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[Narrator] You are currently heading back to the shimmering veil that separates this plane from the Ethereal.
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[Narrator] Altheo, things seem to be under control at the Boar when you get back - Marissa did a fine job managing the place while you were away, as you expected she would.
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[Narrator] Alma, you had asked to be on the lookout for something that might once have been a possession in your walk back to the veil.
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[Narrator] When you've been back a few days, Julian stops by to visit you.
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[Narrator] Shining your lantern into the occasional shell of a building as you pass, you catch the dull glint of something metallic, unlike the surrounding stone and rubble.
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* Altheo will meet with him in his office.
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[Alma] Oh! Hold up!
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* Ser_Julian looks tired, as though he hasn't been sleeping well, or perhaps at all.
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* Alma will peer into the building to make sure there's no three headed shadow dogs before going to see what it was.
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[Ser_Julian] How's business?
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[Ilphere] Hmm...?
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[Altheo] Better than yours it would seem.
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* Ysabeau halts, the bones rattling in her sack.
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* Altheo goes to pour us both a drink.
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* Seth moves over towards Alma, sword drawn, and keeping an eye on his new friend, also.
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[Ser_Julian] Things are difficult right now.
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[Narrator] The building seems empty.
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* Ser_Julian accepts the drink gratefully.
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[Alma] I just saw something shining.
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[Altheo] How so?
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* Alma will head over to the glint
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[Ser_Julian] On multiple fronts.
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* Sanadhil pauses as well
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[Altheo] Well, I'm keeping very busy, but nothing new has come up about the dragon affair.
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[Narrator] It is a whistle, greyish-silver, with a loop where it probably once hung from a cord.
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[Altheo] but tell me your troubles.
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* Sanadhil will cast DM
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[Altheo] I am a bartender after all.
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[Alma] Hm.
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* Altheo smiles at his friend.
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* Alma reaches out to pick it up by the cord.
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[Ser_Julian] The necklace... I think the Hush were the ones who stole it from the Society. I don't know whether they released the creature deliberately or accidentally, but either way, I'm reluctant to report these findings to anyone.
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[Narrator] No magic, San.
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* Altheo nods.
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* Guillame glances over, but continues to watch the surroundings.
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[Altheo] But do the Hush have any reason to release that thing? Unless they got taken over by somebody else.
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[Narrator] The cord is long since gone, Alma.
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[Ser_Julian] I don't know as much about the Hush as I would like to, but from anything I've heard, they're splintering.
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[Alma] (oh right, sorry
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[Ser_Julian] Just as the Warlord would like to take over the Spokesmen and bring them under her authority, she's trying the same thing with the Hush.
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* Alma picks it up directly.
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[Altheo] That seems like fighting two tough battles on two very different fronts to me.
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[Alma] I was just looking to see if I could find anything leftover from the inhabitants.
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[Ser_Julian] Some of its members are resisting the idea, certainly.
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* Alma will leave the building again so we can be on our way.
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[Ser_Julian] Did you know Ser Kaladon Escalera?
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[Sanadhil] its not enchanted
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[Altheo] I don't think so.
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[Sanadhil] hmm.
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[Ser_Julian] A Spokesman, of course, and a distant cousin of the Emperor. He apparently killed himself a few days ago.
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[Sanadhil] did you want to look at it now, or later?
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[Altheo] Apparently?
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[Alma] Once we get back... I'm still not comfortable here.
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[Ser_Julian] It's being very hushed up. Maybe the Imperial family just want to avoid the gossip, but...
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[Sanadhil] *nods*
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[Ser_Julian] I worry that he knew something.
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[Narrator] You continue on your way, then?
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[Ser_Julian] And either took his life because of it, or was killed and made to look like a suicide.
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* Ysabeau sings a bone song to herself, silently.
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[Altheo] Do you think its the new Warlord behind all of it? Or was this something that was a long time coming?
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* Alma nods, unless there's more in the building.
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[Ser_Julian] I don't know.
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[Sanadhil] we could explore the rest of the city more thoroughly - we have more time allotted, certainly.
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[Ser_Julian] That necklace... I can't shake the feeling that it all comes back to that, somehow, even though it seems crazy.
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[Narrator] A few things like anchor points for ... chains? You're not sure. Nothing else that looks like a possession, though.
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[Altheo] I don't think it seems crazy at all.
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[Alma] :|
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[Altheo] Its the linchpin that started all this.
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[Ilphere] Yes...
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* Ser_Julian nods, takes a drink.
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[Ilphere] We might find something else of interest...!
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[Altheo] If we unravel that plot, we are bound to see the rest of the peices.
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* Dominik shrugs
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[Ser_Julian] There's something else, as well.
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[Seth] Nell.
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* Altheo sips his drink and waits for his friend ot continue.
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* Seth remarks out of nowhere.
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[Ser_Julian] Sister Luisa, who runs the orphanage since Clea died, came to speak to me this morning. There was a break-in there a few nights ago.
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[Ysabeau] Hmm?
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[Ser_Julian] Clea never threw anything out if she could help it, and I guess Luisa's much the same... there are records there going back decades.
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* Ysabeau queries Seth.
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[Altheo] My records were stolen?
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[Seth] Nell. Her name is Nell.
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* Ser_Julian nods.
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[Ysabeau] Whose?
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[Altheo] was it part of a bundle? or just mine?
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[Ysabeau] Oh, your bird's?
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[Ser_Julian] It was a mess, and it's hard to tell if others are missing or not. But.. I checked on yours, and couldn't find them anywhere.
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* Seth nods.
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* Altheo nods.
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* Ysabeau smiles.
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[Altheo] What would those records say?
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[Seth] After Sara's Knell.
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* Ser_Julian takes a deep breath.
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[Ysabeau] Welcome to the party, Nell.
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[Ser_Julian] I didn't want to have to tell you - you've made your own life, and I didn't want to interfere with that.
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* Ysabeau speaks to the pigeon.
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* Altheo takes a long pull, and reachs for the bottle.
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[Ser_Julian] Your mother's name was Genevieve... Genevieve Corriveau.
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[Ser_Julian] Tatiane's eldest daughter... she was wild, she ran around with boys, I don't know if she even knew who your father was.
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[Ser_Julian] Tatiane asked me to take care of you, to keep you safe from... that world. I don't know how well I managed, but I did what I could.
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* Altheo listens, drinking faster than usual.
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[Altheo] So that girl that had the necklace in the first place...she was what my neice?
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[Ser_Julian] Ninon... your cousin.
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[Altheo] How do you know Tatiane Corriveau?
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[Ser_Julian] I've known her since we were young...
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* Ser_Julian says a bit evasively.
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[Altheo] Is she still alive?
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[Ser_Julian] Oh, quite.
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[Altheo] Then why would she give me up to be protected, and leave Ninon to live as she does?
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[Ser_Julian] She's just about my age, but not as decrepit.
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* Altheo snirks at that.
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[Altheo] And is my mother actually dead?
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[Ser_Julian] Ninon's father - and her mother, for that matter - were there to take care of her.
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[Ser_Julian] Yes, I'm sorry. She died having you - that much was true.
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* Altheo contemplates this...his eyes far away.
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[Altheo] Whoever stole this...would they know I was a spokesman as well?
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* Ser_Julian nods grimly.
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[Ser_Julian] When you left the orphanage, there would have been a note made that you were joining the Order. I suppose they wouldn't necessarily know if you were still a member, though.
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[Altheo] really? I hadn't realized the records were so firm.
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[Altheo] Well then...
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[Ser_Julian] You have several cousins... uncle, aunts... I don't know if you want to track them down, but it shouldn't be too hard...
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[Altheo] I'll need to think about that.
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[Altheo] But have you questioned Tatiane about the necklace?
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* Ser_Julian nods.
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[Altheo] And what did she say?
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[Ser_Julian] She got it from my uncle. She was his mistress for a time...
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* Altheo laughs.
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[Altheo] Well, for a moment there I thought she was YOUR mistress... I wasn't quite sure what to think of that.
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[Ser_Julian] She said that he probably got it as payment for a hit, but she may have been exaggerating.
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* Ser_Julian looks embarassed.
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[Altheo] (SM, was she HIS mistress too?)
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[Altheo] (15, but I'm betting he has a crappy bluff)
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[Ser_Julian] (you think maybe)
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* Altheo is a bit surprised he is actually upset that his friend cheated on his wife. But hides it from him.
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[Ser_Julian] It was before I was married...
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[Altheo] ah.
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* Altheo smiles.
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[Ser_Julian] And before she was, for that matter.
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[Altheo] Youth is such an interesting time.
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[Ser_Julian] Heh.
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[Altheo] I think it was a hit.
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* Ser_Julian nods.
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[Altheo] Sister Alma beleived the same thing.
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[Altheo] Is she really a Crime Lord now?
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[Ser_Julian] She took over much of my uncle's network when he died.
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[Altheo] I don't suppose she would help find out who broke into the orphanage.
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[Ser_Julian] Maybe she would. It concerns her, after all.  
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[Ser_Julian] Do you want me to ask her?
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[Altheo] I would.
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[Ser_Julian] All right.
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[Ser_Julian] I'm sorry.
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[Altheo] There is a very slim chance it may have been a business rival...but I doubt it. There was one half-elf that was giving me problems a little while ago.
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[Altheo] Hey, your plan almost worked.
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* Ser_Julian chuckles at that.
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[Altheo] I almost ended up respectable.
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[Ser_Julian] Would this half-elf know where you grew up?
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[Altheo] He is a pimp in the shambles. I doubt it, but I've never hidden that I grew up in an orphanage.
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[Altheo] He might have put in the effort to track it down, but I doubt it.
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[Altheo] Its probably somebody looking into me for a different reason.
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* Ser_Julian nods.
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[Altheo] Could be the necklace investigation, could be the sex cult, coult be the shadow dimension thing....Like I said, I'm keeping busy.
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* Ser_Julian nods again.
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[Ser_Julian] The Hush seem to have been targeting Ninon for some time. I'm concerned that they're broadening their interest in Tatiane's family.
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[Ser_Julian] Then again, Ninon's a special case.
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[Altheo] Why?
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[Ser_Julian] Her brother's in the Hush. I don't know what side, though.
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[Altheo] Ah.
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[Altheo] Well, I suspect it probably is the Hush. They have the resources to know I'm more than I pretend to be, and they are probably curious as to why.
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* Ser_Julian nods.
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[Ser_Julian] That seems most likely to me as well.
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[Ser_Julian] It's their kind of tactic, too.
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[Altheo] So where do we stand with the Hush? As spokesmen I mean?
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[Ser_Julian] Officially? I think we pretend they don't exist whenever possible.
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[Ser_Julian] Unofficially, we co-operate with them if it doesn't interfere with our own principles.
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[Ser_Julian] And from my own personal point of view, I think they're a bunch of shifty bastards.
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[Altheo] I guess what I meant was. It looks like they got a major threat released from that necklace, but it also looks like we have a common problem with the Warlord.
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[Altheo] I'm assuming the Spokesmen and the Hush are both resisting the Warlords take over?
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[Ser_Julian] Well, at least some of the Hush, as far as I can tell. The Lord Marshall is, as you might expect, unhappy with the idea himself.
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[Altheo] I bet.
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[Altheo] I think its a bad idea to be sure.
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[Altheo] at least with the Spokesmen it is.
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* Ser_Julian nods.
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[Ser_Julian] I don't know what will happen. But I felt I had to let you know what was going on, even if I don't fully understand it myself.
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[Altheo] Thank you.
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[Altheo] I appreciate it.
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* Altheo pours them both a drink.
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[Altheo] So what was Sir Alcina's little secret in the end?
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[Altheo] I supose she isn't my half sister or something?
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[Ser_Julian] No, no.
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* Ser_Julian chuckles.
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[Ser_Julian] She's been spying on the Revelators for the Order for some time.
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[Ser_Julian] Long enough that I think she's started to believe their philosophy herself.
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[Altheo] I do think she ratted us out to Nestor.
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[Altheo] But what happened after we left your place?
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[Ser_Julian] Did you know Nestor Dryden was a priest?
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[Altheo] No, I didn't.
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[Altheo] Of what order?
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[Ser_Julian] I don't think he makes it publically known. Order of the Owl, though he's Houseless.
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[Ser_Julian] So I think his allegiance is... open to question, at least.
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[Ser_Julian] Alcina told me that he was a priest, I checked it out, and she's right, at least on paper. As long as she's ratting on both sides, I'll keep her around ;)
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[Altheo] Well, good to know.
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[Altheo] :)
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* Ser_Julian finishes up his drink.
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[Ser_Julian] I should get on my way. I'll be sure and contact you if I find out anything more.
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[Altheo] Thank you.
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[Ser_Julian] Be careful, Altheo.
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[Altheo] And let my grandmother know, she is always welcome at the Boar.
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* Ser_Julian smiles.
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[Ser_Julian] I'll be sure to mention it.
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[Altheo] I picked the wrong professions for that.
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[Altheo] But I'll do my best.
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[Altheo] You too, I'd hate to lose you.
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* Ser_Julian nods.
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* Ser_Julian bids you farewell, then, and departs.
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[Altheo] Your still the closest family I have.
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[Altheo] ;)
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* Ser_Julian smiles affectionately at that.
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==Solos==
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* Sanadhil will be at the society making a clean transcription of the scroll
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[Ilphere] Ah! Sanadhil! There you are...! :)
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* Sanadhil looks up
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[Sanadhil] good afternoon, Ilphère
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[Ilphere] I have made an interesting discovery...!
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* Sanadhil sprinkles some sand over the part he's just finished
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[Sanadhil] oh?
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[Ilphere] Well! My parents have been having the garden tidied up and I was walking by the fountain with Menard... The one where Dominik found me when I had that peculiar dream...?
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[Ilphere] It is a memorial to Emperor Ruchard Rademacher...! It bears his likeness.
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[Sanadhil] so he is the one from your dream then?
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[Sanadhil] I can't recall whether he was one of the ones you'd picked out from the portrait books
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[Ilphere] Yes... He is the one who disappeared in the night in 1724.
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[Ilphere] I believe he must be the one I saw...!
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[Sanadhil] interesting - it would make sense.
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[Sanadhil] is there any way of pursuing it, do you think?
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[Ilphere] Apparently there is another memorial to RUchard inside the palace... I may* be able to gain access to it, and it may yield more clues...!
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[Ilphere] Certainly I believe he is tied in somehow with the visions Theron and I have experienced...
 
