almost no chance they can detect us in here"
"Can't see then now" said voice 2, "they're round the hill and back onto the salt flat. Hopefully they won't scout round, and just head straight back to Iron City"
"Dunno why they seem so anxious to catch us" wondered voice 4, "it's the second day since we ran from that stupid stitch-up and they are still following"
"Well, we did kill four of their people" stated voice 3.
"So they say." said voice 4, "And why exactly did you do that?"
"It wasn't me" replied voice 3, "I was too scared they would wake up. My small 10cm dagger can hardly kill assassins with one strike"
"Well, it wasn't me" squeaked voice 2, "I WAS bloody sleeping; no thanks to you Metro"
"Hey" replied voice 3 "if it wasn't for that Sleep spell, I don't doubt that we would all be pushing up daisies about now"
"No fuck'n daisies round here" quipped voice 4.
"So who did kill them?" asked voice 1.
"Maybe it was him" said voice 2.
"Not likely" replied voice 4, "he's too much of a pot-head, probably doesn't even have a sword!"
"It must have been Butt" stated voice 3, "he was the only one of us who could have managed it. In any event, they started it"
"Yeah, what did they expect" wondered voice 2, "did they imagine that we would just hand over our pay to them? Bloody losers"
"Well they surely lost, didn't they" said voce 1, "Justice I'd say! Too bad that Mother tart got all upset!"
"Yeah, much ado about nothing I reckon" said voice 2.
"I wonder what happened to Butt inside that black hemisphere of Darkness yesterday?" queried voice 3
"Stupid git" said voice 4 "why would anyone go inside one of those things in the first place? And those damned priests nearly got the lot of us"
"We're better of without him, and he'll be OK, he's a follower of IMAG after all" replied voice 2, "In fact better IMAG than those Malechai bastards"
"At least those Malechai bastards didn't follow us through that border area" said voice 1, "that was a bit of luck really"
"And I suspect we were lucky that the IMAG priests didn't bump into us during the night" said voice 2.
"And it was too bad that Helen couldn't tolerate the proximity of the IMAG priests and turned herself over to the Malechai lot, I bet they were Mother Siraiya's underlings too. Helen won't get a pleasant reception back at the Iron City I'm sure" added voice 3.
"I wonder what happened to Helen" sighed voice 2 "she's so purdy. Maybe we could go back and find her"
"Not flipping likely" stated voice 1, "The whole of the Malechai Temple in Iron City is after us now. We're headed over the hills to civilised lands"
"Yeah, but we do need to go back towards Iron City to get to the pass" said voice 2 wistfully.
"No way" stated voice 1, "we're going overland, straight through the hills. You can still do that Spider Climb thing can't you Metro?"
"Of course" replied voice 3, "and we'll need a few of them if the terrain in this vicinity is similar to that around the main pass"
"And I suppose you can make that horrible tasteless food with your spells aye Brad" said voice 2, "Yuk!"
"Better than starving" stated voice 4.
"Another 45 minutes before the spell ends, how long should we stay hidden in this area?" asked voice 3.
"I can scout around if you like" said voice 2.
"No way" stated voice 1, "you stay put. We should probably hide out for another hour after that, just to be sure they've gone"
"Hide, hide, bloody hide" grumped voice 4, "you realise I may never get a link with Nuke again after this"
"Come on Ron, even you couldn't have managed all eight of those bones" answered voice 3, "this way you will be able to battle another day"
"Hopefully tomorrow" replied voice 4.
"How are we going to get out of here and into the next Rope Trick without leaving any tracks?"
"Well, ... "
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