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<blockquote data-quote="Lylandra" data-source="post: 7497349" data-attributes="member: 6816692"><p><strong>Investigating Soknik</strong></p><p></p><p>Yeah, she knows that there's nothing she could have done to prevent Ekossigan from harming the druids or the orphan. It is more like some sort of fatalism she developed during this episode where she thought that either fate is inevitable (as every prophecy or vision she encountered came true somehow) or only to be contested by the extraordinarily strong and powerful. </p><p></p><p>But you know... it has to get worse before it can start to get better <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite2" alt=";)" title="Wink ;)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=";)" /></p><p></p><p>Or as Tiz would put it... "poor Carlyle has to deal with his own internal struggles and his dearest amalgamation of neuroticism on top of it"</p><p></p><p>---</p><p></p><p>Meanwhile somewhere else in Flint...</p><p></p><p> The very same morning Team C teamed up with Asrabey, Team B tries to find out more about the dwarven terrorists. So Carlao, Dima, Serena and Gaethan head to Soknik's Repair and Renovations Services to ask the owner some tough questions about their employees and possible connections to the sect of Grandis Komanov. </p><p> </p><p></p><p> However, once they reach the shop, they are disappointed to find only a youthful clerk looming behind the counter, looking incredibly bored at first. They tell him that they need someone to paint their office and the young man replies that he doesn't know whether he can help them right now as the company has a hard time working all their orders right now. They even had to hire subcontractor to fulfill all of their jobs, so he'll have to check with his boss first. </p><p></p><p> </p><p></p><p> His mood changes quickly when he realizes that the four people who entered the shop are actually RHC agents. They question him about said subcontractors and their contacts. The boy tries to tell them far-fetched lies about knowing no names at all and he's also pointing to a book which is full of numbers and sums that make no sense. </p><p> </p><p></p><p> Carlao doesn't want to spend more time with this obviously green “accountant” than necessary, so she orders him to either come with them to the RHC without showing resistance or expect to be arrested. The boy does as he's being asked. However, once they are halfway through the shop, he makes some strange signs and a few seconds later, a loud shot echoes through the street. The shop's window shatters and Gaethan falls to his knees, badly wounded by an ice bullet. </p><p> </p><p></p><p> “Sharpshooter!” cries Serena and throws herself and the boy (who unsuccessfully tried to flee) to the ground. Dima makes a run for the shutters of the window and closes them as quickly as possible to cut off the line of sight for whoever is trying to shoot them. While the dwarf is doing her best to help them, Carlao takes a shot as well.</p><p> </p><p></p><p> “Damn, this is bad. This isn't your usual ammo. Seems like they're dead serious.” Serena says, crawling towards the back door of the room. </p><p> </p><p></p><p> Once Dima has all the shutters closed, they all make haste towards the back room of the shop where the cleric heals the wounds of her comrades. Once he's healed, Gaethan explains that he tried to spot the shooter, but couldn't see anyone. So whoever that might be, he or she is an absolute professional. Then they demand answers from the young clerk. </p><p> </p><p></p><p> The shocked boy tells them in all honesty that he didn't know about the shooter. His boss, Soknik, told him to answer no questions, sit inside the shop and make it seem as if he's an accountant. He was paid good money for little work, he explains. Soknik also told him to make signs should he feel threatened or harassed, which is what he did when they were trying to press him.</p><p> </p><p></p><p> “Should've known better than to mess with the RHC, boy” Carlyo says and uses her feather to deliver a message to Delft, telling him about their situation and asking for a backup team. While they can do little more than wait for relief, they decide to search the shop and find that this room is little more than a facade. However, they find a trap door hidden underneath a big carpet (“they're always underneath the carpet”, Serena says), take the boy with them and go downstairs. </p><p> </p><p></p><p> The team is surprised to see not only a hidden cellar room, but also a long range of underground corridors. They decide to take a closer look and find themselves in the canal section of Flint before reaching dry ground again after a while. Dima is pretty impressed by the seeming labyrinth of corridors. Serena, on the other hand, is more impressed by the sheer amount of magical and mundane traps that someone has placed in these hallways. Fortunately, she's able to disarm and disable all of them so her team can pass safely. </p><p> After what seems like an eternity of walking through corridors, they come across a group of skeletons and ants, but can fend off both hazards. Last but not least they find a room containing a table with still warm meals. Assuming that whoever wanted to eat said meals might be still around, they cautiously continue searching through the next rooms where they find hints that something technical might have been built in one of the workshops. They find alchemical formulae and samples of strange matter in another laboratory and believe whoever worked here might have been developing some strange kind of explosive.