* Sanadhil nods
 
* Sanadhil nods
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* Guillame smiles
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[Sanadhil] that would also be sensible.... I wonder if this connection started with him, or if he is only another example of it
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[Ysabeau] I hope our world won't be too sunny for you.
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[Ilphere] I definitely want to find the answer to that... I do not wish to disappear from my bed in the night...!
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[Sanadhil] a fitting choice...
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[Sanadhil] that would be troubling... At least we'd have a few more clues to go on, so far as tracking you down.
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[Ilphere] She's very sweet...!
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[Ilphere] I'm sure it will not come to that, though...! :)
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* Alma eyes the bird warily.
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[Sanadhil] indeed...
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[Dominik] its a shadow bird... get over it. Are we exploring or what?
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[Sanadhil] So, what do you make of the sleeping Tal-antar?
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[Sanadhil] Yes.
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[Ilphere] I find it strange that we should have found her before any of her own descendants...
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[Sanadhil] I'm curious to see how the Castalia appears here
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[Sanadhil] I wonder why... I wish I could speak to some living Shadar-kai agin...
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[Ilphere] Let's go then...!
 
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[Narrator] You will pass in the vicinity of where-the-Castalia-would-be on your way back.
 
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* Alma will lightly polish the whistle as she falls into place with the rest of the group
 
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[Narrator] The most notable feature of that part of the ruined city is a tall, spindle-like tower.
 
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* Guillame gawps
 
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[Ysabeau] [w to Seth] Dom's just bitter that he doesn't have a little friend, I think. I think Nell is lovely and very interesting.
 
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[Ilphere] Oh my...!
 
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* Ilphere admires the structure.
 
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* Sanadhil also
 
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* Seth smiles at Ysabeau in agreement.
 
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[Ilphere] Let's get closer...
 
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* Sanadhil nods
 
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[Guillame] Sure!
 
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[Ysabeau] (how heavy is the skeleton I'm lugging, I wonder? ^-^)
 
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* Sanadhil tries to figure out if it has any kind of parallel in our world
 
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[Narrator] Nothing immediately leaps to mind, San. The Castalia in Diablotin has some towers and buildings of some height, but nothing quite like that.
 
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* Sanadhil looks Seth's way
 
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[Sanadhil] is there any kind of real parallel between the buildings here and in Diablotin?
 
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[Seth] (K: Architecture?)
 
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[Narrator] (you can roll)
 
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[Seth] (20)
 
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[Narrator] Seth: the city seems smaller than D, on the whole, and basically only occupies the north (?) bank of the 'river'. Obviously the structure and design of the buildings is totally different. As the buildings here are mostly ruined, it's a bit hard to say whether they were residences or shops or what have you. And yet, there seem to be some rough parallels.
 
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* Seth gets out his sketchpad and draws a rough outline, as best as he can
 
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[Narrator] Buildings seem to be larger and more ornate (what's left of them) to the east, and smaller/more humble to the west, as in D.
 
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[Narrator] (just for instance)
 
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* Ilphere watches curiously...
 
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* Ysabeau settles down on a crumbled wall, setting her bag down to rest while Seth sketches and people explore.
 
  
  
  
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[Sanadhil] Let's not separate too much - stay in small groups, at least
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* Sanadhil will come find you early, at school
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* Dominik idly picks up a chunck of rubble and bounces it off a wall
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* Ilphere is in the stacks.
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[Ysabeau] Whew.
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* Sanadhil hunts you down - he is well groomed and so forth and seems quite animated, but there are telling signs that indicate he hasn't slept
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* Guillame takes in the skyline again
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[Sanadhil] There you are!
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[Alma] (Seth, you're still hurt eh?)
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* Sanadhil says, quiet but excited
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* Sanadhil will look in to the spire, but doens't venture out of sight from the main group
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[Sanadhil] She came back.
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* Ilphere is going to head toward the spire as well.
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[Ilphere] Oh, ... oh!
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[Narrator] The skyline of the city is basically just a faintly glowing blur.
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[Ilphere] Last night...?!
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[Alma] We really ought to stay together, if there's something using that tower as a lair...
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* Sanadhil nods
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[Seth] (yes, but only a little. I'm at 37 / 49)
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[Ilphere] What happened?!
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[Narrator] The spire seems less damaged than many of the other buildings - at least, it hasn't collapsed, so that's saying something.
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[Sanadhil] I asked her a little more.... i told her of the city, but not of the sleeping queen
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[Ysabeau] ~I believe them bones are me/ Some say we were born into the grave/ I feel so alone, gonna end up/ A big ole pile a them bones~
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[Sanadhil] they think it is cursed
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* Ysabeau sings to pass the time.
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[Ilphere] Cursed? Why...?
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* Sanadhil nods to Alma
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[Ilphere] BEcause of what happened to the people there...?
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[Ilphere] Well, come on then...!
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[Sanadhil] yes
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* Ilphere says a bit impatiently, pursing her lips.
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[Sanadhil] I don't know if they have the full story
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* Alma follows
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[Sanadhil] I gave her a copy of the scroll though....
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[Narrator] You approach the tower, marvelling at its height. It is certainly far taller than any buildings in Diablotin.
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[Ilphere] So that would be why no one has come looking for her...?
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* Alma wonders if she's felt anything in the way of wind, here in the shadow plane.
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[Sanadhil] I didn't tell her about the sleeping queen
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[Narrator] There has only been minimal wind during your time here, Alma.
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[Sanadhil] however they do have more books that talk about the fall of the city
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[Ysabeau] (So who is going to the spire and who is hanging out with Seth?)
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[Sanadhil] possibly
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[Ilphere] (spire)
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[Sanadhil] they have sent expeditions there
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[Sanadhil] (spire)
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[Ilphere] Well she or someone else is bound to figure it out from that scroll, I would think...!
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* Alma will also go.
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[Sanadhil] not everyone has returned
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[Alma] Maybe they could build so tall because the winds are so mild?
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[Ilphere] Ah, I see...
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[Ysabeau] (Seth, me)
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[Sanadhil] I don't know if Dozilva has all the details
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[Guillame] (Spire)
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[Ilphere] I wonder if this could be a chance to establish relations between our two peoples...!
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[Narrator] (Altheo can stay with Seth ;)
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[Sanadhil] possibly... they seem rather Xenophobic.
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[Sanadhil] (I assume Dom will come with us.... you guys can have altheo ;)
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[Sanadhil] As mlle L'Averti said, it id dangerous to venture there
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[Sanadhil] (yarr)
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[Sanadhil] However.
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[Dominik] (spire)
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[Ilphere] However...?
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* Sanadhil loks to see who is staying behind, and figures that the two groups will both be safe enough, and will enter the spire
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[Sanadhil] I think I must, if miss l'Averti will agree.
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[Narrator] The spire is relatively intact. There is a large entryway, with heavy doors shut tight.
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[Ilphere] What do you plan...?
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* Ilphere tries to open the door.
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* Ilphere narrows her eyes...
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[Narrator] They don't move. Maybe locked or barred from the inside?
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[Sanadhil] if I can get back to the library and find Dozilva there, she's said she'll talk to me more. she might be able to bshow me these other texts! And think of what else there is to learn...
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* Sanadhil casts knock
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[Ilphere] How fortunate you are to have made such a contact...
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[Narrator] One of the two doors will open at your spell, San.
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* Ilphere tries to hide her disappointment, feeling that she is about to be left behind in this venture... :(
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[Ilphere] Oh, excellent...!
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* Sanadhil is apparently too excited to be perceptive today
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[Ilphere] (is it totally dark inside or are ther windows?)
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[Sanadhil] I'll manage it somehow....
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* Sanadhil stands in the entry and looks around
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[Sanadhil] but there are a lot of other bthings I'd like to work out first, if we can
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[Guillame] (How wide is the tower?)
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[Ilphere] Oh...?
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[Narrator] The only light inside, at least in this immediate area, comes from the stone walls.
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[Sanadhil] I still wish i knew more about vrag
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* Ilphere will cast a Light spell and step inside.
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[Sanadhil] they consider him a lost god
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[Narrator] It's quite wide at the base, Guillame - it seems to narrow as it goes up.
+
[Ilphere] HE was imprisoned in the Arch...
−
* Guillame draws his sword and follows
+
[Sanadhil] though apparently there are also Shadar'kai who seek to bring him back to power
−
* Sanadhil opens a lantern
+
[Sanadhil] They know he's been released
−
[Narrator] Inside, you have the feeling of walking where no one has been for hundreds or thousands of years.
+
[Sanadhil] she told me as much the first time we met
−
* Ilphere casts her eyes about with reverence.
+
[Ilphere] Is it general knowledge?
−
* Sanadhil tries DM again
+
[Sanadhil] I don't know.
−
[Alma] ...
+
[Sanadhil] Names, and the meaning of names, are very important to the Shadar-kai. they're meant to be very descriptive and precise, I think. Dozilva's name, and her place at the library, implies that she might not be a good one to judge by on that account
−
[Narrator] The walls are decorated with carvings, dusty but not badly worn with the years.
+
[Ilphere] WHat do you mean? what does her name signify...?
−
* Dominik draws the magic longsword and takes a rear guard position as people move into the spire
+
[Sanadhil] Walker-in-the-forgotten-ways
−
* Ilphere will also DM.
+
[Ilphere] Ah, I see...
−
* Sanadhil will look at them more closely
+
[Sanadhil] I'm still amazed she came at all
−
[Narrator] San, it reminds you in some ways of the library you visited - similar layout, perhaps, though this section isn't filled with books at least.
+
[Sanadhil] but apparently she takes her promises seriously
−
[Sanadhil] (well after I see if there is magic. sensory overload!)
 
−
[Narrator] You detect magic on the door, San. Other than that, nothing in this area.
 
−
[Sanadhil] (check for type, then move on to oggling the sculptures)
 
−
* Ilphere will examine the carvings as well... (what might I roll to attempt to make sense of them/recognize anything?)
 
−
[Narrator] faint Abjuration on the door.
 
−
[Narrator] The carvings are of people - the room is lined with sombre stone faces, looking down at you.
 
−
[Ilphere] I wonder who they were...?
 
−
[Sanadhil] (Shadar kai?)
 
−
[Narrator] They look elf-like to you, San. Non-human, at least.
 
−
* Alma sparks a sunrod and illuminates a statue.
 
−
[Sanadhil] yes...
 
−
* Alma looks to see if there are any inscriptions.
 
−
[Narrator] The pale stone doesn't give a sense of skin-tone or anything like that, so it's hard to say 'shadar-kai' for sure, but it would make sense.
 
−
[Narrator] Alma - each carving has a small inscription above it.
 
−
* Alma wonders if she can make it out.
 
−
[Alma] (I don't know gravonian/shadar-kai, but I do know rat in case it looks similar)
 
−
[Narrator] You can see it - not read it, though.
 
