====== Loremasters ======

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The Loremasters are a secret organisation trying to coordinate the war against the unlife.

They do not generally fight themselves, but instead try to get information to their allies to make their fight more effective.

The loremasters do however have the services of the reaction platoon from the celestial knights allowing them to occasionally teleport in half-celestial warriors to some places that really need them, but this is more an exception, and uses up the scarse teleport capacity.

The allies all have a set of symbols and signs to identify themselves and the loremasters to know when a visitng loremaster is there. Even more low members of most allied organisations know that when someone khowing some of these signs comes, you should direct them to higher ups.

They have a transportation system with global reach, as given in the tranportations section, used by them and few others, most use is by the dozens of "couriers" they have shuttling the information they have between their allies and the central location.

They are an old organisation, being based on parts of an intelligence service surviving the wars before first period, being people of the local branch on the interstellar intelligence services.

Their operations are coordinated by a central computer that is organic in nature. The computer is programmed to "forget" old data, to make space for new.

Each loremaster has a "coin", The functions of the coin are:
Ping (send pulse out to surrounding to see if loremasters nearby (about 20m))
Echo-reply (reply to central computer pings and other loremaster pings) the coin emits a very low single beep when pinged.
Pager (can get paged from the central computer getting a beeping noise)
Lockout (Can only be used by the designated owner, must be recoded by the central computer to change owner)
Stealth field (Greater Sanctuary)
These are all precollapse artifacts, later enchanted for spell sequencer.

Basically the computer can listen in on many other things/do many things:
(These will be scripted later)
Exixtence of command channel trafic: they will know of any navigator and god and such teleportaions in general terms, like general area to and from, but not who or how many or why or exactly where.
The Location of their own people tracking the coins, sending a global ping via satelites(note that underground locations are blocked) giving approximate location(=area).
Send a paging message to any loremasters, again does not work deep underground
The people in the base and nearby and their races.
Set alert level: Green: normal, Yellow: external doors locked everyone in the compound alerted, teleport in the reaction platoon from the celestial knights. Red: alert all the loremasters, the internal teleports disabled expect for masters and senior masters., flood the area with life: any unlife will take damage in the area every round.

It responds to voice commands, some are scripted like $who listing all people in the area.

Allies:
Church of Life, Reann, Ulane, Valris, Jaysek.
Cerea Brotherhood, Cerea bards, Knights of Vermol, Celestial knights.
100 other organiastions in other parts of the world.

The base:
contains a "visitor area" by the door
Internal teleportations system (seems to be bugged, the party teleportaion might not be working)
The Council room in the center.
The Computer Room, with 3 wrok consoles.
few VDUs (Video display units) and associated voodoomen.
The shop.

People: (bad memory on the actual names)
In general the loremasters people have 4 roles:
1)couriers: as there is no communitaion of actual information over distances, the couriers have to teleport and othervise travel to and from allies with the information.
2)embedded: people placed in locations of the allies to coordinate local actions. (like alicia)
3) investigators: people goining around trying to actually gathet information.
4) analysts/archivers: people trying to centrallly coordinate the data and such.

Senior Masters:
Fedrith Latoneya (analyst)

Masters:
Alicia Fern (embedded/Cerea brotherhood)
Am Dana (Investigator Too free spirit for anything else)
The Rooter Voodooman (root user) (analyst- computer main operator)
Celia (Investigator and blaster.. smile.gif
Tara (Investigator)

Journeymen:
The halfling by Vermol ruler. (Enbedded Vermol Rulership)
Lady Colds (Investigator)
(Crysvalio) (investigator)
Em Dana (Embedded)
The council voodooman (analyst- computer opp)

Apprentices:
The male monk in north street 9 (archiver)
Deldor Colds (embedded)
the Voodooman in outer area (analyst - computer opp)
The Reann hunter bishop in last inn (investigator)
Most Loremaster couriers.

Initiates:
Jim Redwing (courier)
Marie Redwing (courier)