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Her beautiful dark eyes wet with remorse, Kwan Yin, Mother of Mercy, makes her difficult choice. No kind, just heart deserves such torment. I cannot bear to subject a merciful creature to this sadistic Game we play, so I have chosen a creature without mercy or scruples... I choose the mortal wizard Essel Theana as my champion in this Game of Mortals.
Gentle Kwan Yin, goddess of mercy and compassion, protector of women in childbirth, floats upon an opalescent cloud, her beautiful form radiant with golden light. She gazes into the Material Plane as well, also seeking a suitable mortal champion.
Suddenly, the Yellow Sign vanishes, as Kwan Yin answers Daisy's desperate prayer for a miracle....
As the Fierce Ones are sitting at a council table in a chamber within the Castle, a soft golden radiance falls through a high arched window onto a spot on the center of the floor.... The golden radiance takes the shape of a robed woman, who takes solid form.... She is apparently Chinese, and very beautiful, with eyes that convey unconditional compassion for every living thing.... In English (mostly): Ni hao, renowned Fierce Ones.... She folds her left hand over her right fist at chest level in traditional Chinese salute. Your glorious deeds are celebrated in Heaven, as they are on Earth.... I come to tell Sieg Aelfbrecht where to find a mighty artifact like in power to those wielded by his companions.... The Pearl of Tun Mi Lung, the Typhoon Dragon! It is a perfect pearl from the ancient dragon's brain that acts as an ioun stone of great worth to a warrior monk such as he! It lies in a secret compartment at the apex of a golden and scarlet pagoda in the ruins of Hong Kong.... But Hong Kong is no longer upon the face of the Earth, but now lies on the banks of Lake Hali on a distant world in the Hyades.... A dark, alien world that figure-eights around two suns, inhabited by horrors unimagined by humankind.... Her beautiful face conveys sadness.... Alas, many survivors are now trapped on this alien world, preyed upon nightly by the terrors that come in darkness.... But heroes such as you could save them, if granted the power to traverse the great gulfs of space that separate Earth from the dark planet in the Hyades from whence Dim Carcosa came.... She opens her hand, palm facing up, and produces a cube of jade with ancient Chinese pictoglyphs (prehistoric) graven in each side.... She floats over to Radsworth and offers it to him.... The Jade Cube of Stellar Transport allows any arcane spell caster capable of teleportation to jump to other worlds within the Prime Material Plane.... With this cube, sage Professor Radsworth, you can teleport your companions to Hong Kong on the distant alien world, and rescue as many survivors as yet live.... And there you will find the Pearl of Tun Mi Lung.... |