−
[Sanadhil] are they names, perhaps?
 
−
* Sanadhil looks when he sees Alma peering
 
−
[Alma] I can't read the script...
 
−
[Ilphere] (can I read them?)
 
−
[Sanadhil] (is the script familia, even if i can't read it yet)?)
 
−
[Narrator] (can you read Shadar-kai? :)
 
−
[Sanadhil] (NEXT LEVEL :V)
 
−
[Ilphere] (nope, just on the off chance it was similar to gravonian)
 
−
[Narrator] San - a familiar script, yes, though perhaps more ornate)
 
−
* Sanadhil csts DS in any case
 
−
[Sanadhil] (CL that is :p)
 
−
[Narrator] (I was trying to figure out what DS was :p_
 
−
[Narrator] San - they appear to be names, yes.
 
−
[Sanadhil] (I was thinking Decipher script. spell, skill, whatever -_-)
 
−
* Sanadhil will read a few of them out, if anyone is interested
 
−
* Sanadhil makes a few notes about the script and so forth
 
−
* Ilphere is interested.
 
−
[Ilphere] Does it say anything about what they did...? Why their images are in here?
 
−
* Sanadhil looks around for more writing
 
−
[Sanadhil] not on the statues.... this place remnds me of the library i visited, however
 
−
[Sanadhil] if we're lucky, perhaps there may be some texts we can recover further in
 
 
* Ilphere nods...
 
* Ilphere nods...
−
[Ilphere] Let's keep going ...!
+
[Sanadhil] I thought you would be excited, in any case!
−
* Alma will go on with the others.
+
[Sanadhil] what do you think should be done about the sleeping queen?
−
* Guillame will stick near the other end of the party to Dom
+
[Ilphere] Well...
−
[Ilphere] (so what's beyond these statues?)
+
[Ilphere] Perhaps she could be returned to her people... it might foster a better relationship...
−
[Ilphere] (are there stairs to an upper level?)
+
[Sanadhil] that's what i was thinking
−
[Narrator] The stairway that spirals up the centre of the building is still reasonably intact, though somewhat dizzying to walk up.
+
[Ilphere] I would very much like to be a part of that...
−
[Sanadhil] (also, is there any moe writig in here or just the names?)
+
[Sanadhil] I want to find out more about what they woudl do with her
−
[Narrator] Over the door, San, there is some writing as well.
+
[Sanadhil] if they consider her cursed still....
−
* Ilphere heads up the stairs then, crafully...!
 
−
[Ilphere] (carefully)
 
−
* Sanadhil reads it as well
 
−
* Guillame will follow, staying within Ilphere's light.
 
−
[Narrator] San - above the door the inscription reads something you basically translates as 'Halls of Knowledge'
 
−
[Sanadhil] hall of knowledge - promising....
 
−
* Sanadhil eyes the stairs dubiously, and will climb carefully after Ilphere
 
−
[Narrator] The next level that you reach is designed like an amphitheatre, with a semi-circle of stone seats. Maybe a lecture hall?
 
−
* Sanadhil will look around for more writing, as long as his spell lasts
 
−
* Ilphere will continue up the stairs if there doesn't seem to be anything but seats.
 
−
[Narrator] Continuing up, you come to an area with many shelves for scrolls and books.
 
−
[Ilphere] (empty?)
 
−
[Alma] This is where the Castalia might be, on our plane?
 
−
* Sanadhil checks them all carefully, hoping to find something overlooked and left behind
 
−
[Narrator] At first glance - though you could look around further :)
 
−
[Sanadhil] yes
 
−
[Sanadhil] in this area
 
−
* Ilphere will search the shelves more thoroughly...
 
−
[Sanadhil] (you want a search roll? ;x)
 
−
* Alma will also look around.
 
−
* Guillame will help search
 
−
[Narrator] (that would be good :)
 
−
[Alma] (I find some dust! - 12)
 
−
* Ilphere will also be on the lookout for concealed areas that might be hiding goodies!
 
−
[Sanadhil] (18 :/)
 
−
[Ilphere] (19 :/)
 
−
[Ilphere] (... I call destiny :V)
 
−
[Dominik] (18)
 
−
[Alma] Are you two still looking for magic?
 
−
[Ilphere] (25)
 
−
[Dominik] (sorry 20_
 
−
[Ilphere] ...yes!
 
−
[Sanadhil] not actively at the moment
 
−
[Narrator] Ilphere, amid the dust and debris, you find a relatively intact scroll, inside a case.
 
−
[Ilphere] Aha...
 
−
* Ilphere looks it over to see if she can identify it.
 
−
[Sanadhil] may I see it?
 
−
[Ilphere] Just a moment...!
 
−
* Sanadhil nods
 
−
[Ilphere] (geez dude wait your turn)
 
−
[Ilphere] (is that a spellcraft roll...?)
 
−
[Sanadhil] (hey man, I have an active spell here ;)
 
−
[Narrator] The scrollcase is mildly magic, but not the contents. You suspect the case's magic was what preserved the document inside.
 
−
* Ilphere unrolls it and peers at it...
 
−
[Ilphere] (So it's not a spell scroll?)
 
−
[Narrator] correct
 
−
* Ilphere holds it out so that San can see as well.
 
−
[Ilphere] (I assume it's in S-K)
 
−
[Ilphere] Can you read it...?
 
−
[Guillame] (nm my roll ;) )
 
−
* Sanadhil will read over her shoulder then, as he still as the CL going
 
−
[Narrator] San - it's an account of the city's fall, you think.
 
−
[Sanadhil] ....oh my...
 
−
[Sanadhil] this is exactly what i was hoping for!
 
−
[Ilphere] What? What is it...?
 
−
[Sanadhil] it seems to be an acocunt of the fall of the city!
 
−
[Alma] :o
 
−
[Ilphere] Oh my...!
 
−
[Sanadhil] (account)
 
−
[Ilphere] We must take it back and translate it...!
 
−
* Ilphere says excitedly
 
−
[Sanadhil] yes!
 
−
* Sanadhil skims as thoroughly as he can while they're standing there
 
−
[Sanadhil] fascinating....
 
−
[Dominik] should I find you two a desk to sit at or perhapse some candles?
 
−
[Ilphere] No, we can take it back... We should continue exploring, now...
 
−
[Sanadhil] ..yes, I suppose
 
−
* Guillame pokes at dust on empty shelves.
 
−
* Sanadhil does sounds a little disappointed though
 
−
[Narrator] You continue up, then?
 
−
[Guillame] (yes)
 
−
* Sanadhil steps away from Ilphere, and will follow up the stairs
 
−
* Ilphere tucks the scroll back in the case and secrets it away, then goes on up...!
 
−
[Narrator] The next level that you reach is subdivided into a number of smaller rooms.
 
−
[Narrator] Living quarters, perhaps?
 
−
* Sanadhil will search around for more things of interest
 
−
* Guillame will help to poke around the rooms
 
−
[Sanadhil] * Alma also pokes around some more
 
−
[Sanadhil] (I only got a 9 on my search roll though... too distracted thinking about that scroll! :V)
 
−
[Narrator] (sec, looking something up)
 
−
* Ilphere searches as well.
 
−
[Ilphere] (25 on search)
 
−
[Guillame] (17)
 
−
[Sanadhil] (20 for Alma)
 
−
[Dominik] (18)
 
−
[Narrator] In each of the quarters you find the same scene - a long-dead body, lying seemingly peacefully upon the floor.
 
−
[Ilphere] (do the dead dudes have any stuff? :V)
 
−
[Narrator] Very minimal possessions as far as you can tell; nothing magical.
 
−
* Ilphere carefully examines a corpse (Still wearing her glasses) for any cloes as to cause of death, although she suspects there will be nothing to find.
 
−
[Guillame] (are the bodies similar?)
 
−
[Sanadhil] terrible...
 
−
[Sanadhil] * Alma is conveniently reluctuant to use her room-viewing powers -_-
 
−
[Ilphere] (what kind of roll would that be?)
 
−
[Narrator] They seem similar-ish, yes. It's hard to tell sex/age, but they seem to be the same species at least.
 
−
[Narrator] (Search, I guess)
 
−
[Ilphere] (do I get my glasses' bonus?)
 
−
[Narrator] (sure)
 
−
[Sanadhil] (can we keep going up?)
 
−
[Ilphere] (27 if no, 32 if yes :V)
 
−
[Narrator] Ilphere - there are no signs of violence that you can detect. From their postures, it looks as though they just lay down and died.
 
−
[Narrator] Yes, you can keep going up.
 
−
[Ilphere] Hmm...
 
−
[Sanadhil] Poison perhaps...
 
−
* Ilphere stands up and follows San up the stairs...
 
−
[Ilphere] That was my thought...
 
−
* Sanadhil thinks... 9spellcraft or k: arcana to think of spells that might because to cause some kind of quiet mass death?)
 
−
[Narrator] The thing that seems especially odd to you is that they are all in roughly the same posture, on their backs, arms crossed - it's not like they collapsed in the midst of other activities, say.
 
−
[Narrator] (sure, spellcraft)
 
−
[Sanadhil] (26)
 
−
[Ilphere] (/me will also roll on dat)
 
−
[Ilphere] (23)
 
−
[Sanadhil] maybe some kind of ritual, or ritual suicide...
 
−
[Ilphere] It certainly appears organized, ritualized... yes...!
 
−
* Guillame ponders the fate of this city, and of the city under Diabolotin...
 
−
[Dominik] Maybe that little scroll you have explains it all.
 
−
[Narrator] To kill this many people over this great an area, it would either have to be multiple castings of a spell, or an epically powerful spell, or something like a cloudkill or whatever that could drift about.
 
−
[Sanadhil] someone had to write it, and to leave it there....
 
−
[Sanadhil] we will see
 
−
* Sanadhil heads back to the stairs, towards the top level
 
−
[Sanadhil] (well, next level, anyway :)
 
−
[Ilphere] They could have written it beforehand...
 
−
* Ilphere muses as she climbs.
 
−
[Narrator] Continuing upwards in the ever-narrower spire, you arrive in an open, mostly empty room. The main feature is quite obvious - a stone slab with a woman's body lying on it. She appears completely unaffected by the passage of time.
 
−
* Sanadhil blinks
 
−
[Sanadhil] my...
 
−
[Sanadhil] *Alma will go and check her out
 
−
* Ilphere DMs the heck out of her...
 
−
[Ilphere] :o
 
−
[Ilphere] (is she Shadar-Kai?)
 
−
* Ilphere approaches the slab cautiously.
 
−
[Sanadhil] (Is she naked? V:)
 
−
* Sanadhil also
 
−
[Dominik] (is she hot?)
 
−
[Sanadhil] (^5, Dom ;)
 
−
[Ilphere] (are her bewbs perkier than mine)
 
−
* Sanadhil looks at the slap while the others check the woman (Writing?)
 
−
[Narrator] She appears to be shadar-kai, yes. Age is difficult to judge, but she's not old - maybe the equivalent of 25 or so? She is wearing a grey robe and a circlet. She is not moving, not breathing. She radiates strong transmutation magic.
 
−
[Narrator] She's not unattractive, if you like dark grey skin ;)
 
−
[Ilphere] Strong transmutation...
 
−
[Ilphere] (what spell might it be? SC)
 
−
[Ilphere] (29)
 
−
[Narrator] Temporal Stasis is the one that immediately occurs to you, Ilphere.
 
−
* Guillame is taken aback
 
−
[Sanadhil] (32 - I assume the same?)
 
−
* Sanadhil nods
 
−
[Narrator] San, you don't find any writing on the slab. Yes, you think the same about the spell.
 
−
[Sanadhil] that makes sense
 
−
[Ilphere] Temporal Stasis?
 
−
* Ilphere looks to Sanadhil for confirmation...
 
−
* Sanadhil nods
 
−
[Sanadhil] its an expensive spell....
 
−
[Dominik] and that means what?
 
−
[Sanadhil] she's frozen in time
 
−
[Sanadhil] until it can be dispelled
 
−
[Ilphere] Not dead.
 
−
[Sanadhil] right
 
−
[Guillame] That's amazing...
 
−
[Ilphere] This presents a curious dilemma...
 
−
[Sanadhil] powerful magic, in any case.
 
−
* Guillame looks around the edges of the room, and for whether there are further floors above us
 
−
[Sanadhil] we can't just leave her here, can we?
 
−
[Narrator] Above this, Guillame, it narrows too much for the stairs to continue, though the spire continues up some distance further.
 
−
[Guillame] What would Seth say? It's his expedition... maybe we should fetch him?
 
