No Good Deed... Part I

No Good Deed... Part I is the fifty-ninth entry in the Devourer Saga. It requires level 56.

Dialogue
Eldron returns to Falerin and reports the findings of the travelers to the Brilhado Gate...
 * Go!

Eldron: So it appears that Cartwright does not intend to follow the orders of Zephyr.

The Eternal and the Huntress arrive

The Eternal: Is it possible that the Orders were encoded in some way?

Falerin: Hmm... I doubt it. From your description, Ryuusei did not precisely even lie about the contents of that order.

Eldron: No. He simply countermanded it without revelaing its contents. There is something else.

Falerin: What?

Eldron: I watched him closely. His reaction was one of disgust to the letter.

Falerin: He obviously has his own motives and dislikes following directions. It reminds me of those evil monks.

Eldron: Evil monks?

Falerin: Aye. They were renegades, kicked from the School of Thought about a hundred years ago.

The Eternal: What did they do to get kicked out of the School of Thought? I gathered it was a rather accepting place.

Falerin: They opened a shop selling plants that they had magically altered. On the front, it appeared to be a normal flower shop.

The Huntress: I sense a "but" coming...

Galrick: Given the way this is going, I think that "butt" about covers it...

The Huntress: I truly hope, for your sake, that you are not referring to MY butt.

Galrick: *gulp* Ahhh... never in a million years would I refer to your...ah...butt. *sweats profusely*

Falerin: The School ordered them to stop their researches, but they took the proceeds from their sales to continue it in secret, not caring what their superiors ordered.

The Eternal: There is the connection.

Falerin: The friars secretly engaged in research designed to create and instill a much stronger demonic essence in seemingly harmless plants.

Falerin: They planted several seedspitters and demon trees inside the food supply hoping to hold the city hostage. This was before the previous king's father was in power.

Eldron: How wicked. I take it they spread?

Falerin: They would have, but a Farmer Hugh of Ranfjord was visiting family in Deren.

Eldron: Oh dear.. you aren't going there, are you?

Falerin: As he was trained in horticulture, he recognized the undeveloped seedlings for what they were. He unvelled the plan to the city, but they did not take him seriously.

Eldron: You are. I am beginning to be sorry I stuck around...

The Eternal: What? What happened?

Eldron: You do not want to know.

Falerin: Recognizing the imminent danger, he extracted the plants himself. He took serious injury fighting his way through and eventually came to blows with the monks.

Eldron: Just stop, Falerin.

Falerin: They would have killed him, but the commotion the screaming deadwoods made as he had been fighting them alerted the owner of the field and he called the authorities.

Galrick: But he had stopped their plan...

Falerin: Yes, which proves me the moral, I think.

The Huntress: What moral?

Eldron: You go too far.

Falerin: Only Hugh...

Galrick: Oh! I get it...

The Eternal: What? What is it?

Eldron: Only Hugh can prevent fiorist friars! Did you have to go there?

Falerin: Remember, Eldron, the philosophy of Bulan the Mad.

Eldron: Oh, how apropros. I am going back to deal with those elves.

Falerin: That is well enough. I have made arrangements with Tirlerion; for the moment, he is laying his claim aside.

Eldron: Very well, then.

Eldron disappears

Galrick: What IS the philosophy of Bulan the mad?

Diviara lands

Diviara: We are being surrounded by a contingent of Network forces!

Falerin: We'll have to get back to your question some other time, Galrick...

??? (offscreen): Give them no quarter. They are the enemy. Eliminate them, excepting Galrick; he is desired still elsewhere.

A Brilhado Necromancer enters

Necromancer: As you command, Lord Omega.

Necromancer: Which one of you die first??

Falerin: Apparently, they are prepared to disobey the order protecting you as well now, Diviara.

Diviara: So it seems...

Several Brilhado Necromancers enter

Falerin: Garavin and Celestra, take Galrick and go. It seems I am being assaulted. That frees my hand.

Galrick: But Loremaster, I can fight--

Falerin: Your time will come all too soon-- Now go!

''The Huntress, The Eternal and Galrick disappear. Falerin and Diviara prepare for battle.''