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<blockquote data-quote="Lylandra" data-source="post: 7297036" data-attributes="member: 6816692"><p><strong>An Audit! With Price-Hill! And an all out attack on the RHC?!</strong></p><p></p><p>We stand guard for the whole night until we are interrupted by an invitation coming from Viscount Inspector Nigel Price-Hill in the morning. He asks us to attend to an audit and a corresponding lunch in the Silver Swan. </p><p>(<span style="color: #008000">Finally! A meeting with Price-Hill! Excited! The timing... put us under some stress though</span>)</p><p></p><p>Margit and rookie Flying Spark offer to take the first round which leaves Auryn and Carlyle to take care of our sleeping maybe-monster. They return after a pretty short while and say that everything went smoothly for them and that there were not too many questions raised about the Faerie Dragon's status as he was a good help so far.</p><p></p><p>Auryn and Carlyle are in for the next round of audits. Price-Hill takes some time for our audit as he congratulates us for our damn fine job so far. He adds that he hopes we might in time become the most successful foreign missions team so far as we might just replace Team 3 who traditionally held this role. He says that both of us have a foreign background so this might come in handy in the missions to come. </p><p></p><p>When matters turn to our involvement and alleged friendship with some members of the Familia, he asks us to handle these matters discreetly and make sure to not let them get out of hand. Having connections to a more or less trustworthy criminal organization can come in handy from time to time, but getting indebted to them might easily lead to becoming corruptible. We agree to this point and promise to separate private friendship and professional contact. </p><p></p><p>He also gives Carlyle a small warning to not put Lord Vantrys' interests over those of Risur and Carlyle insists that while he's still trying to protect his former Lord, he would never betray the interests of the RHC for some Vantrys business benefit. To Auryn he adds that he knows about her troubles with Fordren, but he has to be sure that her personal feud with the businessman won't cause a bilateral scandal, by causing, for example, a premature death of said industrialist. He says that the peace summit next spring has to be successful and it mustn't be overshadowed by such an unwanted incident. Auryn promises to not go actively after Fordren, but she also explains that she'd totally defend herself should that guy try to get too close to her or plan anything funny. </p><p></p><p>We tell Price-Hill that we really wish for a lasting peace between Danor and Risur and wouldn't do anything to endanger that process. After all, all of our actions, all of our talk with King Aodhan and Prime Minister Lee, including the discussion of a conspiracy of possible war mongers who might profit from a fifth Yerasol war, were all aimed at preserving peace. When we bring up the conspiracy, Price-Hill asks us about the progress of our investigation and we tell him everything we've learned about the causa Macbannin so far (including a possible connection to our current case and Bergeron). We add that this case is no longer in our hands though and that he'd have to ask Team 1 for further information. The Viscount Inspector says that even though getting put off case might be pretty frustrating we should continue to keep our eyes open for any clues.</p><p></p><p>As the audit comes to an end, Auryn signals Lauryn Cyneburg, who was also present during the whole thing, that she'd like to have a conversation in private. We carefully explain her that we've found a mysterious trail of our “New Ragman” which led us to Lady Saxby's private estate. We then tell her about the very reserved guards who hindered our investigation. We then add that we surely don't want to denounce our boss, but simply needed someone to share this information with as we cannot really investigate any further and doing or saying nothing would be wrong as well. Lauryn thanks us for this information and says she'll keep it in mind. </p><p></p><p>Once we get back to the RHC, sleeping beauty is about to awake. When Dr. Meredith comes back to her senses, she convinces us that it is truly her this time. She tells us that she's slowly beginning to understand what Sijhen has done to her. It seems like this creature is able to modify and manipulate thoughts, memories and senses. Thankfully, the creature is sleeping right now which she demonstrates by pointing at the closed eyes on her arm. Xambria Meredith goes on and says that she and Sijhen have learned that Bergeron belongs to a mysterious group called Obscurati. Sijhen is interested in these people, even if she's not really sure why (<span style="color: #008000">might have something to do with the fact that Bergeron was after the seals?