−
[Ilphere] She must have been preserved here for a purpose... When all the others died...
 
−
* Sanadhil eyes Guillaume
 
−
[Guillame] ...why would they build the spire so tall?
 
−
* Guillame gestures upwards
 
−
[Ilphere] She might have something important to relay...!
 
−
[Dominik] so... we bring her with us?
 
−
[Sanadhil] Yes.
 
−
[Guillame] (Guillame doesn't seem to be too invested in his suggestion)
 
−
* Dominik will go over and try to scoop up the woman in his arms
 
−
[Ilphere] Yes, I think we ought to...
 
−
[Ilphere] Should we check the rest of the building first though...?
 
−
* Ilphere looks to San.
 
−
[Sanadhil] (Does this room have a ceiling? or does it just get pointy?)
 
−
[Sanadhil] I don't thik there is much more to see - at elast not easily
 
−
[Narrator] It gets pointy.
 
−
* Sanadhil looks upwards
 
−
[Dominik] (I take it I have no problem picking her up? How much does she weigh)
 
−
[Ilphere] Right...!
 
−
[Ilphere] (I thought there were more stairs, whoops)
 
−
[Narrator] Dom, you can make a will save when you get very close to her.
 
−
[Dominik] (13)
 
−
[Narrator] You feel very, very uncomfortable when you try to touch her. You have an overpowering urge to leave the area.
 
−
* Dominik stops short of touching her and takes on a grim look
 
−
[Dominik] This ain't right.
 
−
[Sanadhil] pardon?
 
−
[Dominik] Lets get the fuck out of this place
 
−
* Dominik will start to move towards the stairs
 
−
[Ilphere] We can't just leave her here...
 
−
[Dominik] Like fuck we can't
 
−
* Sanadhil approaches the slab again
 
−
[Guillame] We don't know how long she's been here - but we don't know how long she'll be safe, either.
 
−
[Dominik] I've put up with your nieve wandering around in this place without knowing half the void that is going on, but I've had enough. Its time to go.
 
−
[Ilphere] Mr. Rademacher that is quite uncalled for...!
 
−
* Ilphere says shortly.
 
−
[Narrator] San, how close do you want to get to her?
 
−
* Sanadhil will se if he can remove her circlet, at least.... I can't possibly pick her up :p
 
−
[Dominik] Fine, give me a damn light, and I'll find my own way out, you can stay here and mess with shit you don't know anything about.
 
−
[Narrator] San, you feel no ill-effects when you touch her. You're right that you can't lift her, she probably weighs as much as you do or more. You can't remove the circlet, but touching it doesn't bother you.
 
−
[Sanadhil] (or touching her skin?)
 
−
[Narrator] Also doesn't bother you.
 
−
[Ilphere] Well I never...!
 
−
[Sanadhil] (Dom is a pussy ;p)
 
−
* Ilphere huffs angrily.
 
−
[Ilphere] I shall certainly be glad to be rid of your ill manners...! ]:(
 
−
[Sanadhil] I fail to see what is so off-putting about a sleeping woman.
 
−
* Sanadhil says dryly
 
−
* Ilphere turns her attention to Sanadhil and the woman in stasis.
 
−
* Dominik doesn't wait any longs, snatches a lantern and heads down the stairs
 
−
[Sanadhil] How disappointing...
 
−
[Sanadhil] I certainly can't move her.
 
−
[Ilphere] Sanadhil...
 
−
[Ilphere] Hmmm...
 
−
[Ilphere] M. Rionet...?
 
−
[Ilphere] [m] The sovereign sleeps...
 
−
* Sanadhil eyes her
 
−
[Ilphere] Hm... I had assumed it related to the man in my dream, but now this...?
 
−
[Ilphere] Perhaps a coincidence... perhaps not...?!
 
−
[Sanadhil] we can come back if we have to.
 
−
* Guillame was looking up at the spire again.
 
−
[Guillame] ...sorry, yes?
 
−
* Alma will step towards the woman in stasis.
 
−
[Alma] (Oh right I was looking her over anyway, wasn't I.)
 
−
[Alma] Amazing.
 
−
[Narrator] Alma (and anyone else who wants to try and touch her) can make a will save.
 
−
[Sanadhil] (okay maybe it is because you are wussy humans ;)
 
−
* Guillame will walk over to the others.
 
−
[Alma] (20)
 
−
[Narrator] Alma, you also feel very uncomfortable as you attempt to touch her, and feel an overwhelming urge to leave the area.
 
−
[Alma] This isn't right, she ... she's one of them. They worshipped in that blasphemous temple.
 
−
[Sanadhil] you don't know that
 
−
[Alma] I... I'm leaving. It's best that we go back to the city.
 
−
[Ilphere] What is wrong with you...?
 
−
* Alma turns to leave.
 
−
[Ilphere] Is there some other spell at work here...?
 
−
[Sanadhil] ...
 
−
[Sanadhil] (19 on spellcraft)
 
−
[Guillame] That's most peculiar - did you not feel an uneasiness, M. Orecalo?
 
−
[Sanadhil] no, not at all...
 
−
[Sanadhil] however my heritage makes me more resistant to enchantments..... warding spells can also be targeted at specific races.
 
−
[Narrator] San - there are spells like Antipathy that make people avoid certain areas or items - but you think this has to have a longer duration than any of those would.
 
−
[Narrator] (unless someone is coming here to cast it every day or two)
 
−
[Sanadhil] it can't be a simple spell....
 
−
[Ilphere] (I will try my luck on SC)
 
−
[Sanadhil] (permanence?)
 
−
[Narrator] (could be, San)
 
−
[Ilphere] (28)
 
−
[Sanadhil] it would have to be permanenced as well, however
 
−
[Ilphere] Very powerful magic indeed...
 
−
[Sanadhil] all you sensed was the transmutation?
 
−
[Ilphere] Someone does not want her disturbed...
 
−
[Ilphere] But who, and why...?
 
−
[Narrator] Ilphere, you know that Antipathy can be targeted to particular groups of people, so that could explain why Sanadhil is not apparently affected.
 
−
[Ilphere] A spel of antipathy can be targeted at particular gruops... perhaps that is why you have not been affected?
 
 
* Sanadhil nods
 
* Sanadhil nods
−
[Ilphere] It could have been cast to exclude humans...
+
* Ilphere asks, vaguely hopeful...
−
[Sanadhil] that would be logical, all things considered
+
[Sanadhil] of course
−
[Sanadhil] I'd recommend you not try and rouch her, then, unles you ywould also liek to be banished...
+
* Sanadhil smiles
−
* Ilphere nods...
+
[Sanadhil] I certainly can't manage it all alone...
−
[Ilphere] I wonder...
+
[Sanadhil] And I have no idea what to expect rom the rest of the society
−
[Sanadhil] but it does mean that I don't knwo what else we can do for her :
+
[Sanadhil] We should speak to Mlle L'Averti again
−
[Sanadhil] :|
+
[Sanadhil] she may know more
−
[Ilphere] If I were to summon some sort of mount, perhaps you might be able to manage to get her onto it..?
+
[Ilphere] Yes, some of them seem frightfully conservative, moreso than I had expected...!
−
[Sanadhil] down these stairs?
+
[Sanadhil] about how she might be received by her own people, i mean
−
* Sanadhil eyes the dizzying spire
 
−
[Ilphere] Ah, true...
 
−
[Sanadhil] we can come back.
 
−
[Sanadhil] better prepared.
 
−
[Sanadhil] (brb jol)
 
−
[Sanadhil] (a)
 
−
[Ilphere] (none of us have tensers's floating disk? :V)
 
−
* Guillame I suppose that's settled, then.
 
−
[Ilphere] Yes, it seems we have no other choice...!
 
−
* Ilphere is clearly disappointed.
 
−
[Ilphere] Reaching this place was not difficult though, so we should be successful next time...!
 
−
[Sanadhil] hmm.
 
−
* Sanadhil casts detect thoughts
 
−
[Narrator] (on her, I presume?)
 
−
[Sanadhil] (it isn't specificaly a targeted spell, but I am mostly interested in her, yes :)
 
−
[Narrator] (what's the DC?)
 
−
[Sanadhil] (17 i believe)
 
−
* Alma examines the bodies in the rooms below, wondering if they are intact enough for Speak with Dead.
 
−
[Narrator] You detect no thought from her.
 
−
[Sanadhil] Hmmm.... it was worth a try.
 
−
[Ilphere] Hm?
 
−
[Narrator] (I don't think they are, Alma - they're skeletal)
 
−
[Sanadhil] sensing her thoughts
 
−
[Ilphere] Ah... I am not certain if she would have any...!
 
−
[Sanadhil] no, i wasn' either
 
−
* Sanadhil dusts her off a bit, and makes sure she still looks fairly pristine
 
−
[Sanadhil] we may as well go back down.
 
−
* Alma will also examine to see what, if anything, she can determine about their race.
 
−
* Ilphere nods.
 
−
[Alma] (You said minimal possessions, in the way of just-clothing or is there something Alma could take to get a read on?)
 
−
[Ilphere] I simply do not know what to do about M. Rademacher...! Spell or no spell, that rudeness was despicable...!
 
−
[Narrator] (like, scraps of clothing, not much more)
 
−
* Ilphere says half to herself.
 
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* Sanadhil will lead the others downstairs (wuld we see that Alma is there or should we just assume she's gone?)
 
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[Sanadhil] indeed.... i can't say I am surprised.
 
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* Alma will make a note of the rooms and take bits of cloth from some of the bodies.
 
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* Guillame doesn't feel it would be polite to comment
 
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[Ilphere] No?
 
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* Alma is probably not making a lot of noise in the rooms.
 
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[Sanadhil] he doesn't seem to have much respect for research
 
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[Ilphere] Apparently not...!
 
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[Sanadhil] (well, you can probably at least hear us chattering ;)
 
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* Alma will come out into the open.
 
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[Sanadhil] rather cut down the unknown than learn anything new....
 
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* Ilphere pushes her goggles back up on top of her head, only now realizing she is still wearing them.
 
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[Ilphere] Such a waste...!
 
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* Ilphere agrees.
 
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[Sanadhil] Ahh, Countess! Are you well?
 
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[Alma] I'm fine. I just stopped to see what else I might learn from the dead, here.
 
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* Alma folds the bits of cloth she's trimmed from their robes into her book.
 
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[Ilphere] We are ready to depart...!
 
 
* Sanadhil nods
 
* Sanadhil nods
−
[Alma] The ... whatever it is upstairs is undisturbed?
+
[Sanadhil] this war, or whatever, was over a thousand years ago, and the god she worshipped is clearly not en vogue now...
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[Ilphere] You will be pleased to know that your reaction is merely the result of a magical effect, and not anything particularly sinister about the woman herself...!
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[Sanadhil] Your people doens't seem to have any lasting quarrel with the Shadar-kai, and indeed seem to have quite forgotten about them
−
[Sanadhil] Our best guess is that the woman is under some additional warding spell, yes.
+
[Sanadhil] unless it seems like they might renew their interest in the subjugation of humanity *now*....
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[Sanadhil] and yws, we left her as we found her
+
* Sanadhil pauses, and files away another thought
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* Alma considers this.
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[Ilphere] Well, that would be prudent to find out, along with how they might receive her, yes!
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[Ilphere] . o O ( ... for now! )
+
[Sanadhil] well, should we contact her then?
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[Alma] That does make ... some sense.
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[Ilphere] They don't *seem* particularly interested though, so I can't imagine one person, powerful though she might be, might convince them it's worth another go...
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* Alma looks ... conflicted.
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[Ilphere] Yes, definitely...!
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[Ilphere] Shall we go...?
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[Sanadhil] well, I'll see about setting up a meeting then - though it might be best to schedule around your availability
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[Alma] Yes.
+
[Sanadhil] the rest of us aren't planning an imperial wedding :)
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* Sanadhil leads on then
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[Ilphere] Alright... I am free (times) as far as I know...!
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* Ilphere heads down to the bottom level.
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[Sanadhil] i'll work out something and let you know as soon as possible, then
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[Narrator] You make your way out of the building without further excitement, and can rejoin your other companions.
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[Ilphere] Wonderful! :)
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* Alma looks up the spire to see if there's any external indication of the rooms we were in.
 
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[Sanadhil] (Jola needs out again... brb)
 
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[Narrator] Not really, Alma - the building doesn't have windows.
 
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[Guillame] (Can we see where the tower becomes too narrow for the stairs?)
 
