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  "thread": {
    "id": 1166,
    "subject": "The horror at Saltus",
    "messages": 1,
    "voices": 1,
    "first": "1998-10-13T16:44:42+00:00",
    "last": "1998-10-13T16:44:42+00:00"
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    {
      "message_id": "<urth-v0019-0102@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "Robert Borski",
        "address": "rborski at coredcs.com"
      },
      "date": "1998-10-13T16:44:42+00:00",
      "subject": "(urth) The horror at Saltus",
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          "text": "This one's for alga, because I miss her.\n\nAt the ridotto being held by Abdiesus, Cyriaca, on her way to seducing\nSeverian, relates a longish tale about the Ages of Myth and Monarch\nrespectively (SWORD, Chap. 6). I'm going to skip most of it, but you should\nprobably read the chapter in its entirety. At any rate, to pick up the\nstory near the end: \"When morning came, [the autarch of the time] ordered\nthat the torches not be kindled, but that there should be a great vault\nbuilt to house all the volumes and scrolls the white-robed men had\ngathered. For he thought that if the new empire he had planned should fail\nhim at last, he would retire to that vault and enter the worlds that, in\nimitation of the ancients, he was determined to cast aside.\n\n\"His empire did fail him, as it had to...But he did not retire as he had\nplanned into that vault and the curtain wall he had caused to be built\naround it, for when once the wild things have been put behind a man for\ngood and all, they are trap-wise and cannot be recaptured.\n\n\"Nevertheless, it is said that before all he gathered was sealed away, he\nset a guardian over it. And when that guardian's time on Urth was done, he\nfound another, and he another, so that they continue ever faithful to the\ndemands of that autarch...\"\n\nCyriaca, earlier, has called this vault \"the lost archives\" and when she\nfinishes her tale, Sev says, \"It is a wonderful story. I think that perhaps\n*I know more of it than you, but I have never heard* it before.\"\n\nThis is because he's just realized the Claw has reawakened the guardian of\nthe lost archives.\n\nStill not good enough? Well, when Sev loops back in time and becomes the\nConciliator in URTH, he's told that the Saltus mine is brand new. And when\nhe's atop Mount Typhon earlier in SWORD, he can't get over how unrutted the\nroads are, despite the heavy traffic they would have had to bear; they're\nalso too steep in places for regular carts and barrows. And while Cyriaca\nnever identifies the monarch of the tale, it's fairly obvious he's\nTyphon--so we can pretty much guess the nature of the guardian.\n\nIn other words, whichever one of you first guessed taluses, you're right.\n\n--------------------------------------------------------- \n\nNow for a mechanical horror of another sort. Have any of you had any\nproblems with your pc when you spend a lot of time zipping about the\narchives for this list in a single session? Because this gives both of my\ncomputers fits, and they each have almost nothing in common. Let me know if\nyou do or have any thoughts on why this may be occuring. Thanks.\n\nRobert Borski\n\n\n   "
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