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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Cerebral Paladin" data-source="post: 3224770" data-attributes="member: 3448">While Dame Brionna took care of organizing the expedition, the Chamberlain presented his report to the Archduke.  “Your eminent grace,” he began, bowing deeply, “several more parties are approaching the capital.  It is beginning to get complicated planning for how to deal with all of them.  We have a delegation from the Theocracy of Tang-- they have crossed the border and are approaching the capital at speed.  As the One of Diplomacy arrived prior to the funeral of Her Eminent Grace the late Archduchess, we presume that this party includes the One of Ones.“We also have someone approaching from the City of the Pass, which I was not expecting.  I had not thought that they would send anyone.  Even more notably, we have a small party from Ko Re Pek coming.  There is also a voller from the Kingdom of the Haunted Mountains on Khamista, presumably an emissary from the White Witch.  We would not normally expect the high level of interest from realms we have had little contact with, but it is a demonstration of respect for your grandmother’s significant involvement in international politics.  We are also receiving an emissary from the Empire of Tarhanna; except for the occasional Tarhannian priest, we don’t hear much from them.”“Do we have room for all of these dignitaries?” asked Kit.“Barely, Dame Katherine.  I must say, planning all of the arrangements is a challenge.”“Do we have a Minister of Protocol?” asked Alistair.  “Who’s handling the details?”“I’m as close to a Minister of Protocol as we have, your grace, and I’m coordinating the planning.  I’m keeping all of the arrangements on many slates-- I don’t dare commit it to parchment until we’re sure nobody else will arrive.  And there are some trying details… I had to give Tarhanna precedence over Tang, even though Tang is closer to us.”Alistair nodded.  “But Tarhanna shares our faith.  No one will fault you for giving our coreligionists precedence within each category.”“Thank you, your grace.  The more important question is where to house all of them.  I have been having the hardest time finding a reasonable place for the White Witch’s emissary.”“What about placing her with the ambassador from the Grand Duchy of Ergmoth and the Paranswarmian nuncio?  Since she is tightly tied to the church of Paranswarm, that should avoid offending or scaring anyone.”“An excellent suggestion, your grace, I’ll make those notes immediately.  Oh, that reminds me:  do you wish to take offense at the Protector of the Faith’s decision to not attend personally?”“The Grand Duchess of Ergmoth?  Gods, no.  We’ve had some cooperative interactions with the Inquisition; why would I want to make an enemy unnecessarily when we have so many real enemies?  We’ll express our gratitude that she sent an emissary all the way from Ergmoth and leave it at that.”“Very good, your grace.  Unless there are any further questions, I should get back to making my arrangements.”</blockquote>

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