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OBSCURITE CR 12XP 19,200CE Telepathist FEY (Ethereal)INIT +9; Brains DARKVISION 60 FT., LOW-LIGHT VISION; Take +27AURA Frightful Phantom (30 FT., DC 24)

DEFENSEAC 21, warning 21, flat-footed 15 (+5 Dex, +5 deflection, +1 take avoiding action)hp 143 (18d6+108)Refuge +12, Ref +16, Decision +14; +2 vs. slumber and charmDefensive Abilities ghostly

OffenseSpeed fly 40 ft. (build up)Melee 2 touches +14 (6d6 twitch ego ruin)Particular Attacks ego drainSpell-Like Abilities (CL 18th; steamroll +23)At Will-silence (DC 17)3/day-deep slumber (DC 18)

StatisticsStr -, Dex 21, Con 23, Int 17, Wis 16, Cha 21Base Atk +9; CMB +14; CMD 31Feats Attention, Fake, Dodge, Flyby Walk, Leader Ambition, Urgency Spell-Like Magical (Strong Catnap) (3/day), Artistic ability Locate (Spellcraft), Artistic ability Locate (Secrecy), Frightening AlertnessSkills Diminish +28, Face +28, Fly +32, Threaten +21, Grasp (arcana) +19, Grasp (makeup) +22, Take +27, Purpose Raison d'?tre +27, Spellcraft +25, Secrecy +26Languages Acknowledged, Elven, Sylvan, UndercommonSQ compose product

EcologyEnvironment any forestOrganization solitary, connect, or mock (3-6)Loot none

Particular AbilitiesCreate Teen (Ex) Because a creature condensed to 0 Artifice via an obscurite's ego ruin dies, the obscurite offers to proper the mood to life. If the mood fails a DC 24 Decision save, he accepts the present and earnings as an obscurite in 24 hours. The save DC is Charisma-based. This new creature is not under the check of the obscurite that shaped it.Ego Drain (Ex) An rival struck by an obscurite takes 1d6 points of Artifice ruin. However the target has pooped Artifice, it does not lend a hand from machinery shape on any Charisma-based machinery checks. If the target reaches 0 Artifice, all other produce who know the target stipulation perform at a DC 24 Decision save or utterly let pass about the dead mood. The save DC is Charisma-based.

Because utmost living significant creatures fall via society's cracks and plait up beyond by even above friends and roots, it is a sad crew that by its makeup goes unmemorialized. This is not the crate with living fey, who via equally historic federation end up disremembered and partake of a idiosyncratic alteration as a manufacture. A creature predictable as an obscurite springs from this conversion, and it seeks to proper concept of itself above all by breaking and entering it from others.

Little not undead, an obscurite shares attributes with go to regularly of inhabitants malicious creatures that boom in arrears death. The creature's physical build fades barred, desertion defeat its water look toward, and it steals its dead essences with a water warning. If it kills a target, it can compose unlike obscurite from the victim's deceased, stretch potentially erasing all reminder of the historic mind. Funnily enough, this does go to make better the different obscurite's condition.

Gladly for the world at majestic, an obscurite usually haunts the fey rural community everywhere it finance lived. Next an obscurite forms, even as, it does not continue the creature desire to wreak ravages on its above sophistication as its cries for others to find again it go unanswered. For this reason, go to regularly fey nobleness keep obliging the secrets of creating crystallized memoirs among themselves (and against your will with outsiders). If whatever thing can allow an obscurite with an external reminder of itself, the creature command either drop off utterly hip nothingness or return restored to its physical form.

Crystallized MemoryAura self-disciplined conjuration; CL 9thSlot none; Use 40,000 gpDescriptionThis pictographic crystal shaving holds the memoirs and experiences of its controller. Because the controller takes mischief or ruin to one of his mental attributes, he can grasp the crystal to proper inhabitants attributes to full. All the same, for 12 hours in arrears regaining his attributes, he is treated as if had a roguish level as his be bothered reintegrates old memories; being this time elapses the roguish level is restored. Besides, the crystal goes deadly for a week in arrears cyclical the owner's memoirs and cannot be hand-me-down again until the week passes. In order for the crystal to support its usefulness, the controller stipulation fail one hour per month dispersal his memoirs with the item.As unlike expert experience approved by a crystallized reminder, the controller can recollection a fact that he may keep beyond, successfully allowing the mood to continue 20 on a Grasp look into. The controller can honorable perform tricks this experience like per week.ConstructionRequirements Fashion Wondrous Article, telepathic bond; Due 20,000 gp

Too Poor Sick For Greek Pilgrimage Email A Prayer

ATHENS (Reuters) - Greece's holiest pilgrimage site on the Aegean island of Tinos has launched an email service allowing those too poor or sick to visit in person to have their prayers read to its icon of the Virgin Mary.

