The amber game

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The amber game

Not long ago a group of young homin experimented with amber.
They knewed that amber is a good amplifier for magic and
that ambers also where used as memory for informations, which
every homin knows as amber cubes.

One day the young homins finished a set of 12 amber dice.
Every dice had 12 sides with magic symbols.

When ever you rolled those dice they displayed a beautyfull
picture or told a wonderful story of Atys. Since the dice
fell different everytime, the displayed picture or told story
was different every time.

Well, thats funny but not very useful. Anyways, the young homin
decided to sell the dice as a game. And you know what ?

Homins of all races loved the dice. The displayed pictures where
so beautyful and the stories always interessting. Homins from
all races came and bought a set of dice. And soon you found
Homins all over Atys playing with the dice. In the bars, on
the fields while homins took a break from harvesting. Everywhere
you saw homins play amber dice. And everywhere was laughter.
The beauty of pictures and stories made every homin smile
and feeling happy.

What a joy !!

But one hated the game. The dragon. For him it was a pain to
see Homins smile, to hear the laughter all over Atys. The beauty
of the pictures hurted his eyes and the deepness of the stories
hurted his ears. Those dice where a pain for him.

Nevertheless he recogniced he could use those dice to bring the
Goo into homins minds.

What a sucker !!

Well, so the dragon send a homin who was infected by the Goo to the
young homins. His task was to pretend to be a friend and to infiltrate
the group. He was such a liar and pretender that he really managed it
to infect the pure magic of the dice production with small amounts of
Goo.

First noone could see a difference, but as time passed the pictures
changed slowly, also the told stories changed over time. Every year
a little bit and therefore nearly no Homin recogniced the uprising
danger.

Then someday the evil seed started to grow. Laughter vanished, smiles
disapeared. The ambers started to display boredom, dumbness amd hate.

Homins where so unconcerned about the dice, cause they made them smile
since years. So they accepted without protest when the dice started to
show pitures of war and they accepted mindless the stories of brotherwars.

The Kami, well the Karvan maybe too, recogniced the change very early.
They have a sense for vanishing laughter. First they did not care, but
when the dice started to show the Kami as devils they got pissed. A lot.

What shall we do the Kami asked themselfes ? The Homins do not longer
listen, are not longer able to see the truth. The Goo is in their heads
now.

Only the group of young homin could purify the production of dice, but they
where infected heavily and wherent able to see the truth anymore. The dragon
laughed and the foul friend keept on with spoiling the pureness of the dice
production.

"Atys is doomed" the Kami though. What shall we do against such a strong
and evil magic that is already stronger then we are ? In their awful
despairation they had a secret meeting. Every Kami left his place and so
all met at a secret place somewhere on Atys.

As soon as they where gathered completely they merged their consciousness
to one big consciousness and then even Ma-Duk merged his consciousness with
them. Maybe the on or other Homin was able to see the glowing at the horizon
that night.

As soon as all consciousness was merged they sended out a message into
outer space to all Kami in the universe.

"Save Our Souls - Atys is about to vanish in Goo and dumb evilness"

That was all the Kami could do. Sad as they where everyone left the
gathering and returned to his place.

**

The Kami of a small planet called earth received the message first.
What ? A dragon wants to destroy the rules of the universe ? On Atys ?

What a sucker !!

It took nearly 24 hours, then every Kami of this universe was informed about
the evil and infamous plan of the atysian dragon. But only one hour later
the highest Kami had a meeting with the creator. The highest entity in this
universum.

"Creator, what shall we do ?" asked the Kami grandmasters.
"Should we erase the whole planet ? Or should we only take care of the evilness
there ? " the masters asked again.

"well, let me think about it" the creator replied.

And the creator pondered for a while. The suddenly he shouted out "Hah.. i got an idea".
"What is it creator ?" the Kami asked

"Ah, well. Lets just have some fun first. We can blast the planet anytime later if there
is a need for" the creator said with a smile i really dont want describe here.

"Now, whats the plan ?" the Garndmasters asked

"Oh, well. Lets just send a medicineman there. One of our most annoying ones" the creator
replied with a grin i would describe as evil if the creator could grin evil.

"His job is to tell those dice people that no one can help them if they dont ged rid
of the Goo in their brains by themselfes. If they do so, the whole universe will be
with them to fight the dragon and its stinky mignons. If not then i can not tolerate
such any longer"


Two days later the medicineman incarnated in Fairhaven - Lakelands.