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About the Black Oracle

• The Black Oracle is a magical artifact, a huge stone set of lips. It is one of the Hundred Wonders.
• The oracle answers any factual question put to it which can be answered in a few words. It only ever answers one question per person, but it answers up to 14 questions per year. It has between 0 and 14 questions remaining this year.
• If a question cannot be answered in a few words, or if it is nonsense, the oracle says nothing. If two consecutive questions are not answered, that person is counted as having received an answer, and one of its 14 questions has been used up.
• It can answer questions in any language, but please ask all questions exactly as phrased, in the original language.
• Light interfere with the oracle--questions asked in light may not work, or may receive incorrect answers. It answers all questions said aloud in the room. Avoid asking questions while on your mission for safety.
• After it has answered 14 questions, or if it is exposed to magical light, it teleports hundreds of miles.

Instructions from the Canyonport Mages Guild

Segarellion says: As a group, you will be paid 1000sp per question answered. If any volunteers die, their next of kin will be paid 1000sp in hazard pay.

You will need to bring a group of at least 14 people to the Black Oracle, and ask it questions on behalf of the Mages' Guild.

Ask these exact questions, in this exact order (skipping as instructed). Have at least two separate people record all answers carefully.

1. What is the number written on a piece of paper in the red-stained lockbox of the Chief Warlock of the Mage's Guild in Four Spires?
2. Where can a naturally petrified wyvern be found?
3. Where is the nearest book on coldbliss?
4. Only if there is no answer to #3: Is there a book on coldbliss?
5. Where is the nearest permanent portal to Faerie?
6. How many spies are in the high council of the Mages' Guild of Aldenmarsh?
7. Only if the answer to #6 was TWO OR HIGHER: What are the first and last initials of the spies on the high council of the Mages' Guild of Aldenmarsh?
8. Only if the answer to #5 is outside the Magic Sea: Who will willingly provide the greatest assistance to the Mages Guild of Aldenmarsh in creating a 300-foot diameter, permanent portal to Faerie?
9. Only if the answer to #6 is ONE OR HIGHER: When is the next currently planned invasion of Aldenmarsh by another country?
10. Only if the answer to #9 is in the next 10 years: Elaborate, who plans to invade Aldenmarsh?
11. When was the Black Oracle created?
12. Where is the nearest permanent portal to another plane?
13. D'lak, h'lath, d'clin, wurglen.
14. Who last saw Septimare alive?
15. Who is the closest living relative of King Johann Goldmiller II of Aldenmarsh?
16. Only if the answer to #11 is between 450 and 468 years ago: Was the Black Oracle created by coldbliss?
17. Only if the answer to #11 is between 473 and 500 years ago: Was the Black Oracle created by coldbliss?
18. If the answer to #13 was D'lan: Prang hotep, e jangro da?
19. Where is the material plane?
20. Only if no answer to #18: What is the material plane?
21. What are the Children of Elden secretly planning?

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