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<blockquote data-quote="Cafu" data-source="post: 6569621" data-attributes="member: 6692807"><p>The next morning, we knew things were going to be hectic. Daisy had woken up quite regularly during the night and so of course, had Eleanor. Her own baby had also been brought to her; it was a boy, a little older than Daisy as I judged these things, and one who could also be fed mashed food. His name was Jack.</p><p></p><p>Once I had woken up, I stopped paying that much attention to what was going on as I was studying my spells. I had a lot to do. First, I looked at Freedom’s dagger with magical perception. It was an extremely powerful weapon with a magnitude of magic that I had never encountered before. </p><p></p><p>Once I deduced its abilities, I explained these to the others; they included an incredibly powerful magic to aid its ability to hit and penetrate armour; it also affected incorporeal beings; and finally it was capable of delivering a devastatingly powerful, destructive spell through its blade once a day. </p><p></p><p>John’s eyes had lit up once I related this to the others: </p><p></p><p>“It’s worth a fortune.”</p><p></p><p>Gloomily, I replied: </p><p></p><p>“Yes, it is, but it’ll take weeks if not months to find someone who will give us its true value. At the moment, we don’t know anyone who has that sort of wealth with the possible exception of King Steppengaard; and you know what’ll happen if we approach him.”</p><p></p><p>John frowned: </p><p></p><p>“What?”</p><p></p><p>Still gloomy, I continued: </p><p></p><p>“Oh, it’ll take a couple of days before we can get an appointment and then when he does see us, he’ll want to have a feast, an audience, a private audience, a session with his advisors, a strategic session and a diplomatic “request” to go somewhere or do something; in other words, it’ll be a week if not more before we can leave. I don’t think we’ll have the time to go through all that.”</p><p></p><p>Felix, in the meantime, had conjured up his magical breakfast and the phantom servants were beginning to serve us as we were having this conversation. Curiously, I saw that Felix’s spell could adjust itself to babies: to Eleanor’s wide eyed look, her son Jack had his own little magical high chair and in fact a servant specifically dedicated to feeding him Felix’s magical feast. Jack seemed to like it, judging by his enthusiastic gurgling and the way his mouth opened. However, as was the way with babies, a great deal of the food went everywhere but his mouth. The phantom feeder seemed to have that well in hand; it helped that the food disappeared if it wasn’t consumed. I had never seen that before; however, I don’t remember having tried this spell on babies before; it made for an interesting experiment. Eleanor herself had already fed Daisy and was looking at the magic with a mixture of awe and gratitude. </p><p></p><p>Turning to Felix, she asked: </p><p></p><p>“Can you do lunch like this?”</p><p></p><p>The priest stopped speaking to Longhelim and replied: </p><p></p><p>“I won’t need to; this will last us all day; and your Jack as well.”</p><p></p><p>I think Felix gained a true admirer that day.</p><p></p><p>Daisy herself was looking at everything curiously with her huge, gold eyes. </p><p></p><p>Just then, a figure approached. Eleanor stiffened; although it was difficult to see the figure’s face, his Ragesian uniform was unmistakable. General Danava took off his cowl as soon as he reached us and spoke urgently. </p><p></p><p>“Gentlemen…..”</p><p></p><p>Then he glanced at Eleanor and amended his greeting: </p><p></p><p>“Ladies and gentlemen……Leska is several steps ahead of you yet again…….”</p><p></p><p>Felix held up his hand, halting Danava’s conversation, and said: </p><p></p><p>“Whatever it is that Leska has done now, it can wait; it can wait until we finish our breakfast and then I will perform a long and complicated ritual on Victor; once he is back with us you can tell us how Leska has outwitted us yet again.” </p><p></p><p>The rest of the breakfast was conducted in relative silence insofar as silences could be possible with a rumbuctious child and a very young baby in the mix. They were not really subject to the tension and moods of adults. </p><p></p><p>Despite the fact that I was trying to calculate how that powerful spell had been crafted onto Freedom’s dagger and also trying to work out if there was a way of locating Etinifi so we could ask him where the Aquiline Heart was, even I was aware of the venomous looks Eleanor was shooting the general; understandable I suppose, considering that he was in command of the army which had dropped a wall on top of her husband, made her a very young widow and her Jack fatherless. </p><p></p><p>It was also becoming obvious even to me that the General was losing patience; Longhelim and the others ate slowly and carefully and Eleanor soon did the same as she