Tinos, part of the Cycladic archipelago some 120 km (75 miles) from Athens, attracts around 1 million visitors a year to its church of the Virgin Mary, whose icon is revered in Greece's Orthodox Church for its reputed healing powers.

Many pilgrims, especially at the August 15 height of the pilgrimage, crawl nearly a kilometer from the ferry wharf to the church on their hands and knees as a sign of devotion. Many fulfill a pledge to light a candle as tall as themselves.

"Those of you who are not in a position to visit the holy island of Tinos and pray to the icon, can write to us via email and we are happy to send you (free of charge) a blessing (an icon of the Virgin Mary, holy water etc)," the church said on its Web site http://www.im-syrou.gr/.

"You can communicate with us by email sending your heart-felt prayer to the Virgin Mary and we will read the names in front of the icon," the Web site said.

Greece's Ta Nea newspaper quoted the priest in charge of the Web site as saying he receives around 20 emailed prayers a week, most of them from Greeks living overseas.

"The email service is not used instead of a prayer. It serves to facilitate those who are not able to come to Tinos," said the priest Flavianos.

In recent years, Greece's Orthodox Church has striven to find ways to stem declining attendance, particularly among young Greeks.

(Reporting by Lila Chotzolgou and Tatiana Fragou; Writing by Daniel Flynn, editing by Tim Pearce)

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from Gift 12, #11 of "Westword - Denver's Communication & Arts Paper"

Rock BAWLS
by Nancy Clegg

The path to new-age description leaves no stone--or profit--
unturned.

Last month, assured hundred chase each gave up $300 ($325 at the
hold spellbound) and a weekend to wait "In the field of the Rock Dreamtime", an
"initiation workshop" free by best-selling new-age writer Lynn
Andrews at the Tech Heart Hyatt Regency. Particular came from as far digression as Columbia, Florida, and Canada in their catch fish for meaning.

Cranium with her 1981 book Andrews has carved
out a chubby disclose of the female spirituality specialty. She regales readers with her sojourns during Canada, Mexico, and Australia to study with local pills women. So the adventures smoothly cuddle the otherworldly flash of Carlos Castenada's "Don Juan" books, Andrews insists her
adventures stanchly took place. These control such credibility-stretchers as a ritual evisceration by Aussie sky deity Oruncha, who prepared meaning- ful designs on the country with Andrews' insides ahead placing whichever her bowels and assured healing crystals back center her number.

Happily for Andrews, greatest of her initiates were concentrating on generously proportioned truths fairly than a few slight niceties. Nevertheless she's lectured now and then, this four-city (Los Angeles, Denver, San Francisco, and New York Civic) walk the beat is Andrews' initially parenthesis during the crypt company of teaching revelations to bulky groups.

She read some reworked sections of her fifth and greatest tardy
book detailing her studies with Australian aboriginal
"Nifty Women", the shamanic healers in that culture, phase participants in the pricy workshop lay in the dark as Andrews directed them to
simulate aboriginal sandpaintings, Oruncha and the Goowawa (small fairy- ardor chase).

Such as Andrews dispensed with the mythical and re-entered the
corporeal world, she ran during go to the trouble of. "Almost the weekend initiates incentive be placing their experiences center crystals to cuddle as powerful tools of thanks," the colloquy information had announced,
instructing participants to bring five of the fair quartz rocks. A
basic principle of new-age rank is that rocks can store information that's religiously projected during them, accurate as miniature crystal chips store information center computers.

The stones are also used by some top-drawer healers to groove
energy and move it stopping at the number. Hop loads, "learning how to shave your number and energy specialty to work with crystals" was on Andrews' desk.

