<div class="quoteheader"><div class="topslice_quote"><a href="https://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=104145.msg4649534#msg4649534">Quote from: Creeper on 16-05-2011, 03:37:08</a></div></div><blockquote class="bbc_standard_quote">"Stop stop stop!" Shouted Delila as soon as she deciphered the messege. "Shooting the thing gives it power! It'll tear a rip into the warp! And... there's a message on it. It says 'Attack one more time, and the sorcerer seeks his revenge in the warp.  The coin and the staff belong together.  Drop the coin, and the staff will point the way to the Grail.  Seek the grail, and the Sword will be revealed.  With the Sword, chaos and entropy will be slain'."<br/><br/>She held her head as pain ricocheted through it.  Perhaps she had heard something about this?<br/><br/>((OOC: 30/53 (http://elliquiy.com/forums/dicebot.php?r=26118) on forbbiden knowledge (warp). I'll spend a fate point for another degree of success for 3 degrees of success.<br/></blockquote><div class="quotefooter"><div class="botslice_quote"></div></div><br/>Delila carefully thought through her knowledge of the warp, and finally realized what the staff was.  Deep in the bowels of the universe, daemons sometimes took the form of physical objects.  Such daemonic artefacts were intelligent beings in their own right, and incredibly dangerous when revealed and forced to revert to their true form.  Fortunately, such things often fell back into the warp of their own accord if they felt there would be nothing to be gained by remaining in the physical universe.  Mortal weapons cannot remove a demonic artefact from reality, but each artefact has a weakness built into its design, which can be used to destroy it.<br/><br/>There was something in Delila's lessons about four general categories of daemonic artefacts, but she couldn't recall.  All that she did remember was that the recommended course of action when dealing with such objects was to keep them close at hand if one suspected they were personally interested.  Artefacts are mighty and dangerous opponents, unlucky relics which can only be a terrible burden.  On the other hand, a reasonably calm daemonic relic can be worth incredible sums on the black market, considering the power and knowledge such devices wield if the heretical lies they constantly spout can be sifted through.