  
  
  
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* Seth is sketching busily, not even paying that much attention to who has stayed in his group.
+
* Ysabeau is in a hall on campus where we usually practice, then...? Unless we practice at like, your house or something. ;)
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* Ysabeau isn't sure how he'd react to someone looking over his shoulder at what he's drawing, so decides it's probably wisest not to try.
+
* Ysabeau 's house is likely not big enough to accomodate several musicians plus gear.
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[Ysabeau] The architecture here is pretty weird, isn't it.
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* Symon will have met you on campus after one of your classes, and have brought another instrument.
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[Ysabeau] Can you figure out how they built this way? I wonder what the people in Diablotin would say if you built something based on this place in our fair city.
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* Ysabeau smiles to see him.
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[Ysabeau] I suppose some would absolutely love the edginess and others would disparage it.
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[Symon] (There'd be more learning aids in a classroom too :P)
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[Seth] I'm not sure yet. It is technically very sophisticated. Aesthetically - well, it is beautiful but it doesn't correspond to the customary canons I would expect.
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[Ysabeau] Hi Symon!
 +
[Symon] Hi Ysa :) How was your day?
 +
[Ysabeau] It was pretty good. I chatted with some Society members about the things we brought back from the Shadow-city.
 +
[Ysabeau] How was yours?
 +
* Symon rolls his eyes.
 +
[Ysabeau] Not good?
 +
[Symon] Evening with the family. All my father talks about is business.
 +
[Symon] It's boring, that's all.  
 +
[Ysabeau] Ah well, business is what keeps you up to your neck in instruments to play. ^-^
 +
[Symon] Increasing the tonnage of steam engines, blah blah blah.
 +
[Symon] Yeah, true...
 +
* Symon looks a little sheepish.
 +
[Symon] I guess sometimes it's the quiet implication that perhaps my instruments aren't as ... productive...
 +
[Ysabeau] Yet.
 +
* Ysabeau winks.
 +
[Symon] :)
 +
[Ysabeau] We seem to get a few more gigs with every passing month.
 +
[Symon] Well, best case scenario is getting a patron as wealthy as my father, not actually being as wealthy... but that's good enough for me :)
 
* Ysabeau nods.
 
* Ysabeau nods.
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[Ysabeau] (hee hee hee... with Divine Insight I might be able to figure out how they accomplished some of their engineering feats, I just realized)
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[Symon] Speaking of gigs... I hear your friend is betrothed. Imagine that! Acquainted with the fiancée of the Prince Imperial!
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[Ysabeau] They do seem to defy probability, some of these buildings.
+
[Ysabeau] My goal is being able to afford to buy my own house and live comfortably...
−
[Ysabeau] (brb bio)
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[Ysabeau] Oh, yes, Ilphere.
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[Ysabeau] Is there anything in particular that stumps you?
+
* Ysabeau smiles.
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* Ysabeau asks curiously.
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[Ysabeau] The best thing is that they really care for each other.
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[Seth] Right now I'm here without access to a library - nothing stumps me, although many things intrigue me and I'll have to look into them later.
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[Symon] Really? A marriage at /that/ level and they like each other?
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* Ysabeau smiles. Not a bit arrogant, is he. ;)
 
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[Ysabeau] Fair enough.
 
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[Ysabeau] (I wonder if an 18 would be enough to figure out an architectural mystery using DI.)
 
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[Seth] Aspects of this remind me of Cozovode architecture, although M. Orecalo would know more about that subject than I.
 
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* Ysabeau nods, then repeats her agreement aloud since you are likely not looking at her.
 
−
[Ysabeau] I wonder if or how the Cozovode are related to the Shadow people.
 
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[Seth] Hmm, yeah, interesting.
 
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[Ysabeau] It has some interesting implications, certainly, if they *are* related.
 
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[Ysabeau] Have you noticed how some of the doors are at different levels from the others?
 
−
[Ysabeau] I wonder if there were actually two different races living here.
 
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[Seth] Hmm, that's an interesting theory.
 
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[Ysabeau] Maybe one with wings and one without.
 
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[Ysabeau] I think some of them were capable of flight, or at least, prodigious leaps... the doors that are higher up have no stairs.
 
−
[Seth] It's possible - I don't see any place where stairs even used to be attached.
 
 
* Ysabeau nods.
 
* Ysabeau nods.
−
[Ysabeau] That's what I mean.
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[Ysabeau] I know... a rarity.
 +
[Symon] Yeah, I guess miracles do happen :)
 +
[Ysabeau] But happily it has worked out that way for them.
 +
[Symon] Do you think they need a quartet? :)
 +
[Ysabeau] Well, I am not sure how much of the decisions they get to make since I understand it's to be a triple wedding.
 +
[Ysabeau] Emperor, prince and princess imperial married off all at once.
 +
[Symon] That's a little strange, don't you think? If the average person did that, you might think they were country bumpkins.
 +
[Ysabeau] Well, maybe the Emperor has other plans and needs to get the marriages all done at once instead of dragging them out.
 +
[Ysabeau] I don't pretend to understand what goes on his Imperial Majesty's mind.
 +
[Symon] It could be another good opportunity for us though, to be at both of the big Imperial events. We could make a habit of it :)
 +
[Ysabeau] Yes, don't worry - the thought hadn't escaped me.
 +
[Ysabeau] I do try to drop hints when the moment seems right. :)
 +
[Ysabeau] But Ilph has a LOT on her mind, as you can imagine.
 +
[Symon] Good point, you run the risk of seeming crass, I suppose.
 +
* Ysabeau nods.
 +
[Ysabeau] I think we did well at the Emperor's ball; that's in our favour.
 +
[Symon] Perhaps, since the affair is once again so big, we might just get in touch with the Imperial staff from last time?
 +
[Ysabeau] I hope the master of ceremonies, who is probably the REAL power behind the wedding and its related festivities, will have remembered us. :)
 +
[Ysabeau] I suspect there'll be auditions again, Symon - we'll just have to keep our ears open and be there.
 +
[Ysabeau] Since we played at the last event, they ought to let us in the gates for auditions, at least. :)
 +
* Ysabeau plucks some strings and fiddles with tuning keys until the tone meets her approval.
 +
[Symon] So, you really found another world? Down an alley?
 +
[Ysabeau] I don't know if I'd call it another world so much as another layer of this world, so much, maybe. And perhaps even this world is merely a layer also reflecting another place.
 +
[Ysabeau] The city through the alley is a mirror image of our own Diablotin, only with alien architecture and alien gods.
 +
* Symon sits down, viol in hand.
 +
[Ysabeau] There's a river right where our Ousel is, though it's all dried up. And where our palace is on the island, they had a temple to Ophion (or Vrag as he was known to them, I believe), shaped like a snake.
 +
[Symon] It's like a fantasy tale.
 +
* Ysabeau nods.
 +
[Ysabeau] Complete with tragedy and an ensorcelled queen.
 +
* Ysabeau laughs.
 +
[Ysabeau] Seth was asking me why I wasn't busily composing a ballad about our trip there, while we were waiting for the rest.
 +
[Symon] I know they do a lot of complex research at the Castalia, but... still...
 +
[Symon] A portal to another world right in the middle of the city.
 +
[Symon] And you went!
 +
[Ysabeau] Now that Master Orecalo has translated the scroll we found there, I think I've got a ballad.
 +
[Symon] And brought stuff back!
 +
* Ysabeau nods.
 +
[Ysabeau] It's not all air and fluffiness, though, Symon.
 +
[Symon] You said it's at the society?
 +
* Ysabeau nods.
 +
[Ysabeau] That city is dead and full of flitting memories of horrible things that happened.
 +
[Ysabeau] And those people who built it, invaded our world, and enslaved our people.
 +
[Ysabeau] The founders of our city won it back from them. Then, later, someone from our world started killing off their people horribly and painfully.
 +
[Symon] Well, I never said I didn't think it was creepy... but it's still incredible.
 +
[Ysabeau] They're all dead now.
 +
[Symon] I'm disappointed I didn't go to Mister Orecalo's presentation now :/
 +
[Ysabeau] Well, I suspect this is only the first of many excursions there, so if you want to go, you ought to be able to in the future.
 +
[Symon] Well, it didn't really seem like my sortof thing then...
 +
[Symon] Perhaps later, if you go back to look for inspiration, I might come too.
 +
[Symon] I don't see much point in visiting such a dark place otherwise... if it gets dangerous, I'm not about to save my skin with the viol :P
 +
[Ysabeau] I don't know that I want to go back. I am fond of my world of light and colour. But I may go back if others go.
 +
[Symon] I think the city needs more light and warmth right now than it does gloom, so we might be better looking for inspiration here :)
 +
[Ysabeau] They had a palace where our Castalia is, and that's where their queen lies, stopped.
 +
[Symon] Not that I don't see the beauty of sad music...
 +
[Symon] Stopped? Like, petrified?
 +
[Ysabeau] No... when the woman from our world unleashed something that turned their people into the walking dead, the elite classes chose to die by their own hands rather than face such a death. But they cast a spell on this one woman so that she's frozen in a moment of time for eternity.
 +
[Symon] And she's just ... in the tower, alone?
 +
* Ysabeau nods.
 +
[Ysabeau] Alone with the corpses of her retainers.
 +
[Symon] Are they all dead except for her? You would expect ... that there would be looters if nothing else.
 +
[Ysabeau] That's one of the mysteries of the place.
 +
[Ysabeau] We did find one skeleton of elvish descent in the temple, who had coins from here and Cozovode, as well as coins of others.
 +
[Ysabeau] I think the other coins might be from that plane. But I don't know where he got all the coins or anything. Maybe he was a looter.
 +
[Ysabeau] There were shadow creatures there that attacked us.
 +
[Ysabeau] We were able to fight them off, but maybe he wasn't so lucky.
 +
[Symon] I'll have to take a look at everything you brought back.
 +
[Ysabeau] The Aveyrone coins he had were all from 1740 or thereabouts.
 +
[Ysabeau] Which was the emperor after Ruchard Rademacher disappeared...
 +
* Ysabeau me muses allowed.
 +
[Symon] Well unless you think Emperor Ruchard was an elf, it's probably not him :P
 
* Ysabeau smiles.
 
* Ysabeau smiles.
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[Seth] Another possibility, though, is that there were bridges made of wood or rope or another perishable material, that went from door to door.
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[Ysabeau] No, I doubt he was. But maybe someone had an idea where the emperor might have disappeared to. Or it could all just be a big coincidence.
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[Ysabeau] Yes, that is poossible. Then there should be some anchor points where the ropes were attached.
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[Symon] Well who knows what's gotten lost between the worlds in the past centuries, if a ... hole like that's been here all along!
−
[Ysabeau] I'd like to climb up and see if there are... you game for it?
 
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[Seth] I think we should stay here, so the others can find us.
 
−
[Ysabeau] When they come back, then.
 
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[Ilphere] (dude didn't we see some anchor points before?)
 
−
[Ilphere] (nm that was in a building)
 
−
[Ysabeau] (I don't remember any but that doesn't mean anything)
 
−
[Ysabeau] When they come back, then.
 
−
* Ysabeau persists.
 
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[Ysabeau] I've had a good break from carrying those bones so I'm raring to walk around a bit more, now. But you're right, for safety we should wait.
 
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[Seth] Shouldn't you be writing a ballad or something, anyway?
 
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[Ysabeau] Do you need a ballad to immortalize you? I should have thought your buildings would be a more fitting tribute to your existence.
 
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* Seth laughs
 
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[Seth] I'm at best a second-rate architect.
 
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[Ysabeau] Well, that wouldn't make a very good ballad either, then, would it?
 
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[Seth] We could be the first humans to see this place in centuries. Doesn't that ... excite you?
 
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[Ysabeau] I don't know if 'excite' is the right word.
 
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[Ysabeau] It's interesting, certainly.
 
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[Ysabeau] But until I know more, not much of a story.
 
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[Ysabeau] No, if I ever write a ballad about this, it will be some time away yet, when I know more fully the implications.
 
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[Seth] We're here - we get to *make* the implications, through what we say and do next.
 
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* Seth says, still sketching furiously, not looking up.
 
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[Ysabeau] Yes, and after what comes next, it may be food for a good, thrilling song.
 
−
[Ysabeau] But it isn't yet.
 
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[Seth] You know, I don't really understand you.
 
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[Ysabeau] How's that?
 
−
[Seth] You're a storyteller, or at least, you purport to be one. But here you are, waiting for a story *to be told* about us. You don't seem to have any ... oh, I don't know, any *wonder* at all of this.
 
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[Seth] A magic shadow bird just landed on my shoulder, out of nowhere.
 
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[Seth] Giant spires, made by no technique we've seen.
 
−
[Seth] A battle with creatures of shadow.
 
