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===March of the Modrons===
<code>"THAT WILL SUFFICE. YOU EXPEDITE OUR SEARCH BY 14 PLANES AND WE THANK YOU FOR YOUR ASSISTANCE. YOU MAY ACCOMPANY US TO THE SURFACE AND WE WILL ENSURE YOUR SAFETY AS RECOMPENSE FOR THIS INFORMATION."</code>

Bruenor confirms with you that these creatures are completely law abiding and the concept of lying just does not compute for them.

You continue to converse with the Quinton Hierarch (you eventually learn this is his rank) on your journey back up to the surface. You drop Zanna off at a nearby passageway that leads back to Menzoberranzan, and she continues back to her meeting with Dyrr.

The rest of you spend days traveling on the modron march, which moves with perfect rhythm and regularity, and you learn more of Mechanus, the mystical realm of Law. There are five ranks of drones and 9 ranks of "Hierarchs" or the ruling class of modrons, all led by the "ONE AND PRIME" also known as Primus. You learn of the last prime, who did in fact die in a battle with Orcus himself. Only the first hierarch speaks of this to you, the others don't seem able to comprehend the idea. The Quarton tells you that when the last prime died, the oldest Secundi immediately took its place, although the energy of a dead prime doesn't just vanish, it redistributes in the world. The current prime took power 248 years ago.

As you return home to inform the Magistery and your friends of your discoveries and the current movements of the Modron March, the Magistery convenes a Master's Council. It is decided in the Master's Council that the Modrons and the Magistery are aligned in the goal of the annihilation of the dreadhorde, and while the modrons care only to destroy the wand, they will have to defeat the dreadhorde to do so. They are likely to fail without our help, and we are likely to fail without theirs.

Modrons are extraordinarily resilient creatures. They are resistant or immune to most elemental, and mind- or emotion-affecting magicks, and will make for strategic allies in this attack. Normally it would be inadvisable to to attack a location as fortified location such as Folcom Keep, but the Modrons while slow to react, once they engage are the most efficient machines of destruction known to the universe. You find out there are exactly 181,500,000 drones in total on this march, and that does not include the few dozen Hierarchs, who you have learned have VERY powerful abilities, beyond magic.

Tomorrow, we bring the fight to them.