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<blockquote data-quote="gideonpepys" data-source="post: 6153572" data-attributes="member: 79141"><p><strong>Session 80a - Downtime Week Six</strong></p><p></p><p><strong>Leon </strong>learned two more interesting things during the Winter Solstice festival in the bayou: First, the Old Stag had been able to speak with the incarcerated Tyler Starke and learned from him that Leon was not his first choice of assassin – he had originally hired a marksman from Drakr to kill Rock Rackus, someone who the Old Stag did not know, but whose name Leon immediately recognised: Kvarty Gorbarty. Leon also learned that (for a fee) the court would equip him with a blade that enabled him to <em>dreamstep</em> much more easily, that would literally slice a hole between Lanjyr and the Dreaming.</p><p>That night Leon dreamt of Lavanya again, but this time she approached him through the maze. For the first time in seven years, he could see her face clearly. She smiled wryly and said his name a couple of times, as if it was some sort of private joke: “’Leon’? ‘Leon’ is it?”</p><p></p><p>“I don’t have much time. Soon your status at court will make it impossible for me to find you! How frustrating, having only just done so at long last. But I am glad to know that you survived the island, and hope one day that we can be together again. Just think: If you had not returned to my island sanctuary and brought Conquo away with you, I would never have known you were still alive!</p><p></p><p>“He is such a good soul. I am very proud of my boy. Whatever lifeforce had charged him was spent when I found him: He stood in an overgrown field at the borders of the Dreaming, where the dragon Tatzel told me I might find him. He must have been there a long time as he was all covered in flowers and moss!</p><p></p><p>“I miss the Dreaming. Once I wandered freely there, buying memories at the Birch Queen’s Fair. But lately things have changed and I must be cautious.</p><p></p><p>“Leon, I cannot tell you where to find me, for I am bound not to do so. Nor can I hope that you will find me here, for it would mean peril for us both. Perhaps one day I will be free again, and things will be different? But what I can say is that I think you were <em>right</em>, even though I know that you will not remember what that means…”</p><p></p><p>Leon woke, suddenly, bereft. That was no dream!</p><p></p><p>Distracted, he spent the rest of the week looking into Pemberton Industries, and discovered that Benedict Pemberton was solidly supported by the factory owners of Flint, in particular due to the new gearmen he had supplied to keep their businesses running. There would be little chance of turning them against Pemberton or his adventurism.</p><p></p><p>He also learned that Khaled Valchek of Black Star Mining had hired ice wizards to fake the ‘manifestations’ of his Avatars: the illusionist and stage magician Blander Waryeye had shared a few tricks of the trade with them, though he was more scared of exposing Valchek than he was of Leon…</p><p></p><p><strong>Matunaaga, </strong>squirreled away in his home on the banks of the stray river had become gaunt, fasting in a quest to master the Palimpsest. At last, the second layer of the stone was revealed to him, the words floating up to the surface and into his mind: It told more of the story of how his people had freed themselves from slavery at the hands of the gidim and laid out two distinct paths his ancestors had once mastered to overcome the mind-controlling power of their former masters. Here, surely, was the means by which Matunaaga could achieve his goal of living weaponhood!</p><p></p><p><strong>Korrigan</strong> tried to extract more information from Luc Jierre, but found that the young tiefling really did not know any more than he had already revealed. So the Marshal set about finding out which mayors he could rely on for support in thwarting the mercenary fleet. He learned that he had only one natural and immediate ally in the traditionalist mayor of the Cloudwood, Doyle Idylls. He approached his own representative – Chrystine Robinson of Stray River and established (after analysing her doublespeak with the help of Deneric Jayce) that she would only support a measure which the public were clearly in favour of: her public being the chattering classes of Stray River. This led to a realisation (confirmed by Malthusius – see below) that the public in general did not know much about the gathering fleet, and cared even less. Time to change that, thought Korrigan, and at once drew up a strongly worded article for publication in the <em>Courier</em>. It was at this time that the first of his series of articles on his past and his opinions on current events emerged, and it was generally thought that they had established him as an admirable and popular figure. He would ride this wave with a foray into politics just a few days later!</p><p></p><p><strong>DM's Notes: </strong>Lavanya knew Leon by his real name, General Dax Corbeau, hence her amusement at his assumed one. Lavanya is a character from Leon's background story - an eladrin woman who was living in hiding on Axis Island, creating a huge golem to act as her guardian. She tended Leon's wounds and caused him to doubt the propaganda spread in Danor about eladrin 'witches'. Danoran troops came in pursuit of 'Leon' (General Dax that is) and he escaped, never knowing what had become of Lavanya - assuming, in fact that she had been killed, or taken into slavery in Danor. Only when the unit headed into the Dreaming (in the company of Conquo, her golem) did he learn from the green dragon Tatzel that Lavanya had passed through there.