</p><p> </p><p>“Better leave it to Carlyle to make sense of these... strange writings” Serena says, carefully picking up the samples. Meanwhile, Gaethan spots an envelope containing an invitation for Ms. Brigitte Coulson, reporter of the Flint Tribune, to the grand opening of the Sharon Baker Station. He also finds a coded message and curses his lack of understanding when it comes to chiffres. </p><p> </p><p></p><p> “Tanya would've decoded this in no time. I really miss her...” he sighs and picks up the sheet. </p><p> </p><p></p><p> Once they're sure they picked up all hints, they proceed to the last corridor. There, they are surprised by three dwarves who immediately start firing their rifles at the constables. Fortunately, they don't pose as much of a threat as the shooter and so they manage to subdue them quickly. </p><p> </p><p></p><p> “We're lucky they didn't have special magic ammo on them as well.” </p><p> </p><p></p><p> Shortly after Serena uttered that thought, Carlao blinks hastily and then has a sudden flash of insight. “Wait a minute... special magic ammunition. Shooter. Dwarf. Technology. I've read about this before. In Team C's report about the KATE. Could it be... Kvarty Gorbatiy?!” </p><p> </p><p></p><p> The four discuss this thought for a while and then agree that their theory might not be too far off and they'll make sure to gather information about the big game hunter as soon as they got their evidence delivered. But first, they have to wait for reinforcements.</p><p> </p><p></p><p> Fortunately, Delft arrives a couple minutes later with a team of well-armed rookies in tow. He explains that whoever has shot at them has vanished, but they'll make sure to pick up any clues on that rooftop. Together, they take the boy clerk back to the RHC and start making sense of their messages and the invitation. </p><p></p><p><span style="color: #008000">(Phew, I'd have never thought it would be so hard to switch from writing pages with "Carlyle" to this chapter full of "Carlao". Danm these similarities)</span></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Lylandra, post: 7497349, member: 6816692"] [b]Investigating Soknik[/b] Yeah, she knows that there's nothing she could have done to prevent Ekossigan from harming the druids or the orphan. It is more like some sort of fatalism she developed during this episode where she thought that either fate is inevitable (as every prophecy or vision she encountered came true somehow) or only to be contested by the extraordinarily strong and powerful. But you know... it has to get worse before it can start to get better ;) Or as Tiz would put it... "poor Carlyle has to deal with his own internal struggles and his dearest amalgamation of neuroticism on top of it" --- Meanwhile somewhere else in Flint... The very same morning Team C teamed up with Asrabey, Team B tries to find out more about the dwarven terrorists. So Carlao, Dima, Serena and Gaethan head to Soknik's Repair and Renovations Services to ask the owner some tough questions about their employees and possible connections to the sect of Grandis Komanov. However, once they reach the shop, they are disappointed to find only a youthful clerk looming behind the counter, looking incredibly bored at first. They tell him that they need someone to paint their office and the young man replies that he doesn't know whether he can help them right now as the company has a hard time working all their orders right now. They even had to hire subcontractor to fulfill all of their jobs, so he'll have to check with his boss first. His mood changes quickly when he realizes that the four people who entered the shop are actually RHC agents. They question him about said subcontractors and their contacts. The boy tries to tell them far-fetched lies about knowing no names at all and he's also pointing to a book which is full of numbers and sums that make no sense. Carlao doesn't want to spend more time with this obviously green “accountant” than necessary, so she orders him to either come with them to the RHC without showing resistance or expect to be arrested. The boy does as he's being asked. However, once they are halfway through the shop, he makes