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[Ysabeau] It has the makings of a good story, I agree. But we are still in the middle of it. A story is an arc, with a beginning, a middle and an end. It is hard to write a story when you don't yet know the end.
 
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[Ysabeau] I'm here; I'm remembering everything, committing it to memory. I'm thinking of ways of saying things, never you fear.
 
−
[Seth] If you say so.
 
−
[Ysabeau] All the stories we remember and love, we remember and love because they meant something to us. I don't yet know what this place means to us, to me. But I hope I'll find out.
 
−
[Ysabeau] So thank you for sharing your thoughts on it, Seth. That helps me understand what it means to you.
 
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* Seth grunts noncommittally
 
−
* Ysabeau leaves him to his sketching and continues to observe the architecture and puzzle it out.
 
−
[Ysabeau] The others have been gone a logn while.
 
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[Ysabeau] (long)
 
−
[Ysabeau] Do you think they're all right?
 
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[Seth] I'm sure they're fine. It hasn't been that long.
 
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* Ysabeau shrugs, then curls up at the base of her wall for a nap.
 
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*** Sanadhil has joined #gnomeland
 
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*** ChanServ sets mode: +o Sanadhil
 
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* Dominik stomps back to the camp where Seth has been busy sketching, dropping the lantern noisily to the ground
 
−
* Ysabeau jolts awake.
 
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* Ysabeau looks ready to fight, but relaxes when she sees it's you.
 
−
[Ysabeau] Dom?
 
−
[Ysabeau] Where's everyone else?
 
−
[Seth] Ah, you're back. Uh ... alone.
 
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[Dominik] Oh there still up there, messing with shit.
 
−
[Dominik] I told them they shouldn't be fucking with stuff they don't know anything about..
 
−
[Ysabeau] What sort of shit?
 
−
[Ysabeau] .me asks warily.
 
−
[Dominik] Did they care... Nope.
 
−
* Ysabeau asks warily.
 
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[Dominik] All we found were corpses, long dead, except for this one woman, grey skinned, at the top of the spire, unaged.
 
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* Ysabeau looks over at Seth for his reaction.
 
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[Dominik] Ilphere called it Temporal Statis or something like that.
 
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[Seth] I ... well, that certainly is intriguing.
 
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[Seth] Any sign of why she was singled out for this treatment?
 
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[Ysabeau] And... knowing her, she wanted to wake the woman up or something?
 
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[Dominik] The whole thing felt wrong, really wrong, and I told them such.
 
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[Dominik] I was gonna pick her up and take her with us, its what they wanted, but I thought better of it.
 
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* Ysabeau looks with concern at Seth.
 
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[Ysabeau] They're bright people, but sometimes I think they didn't get the sense the gods gave a rock.
 
−
[Ysabeau] Do you think we ought to go fetch them before they do something seriously stupid?
 
−
[Ysabeau] . o O (If it's not too late already...)
 
−
* Ysabeau turns back to Dom.
 
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[Ysabeau] Was Alma with them still?
 
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[Dominik] Be my guest, if you think you can convince them to do anything... they obviously don't give a shit about what I think.
 
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[Seth] Either we all stay here, or we all go to find them.
 
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[Ysabeau] Maybe she'll keep them from, um... whatever it is they decide to do next.
 
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[Dominik] yah sure...
 
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* Dominik kicks a small rock
 
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[Ysabeau] I'm inclined to go check them out...
 
−
[Ysabeau] Sooner rather than later.
 
−
[Ysabeau] I'
 
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[Ysabeau] I'll leave the bones here; we can get them on our way out.
 
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[Ysabeau] Seth, Altheo, Dom....? Your opinions?
 
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[Dominik] I'm sure if they're in trouble they'll scream for help... [m] or not
 
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[Seth] I think we need to stay where they can find us.
 
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* Ysabeau looks worried.
 
−
[Ysabeau] Dom just came from where they are; if he leads us directly back there, we'll meet them on the way.
 
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[Ysabeau] No one would miss anyone.
 
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[Seth] Very well.
 
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* Seth packs up his stuff and checks to make sure Nell is still nearby.
 
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[Sanadhil] (just in time for us to come back out ;)
 
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* Ysabeau arranges her sack of bones so that it's not immediately obvious to anyone who might pass by... if anyone's even around...
 
−
 
 
−
 
 
−
 
 
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* Dominik is pacing anxiously as the rest of the party returns
 
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[Narrator] (approximately, Guillame)
 
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* Ysabeau scrutinises the returning people to see if they're carrying anything body shaped, or if there is one more than expected. When she sees that there is not, she visibly relaxes.
 
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[Ysabeau] So you found someone up there?
 
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[Sanadhil] yes, a woman in a time stop
 
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[Ysabeau] Human or something else?
 
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[Ilphere] Shadar-Kai.
 
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[Ilphere] She is under Temporal Stasis and heavily warded... very mysterious...!
 
−
[Ysabeau] Interesting, but I'm glad you left her be until you can learn more about her and the ramifications of moving her or trying to wake her up.
 
−
[Ilphere] Hmmm...
 
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* Ilphere says noncommitally.
 
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[Ilphere] There is certainly much to be learned here...!
 
−
[Sanadhil] I can't imagine there is anyway to know without trying it.
 
−
* Sanadhil nods to Ilphere
 
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[Ilphere] Absolutely...!
 
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[Ilphere] We should be returning now though, we have a great deal of work to do...!
 
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[Ysabeau] After all, these people once enslaved our kind of people, and people are on edge enough as is with the dragon and the cult on the Downs and the change in rulers and the loss of the Arch... I think a little caution
 
−
[Ysabeau] (is called for)
 
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* Ilphere pulls out the scroll case and waves it meaningfully at Sanadhil.
 
−
* Sanadhil nods
 
−
* Alma looks at Ysabeau as she mentions the cult...
 
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[Sanadhil] Yes...
 
−
* Sanadhil eyes her also
 
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[Alma] All of this, down an alley, all this time.
 
−
[Sanadhil] I think that further expeditions to investigate more thoroughly are in order, at elast
 
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[Ilphere] Well, well, nothing ventured, nothing gained...!
 
−
[Ilphere] Definitely!
 
−
* Ilphere concurs.
 
−
* Guillame nods idly
 
−
[Ysabeau] Yes. Risks are sometimes necessary, but one must think of the cost to not only oneself, but others.
 
−
[Sanadhil] Are you finished your sketchig, Mr. Argo?
 
−
* Sanadhil notices he's all packed up
 
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[Alma] If nothing else we must determine whether there is any risk remaining from this city, and its hopefully dead cult.
 
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[Ilphere] The advancement of knowledge is of benefit to all...!
 
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[Ilphere] I think we are all ready to return to Diablotin now..]!
 
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[Ysabeau] It's of benefit to all only if all survive it and keep their freedom.
 
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[Seth] Yes, I'm done for now, although I may wish to return.
 
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[Ilphere] Brilliant!
 
−
* Sanadhil nods
 
−
[Sanadhil] well, we can certainly plan for it.
 
−
[Ysabeau] Yes, I think that's the best thing now. Learn all you can from this trip and go from there.
 
−
[Sanadhil] lets go then
 
 
* Ysabeau nods.
 
* Ysabeau nods.
−
* Ysabeau picks up her sack of bones.
+
[Ysabeau] You should go look at the artifacts since it has kindled your interest.
−
* Sanadhil will head back towards the curtain, then
+
[Symon] I'd best say my prayers each night :P
−
* Ilphere is practically skipping on the way back.
+
[Symon] I will! Did you see anything... about culture? Sculpture?  
−
* Dominik moves into rear guard again.
+
[Symon] I'd bet any instruments would have long since decayed...
−
[Narrator] You reach the thin point between the planes without difficulty.
+
* Ysabeau shakes her head.
−
[Narrator] After the strangeness of the Shadow plane, the Ethereal is almost a relief - misty and grey, but at least giving you glimpses of a home just out of reach.
+
[Ysabeau] Just the weird buildings themselves.
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[Narrator] You are able to relocate the narrow curtain in the alleyway without too much difficulty, and pass through it to Diablotin once more.
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[Ysabeau] The temple to Ophion was all carved to look like snake scales, though.
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[Ilphere] Oh... so bright!
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[Ysabeau] And inside there was an altar in a snake's gaping jaw.
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[Narrator] It is early evening as you emerge. The colours and noises seem jarring after your travels.
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[Ysabeau] The jaw closed if you pressed a plate in the floor, and the fangs were poisoned.
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* Ilphere blinks a little as she returns to her home plane.
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[Ysabeau] Not a deadly poison, at least not to elves. We believe they made sacrifices there.
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* Seth checks - has Nell come with me, and how is she dealing with this?
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[Symon] Like, live sacrifices?  
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* Sanadhil blinks his eyes to help readjust
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[Symon] Guess it's a good thing the city was deserted...
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[Narrator] The bird seems unsettled, but isn't freaking out, Seth.
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[Ysabeau] Probably live sacrifices, yes.
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* Alma winces.
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[Ysabeau] I'm glad it was deserted, but it did make it very eerie.
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[Ysabeau] Home sweet home!
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[Symon] Well, we should probably get some practice in before some one kicks us out :)
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[Alma] Diablotin is so noisy.
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* Ysabeau smiles, still a little distant but bows her head over the viol, positions the bow and plays a decent chord.
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* Ysabeau chirps.
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* Symon waits a bit before beginning to play along.
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[Sanadhil] it is a rather shocking change...
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* Ysabeau and Symon have a good jamming session. ;)
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[Ysabeau] And isn't it lovely?
 
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* Ysabeau pirouetted with her arms wide open.
 
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* Sanadhil looks up at the sky, searching out the earliest stars
 
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[Dominik] Just great.
 
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[Sanadhil] yes.
 
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[Sanadhil] we shodl head back to the society, i think.
 
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* Ysabeau nods.
 
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[Ysabeau] I'd like to drop off these nasty old things.
 
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[Ilphere] It is still early, we may be able to begin our work on the scroll...! :D
 
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[Sanadhil] return our borrowed gear, at the very least
 
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* Ilphere says to Sanadhil.
 
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* Sanadhil nods
 
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[Sanadhil] i would definitely be interested in that
 
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[Narrator] You return to the Antiquarian Society, still puzzling over your recent experiences. The hall is quiet at this hour of the day.
 
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* Ysabeau finds someone who likes studying old bones of humanoids, possibly from other planes.
 
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* Ysabeau also takes out the coins, counts them properly and documents the pictures on them by taking rubbings, before handing them over to someone who is keen on coins.
 
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[Alma] (There must be like, an artifactlibrarian.)
 
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[Ysabeau] (Probably Benalda)
 
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[Alma] The society may not have enough specialists to study all of this... we might have to contact the Castalia and the Church.
 
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[Ysabeau] Yes, but let's get them added to our library first since we did all the work of recovering them.
 
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[Sanadhil] Indeed.
 
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[Ysabeau] Then those who are interested can come here to study them or borrow them for study.
 
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* Alma logs the whistle, the robe clippings, the vial? and her notes.
 
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* Sanadhil wll assist with making sure everything is properly returned and such
 
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[Ilphere] (brb bio)
 
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[Narrator] (okay - I don't really have anything else here, so if you want to chat you can, or we can call it here)
 
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* Dominik doesnt wait for the boring task of logging and ensuring all ther "research" is accounted for and leaves without a word.
 
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[Alma] (I will eventually want to touch things, but I can do up a list.)
 
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[Narrator] That would be good - I'll write up a translation of the document that San can come up.
 
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[Narrator] with
 
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[Ysabeau] (I'd be keen to know what pictures are on the coins)
 
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[Sanadhil] (yay! i am totally buying shadar-kai next level @_@)
 
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[Ysabeau] (and eventually, what kind of skelly it was - Shadar-Kai or something else)
 
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* Alma will also try to speak with Vianca ASAP.
 
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* Ysabeau wonders if Medan Conquaine would be interested in the coins.
 
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* Ysabeau thinks Onec Girouard would definitely be interested in the coins. ^-^
 
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[Alma] (Essentially I am looking to ask Vianca to maybe talk to the RM about having the church come look at some of hte temple stuff.)
 
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* Guillame will catch up with Fern, then head home to make sure his family know that he's returned.
 
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* Ysabeau wonders if Navis Culpepper would like to look at the skeleton.
 
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* Ysabeau will see if any of those people are around, and if not, will go home to her sister and take a nice long bath.
 
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* Alma looks over the remains we brought with us.
 
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* Sanadhil translates the hell out of bthat scroll @_@
 
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* Guillame will try and catch up with San and Ilphere later to find out what the scroll had to say.
 

