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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Cerebral Paladin" data-source="post: 3217764" data-attributes="member: 3448">Session 13:The following morning, with six days left before the coronation, the Council gathered to review the reports.  The City report was brief-- after the capture of the two Harlequins, the murders in the City had completely stopped.  Dame Brionna had received some reports of movements, perhaps of spies, outside the City but without any details.  Based on their motions, her contacts could not be sure that the spies’ target was the Archduke.  The spies might be altogether unrelated to the Archduchy.“Spies, huh?” responded Kit.  “Sounds like my department.  I’ll check it out.”“Can you also have your people look for the rest of the Harlequins?” asked Dame Brionna.  “Even with the capture of these two, the four killed by the voller’s artillery, and the one Quinliart killed for meeting Stythus, that leaves thirteen still active.”“And that’s assuming twenty was an exact count,”  added Alistair.  “We need to eliminate a lot more of them before the coronation.  Otherwise, their plan will be very difficult to stop.  He was right-- if they start openly attacking during the coronation, we’ll have no choice but to respond.  And if we can’t defeat them…”“Don’t worry,” said Kit.  “My people will find them.”Kit slipped out and passed the word about what she was looking for on to her network.  One of her standard contacts quickly approached her with a report.“Don’t know what to tell you ‘bout the clowns, ma’am.  They were active throughout the City until yesterday afternoon, then pfft-- nothing.  They’ve disappeared from the underways, no signs of them in the slums…  We’ll look for ‘em, but if they lie low, it’ll be hard.”“What about the plague vials they were spreading?”“We’ve been hauling those in by the handful, and bringing them to the temples like you said.  We’ve got almost all of them by now.”“That’s good, but not good enough.  I need every last one of those off the streets.”“Yes, ma’am,” said the rogue, a little chastised.  “I’ll have our people work harder.”</blockquote>

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