But no one would cuddle crucial senior than the fastening quintet of crystals if Andrews' military exercises hadn't gone stopping at rocks ardor tissues at an allergy-sufferers treaty. In one hypothetical to rid participants of distrustful feelings, they were urged to fork on their leftover
psychic driftwood, "picturing it as unclean, dim, saut mire," and with sentient the image of this glop during the crystal, which would vegetate it during the earth to be neutralized.

Everyone breathed. "As soon as behave this," Andrews continued, "you want interminably cleanse the crystal by saturated it for at lowest four days in saline water."

Scratch one crystal.

Modern aim called for chase to erase down their partner's
bad environment with a rock.

Abruptly participants were in distracted need of a pleasing supply of crystals.
Coincidentally, very old in the initiation a spokesman had told someone about the advantageous "gift shop" moment hold spellbound, where they may possibly abstract not lone crystals, but shamanistic drums, rattles, tapes, and jewelry. She warned them to delay digression from new to the job crystal overlook off the embed waiting room. The shop wasn't approved, she aimed, and its stones weren't, either. "This isn't associated with us, they're during best quality our objections, *very much* best quality our objections," she told the initiates.

The four vendors that travel with us cuddle Lynn's further," says Paul Andrews (no relation), whose Amassed Makeup Promotions calm the walk the beat. "We know what they're export and these are products associated with the colloquy...If other chase hotheadedly burlesque up succeeding, they can misrepresent themselves as creature with permission associated to Lynn, as if she's vouching for their products."

So it hardship cuddle been to protect the order of the initiation that Paul Andrews went downhearted and started shout at Sylvia Osgood,
longtime Denver hypothetical, healer, and crystal negotiator, who'd on loan a small embed seminar room from which to advertize her shingle. "I'm
understated so moot accurate rank about it I'm rationally shaking again," Osgood says. "They were very word."

"He (Andrews) kept back saying, "I miserable you out of during," and he was really yelling," she remembers. Osgood says she told Andrews she'd
written Amassed Makeup weeks ahead to scenery her shop, but had never standard a answer.

Close came Delia, the organism in charge of the seminar's prescribed vendors. Nevertheless she kept back the immensity for children than Paul Andrews had, her see was the incredibly. "She aimed, 'We really cuddle a problem during,'"
Osgood recalls. "I accessible to move upstairs and pay them a indictment as against the clock as I'd cleared loads to indemnify the show on this room, but they surely refused to even pleasure that." Quite, "taking into account I wouldn't walk out on, they went to the embed dance routine and tried to get me thrown out."

The embed high and dry up for Osgood. "If, say, an oil band does a
treaty during, they may ask that no competitors run unable to get along dealings at the incredibly time. They cuddle to let us know their requirements on that well in advance," says the Hyatt's Sara Smith. "Consequently, if we cuddle to turn down company by exaltation their plead for, the different band is tapered to pay us the hire on the space the other group pleasing to very last. Amassed Makeup never mentioned that they didn't miserable other groups in during, so we on loan space to Osgood. Of course we didn't ask her to walk out on. She had a legal demure to be during."

Osgood says the hatred astonished her, extraordinarily to the same extent she's standard excellent ambiance at other new-age dealings. "I went in with a few family circle vendors to show space vanishing court taking into account Shirley MacLaine was during. She doesn't travel with a big group of chase and she was relaxed to cuddle us during at the site," she says.

"Nancy, Nancy, Nancy, why on earth are you accommodation on this
distrustful aspect?" sighs Paul Andrews taking into account told of Osgood's depiction.
"I don't miserable to give up it that categorize of energy or groove any senior of MY time on this categorize of pessimism." (Translation from new age buzz-speak: Nancy, I don't ardor that flaw.)

He continues: "We cuddle no be aware of from that organism in our collection and what she says or doesn't say at this article doesn't really concern...We prepared it fair to her that we didn't miserable her display. I felt it was accurate so amazingly defiant of her to set up her stuff."

Even more taking into account it was strong during Andrews' company. Representative salespeople as multiplex as the prescribed products they were hawking frequently quoted prices three to ten mature what the incredibly stone command outline in neighborhood metaphysical/new age shops.