</span>). She adds that it is also after a certain star chart but it hasn't found that artifact yet. </p><p></p><p>Just when she comes to this conclusion, Dr. Meredith suddenly realizes that being brought to the RHC was Sijhen's plan all along. While she's trying to warn us from her upcoming loss of control, we hear screams from the other part of the cell block. As we really don't want to leave Dr. Meredith alone, we ask Flying Spark to carefully find out what is causing the ruckus. </p><p></p><p>The Faerie Dragon is pretty surprised to see that black cloaked people somehow got into the cell block and started questioning the other prisoners about the constables Auryn Galadin and Mr. Carlyle. As soon as Flying Spark returns to report on what's going on, Dr. Meredith turns into Sijhen, blasts out of her chains and turns the whole world into an opaque scenery which seems only quasi-real. And while the word “solid” seems to have lost its meaning for Meredith as she jumps directly through the ceiling, the four of us are unable to move at all.</p><p></p><p>(<span style="color: #008000">So much for the antimagic cell... seems like some forces are unable to be contained with our standard magic arsenal.</span>)</p><p></p><p>Meredith/Sijhen turns into two clones of herself and heads directly to Lady Saxby's office where she's about to attack our boss. As we can at least momentarily see through all the building's walls and ceilings, we see with horror that alien mind monsters appear all over the RHC HQ and start attacking our hapless, panicking colleagues. </p><p></p><p>Once our surroundings turn solid again, we are finally able to move. We know Saxby and all the others are in grave danger, so we head for the fastest way out of the dungeon. Unfortunately, the people clad in black are still in the cell block and so we have to get rid of them first. As they seem to be interested in Carlyle and Auryn, we'd like to get some information from them in return and so we try to make best use of our surroundings and lock them up instead. </p><p></p><p>Flying Spark scares them up with a well-aimed lightning bolt (yay for straight lines!) which causes half of the attackers to take cover in the cells. Mr. Carlyle turns invisible and locks the cells stealthily. Auryn starts her alluring fey song in the other corridor which makes the rest of the blackcloaks go after her in trance. She then heads into one of the cells, climbs up to the cell's ceiling, waits until all of the attackers are in there with (or underneath) her, then jumps out of the cell and locks the door (yay for acrobatics!). </p><p></p><p>This way we can avoid a lengthy fight and rush to the stairs where we are caught by another wave of unreal incorporeality. Through the opaque ceilings we can see that Saxby is about to hand a golden object to Sijhen she got out of her desk. As soon as Sijhen gets its hands on the object, it jumps back down and runs through a wall where it soon gets out of our sight. We can also see that Dima and Team 1 are in a fight with some of the attacking monsters. </p><p></p><p>We rush upstairs and throw some well-aimed fireballs at some of the monsters who are currently attacking our staff in hope of getting their attention. Our plan succeeds and we continue our ascent while being followed by a group of flying eyeballs. </p><p>(<span style="color: #008000">so much for “playing it safe”. Still better to have the monsters follow us – who have experience with fighting these kind of beasts – than letting them brain-munch our secretaries and rookies</span>)</p><p></p><p>Once we arrive on the second floor, even more blackcloaks enter the scene and this time we can actually see them emerging from the walls. Ac loser look at them reveals that these guys must be only partially in this reality as they have some bleak gate taint on them. Which leads us to the conclusion that they might be actually some of Leone's thugs. Fortunately for us, Team Blackcloak isn't exactly on Team Sijhen's side and so the monsters attack these guys as well. </p><p></p><p>Margit uses her magic to turn some of the monsters tangible again while Mr. Carlyle rushes to Delft's office as he assumes that our Assistant Chief Inspector might be in serious trouble. Auryn heads to Saxby's office to protect our Chief Inspector from two flying eyeballs while Flying Spark continues to harass every opponent with elemental magic. </p><p></p><p>Carlyle arrives just in time to save Delft from a phaerimm-like monster, but is then wounded by a seemingly confused Delft who shoots at him. Seems like Delft sees a mimic in Carlyle. Luckily Margit is nearby who is able to soothe her love's fear and confusion with a calm emotions spell. In all of this madness, we also witness an illusory stag who appears momentarily and rejuvenates some of our powers.