obviously realised that this was irritating the general more than any looks she was shooting at him. </p><p></p><p>I was sure that there was probably far more going on under the surface but I had never been any good at reading this kind of social subterfuge and left them to it, going back to my examination of the dagger. </p><p></p><p>Finally, breakfast was over and Eleanor took the children, excusing herself. Felix then laid out Victor’s corpse, took out various diamonds we had and finally performed the ritual. I have already described it previously so I will not go into details again but suffice to say that Danava was impressed. </p><p></p><p>Victor opened his eyes and looked at the others. His eyes seemed to question Felix who only nodded. The warrior closed his eyes briefly then glanced around him, before focusing on Danava. He didn’t say anything for some time but then looked around; it was difficult to tell but I assumed he recognised our location. Then he rose and sat on one of the benches and looked at Danava again, his face shuttered. </p><p></p><p>Longhelim spoke at this point: </p><p></p><p>“Welcome back, Victor. We will tell you what happened to us in a moment and will also make sure you meet Eleanor, Daisy and Jack. In the meantime, General Danava has come to tell us about Leska’s latest move. </p><p></p><p>Please proceed general.”</p><p></p><p>Danava stood up and spoke: </p><p></p><p>“Leska has made an alliance with the archmage Pilus of the Monastery of the Two Winds. As we speak, he flies his gigantic airship towards Seaquen at her behest. Despite the risks, she has given him access to the skies over her armies. </p><p></p><p>Of course, I cannot act against my sovereign but I think Leska has gone too far this time. She has let her hatred of the Lyceum overwhelm her strategic sense. That ship is capable of unimaginable destruction. The archmage has already proved capable of being treacherous once. </p><p></p><p>And to complicate matters further, the Khagan Onamdammin has embarked onto the ship with his army and accompanies the archmage on his ship, dreaming of stretching the borders of Ostaliner to the Eastern Sea.”</p><p></p><p>He stopped speaking; we all sat digesting the news. It could hardly have come at a worst time. Slowly, I asked: </p><p></p><p>“Has anyone been able to find out how long we have been gone?”</p><p></p><p>John replied: </p><p></p><p>“A day.”</p><p></p><p>I continued: </p><p></p><p>“So, the Resistance army and the elves have probably not even met the Ragesian army in Northern Shahalesti; and if the Resistance force withdraws then the Shahalesti will call them oathbreakers; that’s not going to be promising for any future negotiation.”</p><p></p><p>Suddenly our thoughts were interrupted by a figure rushing in. A very wet man stopped before us and began talking very quickly: </p><p></p><p>“I bring news from Deputy Headmaster Gohanach; he and his diviners have seen a huge ship flying towards the Lyceum; we fear it is with ill intent. They have also discovered a plot is already in motion under the city. </p><p></p><p>They have discovered a priest wearing mask and white robes with several followers under the sunken prison in the ruined city. He begs your aid for the Lyceum and Seaquen.”</p><p></p><p>General Danava interrupted at this point: </p><p></p><p>“Gentlemen, I am only a military man, but I recognize a strategic trap when I see one. Leska has played her pieces with consummate skill and will carry on doing so. If you continue this pointless resistance, then it will only cause needless bloodshed. Her resources are endless. </p><p></p><p>Longhelim stood up: </p><p></p><p>“General, we thank you for your information and your advice. You did not need to tell us and we are grateful. Would you please excuse us now? We need to make some decisions.”</p><p></p><p>With that, he stood and stopped speaking, obviously waiting for the Ragesian to leave; when the general did so, the paladin turned to the messenger and said: </p><p></p><p>“Again, we thank you. Please go and get yourself something to eat. We may need your assistance later.” </p><p></p><p>The messenger stood up and also left. </p><p></p><p>As soon as he did, Longhelim turned to all of us: </p><p></p><p>“So, how do we handle this? Does anyone have any thoughts? John, Faden, Felix, Victor, Drudge?”</p><p></p><p>Victor spoke up at this point:</p><p></p><p>“Well, there are two armies still at Seaquen; remember when we returned from Castle Korstull? There was an army from Sindar and an army from Dassen there. The expeditionary force with the elves only numbers around three thousand men; there is a substantial military presence still around the city. However, that will count for nothing if the ship can destroy them from above. We gained some ideas of its abilities when it was supporting us against Kreven.”