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Mekgineer Sicco Thermaplugg sat upon the throne in the High Tinker Chamber of Gnomeregan.  Assembled in twin rows flanking him, stood his advisors and servants.  And towering behind the throne, his Mechanical Battle-Mount stood at the ready.

 

Placing a cigar in his mouth, he raised a blow torch and lit the end.  Once he had it going, he tossed the torch to a waiting servant.  After a few puffs on the cigar, he turned and nodded at one of his advisors.  Bearing a tall ornate staff, he struck it on the floor three times, the cracks echoing off the walls of the chamber.  On cue, one of the two guards flanking the main blast door for the Chamber flipped a switch.  With a deafening rattle of gears, the door slowly rose up and stopped, leaving a ten feet high space for someone to enter.

 

The four Dark Iron Dwarves marched into the chamber.  Ambassador Lahotos Darkvire lead the way for his party, following behind him came his assistant and flanking him were two warriors.  Stopping at a respectable distance from the throne, he bowed slightly and held it for barely a moment.

 

Thermaplugg took a pull from his cigar, leaned back in his seat and blew out a large smoke ring toward the darkened ceiling of the chamber.  He watched it slowly dissipate before sitting upright and locking eyes with the ambassador.

 

"Do you have my payment?" he asked in a gravelly voice.

 

"Do you have the device?" Darkvire asked back at him.

 

Maintaining eye contact, Thermaplugg gestured at one of his servants.  He quickly ran through a side door and came back wheeling in a covered cart.  He maneuvered it in front the Mekgineer and after a nod from him, pulled the cover off.  The device stood on a round base roughly 2 feet across.  On the base was a display panel and a control pad.  Raising up from the base is a series of interconnected rings, a network of gimbals.

 

"Apart from one minor detail, it is complete," Thermaplugg announced.

 

The ambassador's eye gleamed with desire as he saw the device, and the corners of the his lips curled up slightly.  Then what had just been said registered.  "Its not completed?  You promised it would be ready!" he barked out.

 

Ignoring the tone from the ambassador, Thermaplugg smiled, "And it will be.  Once I have my payment."

 

Regaining his composure, he gestured over his shoulder at his assistant.  He stepped forward, now holding a wooden box in his hands.  Darkvire reached over and flipped the lid open.  Inside, cushioned by the black runecloth interior, sat a large crystal.  Roughly shaped like a cylinder, it coloring shifted constantly, flowing from one to the next.  And occasionally, an arc of electricity would flash through it.

 

At a gesture, one of Thermaplugg's servants stepped forward, took the box from the Dark Iron servant and brought it to him.  Leaning forward in the throne, he pulled the crystal out from the box and held it up to the light, a slightly maniacal look in his eyes.  Rising his other hand, he flicked a finger against it, causing a cascade of electrical arcs to flash through it.

 

"Be careful with that!"  snapped out Darkvire when he saw what Thermaplugg did to the phlogiston crystal.

 

Dropping his gaze to the Dark Iron, he gave him a lopsided grin.  Darkvire took a step back and his hand dropped to the handle of the axe hanging from his belt.

 

Thermaplugg placed the crystal back in the case and closed the lid.  "I will have the device finished and delivered to your apartment Ambassador within the hour," he said in a tone that signaled the end of the meeting.

 

Realizing that he was being dismissed, Darkvire turned around and marched out of the chamber.

 

Once the Dark Irons had cleared out and the door was closed, Thermaplugg sprang off the throne, grabbed the box containing the crystal and climbed aboard his Battle-Mount.  "Take the orb back to my workshop," he ordered and the servant quickly wheeled the cart out through the same side door he brought the cart from.  "The rest of you are dismissed," and with a loud rumble and belching forth a cloud of smoke from its exhaust pipes, he steered the mount toward a door behind the throne and left the chamber.  With his departure, the advisors, servants and guardsmen also left.  And within moments, the chamber stood empty and quiet.

 

Well, not empty...

 

From the dark recesses of the ceiling of the chamber, a small figure descended slowly.  Dressed in night black leather armor with accents of blood red, the figure alighted near the foot of the throne and adjusted a device on its left wrist.  Belted at the waist are a pair of daggers with ornately detailed hilts.  With a hood and mask in place, the only things visible are a pair of jade green eyes.  Crouching low, the figure waited a moment and then headed for the side door.

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And then...?!?



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I'll try to work on something. I've had some thoughts about what happens next

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