</p><p></p><p>(<span style="color: #008000">“Now I would have emerged from all of this madness unscathed if it wasn't for our boss and his irrational fear of mimics...” Maybe Carlyle's constant teasing returned back to him this time. As for the stag? That's totally just the Guardian of the threshold to the Dreaming *cough cough*. Yeah he just likes you, Mr. Carlyle...</span>)</p><p></p><p>Auryn is able to strike down the flying eyeballs thanks to Recklinghausen's rapier, but is then overtaken by Team 1 who form a defensive wall in front of Saxby. To her shock, Saxby orders “her team” to arrest Team 3 who she claims to be traitors. Mr. Carlyle returns just in time to call this the nonsense that it surely is as Lady Saxby is clearly out of her mind and Delft has fallen victim to some sort of mind control as well. Auryn asks Dima to scan Saxby for signs of compulsion magic before anyone gets seriously hurt as this might very well just be another one of Sijhen's tricks. </p><p></p><p>We then continue to strike down the last of the attackers and lay down our arms afterward as a sign of good will. Dima uses her magic and confirms our assumption. Mr. Carlyle then tries to dispel the magic on Saxby which fails. As we know that Sijhen is on the run right now, we don't want to waste any more of our precious time and ask Team 1 to help us bring Lady Saxby to the antimagic cell where any kind of magic would be instantly suppressed. Saxby continues to call us traitors and urges her team to not fall to our tricks as we clearly want to get rid of her. She is able to convince Carlao about our hostile intentions who turns against us and our colleagues. Auryn fears that the whole situation might get out of hand, so she uses her own charm to “override” Sijhen's spell and politely asks Saxby to accompany us to the antimagic cell while the rest wrestles down Carlao. </p><p></p><p>(<span style="color: #008000">That was some rather difficult diplomacy there. We were kind of shocked first to have Saxby call us traitors and demanding our arrest. But it was pretty clear that Sijhen must have done something to her and using Delft's case of madness helped a lot to convince Dima to scan for magic.</span>)</p><p></p><p>Once we get Saxby into the antimagic field, she's her usual self again and asks Carlyle to try to dispel the spell on her again. He succeeds this time and we promise Saxby to clear up this whole mess once we finish our business with Sijhen. Delft arrives shortly after and asks us to go after Sijhen immediately and leave clearing up the RHC to him. </p><p></p><p>(<span style="color: #008000">Better late than never, eh? Not that we'd have done anything else but go after the monster who just tried to kill us all...</span>)</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Lylandra, post: 7297036, member: 6816692"] [b]An Audit! With Price-Hill! And an all out attack on the RHC?![/b] We stand guard for the whole night until we are interrupted by an invitation coming from Viscount Inspector Nigel Price-Hill in the morning. He asks us to attend to an audit and a corresponding lunch in the Silver Swan. ([COLOR="#008000"]Finally! A meeting with Price-Hill! Excited! The timing... put us under some stress though[/COLOR]) Margit and rookie Flying Spark offer to take the first round which leaves Auryn and Carlyle to take care of our sleeping maybe-monster. They return after a pretty short while and say that everything went smoothly for them and that there were not too many questions raised about the Faerie Dragon's status as he was a good help so far. Auryn and Carlyle are in for the next round of audits. Price-Hill takes some time for our audit as he congratulates us for our damn fine job so far. He adds that he hopes we might in time become the most successful foreign missions team so far as we might just replace Team 3 who traditionally held this role. He says that both of us have a foreign background so this might come in handy in the missions to come. When matters turn to our involvement and alleged friendship with some members of the Familia, he asks us to handle these matters discreetly and make sure to not let them get out of hand. Having connections to a more or less trustworthy criminal organization can come in handy from time to time, but getting indebted to them might easily lead to becoming corruptible. We agree to this point and promise to separate private friendship and professional contact. He also gives Carlyle a small warning to not put Lord Vantrys' interests over those of Risur and Carlyle insists that while he's still trying to protect his former Lord, he would never betray the interests of the RHC for some Vantrys business benefit. To Auryn he adds that he knows about her troubles with Fordren, but he has to be sure that her personal feud with the businessman won't cause a bilateral scandal, by causing, for example, a premature death of said industrialist. He says that the peace summit next spring has to be