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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Cerebral Paladin" data-source="post: 3507753" data-attributes="member: 3448">The Council sent a message to the Cathedral of the Sun, asking the Archbishop to come to the palace with Reverend Canon Toddle and the senior priest of the separate but allied and subordinate priesthood of the Goddess of Fate.  They bypassed Bishop Hoggsworthy completely; even if he could be trusted, involving him offered no benefits.  Within the hour, the Archbishop and Reverend Canon arrived.  The third priest, Father Percy Mondaven, arrived somewhat later, on foot.  He was a slender man with a somewhat scholarly mien, who looked to be in his early sixties.  Father Mondaven also wore distinctive vestments:  with grays instead of the white and gold of the Glor’diadelian robes, and with scales worked into the pattern.The Reverend Canon began talking before the Council even had the opportunity to say why they had asked the priests to the palace.  “He walks in the lowest quarters, you know.”“Oh, he’s started moving?” asked Kit.“Yes.  Just recently, based on when he returned to my vision, but he is definitely moving now.”“What is he doing?”The diviner paused.  “In my vision, he distributes food to the beggars and the alcoholics in the poorest quarters, and he weeps.”“Do the beggars then die?” asked Alistair, expecting some sort of treachery.“No… No…. They do not die.  He buys food for the poorest from any venders on the street, using sums of money they have never seen.  Some do die, though--he wreaks havoc in ways he does not understand.  When first I awoke, he gave a diamond, pried from a ring on his hand, to a young girl.  He had not gone a block when she was slain.  It has passed hands four times by now.”“What does he think he’s doing?” asked Kit.Father Toddle shrugged in response to the question.“Trying to create chaos?” speculated Alistair.“Helping as alms, I would say,” said Father Toddle.While the Council thought about this, they turned to Father Mondaven.  “We must soon act against this Drow assassin, the Master Unbidden.  Do you think we can gain the favor of the Lady of Fate?” asked Alistair.“The Lady hears Her children, and the place you bear in the skein She weaves is important to Her,” replied Father Mondaven.  “I believe She would intervene to aid with luck, but you cannot change your place in the skein once it is woven.”“All the more reason to try divinations to see what may happen,” said Dame Brionna, with a nod to the Reverend Canon.“Would you pray for my fate in the coming days?” asked Alistair.  “We may have a more specific request soon, but I would like to ask a few more questions of Reverend Canon Toddle first.”“Of course, your grace,” replied the Archbishop.Father Mondaven nodded as well.  “If I may use the main chapel?”  When Alistair nodded, Father Mondaven headed off confidently in the direction of the main chapel, despite never having been in the palace before.  The Archbishop went to the private royal chapel to conduct his own prayers.</blockquote>

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