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<blockquote data-quote="Cerebral Paladin" data-source="post: 1449571" data-attributes="member: 3448"><p>After we had each stated our views as how best to deal with the problem of Karl, we agreed to try a few things to gather information before reporting back to the rest of the Covenant. As the matter did not concern my House, I followed my traditional approach of deferring to my Gifted sodales. We first explored the remainder of the valley, spending a fortnight on the task. Karl bounded along watching us, but took no actions to interfere. Celeste informed the rest of us that Karl occupied the only area were the valley's aura reached its strongest point, but that another area, near where the river bed rises more rapidly up the valley, had more concentrated magic than the rest of the valley. [The other area has a magical aura of 4.] Thus, while we could make do elsewhere in the valley, Karl has established his sanctum at the place where we would most want to build our own covenant.</p><p></p><p>After assuring Celeste that he did not intend to declare Wizards' War on Karl, Tsaran proceeded up to speak with Karl again. He returned after only an hour or so of conversation, somewhat frustrated by the results. To the group as a whole, he said only that Karl was less receptive of the suggestion of equal membership than he would have hoped, but that Karl did seem somewhat interested in negotiation. Tsaran expressed his hope that we could retain Karl, with his firm resolve, as an ally, perhaps through offering the option of allowing him to read some of our libri questiona.</p><p></p><p>At my request, Tsaran provided a fuller account of the meeting for my history of the Covenant. He approached openly, as he planned, with some of his cheese and bread. I can, incidentally, vouch for the quality of the Volakula cheeses as one who has had the opportunity to sample many cheeses from many regions over the course of my travels. Karl gruffly called out to Tsaran, asking our Tremere sodalis why he insisted on intruding on his sanctum once more. Tsaran presented the bread and cheese he brought and stated that he wished to sup with Karl and have a friendly discussion.</p><p></p><p>Karl's response was quite offensive: he cast a spontaneous spell to determine if the food had been poisoned, as if Tsaran would be so low as to do such a thing. Satisfied by the results of his spell, he grudgingly agreed to eat with Tsaran, although he brought some goat cheese of his own herd on the grounds that no cheese from beyond the valley could measure up, and that in any event he had never heard of Volakula cheese.</p><p></p><p>They ate, with Karl rather ravenously gnawing away at huge chunks of bread and slabs of cheese, with saliva and crumbs dripping down his long, straggling beard. Tsaran ate at a more measured pace, using Karl's distraction to get out his statements of his experiences in a monarchical covenant to attempt to persuade the Bjornaer magus. At length, Karl finally replied. He first argued that if our covenant accepted his rule, we would together be strong enough to maintain the covenant's position within the valley against any interlopers, thus ensuring that he would not need to worry about being displaced. At the same time, he could not consider joining a covenant where he would not remain his own master. While he might be forced to move on to some other valley at some point, he would not accept the yoke of any, magus or vulgar-- not even to the point of joining as an equal into a fellowship that could give him instructions. He thus declined Tsaran's offer to sponsor him into the covenant, although not in a way calculated to give offense.</p><p></p><p>Their business at a close, they finished the meal together. Karl finally expressed a grudging opinion that the Volakula cheesemakers understood the craft, although the quantity of cheese he had consumed provided rather higher praise. Almost absentmindedly, Karl expressed his hope that Tsaran would continue their interactions with equal courtesy even if our covenant insisted on pressing our claims. Tsaran assured Karl that he would, refraining from mentioning Karl's discourtesy in presuming that a fellow magus would seek to poison him.</p><p></p><p>When Tsaran reported his results, Brigitta expressed her lack of surprise and reiterated her belief that we should simply gather up some vis and drive him forth through certamen. After some further discussion, we agreed that we should travel back to Lemannus so that our sodales could participate in the decisionmaking. In any event, if we were to either offer the use of libri, or threaten certamen with raw vis, we would need to gather those resources from our stores at Lemannus.</p><p></p><p>The trip back to Lemannus was uneventful. It took some 15 days to travel back, partly because Brigitta again insisted that we travel over land instead of taking a boat across Lake Geneva. Upon arriving, we interrupted our sodales' copying efforts to ask their opinions, although hopefully we shall resolve a course of action sufficiently quickly that we do not compromise their copying efforts for the season.