successful and it mustn't be overshadowed by such an unwanted incident. Auryn promises to not go actively after Fordren, but she also explains that she'd totally defend herself should that guy try to get too close to her or plan anything funny. We tell Price-Hill that we really wish for a lasting peace between Danor and Risur and wouldn't do anything to endanger that process. After all, all of our actions, all of our talk with King Aodhan and Prime Minister Lee, including the discussion of a conspiracy of possible war mongers who might profit from a fifth Yerasol war, were all aimed at preserving peace. When we bring up the conspiracy, Price-Hill asks us about the progress of our investigation and we tell him everything we've learned about the causa Macbannin so far (including a possible connection to our current case and Bergeron). We add that this case is no longer in our hands though and that he'd have to ask Team 1 for further information. The Viscount Inspector says that even though getting put off case might be pretty frustrating we should continue to keep our eyes open for any clues. As the audit comes to an end, Auryn signals Lauryn Cyneburg, who was also present during the whole thing, that she'd like to have a conversation in private. We carefully explain her that we've found a mysterious trail of our “New Ragman” which led us to Lady Saxby's private estate. We then tell her about the very reserved guards who hindered our investigation. We then add that we surely don't want to denounce our boss, but simply needed someone to share this information with as we cannot really investigate any further and doing or saying nothing would be wrong as well. Lauryn thanks us for this information and says she'll keep it in mind. Once we get back to the RHC, sleeping beauty is about to awake. When Dr. Meredith comes back to her senses, she convinces us that it is truly her this time. She tells us that she's slowly beginning to understand what Sijhen has done to her. It seems like this creature is able to modify and manipulate thoughts, memories and senses. Thankfully, the creature is sleeping right now which she demonstrates by pointing at the closed eyes on her arm. Xambria Meredith goes on and says that she and Sijhen have learned that Bergeron belongs to a mysterious group called Obscurati. Sijhen is interested in these people, even if she's not really sure why ([COLOR="#008000"]might have something to do with the fact that Bergeron was after the seals?[/COLOR]). She adds that it is also after a certain star chart but it hasn't found that artifact yet. Just when she comes to this conclusion, Dr. Meredith suddenly realizes that being brought to the RHC was Sijhen's plan all along. While she's trying to warn us from her upcoming loss of control, we hear screams from the other part of the cell block. As we really don't want to leave Dr. Meredith alone, we ask Flying Spark to carefully find out what is causing the ruckus. The Faerie Dragon is pretty surprised to see that black cloaked people somehow got into the cell block and started questioning the other prisoners about the constables Auryn Galadin and Mr. Carlyle. As soon as Flying Spark returns to report on what's going on, Dr. Meredith turns into Sijhen, blasts out of her chains and turns the whole world into an opaque scenery which seems only quasi-real. And while the word “solid” seems to have lost its meaning for Meredith as she jumps directly through the ceiling, the four of us are unable to move at all. ([COLOR="#008000"]So much for the antimagic cell... seems like some forces are unable to be contained with our standard magic arsenal.[/COLOR]) Meredith/Sijhen turns into two clones of herself and heads directly to Lady Saxby's office where she's about to attack our boss. As we can at least momentarily see through all the building's walls and ceilings, we see with horror that alien mind monsters appear all over the RHC HQ and start attacking our hapless, panicking colleagues. Once our surroundings turn solid again, we are finally able to move. We know Saxby and all the others are in grave danger, so we head for the fastest way out of the dungeon. Unfortunately, the people clad in black are still in the cell block and so we have to get rid of them first. As they seem to be interested in Carlyle and Auryn, we'd like to get some information from them in return and so we try to make best use of our surroundings and lock them up instead. Flying Spark scares them up with a well-aimed lightning bolt (yay for straight lines!) which causes half of the attackers to take cover in the cells. Mr. Carlyle turns invisible and locks the cells stealthily. Auryn starts her alluring fey song in the other corridor which makes the rest of the blackcloaks go after her in trance. She then heads into one of the cells, climbs up to the cell's ceiling, waits until all of the attackers are in there with (or