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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Cerebral Paladin" data-source="post: 2843055" data-attributes="member: 3448">The group that had been investigating Alistair's siblings escorted the nervous factor of House Hetland into an audience chamber within Alistair's apartment. Dame Brionna glared at the drow, while Alistair stared stonily at him."Your highness... I had no idea that ..."Alistair cut off the factor with a sharp hand gesture. "I am wroth. My companions were ambushed --nearly murdered-- just outside your House's base in this city, and you dare to say that you had no idea? Do you deny that it was your duty to know that the ratmen operated under your very nose?""No, your highness. I should have known, and your servants should have been safe." The drow straightened his back. "I know that my life is forfeit and that I cannot expect mercy. But you should know that the failing was mine alone, and not the fault of my House.""Your House is responsible for your failings, factor. Surely you know that.""Yes, your highness. But we will be willing to make great concessions to retain the trade with Canberry. If you will limit your vengeance to my person, Hetland will appease you for my failures.""Perhaps I will be willing to stay my vengeance," Alistair said, a look of barely restrained fury on his face. "But first I must have more information, both of your House's activities and of any news that you may have learned. Do you know anything of the plots to advance my half-siblings against me?""I do, your highness. I have heard of the arrival in Canberry of one of your half-brothers, Dridall. Dridall is a tiefling, your highness. During one of your father's campaigns in the south, a wizard summoned a succubus and sent her to seduce him. At the command of her master, the succubus conceived and then delivered Dridall into the control of the wizard's allies. They moved him at great cost of money through the Twin Cities of the Gates, where they controlled a minor noble house. He is now staying at the Golden Lion, to be used as a possible challenger against you.""That information is very helpful, and might even be enough to make me overlook your failings. But your House has done more than merely fail to keep my people safe. Marcus, if you could create an image of the objects they gave you." Marcus cast an illusion, and the amulet and horde coins floated before him. "The Matron Mother and the Archmagus of your House conspired to have me murdered with a psychokinetic trap."</blockquote>

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