</p><p></p><p>I was frowning: </p><p></p><p>“The one thing that Danava did get right is that Leska is several moves ahead of us. What has she offered Pilus? Why did he join her now and why the Lyceum? The monks know we are connected with to the mages there and we promised them that we would destroy the Torch once we stopped using it. I am finding it difficult to understand why he chose to commit treachery now. What has changed? </p><p></p><p>Simultaneously, what is her alliance with the Khagan? Surely he must know that he is just a country waiting to be conquered. Is he really that confident that he can resist the Ragesian Legions once Dassen and Sindaire are part of the Empire?</p><p></p><p>Finally, without Gate Pass under her control, how is she supplying the army in Northern Shahalesti? How did she know to strike right now? Is she actually using Danava’s army just to keep us pinned here? As usual, we are aware of only a tiny part of the whole picture. Yet, despite these questions and our relative ignorance, the incontrovertible facts are that these events are in place and she must have been planning them for months, if not much longer. </p><p></p><p>Oh, and that ship; I mean, how big is the Ostaliner army? More importantly, just how big is the ship? I suspect that it is some sort of biomancy construct; do you remember we found all those biomancy experiments near the Monastery of the Two Winds. We didn’t enquiry too closely about that because we were only passing through and we needed their help but I suspect that Pilus had a lot to do with that.”</p><p></p><p>Suddenly, a further thought came to me, one I dredged up from out last meeting with the two leaders of the Monastery of the Two Winds, when they helped us recover the clues that led to our acquisition of the Torch.</p><p></p><p>“As for the masked priest dressed in white under the city? That’s probably Longinus, the brother; do you remember when we met them? Pilus was dressed in red with a robe decorated with dragons and we thought it was something to do with fire? Longinus was dressed in white and had feathers all over his robe. </p><p></p><p>The question is whether he is for or against his brother. We should probably go over there and speak with him to find out; wait, I just remembered, that teleport trap is under the prison as well so we need to be careful of that.”</p><p></p><p>Longhelim was also thinking: </p><p></p><p>“So, we need to do the following things in order: </p><p></p><p>Find out just what sort of manpower there is around Seaquen; find out who the masked priest below the city is and what are his intentions; find out if Simeon has been informed about the ship. Then try to get a plan together as to how to deal with this blasted ship…….”</p><p></p><p>At this point, Rantle came running in: </p><p></p><p>“You’re back! Where have you been? I’ve just heard some news about Seaquen……. I see you have already heard.”</p><p></p><p>Longhelim turned to him: </p><p></p><p>“Yes, we heard; we are just debating what our next move is going to be. There is an army of sorts in Seaquen; unfortunately, we have no idea as to its command or quality; there is a leadership structure in the Lyceum; a deputy head named Gohanach is in charge; we have not had the pleasure of meeting the gentleman. We have to assume that he is magically in touch with Simeon.”</p><p></p><p>John shook his head: </p><p></p><p>“Let’s not assume that; he wouldn’t have sent a physical messenger to us if he could do that; he would have talked to us magically.”</p><p></p><p>I retorted: </p><p></p><p>“Yes, but we don’t know him and he doesn’t know us; that magic requires some sort of knowledge of the recipient; but you’re right. We should not assume that this individual can get in touch with Simeon magically. We will need to go to Seaquen ourselves.”</p><p></p><p>Rantle frowned: </p><p></p><p>“I hope you are not thinking of taking anyone from here; we need everyone to rebuild.”</p><p></p><p>Longhelim was shaking his head: </p><p></p><p>“No. We will go alone initially; we need to ascertain certain things in Seaquen before we make any decisions.”</p><p></p><p>I looked at Rantle: </p><p></p><p>“Be careful with Danava. I am sure he is playing his own game. While his army is outside, he can claim he is even besieging the city, especially if he has to explain himself to the Ragesian High Command. He’s certainly keeping your forces tied down. He’s just waiting to see which side is coming out on top.”</p><p></p><p>Longhelim spoke: </p><p></p><p>“Yes, that’s the main reason why we’re not asking you to supply us with any men. If a force of any size went with us, it may be too much of a temptation for him.</p><p></p><p>Right, we’d better start getting ready. Does anyone need any equipment?”</p><p></p><p>Victor grunted: </p><p></p><p>“I need a new bow; apart from that, no.”</p><p></p><p>Everyone else shook their heads and I added: </p><p></p><p>“If we only have three days before that air ship arrives, then there is very little time to look for the kind of equipment we need.”