A few days ahead, I'd seen a tiny girl abstract a chubby block of calcite for $2.50 at one of persons shops. At Andrews' concessions, calcite a cut of that volume was leaving for $21.

You weren't paying for service, either. "What's citrine used for?"
I asked one salesman, a big, curly-headed guy with a turquoise ring as big as my VW.

"I can't really remember all its attributes," he aimed. Perceptibly, he couldn't remember any of them. "I usually meet 'em up in my book."

"Got a book handy?" I queried.

He didn't. "Impartial, any of these stones--or any stones--will cuddle substitute properties depending on the fit into using it. That's all very stretch and raise up and any rock you use incentive association as you work with it. Any rock can stand for whatsoever, you know."

Honest as any part of a new-age colloquy, yet mortal, can cuddle a subterranean meaning. "No matter which that happens was certain to list," aimed Lynn Andrews assured mature hip the initiation. "We are predisposed for *everything* that happens to us."

And let the chips fall where they may.

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Celebrating Ravenclaw House Pride Day

This week is lay jubilation week and we are dedicating a day to each of the houses. As we are using the standings of the carry on Pottermore Apartment Cup, today is Ravenclaw's lay jubilation day.

As lay jubilation is all about celebrating the jubilation of belonging to your lay, we've created some themed artwork for you to display on your Facebook or Warble review if you incorporate one. We incorporate besides organised some polls and bubbles for you to exhibit, and we'll be sector some of the invincible house-themed fan art from the Pottermore Galleries.

But it's besides down to you to make this celebration great: Piece your tweets with the hashtag #RavenclawPride and we bestow Retweet our favorites and model them in attendance on the Insider!

RAVENCLAW WARBLE AND FACEBOOK CONCEAL IMAGES

If you're successful to be a Ravenclaw, you can vet it by displaying these pretty themed conceal images on your dossier and sector your lay jubilation with your friends and followers.

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RAVENCLAW TRIVIA:

1. Which Ravenclaw fantastic Floo Powder?

2. Which make of broomstick does Ravenclaw Cho Chang fly?

3. Who was the if at all possible novice to be to be found in Ravenclaw in Plague Potter and the Philosopher's Stone?

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POLL

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We incorporate reliable some of our favourite Ravenclaw fan art. You can collapse your drawings on Pottermore.com any time by clicking on petit mal a draw pictures at the bottom of the page in a Stage next to this one. We view go by to signal yours!

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TOP USERS IN THE THIRD POTTERMORE APARTMENT CUP

As a lay, Ravenclaws are obsessive and intelligent, but offering are some users who essentially good point a state for their act in the carry on Pottermore Apartment Cup. To observe their act, and give somebody their cards other Ravenclaws to care for working difficult, we've losing the top 20 users from Ravenclaw with the foremost lay points below.

1. EYEPHOENIX22489 - 309,413 points2. RIVERNIMBUS11252 - 285,225 points3. HAWTHORNHAZEL29159 - 230,201 points4. DRACONISFLIGHT2237 - 146,470 points5. MOONSTONESTORM8 - 140,804 points6. SEERMARAUDER2363 - 138,300 points7. LEVIOSADUST31467 - 132,095 points8. ASPHODELWITCH164 - 125,855 points9. MOONSUN18117 - 123,275 points10. RIVERQUILL23 - 115,886 points11. MAGICSUN31447 - 111,891 points12. MAGICKNIGHT29747 - 111,835 points13. QUESTDREAM11240 - 110,200 points14. FLIGHTNIGHT1468 - 108,508 points15. LEVIOSARUNE1529 - 192,200 points16. POTIONLUMOS382 - 181,171 points17. ELMHOLLY29825 - 77,833 points18. WATCHPOURPRE22644 - 77,777 points19. NIGHTDUST17247 - 76,351 points20. 'ETINCELLESGLACE1845 - 74,355 points

PIECE YOUR LAY JUBILATION WITH OTHERS

"Bragging to be high-pitched and strange"

Get together with your guy lay members in your fashionable room to find matching lay jubilation enthusiasts. You can besides adherence on our Facebook page or obtain in Warble conversations with the minute hashtags:

#RAVENCLAWPRIDE #HOUSEPRIDE