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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Cerebral Paladin" data-source="post: 2990192" data-attributes="member: 3448">Canberry Needs You!Curious about those adventurers Kit is sending to recover the Archduchess's amulet?  Wondering whether they will succeed and what wacky adventures they will have?  They could be you!  The DM of this game is writing an adventure for teams of PCs as they try to recover the amulet, to premiere at <a href="http://www.anonycon.com" target="_blank">AnonyCon 2006</a>  in Stamford, CT, December 15-17.  AnonyCon is a terrific con, mostly run by Ladybird and Delbon's player, with help from myself, Orichalcum, and many others.  Orichalcum and myself will be running another one of our D&D games as well, and Ladybird will have a Call of Cthulhu game, as well as much other fun stuff, including plenty of LG for people who like that.  We hope you'll join us.  And the Archduchy needs your help. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />Quartz:  Don't worry; I've got another 3 sessions all written up, and I'm working on the 4th.  That's nearly 100 pages more material!  I'll be able to keep up this posting rate for a long time.I also want to mention that I have a note from the scene with Stythus and Lady Constance that says that the night hag serves the female demon.  I'm not sure what this means.-------When Stythus and Lady Constance returned to the meeting, they thanked the archmaga for her service.  While they did not recognize the face on the parchment, it was a lead that would surely bear fruit soon enough.  Lady Constance nodded, pleased.  "But you said you had another matter you wished to discuss?"Alistair gestured to Kit, who nodded.  "Lady Constance, when I was investigating the slavers in the south, I saw that the army of Brightspan had been replaced by tieflings.  I do not know how many total, but there were definitely more than a hundred.  I also found out that there was a powerful group of demon-worshippers active, and I thought that the Duchess of Brightspan might be involved somehow.  Do you know anything about where the tieflings might have come from?"Lady Constance paused, in thought.  "Depending on their precise lineage, they might just serve the Duchess out of familial loyalty.  The Duchess of Brightspan has a claim within the hierarchy of Hell, as her mother was a half-blood.  The Duchess's grandmother was a minor princess of Hell.""Do you think that the Duchess might be involved in demonism?""I wouldn't have thought so.  In her youth, the Duchess was a licensed diabolist in Tarsh.  She converted for her marriage, more out of love for the Duke than for Glor'diadel, if you ask me.  But I wouldn't have expected her to have any fondness for demons.  She was a devotee of the Weeping Woman as a child, during the lead up to the Blood War of Tarsh, before her conversion.  Few of the Weeping Woman's servants have been corrupted by the offers of demons.""And, presumably, the Church of Paranswarm would watch any diabolist carefully for signs that they had crossed over into dealing with demons as well as devils," Alistair noted."Indeed, your grace.  In her youth, the SHH watched her carefully, and with no complaints as far as my contacts tell me," Lady Constance continued, pronouncing the abbreviation of the Society of the Hands of Hell as a long syllable shhhh.  "Even after her conversion, SHH sent a member to watch and advise her in Brightspan, but he was assassinated.""Maybe because there were things she didn't want the SHH to see," said Kit."Perhaps," Lady Constance replied noncommitally.  "As for the demon-worshippers-- I'm glad that you noticed the coven, as I was going to point them out anyway.  They appear to be working out of the sewers and have summoned at least three powerful creatures, including an arcana.""In the city?" Kit said in consternation.  "The arcana I knew of had been summoned in the south, in the refugee lands.""Ah... then it must be separate, although the coven that called it may be related to the coven here somehow.""What exactly is an arcana, Lady Constance?" asked Alistair."A powerful demon, your grace, principally to be feared for its great magic abilities.""I see.  In that case, may I ask that you take charge of investigating what the arcana in the south, or its masters, seek to do?  I think that the threat of the ones in the city is best dealt with by quickly identifying their locations and then simply sending knights to deal with them, but that's harder to do in the Sunken Lands.""Or perhaps church knights, your grace," interjected Sister Alessandre.  "The unholy is best fought with holy light.""A sensible plan, your grace.  And now, if I may ask a boon?" Lady Constance paused apprehensively.  "Amelia recognized that my magic was very different from her own and tolerated that difference.  We only attended upon each other's rituals once, and that was enough to know that the less she saw of my magic, the happier we would both be.  But she recognized that my powers had their uses, and gave me special permission to practice my art, even though your realm does not license diabolists regularly..."Should you have a different view of the matter, I should know now, at the outset of your reign.  If you intend to treat me as any other diabolist, I should like to take my leave of Canberry.  Exile seems preferable to burning at the stake, and though this is my home, there are other realms that would welcome me." Something about the way in which she mentioned burning suggested that it was less the matter of execution than her doubts about what the afterlife might hold for her that made her cautious about anything that might shorten her life."Of course, Lady Constance.  You have served Canberry well and loyally, and in these troubled times, we would not give up your loyal service.  You may continue to practice your art as you did in my grandmother's time," Alistair replied, carefully speaking in the formal first-person plural.  "The continuing threat of demonism may make a diabolist unpopular among people who do not fully understand the difference.  Should the outcry become too great, we may need to dismiss you from our service.  But should that be necessary, you have our promise that you will be warned in advance, and you will be dismissed into exile, not death.""My thanks, your grace, and I will understand if exile becomes necessary, though I hope it won't.  With your leave, I will begin my research into this arcana in the south.  We should teach demons a lesson about respecting Canberry's domain..."</blockquote>

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