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Cerebral Paladin, post: 1449571, member: 3448"] After we had each stated our views as how best to deal with the problem of Karl, we agreed to try a few things to gather information before reporting back to the rest of the Covenant. As the matter did not concern my House, I followed my traditional approach of deferring to my Gifted sodales. We first explored the remainder of the valley, spending a fortnight on the task. Karl bounded along watching us, but took no actions to interfere. Celeste informed the rest of us that Karl occupied the only area were the valley's aura reached its strongest point, but that another area, near where the river bed rises more rapidly up the valley, had more concentrated magic than the rest of the valley. [The other area has a magical aura of 4.] Thus, while we could make do elsewhere in the valley, Karl has established his sanctum at the place where we would most want to build our own covenant. After assuring Celeste that he did not intend to declare Wizards' War on Karl, Tsaran proceeded up to speak with Karl again. He returned after only an hour or so of conversation, somewhat frustrated by the results. To the group as a whole, he said only that Karl was less receptive of the suggestion of equal membership than he would have hoped, but that Karl did seem somewhat interested in negotiation. Tsaran expressed his hope that we could retain Karl, with his firm resolve, as an ally, perhaps through offering the option of allowing him to read some of our libri questiona. At my request, Tsaran provided a fuller account of the meeting for my history of the Covenant. He approached openly, as he planned, with some of his cheese and bread. I can, incidentally, vouch for the quality of the Volakula cheeses as one who has had the opportunity to sample many cheeses from many regions over the course of my travels. Karl gruffly called out to Tsaran, asking our Tremere sodalis why he insisted on intruding on his sanctum once more. Tsaran presented the bread and cheese he brought and stated that he wished to sup with Karl and have a friendly discussion. Karl's response was quite offensive: he cast a spontaneous spell to determine if the food had been poisoned, as if Tsaran would be so low as to do such a thing. Satisfied by the results of his spell, he grudgingly agreed to eat with Tsaran, although he brought some goat cheese of his own herd on the grounds that no cheese from beyond the valley could measure up, and that in any event he had never heard of Volakula cheese. They ate, with Karl rather ravenously gnawing away at huge chunks of bread and slabs of cheese, with saliva and crumbs dripping down his long, straggling beard. Tsaran ate at a more measured pace, using Karl's distraction to get out his statements of his experiences in a monarchical covenant to attempt to persuade the Bjornaer magus. At length, Karl finally replied. He first argued that if our covenant accepted his rule, we would together be strong enough to maintain the covenant's position within the valley against any interlopers, thus ensuring that he would not need to worry about being displaced. At the same time, he could not consider joining a covenant where he would not remain his own master. While he might be forced to move on to some other valley at some point, he would not accept the yoke of any, magus or vulgar-- not even to the point of joining as an equal into a fellowship that could give him instructions. He thus declined Tsaran's offer to sponsor him into the covenant, although not in a way calculated to give offense. Their business at a close, they finished the meal together. Karl finally expressed a grudging opinion that the Volakula cheesemakers understood the craft, although the quantity of cheese he had consumed provided rather higher praise. Almost absentmindedly, Karl expressed his hope that Tsaran would continue their interactions with equal courtesy even if our covenant insisted on pressing our claims. Tsaran assured Karl that he would, refraining from mentioning Karl's discourtesy in presuming that a fellow magus would seek to poison him. When Tsaran reported his results, Brigitta expressed her lack of surprise and reiterated her belief that we should simply gather up some vis and drive him forth through certamen. After some further discussion, we agreed that we should travel back to Lemannus so that our sodales could participate in the decisionmaking. In any event, if we were to either offer the use of libri, or threaten certamen with raw vis, we would need to gather those resources from our stores at Lemannus. The trip back to Lemannus was uneventful. It took some 15 days to travel back, partly because Brigitta again insisted that we travel over land instead of taking a boat across Lake Geneva. Upon arriving, we interrupted our sodales' copying efforts to ask their opinions, although hopefully we shall resolve a course of action sufficiently quickly that we do not compromise their copying efforts for the season. [/QUOTE]
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