Revision as of 18:19, 29 October 2010

[Narrator] Altheo, things seem to be under control at the Boar when you get back - Marissa did a fine job managing the place while you were away, as you expected she would. [Narrator] When you've been back a few days, Julian stops by to visit you.

  • Altheo will meet with him in his office.
  • Ser_Julian looks tired, as though he hasn't been sleeping well, or perhaps at all.

[Ser_Julian] How's business? [Altheo] Better than yours it would seem.

  • Altheo goes to pour us both a drink.

[Ser_Julian] Things are difficult right now.

  • Ser_Julian accepts the drink gratefully.

[Altheo] How so? [Ser_Julian] On multiple fronts. [Altheo] Well, I'm keeping very busy, but nothing new has come up about the dragon affair. [Altheo] but tell me your troubles. [Altheo] I am a bartender after all.

  • Altheo smiles at his friend.

[Ser_Julian] The necklace... I think the Hush were the ones who stole it from the Society. I don't know whether they released the creature deliberately or accidentally, but either way, I'm reluctant to report these findings to anyone.

  • Altheo nods.

[Altheo] But do the Hush have any reason to release that thing? Unless they got taken over by somebody else. [Ser_Julian] I don't know as much about the Hush as I would like to, but from anything I've heard, they're splintering. [Ser_Julian] Just as the Warlord would like to take over the Spokesmen and bring them under her authority, she's trying the same thing with the Hush. [Altheo] That seems like fighting two tough battles on two very different fronts to me. [Ser_Julian] Some of its members are resisting the idea, certainly. [Ser_Julian] Did you know Ser Kaladon Escalera? [Altheo] I don't think so. [Ser_Julian] A Spokesman, of course, and a distant cousin of the Emperor. He apparently killed himself a few days ago. [Altheo] Apparently? [Ser_Julian] It's being very hushed up. Maybe the Imperial family just want to avoid the gossip, but... [Ser_Julian] I worry that he knew something. [Ser_Julian] And either took his life because of it, or was killed and made to look like a suicide. [Altheo] Do you think its the new Warlord behind all of it? Or was this something that was a long time coming? [Ser_Julian] I don't know. [Ser_Julian] That necklace... I can't shake the feeling that it all comes back to that, somehow, even though it seems crazy. [Altheo] I don't think it seems crazy at all. [Altheo] Its the linchpin that started all this.

  • Ser_Julian nods, takes a drink.

[Altheo] If we unravel that plot, we are bound to see the rest of the peices. [Ser_Julian] There's something else, as well.

  • Altheo sips his drink and waits for his friend ot continue.

[Ser_Julian] Sister Luisa, who runs the orphanage since Clea died, came to speak to me this morning. There was a break-in there a few nights ago. [Ser_Julian] Clea never threw anything out if she could help it, and I guess Luisa's much the same... there are records there going back decades. [Altheo] My records were stolen?

  • Ser_Julian nods.

[Altheo] was it part of a bundle? or just mine? [Ser_Julian] It was a mess, and it's hard to tell if others are missing or not. But.. I checked on yours, and couldn't find them anywhere.

  • Altheo nods.

[Altheo] What would those records say?

  • Ser_Julian takes a deep breath.

[Ser_Julian] I didn't want to have to tell you - you've made your own life, and I didn't want to interfere with that.

  • Altheo takes a long pull, and reachs for the bottle.

[Ser_Julian] Your mother's name was Genevieve... Genevieve Corriveau. [Ser_Julian] Tatiane's eldest daughter... she was wild, she ran around with boys, I don't know if she even knew who your father was. [Ser_Julian] Tatiane asked me to take care of you, to keep you safe from... that world. I don't know how well I managed, but I did what I could.

  • Altheo listens, drinking faster than usual.

[Altheo] So that girl that had the necklace in the first place...she was what my neice? [Ser_Julian] Ninon... your cousin. [Altheo] How do you know Tatiane Corriveau? [Ser_Julian] I've known her since we were young...

  • Ser_Julian says a bit evasively.

[Altheo] Is she still alive? [Ser_Julian] Oh, quite. [Altheo] Then why would she give me up to be protected, and leave Ninon to live as she does? [Ser_Julian] She's just about my age, but not as decrepit.

  • Altheo snirks at that.

[Altheo] And is my mother actually dead? [Ser_Julian] Ninon's father - and her mother, for that matter - were there to take care of her. [Ser_Julian] Yes, I'm sorry. She died having you - that much was true.

  • Altheo contemplates this...his eyes far away.

[Altheo] Whoever stole this...would they know I was a spokesman as well?

  • Ser_Julian nods grimly.

[Ser_Julian] When you left the orphanage, there would have been a note made that you were joining the Order. I suppose they wouldn't necessarily know if you were still a member, though. [Altheo] really? I hadn't realized the records were so firm. [Altheo] Well then... [Ser_Julian] You have several cousins... uncle, aunts... I don't know if you want to track them down, but it shouldn't be too hard... [Altheo] I'll need to think about that. [Altheo] But have you questioned Tatiane about the necklace?

  • Ser_Julian nods.

[Altheo] And what did she say? [Ser_Julian] She got it from my uncle. She was his mistress for a time...

  • Altheo laughs.

[Altheo] Well, for a moment there I thought she was YOUR mistress... I wasn't quite sure what to think of that. [Ser_Julian] She said that he probably got it as payment for a hit, but she may have been exaggerating.

  • Ser_Julian looks embarassed.

[Altheo] (SM, was she HIS mistress too?) [Altheo] (15, but I'm betting he has a crappy bluff) [Ser_Julian] (you think maybe)

  • Altheo is a bit surprised he is actually upset that his friend cheated on his wife. But hides it from him.

[Ser_Julian] It was before I was married... [Altheo] ah.

  • Altheo smiles.

[Ser_Julian] And before she was, for that matter. [Altheo] Youth is such an interesting time. [Ser_Julian] Heh. [Altheo] I think it was a hit.

  • Ser_Julian nods.

[Altheo] Sister Alma beleived the same thing. [Altheo] Is she really a Crime Lord now? [Ser_Julian] She took over much of my uncle's network when he died. [Altheo] I don't suppose she would help find out who broke into the orphanage. [Ser_Julian] Maybe she would. It concerns her, after all. [Ser_Julian] Do you want me to ask her? [Altheo] I would. [Ser_Julian] All right. [Ser_Julian] I'm sorry. [Altheo] There is a very slim chance it may have been a business rival...but I doubt it. There was one half-elf that was giving me problems a little while ago. [Altheo] Hey, your plan almost worked.

  • Ser_Julian chuckles at that.

[Altheo] I almost ended up respectable. [Ser_Julian] Would this half-elf know where you grew up? [Altheo] He is a pimp in the shambles. I doubt it, but I've never hidden that I grew up in an orphanage. [Altheo] He might have put in the effort to track it down, but I doubt it. [Altheo] Its probably somebody looking into me for a different reason.

  • Ser_Julian nods.

[Altheo] Could be the necklace investigation, could be the sex cult, coult be the shadow dimension thing....Like I said, I'm keeping busy.

  • Ser_Julian nods again.

[Ser_Julian] The Hush seem to have been targeting Ninon for some time. I'm concerned that they're broadening their interest in Tatiane's family. [Ser_Julian] Then again, Ninon's a special case. [Altheo] Why? [Ser_Julian] Her brother's in the Hush. I don't know what side, though. [Altheo] Ah. [Altheo] Well, I suspect it probably is the Hush. They have the resources to know I'm more than I pretend to be, and they are probably curious as to why.

  • Ser_Julian nods.

[Ser_Julian] That seems most likely to me as well. [Ser_Julian] It's their kind of tactic, too. [Altheo] So where do we stand with the Hush? As spokesmen I mean? [Ser_Julian] Officially? I think we pretend they don't exist whenever possible. [Ser_Julian] Unofficially, we co-operate with them if it doesn't interfere with our own principles. [Ser_Julian] And from my own personal point of view, I think they're a bunch of shifty bastards. [Altheo] I guess what I meant was. It looks like they got a major threat released from that necklace, but it also looks like we have a common problem with the Warlord. [Altheo] I'm assuming the Spokesmen and the Hush are both resisting the Warlords take over? [Ser_Julian] Well, at least some of the Hush, as far as I can tell. The Lord Marshall is, as you might expect, unhappy with the idea himself. [Altheo] I bet. [Altheo] I think its a bad idea to be sure. [Altheo] at least with the Spokesmen it is.

  • Ser_Julian nods.

[Ser_Julian] I don't know what will happen. But I felt I had to let you know what was going on, even if I don't fully understand it myself. [Altheo] Thank you. [Altheo] I appreciate it.

  • Altheo pours them both a drink.

[Altheo] So what was Sir Alcina's little secret in the end? [Altheo] I supose she isn't my half sister or something? [Ser_Julian] No, no.

  • Ser_Julian chuckles.

[Ser_Julian] She's been spying on the Revelators for the Order for some time. [Ser_Julian] Long enough that I think she's started to believe their philosophy herself. [Altheo] I do think she ratted us out to Nestor. [Altheo] But what happened after we left your place? [Ser_Julian] Did you know Nestor Dryden was a priest? [Altheo] No, I didn't. [Altheo] Of what order? [Ser_Julian] I don't think he makes it publically known. Order of the Owl, though he's Houseless. [Ser_Julian] So I think his allegiance is... open to question, at least. [Ser_Julian] Alcina told me that he was a priest, I checked it out, and she's right, at least on paper. As long as she's ratting on both sides, I'll keep her around ;) [Altheo] Well, good to know. [Altheo] :)

  • Ser_Julian finishes up his drink.

[Ser_Julian] I should get on my way. I'll be sure and contact you if I find out anything more. [Altheo] Thank you. [Ser_Julian] Be careful, Altheo. [Altheo] And let my grandmother know, she is always welcome at the Boar.

  • Ser_Julian smiles.

[Ser_Julian] I'll be sure to mention it. [Altheo] I picked the wrong professions for that. [Altheo] But I'll do my best. [Altheo] You too, I'd hate to lose you.

  • Ser_Julian nods.
  • Ser_Julian bids you farewell, then, and departs.

[Altheo] Your still the closest family I have. [Altheo] ;)

  • Ser_Julian smiles affectionately at that.


Solos

  • Sanadhil will be at the society making a clean transcription of the scroll

[Ilphere] Ah! Sanadhil! There you are...! :)

  • Sanadhil looks up

[Sanadhil] good afternoon, Ilphère [Ilphere] I have made an interesting discovery...!

  • Sanadhil sprinkles some sand over the part he's just finished

[Sanadhil] oh? [Ilphere] Well! My parents have been having the garden tidied up and I was walking by the fountain with Menard... The one where Dominik found me when I had that peculiar dream...? [Ilphere] It is a memorial to Emperor Ruchard Rademacher...! It bears his likeness. [Sanadhil] so he is the one from your dream then? [Sanadhil] I can't recall whether he was one of the ones you'd picked out from the portrait books [Ilphere] Yes... He is the one who disappeared in the night in 1724. [Ilphere] I believe he must be the one I saw...! [Sanadhil] interesting - it would make sense. [Sanadhil] is there any way of pursuing it, do you think? [Ilphere] Apparently there is another memorial to RUchard inside the palace... I may* be able to gain access to it, and it may yield more clues...! [Ilphere] Certainly I believe he is tied in somehow with the visions Theron and I have experienced...

  • Sanadhil nods

[Sanadhil] that would also be sensible.... I wonder if this connection started with him, or if he is only another example of it [Ilphere] I definitely want to find the answer to that... I do not wish to disappear from my bed in the night...! [Sanadhil] that would be troubling... At least we'd have a few more clues to go on, so far as tracking you down. [Ilphere] I'm sure it will not come to that, though...! :) [Sanadhil] indeed... [Sanadhil] So, what do you make of the sleeping Tal-antar? [Ilphere] I find it strange that we should have found her before any of her own descendants... [Sanadhil] I wonder why... I wish I could speak to some living Shadar-kai agin...


  • Sanadhil will come find you early, at school
  • Ilphere is in the stacks.
  • Sanadhil hunts you down - he is well groomed and so forth and seems quite animated, but there are telling signs that indicate he hasn't slept

[Sanadhil] There you are!

  • Sanadhil says, quiet but excited

[Sanadhil] She came back. [Ilphere] Oh, ... oh! [Ilphere] Last night...?!