underneath) her, then jumps out of the cell and locks the door (yay for acrobatics!). This way we can avoid a lengthy fight and rush to the stairs where we are caught by another wave of unreal incorporeality. Through the opaque ceilings we can see that Saxby is about to hand a golden object to Sijhen she got out of her desk. As soon as Sijhen gets its hands on the object, it jumps back down and runs through a wall where it soon gets out of our sight. We can also see that Dima and Team 1 are in a fight with some of the attacking monsters. We rush upstairs and throw some well-aimed fireballs at some of the monsters who are currently attacking our staff in hope of getting their attention. Our plan succeeds and we continue our ascent while being followed by a group of flying eyeballs. ([COLOR="#008000"]so much for “playing it safe”. Still better to have the monsters follow us – who have experience with fighting these kind of beasts – than letting them brain-munch our secretaries and rookies[/COLOR]) Once we arrive on the second floor, even more blackcloaks enter the scene and this time we can actually see them emerging from the walls. Ac loser look at them reveals that these guys must be only partially in this reality as they have some bleak gate taint on them. Which leads us to the conclusion that they might be actually some of Leone's thugs. Fortunately for us, Team Blackcloak isn't exactly on Team Sijhen's side and so the monsters attack these guys as well. Margit uses her magic to turn some of the monsters tangible again while Mr. Carlyle rushes to Delft's office as he assumes that our Assistant Chief Inspector might be in serious trouble. Auryn heads to Saxby's office to protect our Chief Inspector from two flying eyeballs while Flying Spark continues to harass every opponent with elemental magic. Carlyle arrives just in time to save Delft from a phaerimm-like monster, but is then wounded by a seemingly confused Delft who shoots at him. Seems like Delft sees a mimic in Carlyle. Luckily Margit is nearby who is able to soothe her love's fear and confusion with a calm emotions spell. In all of this madness, we also witness an illusory stag who appears momentarily and rejuvenates some of our powers. ([COLOR="#008000"]“Now I would have emerged from all of this madness unscathed if it wasn't for our boss and his irrational fear of mimics...” Maybe Carlyle's constant teasing returned back to him this time. As for the stag? That's totally just the Guardian of the threshold to the Dreaming *cough cough*. Yeah he just likes you, Mr. Carlyle...[/COLOR]) Auryn is able to strike down the flying eyeballs thanks to Recklinghausen's rapier, but is then overtaken by Team 1 who form a defensive wall in front of Saxby. To her shock, Saxby orders “her team” to arrest Team 3 who she claims to be traitors. Mr. Carlyle returns just in time to call this the nonsense that it surely is as Lady Saxby is clearly out of her mind and Delft has fallen victim to some sort of mind control as well. Auryn asks Dima to scan Saxby for signs of compulsion magic before anyone gets seriously hurt as this might very well just be another one of Sijhen's tricks. We then continue to strike down the last of the attackers and lay down our arms afterward as a sign of good will. Dima uses her magic and confirms our assumption. Mr. Carlyle then tries to dispel the magic on Saxby which fails. As we know that Sijhen is on the run right now, we don't want to waste any more of our precious time and ask Team 1 to help us bring Lady Saxby to the antimagic cell where any kind of magic would be instantly suppressed. Saxby continues to call us traitors and urges her team to not fall to our tricks as we clearly want to get rid of her. She is able to convince Carlao about our hostile intentions who turns against us and our colleagues. Auryn fears that the whole situation might get out of hand, so she uses her own charm to “override” Sijhen's spell and politely asks Saxby to accompany us to the antimagic cell while the rest wrestles down Carlao. ([COLOR="#008000"]That was some rather difficult diplomacy there. We were kind of shocked first to have Saxby call us traitors and demanding our arrest. But it was pretty clear that Sijhen must have done something to her and using Delft's case of madness helped a lot to convince Dima to scan for magic.[/COLOR]) Once we get Saxby into the antimagic field, she's her usual self again and asks Carlyle to try to dispel the spell on her again. He succeeds this time and we promise Saxby to clear up this whole mess once we finish our business with Sijhen. Delft arrives shortly after and asks us to go after Sijhen immediately and leave clearing up the RHC to him. ([COLOR="#008000"]Better late than never, eh? Not that we'd have done anything else but go after the monster who just tried to kill us all...[/COLOR]) [/QUOTE]
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