</p><p></p><p>Finding a bow for Victor was quite quick but still took a little time; we took advantage of this to relate our story about Trilla and her plane to Rantle and to Victor. Just before going, we introduced Eleanor and the two children to Rantle and the warrior, emphasizing their importance to the former. He looked a little nonplussed but promised to look after them. He also promised to get Diogenes to get in touch with Simeon and the others and let them know what was happening. </p><p></p><p>After that, we prepared and Longhelim commanded the Torch to cast the transport spell.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Cafu, post: 6569621, member: 6692807"] The next morning, we knew things were going to be hectic. Daisy had woken up quite regularly during the night and so of course, had Eleanor. Her own baby had also been brought to her; it was a boy, a little older than Daisy as I judged these things, and one who could also be fed mashed food. His name was Jack. Once I had woken up, I stopped paying that much attention to what was going on as I was studying my spells. I had a lot to do. First, I looked at Freedom’s dagger with magical perception. It was an extremely powerful weapon with a magnitude of magic that I had never encountered before. Once I deduced its abilities, I explained these to the others; they included an incredibly powerful magic to aid its ability to hit and penetrate armour; it also affected incorporeal beings; and finally it was capable of delivering a devastatingly powerful, destructive spell through its blade once a day. John’s eyes had lit up once I related this to the others: “It’s worth a fortune.” Gloomily, I replied: “Yes, it is, but it’ll take weeks if not months to find someone who will give us its true value. At the moment, we don’t know anyone who has that sort of wealth with the possible exception of King Steppengaard; and you know what’ll happen if we approach him.” John frowned: “What?” Still gloomy, I continued: “Oh, it’ll take a couple of days before we can get an appointment and then when he does see us, he’ll want to have a feast, an audience, a private audience, a session with his advisors, a strategic session and a diplomatic “request” to go somewhere or do something; in other words, it’ll be a week if not more before we can leave. I don’t think we’ll have the time to go through all that.” Felix, in the meantime, had conjured up his magical breakfast and the phantom servants were beginning to serve us as we were having this conversation. Curiously, I saw that Felix’s spell could adjust itself to babies: to Eleanor’s wide eyed look, her son Jack had his own little magical high chair and in fact a servant specifically dedicated to feeding him Felix’s magical feast. Jack seemed to like it, judging by his enthusiastic gurgling and the way his mouth opened. However, as was the way with babies, a great deal of the food went everywhere but his mouth. The phantom feeder seemed to have that well in hand; it helped that the food disappeared if it wasn’t consumed. I had never seen that before; however, I don’t remember having tried this spell on babies before; it made for an interesting experiment. Eleanor herself had already fed Daisy and was looking at the magic with a mixture of awe and gratitude. Turning to Felix, she asked: “Can you do lunch like this?” The priest stopped speaking to Longhelim and replied: “I won’t need to; this will last us all day; and your Jack as well.” I think Felix gained a true admirer that day. Daisy herself was looking at everything curiously with her huge, gold eyes. Just then, a figure approached. Eleanor stiffened; although it was difficult to see the figure’s face, his Ragesian uniform was unmistakable. General Danava took off his cowl as soon as he reached us and spoke urgently. “Gentlemen…..” Then he glanced at Eleanor and amended his greeting: “Ladies and gentlemen……Leska is several steps ahead of you yet again…….” Felix held up his hand, halting Danava’s conversation, and said: “Whatever it is that Leska has done now, it can wait; it can wait until we finish our breakfast and then I will perform a long and complicated ritual on Victor; once he is back with us you can tell us how Leska has outwitted us yet again.” The rest of the breakfast was conducted in relative silence insofar as silences could be possible with a rumbuctious child and a very young baby in the mix. They were not really subject to the tension and moods of adults. Despite the fact that I was trying to calculate how that powerful spell had been crafted onto Freedom’s dagger and also trying to work out if there was a way of locating Etinifi so we could ask him where the Aquiline Heart was, even I was aware of the venomous looks Eleanor was shooting the general; understandable I suppose, considering that he was in command of the army which had dropped a wall on top of her husband, made her a very young