some strange signs and a few seconds later, a loud shot echoes through the street. The shop's window shatters and Gaethan falls to his knees, badly wounded by an ice bullet. “Sharpshooter!” cries Serena and throws herself and the boy (who unsuccessfully tried to flee) to the ground. Dima makes a run for the shutters of the window and closes them as quickly as possible to cut off the line of sight for whoever is trying to shoot them. While the dwarf is doing her best to help them, Carlao takes a shot as well. “Damn, this is bad. This isn't your usual ammo. Seems like they're dead serious.” Serena says, crawling towards the back door of the room. Once Dima has all the shutters closed, they all make haste towards the back room of the shop where the cleric heals the wounds of her comrades. Once he's healed, Gaethan explains that he tried to spot the shooter, but couldn't see anyone. So whoever that might be, he or she is an absolute professional. Then they demand answers from the young clerk. The shocked boy tells them in all honesty that he didn't know about the shooter. His boss, Soknik, told him to answer no questions, sit inside the shop and make it seem as if he's an accountant. He was paid good money for little work, he explains. Soknik also told him to make signs should he feel threatened or harassed, which is what he did when they were trying to press him. “Should've known better than to mess with the RHC, boy” Carlyo says and uses her feather to deliver a message to Delft, telling him about their situation and asking for a backup team. While they can do little more than wait for relief, they decide to search the shop and find that this room is little more than a facade. However, they find a trap door hidden underneath a big carpet (“they're always underneath the carpet”, Serena says), take the boy with them and go downstairs. The team is surprised to see not only a hidden cellar room, but also a long range of underground corridors. They decide to take a closer look and find themselves in the canal section of Flint before reaching dry ground again after a while. Dima is pretty impressed by the seeming labyrinth of corridors. Serena, on the other hand, is more impressed by the sheer amount of magical and mundane traps that someone has placed in these hallways. Fortunately, she's able to disarm and disable all of them so her team can pass safely. After what seems like an eternity of walking through corridors, they come across a group of skeletons and ants, but can fend off both hazards. Last but not least they find a room containing a table with still warm meals. Assuming that whoever wanted to eat said meals might be still around, they cautiously continue searching through the next rooms where they find hints that something technical might have been built in one of the workshops. They find alchemical formulae and samples of strange matter in another laboratory and believe whoever worked here might have been developing some strange kind of explosive. “Better leave it to Carlyle to make sense of these... strange writings” Serena says, carefully picking up the samples. Meanwhile, Gaethan spots an envelope containing an invitation for Ms. Brigitte Coulson, reporter of the Flint Tribune, to the grand opening of the Sharon Baker Station. He also finds a coded message and curses his lack of understanding when it comes to chiffres. “Tanya would've decoded this in no time. I really miss her...” he sighs and picks up the sheet. Once they're sure they picked up all hints, they proceed to the last corridor. There, they are surprised by three dwarves who immediately start firing their rifles at the constables. Fortunately, they don't pose as much of a threat as the shooter and so they manage to subdue them quickly. “We're lucky they didn't have special magic ammo on them as well.” Shortly after Serena uttered that thought, Carlao blinks hastily and then has a sudden flash of insight. “Wait a minute... special magic ammunition. Shooter. Dwarf. Technology. I've read about this before. In Team C's report about the KATE. Could it be... Kvarty Gorbatiy?!” The four discuss this thought for a while and then agree that their theory might not be too far off and they'll make sure to gather information about the big game hunter as soon as they got their evidence delivered. But first, they have to wait for reinforcements. Fortunately, Delft arrives a couple minutes later with a team of well-armed rookies in tow. He explains that whoever has shot at them has vanished, but they'll make sure to pick up any clues on that rooftop. Together, they take the boy clerk back to the RHC and start making sense of their messages and the invitation. [COLOR=#008000](Phew, I'd have never thought it would be so hard to switch from writing pages with "Carlyle" to this chapter full of "Carlao". Danm these similarities)[/COLOR] [/QUOTE]
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