There is a bronze plaque on the wall here, only slightly melted:
Elspeth's Fine Blades
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"Haven't found anything interesting about that."
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stnd
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You meet a young dark-skinned woman, her black hair starting to slowly fall out from under her helmet. She waves you over to her quickly, and then pulls you out of sight.
She whispers, "I'm Yong-Mi."
She peeks around the corner to make sure nobody is coming, and says "I've been doing recon on the ruins."
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ruin
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She shakes her head. "This was a beautiful city, as fine as any down here. Look what the gazers did to it!"
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gaze
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"There are a bunch of them, I don't know how many. They flew into town, blasting it with spells as they went. If you look carefully, you'll see all the blasts came from inside town."
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reco
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"To find out what's going on in here. It still hasn't been fully occupied, but there's some weird tension."
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tens
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"The Empire hired the gazers to help take the town, but the beasts don't want to leave. They're in the northwest. And the Empire wants the town, of course. But they only have a few troops here, running the forge."
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forg
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"In the southeast corner of town. I think they're getting low on supplies - they're really going through a lot of trouble to keep the forge running. They're using Cotra's forge - it takes a long time to make one. So the Empire and gazers have a truce."
"Well, they were using a forge, because they were short on supplies. But then you destroyed it. Good job!"
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empi
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"Both the Empire and the gazers are here - that's why I'm doing this recon."
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truc
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"One keeps to their half of town, the other keeps to the other half. Still, neither is too well defended. A careful attacker could do some damage!"
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dama
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"It won't be me - I'm getting out of here soon, so Exile can find out what I saw! Then I'm getting drunk."
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drun
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"Look around this horrible place long enough, you'll want to get drunk too."