widow and her Jack fatherless. It was also becoming obvious even to me that the General was losing patience; Longhelim and the others ate slowly and carefully and Eleanor soon did the same as she obviously realised that this was irritating the general more than any looks she was shooting at him. I was sure that there was probably far more going on under the surface but I had never been any good at reading this kind of social subterfuge and left them to it, going back to my examination of the dagger. Finally, breakfast was over and Eleanor took the children, excusing herself. Felix then laid out Victor’s corpse, took out various diamonds we had and finally performed the ritual. I have already described it previously so I will not go into details again but suffice to say that Danava was impressed. Victor opened his eyes and looked at the others. His eyes seemed to question Felix who only nodded. The warrior closed his eyes briefly then glanced around him, before focusing on Danava. He didn’t say anything for some time but then looked around; it was difficult to tell but I assumed he recognised our location. Then he rose and sat on one of the benches and looked at Danava again, his face shuttered. Longhelim spoke at this point: “Welcome back, Victor. We will tell you what happened to us in a moment and will also make sure you meet Eleanor, Daisy and Jack. In the meantime, General Danava has come to tell us about Leska’s latest move. Please proceed general.” Danava stood up and spoke: “Leska has made an alliance with the archmage Pilus of the Monastery of the Two Winds. As we speak, he flies his gigantic airship towards Seaquen at her behest. Despite the risks, she has given him access to the skies over her armies. Of course, I cannot act against my sovereign but I think Leska has gone too far this time. She has let her hatred of the Lyceum overwhelm her strategic sense. That ship is capable of unimaginable destruction. The archmage has already proved capable of being treacherous once. And to complicate matters further, the Khagan Onamdammin has embarked onto the ship with his army and accompanies the archmage on his ship, dreaming of stretching the borders of Ostaliner to the Eastern Sea.” He stopped speaking; we all sat digesting the news. It could hardly have come at a worst time. Slowly, I asked: “Has anyone been able to find out how long we have been gone?” John replied: “A day.” I continued: “So, the Resistance army and the elves have probably not even met the Ragesian army in Northern Shahalesti; and if the Resistance force withdraws then the Shahalesti will call them oathbreakers; that’s not going to be promising for any future negotiation.” Suddenly our thoughts were interrupted by a figure rushing in. A very wet man stopped before us and began talking very quickly: “I bring news from Deputy Headmaster Gohanach; he and his diviners have seen a huge ship flying towards the Lyceum; we fear it is with ill intent. They have also discovered a plot is already in motion under the city. They have discovered a priest wearing mask and white robes with several followers under the sunken prison in the ruined city. He begs your aid for the Lyceum and Seaquen.” General Danava interrupted at this point: “Gentlemen, I am only a military man, but I recognize a strategic trap when I see one. Leska has played her pieces with consummate skill and will carry on doing so. If you continue this pointless resistance, then it will only cause needless bloodshed. Her resources are endless. Longhelim stood up: “General, we thank you for your information and your advice. You did not need to tell us and we are grateful. Would you please excuse us now? We need to make some decisions.” With that, he stood and stopped speaking, obviously waiting for the Ragesian to leave; when the general did so, the paladin turned to the messenger and said: “Again, we thank you. Please go and get yourself something to eat. We may need your assistance later.” The messenger stood up and also left. As soon as he did, Longhelim turned to all of us: “So, how do we handle this? Does anyone have any thoughts? John, Faden, Felix, Victor, Drudge?” Victor spoke up at this point: “Well, there are two armies still at Seaquen; remember when we returned from Castle Korstull? There was an army from Sindar and an army from Dassen there. The expeditionary force with the elves only numbers around three thousand men; there is a substantial military presence still around the city. However, that will count for nothing if the ship can destroy them from above. We gained some ideas of its abilities when it was supporting us against Kreven.” I was frowning: “The one thing that Danava did get right is that Leska is several moves ahead of us. What has she offered Pilus? Why did he join her now and why the Lyceum? The monks know we are connected with to the mages there and we promised them that we would destroy the Torch once we stopped using