  • Sanadhil nods

[Ilphere] What happened?! [Sanadhil] I asked her a little more.... i told her of the city, but not of the sleeping queen [Sanadhil] they think it is cursed [Ilphere] Cursed? Why...? [Ilphere] BEcause of what happened to the people there...? [Sanadhil] yes [Sanadhil] I don't know if they have the full story [Sanadhil] I gave her a copy of the scroll though.... [Ilphere] So that would be why no one has come looking for her...? [Sanadhil] I didn't tell her about the sleeping queen [Sanadhil] however they do have more books that talk about the fall of the city [Sanadhil] possibly [Sanadhil] they have sent expeditions there [Ilphere] Well she or someone else is bound to figure it out from that scroll, I would think...! [Sanadhil] not everyone has returned [Ilphere] Ah, I see... [Sanadhil] I don't know if Dozilva has all the details [Ilphere] I wonder if this could be a chance to establish relations between our two peoples...! [Sanadhil] possibly... they seem rather Xenophobic. [Sanadhil] As mlle L'Averti said, it id dangerous to venture there [Sanadhil] However. [Ilphere] However...? [Sanadhil] I think I must, if miss l'Averti will agree. [Ilphere] What do you plan...?

  • Ilphere narrows her eyes...

[Sanadhil] if I can get back to the library and find Dozilva there, she's said she'll talk to me more. she might be able to bshow me these other texts! And think of what else there is to learn... [Ilphere] How fortunate you are to have made such a contact...

  • Ilphere tries to hide her disappointment, feeling that she is about to be left behind in this venture... :(
  • Sanadhil is apparently too excited to be perceptive today

[Sanadhil] I'll manage it somehow.... [Sanadhil] but there are a lot of other bthings I'd like to work out first, if we can [Ilphere] Oh...? [Sanadhil] I still wish i knew more about vrag [Sanadhil] they consider him a lost god [Ilphere] HE was imprisoned in the Arch... [Sanadhil] though apparently there are also Shadar'kai who seek to bring him back to power [Sanadhil] They know he's been released [Sanadhil] she told me as much the first time we met [Ilphere] Is it general knowledge? [Sanadhil] I don't know. [Sanadhil] Names, and the meaning of names, are very important to the Shadar-kai. they're meant to be very descriptive and precise, I think. Dozilva's name, and her place at the library, implies that she might not be a good one to judge by on that account [Ilphere] WHat do you mean? what does her name signify...? [Sanadhil] Walker-in-the-forgotten-ways [Ilphere] Ah, I see... [Sanadhil] I'm still amazed she came at all [Sanadhil] but apparently she takes her promises seriously

  • Ilphere nods...

[Sanadhil] I thought you would be excited, in any case! [Sanadhil] what do you think should be done about the sleeping queen? [Ilphere] Well... [Ilphere] Perhaps she could be returned to her people... it might foster a better relationship... [Sanadhil] that's what i was thinking [Ilphere] I would very much like to be a part of that... [Sanadhil] I want to find out more about what they woudl do with her [Sanadhil] if they consider her cursed still....

  • Sanadhil nods
  • Ilphere asks, vaguely hopeful...

[Sanadhil] of course

  • Sanadhil smiles

[Sanadhil] I certainly can't manage it all alone... [Sanadhil] And I have no idea what to expect rom the rest of the society [Sanadhil] We should speak to Mlle L'Averti again [Sanadhil] she may know more [Ilphere] Yes, some of them seem frightfully conservative, moreso than I had expected...! [Sanadhil] about how she might be received by her own people, i mean

  • Sanadhil nods

[Sanadhil] this war, or whatever, was over a thousand years ago, and the god she worshipped is clearly not en vogue now... [Sanadhil] Your people doens't seem to have any lasting quarrel with the Shadar-kai, and indeed seem to have quite forgotten about them [Sanadhil] unless it seems like they might renew their interest in the subjugation of humanity *now*....

  • Sanadhil pauses, and files away another thought

[Ilphere] Well, that would be prudent to find out, along with how they might receive her, yes! [Sanadhil] well, should we contact her then? [Ilphere] They don't *seem* particularly interested though, so I can't imagine one person, powerful though she might be, might convince them it's worth another go... [Ilphere] Yes, definitely...! [Sanadhil] well, I'll see about setting up a meeting then - though it might be best to schedule around your availability [Sanadhil] the rest of us aren't planning an imperial wedding :) [Ilphere] Alright... I am free (times) as far as I know...! [Sanadhil] i'll work out something and let you know as soon as possible, then [Ilphere] Wonderful! :)


  • Ysabeau is in a hall on campus where we usually practice, then...? Unless we practice at like, your house or something. ;)
  • Ysabeau 's house is likely not big enough to accomodate several musicians plus gear.
  • Symon will have met you on campus after one of your classes, and have brought another instrument.
  • Ysabeau smiles to see him.

[Symon] (There'd be more learning aids in a classroom too :P) [Ysabeau] Hi Symon! [Symon] Hi Ysa :) How was your day? [Ysabeau] It was pretty good. I chatted with some Society members about the things we brought back from the Shadow-city. [Ysabeau] How was yours?

  • Symon rolls his eyes.

[Ysabeau] Not good? [Symon] Evening with the family. All my father talks about is business. [Symon] It's boring, that's all. [Ysabeau] Ah well, business is what keeps you up to your neck in instruments to play. ^-^ [Symon] Increasing the tonnage of steam engines, blah blah blah. [Symon] Yeah, true...

  • Symon looks a little sheepish.

[Symon] I guess sometimes it's the quiet implication that perhaps my instruments aren't as ... productive... [Ysabeau] Yet.

  • Ysabeau winks.

[Symon] :) [Ysabeau] We seem to get a few more gigs with every passing month. [Symon] Well, best case scenario is getting a patron as wealthy as my father, not actually being as wealthy... but that's good enough for me :)

  • Ysabeau nods.

[Symon] Speaking of gigs... I hear your friend is betrothed. Imagine that! Acquainted with the fiancée of the Prince Imperial! [Ysabeau] My goal is being able to afford to buy my own house and live comfortably... [Ysabeau] Oh, yes, Ilphere.

  • Ysabeau smiles.

[Ysabeau] The best thing is that they really care for each other. [Symon] Really? A marriage at /that/ level and they like each other?

  • Ysabeau nods.

[Ysabeau] I know... a rarity. [Symon] Yeah, I guess miracles do happen :) [Ysabeau] But happily it has worked out that way for them. [Symon] Do you think they need a quartet? :) [Ysabeau] Well, I am not sure how much of the decisions they get to make since I understand it's to be a triple wedding. [Ysabeau] Emperor, prince and princess imperial married off all at once. [Symon] That's a little strange, don't you think? If the average person did that, you might think they were country bumpkins. [Ysabeau] Well, maybe the Emperor has other plans and needs to get the marriages all done at once instead of dragging them out. [Ysabeau] I don't pretend to understand what goes on his Imperial Majesty's mind. [Symon] It could be another good opportunity for us though, to be at both of the big Imperial events. We could make a habit of it :) [Ysabeau] Yes, don't worry - the thought hadn't escaped me. [Ysabeau] I do try to drop hints when the moment seems right. :) [Ysabeau] But Ilph has a LOT on her mind, as you can imagine. [Symon] Good point, you run the risk of seeming crass, I suppose.

  • Ysabeau nods.

[Ysabeau] I think we did well at the Emperor's ball; that's in our favour. [Symon] Perhaps, since the affair is once again so big, we might just get in touch with the Imperial staff from last time? [Ysabeau] I hope the master of ceremonies, who is probably the REAL power behind the wedding and its related festivities, will have remembered us. :) [Ysabeau] I suspect there'll be auditions again, Symon - we'll just have to keep our ears open and be there. [Ysabeau] Since we played at the last event, they ought to let us in the gates for auditions, at least. :)

  • Ysabeau plucks some strings and fiddles with tuning keys until the tone meets her approval.

[Symon] So, you really found another world? Down an alley? [Ysabeau] I don't know if I'd call it another world so much as another layer of this world, so much, maybe. And perhaps even this world is merely a layer also reflecting another place. [Ysabeau] The city through the alley is a mirror image of our own Diablotin, only with alien architecture and alien gods.

  • Symon sits down, viol in hand.

[Ysabeau] There's a river right where our Ousel is, though it's all dried up. And where our palace is on the island, they had a temple to Ophion (or Vrag as he was known to them, I believe), shaped like a snake. [Symon] It's like a fantasy tale.

  • Ysabeau nods.

[Ysabeau] Complete with tragedy and an ensorcelled queen.

  • Ysabeau laughs.

[Ysabeau] Seth was asking me why I wasn't busily composing a ballad about our trip there, while we were waiting for the rest. [Symon] I know they do a lot of complex research at the Castalia, but... still... [Symon] A portal to another world right in the middle of the city. [Symon] And you went! [Ysabeau] Now that Master Orecalo has translated the scroll we found there, I think I've got a ballad. [Symon] And brought stuff back!

  • Ysabeau nods.

[Ysabeau] It's not all air and fluffiness, though, Symon. [Symon] You said it's at the society?

  • Ysabeau nods.

[Ysabeau] That city is dead and full of flitting memories of horrible things that happened. [Ysabeau] And those people who built it, invaded our world, and enslaved our people. [Ysabeau] The founders of our city won it back from them. Then, later, someone from our world started killing off their people horribly and painfully. [Symon] Well, I never said I didn't think it was creepy... but it's still incredible. [Ysabeau] They're all dead now. [Symon] I'm disappointed I didn't go to Mister Orecalo's presentation now :/ [Ysabeau] Well, I suspect this is only the first of many excursions there, so if you want to go, you ought to be able to in the future. [Symon] Well, it didn't really seem like my sortof thing then... [Symon] Perhaps later, if you go back to look for inspiration, I might come too. [Symon] I don't see much point in visiting such a dark place otherwise... if it gets dangerous, I'm not about to save my skin with the viol :P [Ysabeau] I don't know that I want to go back. I am fond of my world of light and colour. But I may go back if others go. [Symon] I think the city needs more light and warmth right now than it does gloom, so we might be better looking for inspiration here :) [Ysabeau] They had a palace where our Castalia is, and that's where their queen lies, stopped. [Symon] Not that I don't see the beauty of sad music... [Symon] Stopped? Like, petrified? [Ysabeau] No... when the woman from our world unleashed something that turned their people into the walking dead, the elite classes chose to die by their own hands rather than face such a death. But they cast a spell on this one woman so that she's frozen in a moment of time for eternity. [Symon] And she's just ... in the tower, alone?

  • Ysabeau nods.

[Ysabeau] Alone with the corpses of her retainers. [Symon] Are they all dead except for her? You would expect ... that there would be looters if nothing else. [Ysabeau] That's one of the mysteries of the place. [Ysabeau] We did find one skeleton of elvish descent in the temple, who had coins from here and Cozovode, as well as coins of others. [Ysabeau] I think the other coins might be from that plane. But I don't know where he got all the coins or anything. Maybe he was a looter. [Ysabeau] There were shadow creatures there that attacked us. [Ysabeau] We were able to fight them off, but maybe he wasn't so lucky. [Symon] I'll have to take a look at everything you brought back. [Ysabeau] The Aveyrone coins he had were all from 1740 or thereabouts. [Ysabeau] Which was the emperor after Ruchard Rademacher disappeared...

  • Ysabeau me muses allowed.

[Symon] Well unless you think Emperor Ruchard was an elf, it's probably not him :P

  • Ysabeau smiles.

[Ysabeau] No, I doubt he was. But maybe someone had an idea where the emperor might have disappeared to. Or it could all just be a big coincidence. [Symon] Well who knows what's gotten lost between the worlds in the past centuries, if a ... hole like that's been here all along!

  • Ysabeau nods.

[Ysabeau] You should go look at the artifacts since it has kindled your interest. [Symon] I'd best say my prayers each night :P [Symon] I will! Did you see anything... about culture? Sculpture? [Symon] I'd bet any instruments would have long since decayed...

  • Ysabeau shakes her head.

[Ysabeau] Just the weird buildings themselves. [Ysabeau] The temple to Ophion was all carved to look like snake scales, though. [Ysabeau] And inside there was an altar in a snake's gaping jaw. [Ysabeau] The jaw closed if you pressed a plate in the floor, and the fangs were poisoned. [Ysabeau] Not a deadly poison, at least not to elves. We believe they made sacrifices there. [Symon] Like, live sacrifices? [Symon] Guess it's a good thing the city was deserted... [Ysabeau] Probably live sacrifices, yes. [Ysabeau] I'm glad it was deserted, but it did make it very eerie. [Symon] Well, we should probably get some practice in before some one kicks us out :)

  • Ysabeau smiles, still a little distant but bows her head over the viol, positions the bow and plays a decent chord.
  • Symon waits a bit before beginning to play along.
  • Ysabeau and Symon have a good jamming session. ;)
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