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Aphonion Tales: The Archducal Council -- Unedited notes; later posts are edited transcripts (posts MWF, update 3/1/23)
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<blockquote data-quote="CPaladin" data-source="post: 8354503" data-attributes="member: 7030144"><p>[Session 57 cont'd]</p><p>The Council realizes that there’s a missing breakthrough point.</p><p></p><p>Dame Brionna says that there’s a bigger problem in Masque. She points out the various orders that might be corrupted and suggests that we need to talk to the Order of the Serpent about how to destroy the Throne Globe.</p><p></p><p>Kit tries to contact the master of Yar, using the fan to boost her sending if she can. “I have urgent news of your servant Allorin. How may I address you?"</p><p></p><p>"It has been so long since one who was not mine has addressed me. I was Bertram the Builder; it was I who directed the building of the Four Walls. I am called Bertram. I do not need honorifics after so many millennia."</p><p></p><p>Kit asks to bring Alistair and Dame Brionna into the conversation. Bertram bolsters her.</p><p></p><p>"You have hope of many things, and prolipses is in your favor. By my estimate, you can build an infrastructure to the South as almost a client kingdom. It is how many empires are built."</p><p></p><p>He would come to the Crystal City to use the Heart.</p><p></p><p>"If the Heart were used, her creatures would be barred from entering through the vortex, but others still could. The other two are much weaker—a manageable threat for the long-term. Still, much better to close the vortex altogether.</p><p></p><p>"Greater servitors cannot come through the vortex. Lesser creatures of the Goddess, however, make the corrupted humans much more dangerous.</p><p></p><p>"Even I could not resist corruption if I approached the vortex closely. My cousins… with their “gods”… might be able to. We will speak no more of it."</p><p></p><p>"Is it the case that Balansar was once an Eldron?"</p><p>"A pox on both their houses."</p><p></p><p>(The Council apologizes for asking.)</p><p></p><p>"Speak to the five most powerful enclaves and the one hidden. Tell them that there may be a source of instability—blame it on anything. They may be a new source of stability.</p><p></p><p>"I suppose it is possible that the one … you… speak to Baron Kalan of Vitall as well. I think he might be able to create an item that might temporarily lend them some stability. His capabilities are weak compared to what one might find elsewhere, but strong compared to human sorcerers."</p><p></p><p>"That must mean you are unaware of the Breakpoint in the Underdark under Zest’Qua. Something to do with symmetry. If you could disrupt any one of the portals completely, it would drive all of them into shut-down. It is beneath the local evil of Zest’Qua, the Shadowlands. It is near the border of the Shadowlands, under the major warpstone mine."</p><p></p><p>"Is that the source of the warpstone?"</p><p>"Yes. I do not think the forces of Chaos realize the source of the warpstone that they use, or of the ratmen that flee from this."</p><p></p><p>Speaks of becoming one with their focus as the ultimate goal.</p><p></p><p>We discuss the prophecy about Dame Brionna becoming the great lady of a great holdfast.</p><p>[End session 57]</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="CPaladin, post: 8354503, member: 7030144"] [Session 57 cont'd] The Council realizes that there’s a missing breakthrough point. Dame Brionna says that there’s a bigger problem in Masque. She points out the various orders that might be corrupted and suggests that we need to talk to the Order of the Serpent about how to destroy the Throne Globe. Kit tries to contact the master of Yar, using the fan to boost her sending if she can. “I have urgent news of your servant Allorin. How may I address you?" "It has been so long since one who was not mine has addressed me. I was Bertram the Builder; it was I who directed the building of the Four Walls. I am called Bertram. I do not need honorifics after so many millennia." Kit asks to bring Alistair and Dame Brionna into the conversation. Bertram bolsters her. "You have hope of many things, and prolipses is in your favor. By my estimate, you can build an infrastructure to the South as almost a client kingdom. It is how many empires are built." He would come to the Crystal City to use the Heart. "If the Heart were used, her creatures would be barred from entering through the vortex, but others still could. The other two are much weaker—a manageable threat for the long-term. Still, much better to close the vortex altogether. "Greater servitors cannot come through the vortex. Lesser creatures of the Goddess, however, make the corrupted humans much more dangerous. "Even I could not resist corruption if I approached the vortex closely. My cousins… with their “gods”… might be able to. We will speak no more of it." "Is it the case that Balansar was once an Eldron?" "A pox on both their houses." (The Council apologizes for asking.) "Speak to the five most powerful enclaves and the one hidden. Tell them that there may be a source of instability—blame it on anything. They may be a new source of stability. "I suppose it is possible that the one … you… speak to Baron Kalan of Vitall as well. I think he might be able to create an item that might temporarily lend them some stability. His capabilities are weak compared to what one might find elsewhere, but strong compared to human sorcerers." "That must mean you are unaware of the Breakpoint in the Underdark under Zest’Qua. Something to do with symmetry. If you could disrupt any one of the portals completely, it would drive all of them into shut-down. It is beneath the local evil of Zest’Qua, the Shadowlands. It is near the border of the Shadowlands, under the major warpstone mine." "Is that the source of the warpstone?" "Yes. I do not think the forces of Chaos realize the source of the warpstone that they use, or of the ratmen that flee from this." Speaks of becoming one with their focus as the ultimate goal. We discuss the prophecy about Dame Brionna becoming the great lady of a great holdfast. [End session 57] [/QUOTE]
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