it. I am finding it difficult to understand why he chose to commit treachery now. What has changed? Simultaneously, what is her alliance with the Khagan? Surely he must know that he is just a country waiting to be conquered. Is he really that confident that he can resist the Ragesian Legions once Dassen and Sindaire are part of the Empire? Finally, without Gate Pass under her control, how is she supplying the army in Northern Shahalesti? How did she know to strike right now? Is she actually using Danava’s army just to keep us pinned here? As usual, we are aware of only a tiny part of the whole picture. Yet, despite these questions and our relative ignorance, the incontrovertible facts are that these events are in place and she must have been planning them for months, if not much longer. Oh, and that ship; I mean, how big is the Ostaliner army? More importantly, just how big is the ship? I suspect that it is some sort of biomancy construct; do you remember we found all those biomancy experiments near the Monastery of the Two Winds. We didn’t enquiry too closely about that because we were only passing through and we needed their help but I suspect that Pilus had a lot to do with that.” Suddenly, a further thought came to me, one I dredged up from out last meeting with the two leaders of the Monastery of the Two Winds, when they helped us recover the clues that led to our acquisition of the Torch. “As for the masked priest dressed in white under the city? That’s probably Longinus, the brother; do you remember when we met them? Pilus was dressed in red with a robe decorated with dragons and we thought it was something to do with fire? Longinus was dressed in white and had feathers all over his robe. The question is whether he is for or against his brother. We should probably go over there and speak with him to find out; wait, I just remembered, that teleport trap is under the prison as well so we need to be careful of that.” Longhelim was also thinking: “So, we need to do the following things in order: Find out just what sort of manpower there is around Seaquen; find out who the masked priest below the city is and what are his intentions; find out if Simeon has been informed about the ship. Then try to get a plan together as to how to deal with this blasted ship…….” At this point, Rantle came running in: “You’re back! Where have you been? I’ve just heard some news about Seaquen……. I see you have already heard.” Longhelim turned to him: “Yes, we heard; we are just debating what our next move is going to be. There is an army of sorts in Seaquen; unfortunately, we have no idea as to its command or quality; there is a leadership structure in the Lyceum; a deputy head named Gohanach is in charge; we have not had the pleasure of meeting the gentleman. We have to assume that he is magically in touch with Simeon.” John shook his head: “Let’s not assume that; he wouldn’t have sent a physical messenger to us if he could do that; he would have talked to us magically.” I retorted: “Yes, but we don’t know him and he doesn’t know us; that magic requires some sort of knowledge of the recipient; but you’re right. We should not assume that this individual can get in touch with Simeon magically. We will need to go to Seaquen ourselves.” Rantle frowned: “I hope you are not thinking of taking anyone from here; we need everyone to rebuild.” Longhelim was shaking his head: “No. We will go alone initially; we need to ascertain certain things in Seaquen before we make any decisions.” I looked at Rantle: “Be careful with Danava. I am sure he is playing his own game. While his army is outside, he can claim he is even besieging the city, especially if he has to explain himself to the Ragesian High Command. He’s certainly keeping your forces tied down. He’s just waiting to see which side is coming out on top.” Longhelim spoke: “Yes, that’s the main reason why we’re not asking you to supply us with any men. If a force of any size went with us, it may be too much of a temptation for him. Right, we’d better start getting ready. Does anyone need any equipment?” Victor grunted: “I need a new bow; apart from that, no.” Everyone else shook their heads and I added: “If we only have three days before that air ship arrives, then there is very little time to look for the kind of equipment we need.” Finding a bow for Victor was quite quick but still took a little time; we took advantage of this to relate our story about Trilla and her plane to Rantle and to Victor. Just before going, we introduced Eleanor and the two children to Rantle and the warrior, emphasizing their importance to the former. He looked a little nonplussed but promised to look after them. He also promised to get Diogenes to get in touch with Simeon and the others and let them know what was happening. After that, we prepared and Longhelim commanded the Torch to cast the transport spell. [/QUOTE]
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