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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Cerebral Paladin" data-source="post: 3194096" data-attributes="member: 3448">Within a few minutes, the voller was gliding down to the air dock.  The same lieutenant scrambled down the gangplank and saluted the Archducal Council.  “We have all of the surviving guards aboard.  They also had a large wagon full of documents.”“Can you tell us anything about the attackers?” asked Dame Brionna.“Not much, I’m afraid, Captain.  They were a strange group…”“How many?”“Four, ma’am.  But they were fighting in the most bizarre way.  Dancing around like the clowns they were dressed as but knocking people about with their bare hands.  Most of the people I’ve heard of that are effective that way are guild assassins, but we don’t have any of those in Canberry…”Kit felt no need to correct his misapprehension, but decided to have her people investigate.  If these were guild assassins, she should be able to find out a fair amount through her own assassins guild.  “None of them survived for questioning?”“No, Dame Katherine.  The artillery is effective, but…  Oh, they also threw around several small vials, but that seems to have been just a distraction.”“Vials?” asked Dame Brionna.  “But that means…”“Plague,” said Alistair.  “Call for Bishop Hogsworthy.  We’ll need to check the entire crew for disease.”“Yes, your grace,” said Dame Brionna.  “But the rest of you need to return to your chambers, first.  I’ll take care of determining who has been infected and having them cured.”Alistair wanted to protest but knew she was right, and simply nodded and turned to leave.As they walked away, Kit said to Dame Brionna, “Make sure you check Master Weighthand and his family.”“Don’t worry, we will.”Dame Brionna initially asked Bishop Hogsworthy if he could detect the infection and lead the efforts at curing it, but while detecting the disease would be a mere orison, the bishop had not prepared it that day.  Father Waters, however, was able to perform the detections, and began the process of sweeping through the voller and designating people for other priests to heal.  Most of the crew had been infected, as well as Master Weighthand’s family, Kit’s scribe, and the documents, but they had caught the disease quickly enough, and responded with enough clerical magic, to prevent any lasting harm.  With the crisis dealt with, Kit’s scribe took the records into a private chamber and began the laborious process of cataloging and deciphering them.While Dame Brionna attended to those matters, Kit sent word to her agents to investigate the Harlequins.  She passed on the information that the Council believed that they were both guild assassins and drowan religious fanatics who worship Algaroth as a god.  The combination was strange enough that she was optimistic about the likelihood of getting useful information back.</blockquote>

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