</p><p></p><p>Unbeknownst to Leon, Lavanya extracted some of his memories, at his request, in the hopes that <em>not knowing</em> would cause the Danorans to stop hunting him.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="gideonpepys, post: 6153572, member: 79141"] [b]Session 80a - Downtime Week Six[/b] [B]Leon [/B]learned two more interesting things during the Winter Solstice festival in the bayou: First, the Old Stag had been able to speak with the incarcerated Tyler Starke and learned from him that Leon was not his first choice of assassin – he had originally hired a marksman from Drakr to kill Rock Rackus, someone who the Old Stag did not know, but whose name Leon immediately recognised: Kvarty Gorbarty. Leon also learned that (for a fee) the court would equip him with a blade that enabled him to [I]dreamstep[/I] much more easily, that would literally slice a hole between Lanjyr and the Dreaming. That night Leon dreamt of Lavanya again, but this time she approached him through the maze. For the first time in seven years, he could see her face clearly. She smiled wryly and said his name a couple of times, as if it was some sort of private joke: “’Leon’? ‘Leon’ is it?” “I don’t have much time. Soon your status at court will make it impossible for me to find you! How frustrating, having only just done so at long last. But I am glad to know that you survived the island, and hope one day that we can be together again. Just think: If you had not returned to my island sanctuary and brought Conquo away with you, I would never have known you were still alive! “He is such a good soul. I am very proud of my boy. Whatever lifeforce had charged him was spent when I found him: He stood in an overgrown field at the borders of the Dreaming, where the dragon Tatzel told me I might find him. He must have been there a long time as he was all covered in flowers and moss! “I miss the Dreaming. Once I wandered freely there, buying memories at the Birch Queen’s Fair. But lately things have changed and I must be cautious. “Leon, I cannot tell you where to find me, for I am bound not to do so. Nor can I hope that you will find me here, for it would mean peril for us both. Perhaps one day I will be free again, and things will be different? But what I can say is that I think you were [I]right[/I], even though I know that you will not remember what that means…” Leon woke, suddenly, bereft. That was no dream! Distracted, he spent the rest of the week looking into Pemberton Industries, and discovered that Benedict Pemberton was solidly supported by the factory owners of Flint, in particular due to the new gearmen he had supplied to keep their businesses running. There would be little chance of turning them against Pemberton or his adventurism. He also learned that Khaled Valchek of Black Star Mining had hired ice wizards to fake the ‘manifestations’ of his Avatars: the illusionist and stage magician Blander Waryeye had shared a few tricks of the trade with them, though he was more scared of exposing Valchek than he was of Leon… [B]Matunaaga, [/B]squirreled away in his home on the banks of the stray river had become gaunt, fasting in a quest to master the Palimpsest. At last, the second layer of the stone was revealed to him, the words floating up to the surface and into his mind: It told more of the story of how his people had freed themselves from slavery at the hands of the gidim and laid out two distinct paths his ancestors had once mastered to overcome the mind-controlling power of their former masters. Here, surely, was the means by which Matunaaga could achieve his goal of living weaponhood! [B]Korrigan[/B] tried to extract more information from Luc Jierre, but found that the young tiefling really did not know any more than he had already revealed. So the Marshal set about finding out which mayors he could rely on for support in thwarting the mercenary fleet. He learned that he had only one natural and immediate ally in the traditionalist mayor of the Cloudwood, Doyle Idylls. He approached his own representative – Chrystine Robinson of Stray River and established (after analysing her doublespeak with the help of Deneric Jayce) that she would only support a measure which the public were clearly in favour of: her public being the chattering classes of Stray River. This led to a realisation (confirmed by Malthusius – see below) that the public in general did not know much about the gathering fleet, and cared even less. Time to change that, thought Korrigan, and at once drew up a strongly worded article for publication in the [I]Courier[/I]. It was at this time that the first of his series of articles on his past and his opinions on current events emerged, and it was generally thought that they had established him as an admirable and popular figure. He would ride this wave with a foray into politics just a few days later! [B]DM's Notes: [/B]Lavanya knew Leon by his real name, General Dax Corbeau, hence her amusement at his assumed one. Lavanya is a character from Leon's background story - an eladrin woman who was living in hiding on Axis Island, creating a huge golem to act as her guardian. She tended Leon's wounds and caused him to doubt the propaganda spread in Danor about eladrin 'witches'. Danoran troops came in pursuit of 'Leon' (General Dax that is) and he escaped, never knowing what had become of Lavanya - assuming, in fact that she had been killed, or taken into slavery in Danor. Only when the unit headed into the Dreaming (in the company of Conquo, her golem) did he learn from the green dragon Tatzel that Lavanya had passed through there. Unbeknownst to Leon, Lavanya extracted some of his memories, at his request, in the hopes that [I]not knowing[/I] would cause the Danorans to stop hunting him. [/QUOTE]
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