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<blockquote data-quote="skotothalamos" data-source="post: 6145940" data-attributes="member: 83398"><p>The constables made their way to the lighthouse to achieve the first part of their objective. They found the guards on duty to be pretty easily swayed by Malkie’s bribes of Fey Pepper, and were inside the sea gate control room without a fight. When the sea gate opened, the constables found themselves in a pitched fight with a wizard and some soldiers, but the RHC won out and, with the expert help of the Earth Elemental from the Golden Icon of Urim (who Ironpeak named "RockDog" or possibly "RawkDawg") they managed to set up enough defenses to withstand wave after wave of rebel soldiers. Within ten minutes, the Risuri navy had arrived and the latest battle for Axis Island ensued.</p><p> </p><p>With the loyalists outnumbering the rebels five to one, and a contingent of Danorans freed from prison and already running rampant inside the walls, the battle did not last long. Captain Smith offered congratulatory cigars and urged the constables to go and arrest the Duchess as soon as the Inner Keep could be breached. While the constables were still prepping for their next escapade, one of the Risuri ships erupted in a ball of flame.</p><p> </p><p>A figure with a flaming sword and throwing shield could be seen cutting a swath through the Risuri troops on his way to the central tower of the fortress, where the duchess was believed to be hiding. He leaped walls, walked up walls, and burned everything in his path. James, Mort, and Ironpeak agreed that the attacker matched the description and fighting style of Asrabey Varal, an eladrin who had fought alongside Risuri forces in the First Yerasol War, some two hundred years’ past. The constables headed after him as quickly as they could follow.</p><p> </p><p>At the Inner Keep, they found the Risuri loyalists preparing siege engines to scale the walls while rebels harassed from behind crenellations. As Asrabey approached the wall, reality shifted, replacing an area of wall with daylit jungle. Asrabey dove into the jungle and passed into the keep. With the reality shift rapidly closing, the constables dashed into the weird jungle. Malkie was forced to don her hood to avoid the sudden sunlight.</p><p> </p><p>Through the jungle the constables rejoined reality and found themselves on the edge of a hedge maze, through which a direct path had been burned. The path could be followed, but only at risk of lighting fire themselves. The group’s Tiefling, Mort Stark, led the way, completely unconcerned about being burned. Ironpeak followed, trusting in her Golden Icon of Urim to keep her safe. James used a pair of infusions to make himself and Cazara briefly fireproof, and Malkie invoked her Golden Icon of Avilona to leap from one hedgerow to the next, avoiding the fire entirely.</p><p> </p><p>Halfway across the maze, the constables were accosted by Ghillie Dhu, a nature spirit who demanded to know their reason for trespass. Cazara quickly explained that they needed to stop Asrabey from killing the Duchess, and Ghillie Dhu waved the group through. He had a fire to put out anyway.</p><p> </p><p>Through the hedge, they spied Asrabey walking up the outside of the tower. James got off a potshot with his musket, but to no avail. Ironpeak used her knowledge of Martial Science to judge that Asrabey was probably at about the 20[SUP]th[/SUP] level of fighting prowess, and thus would be nearly impossible for James to effectively hit.</p><p> </p><p>The group headed inside the tower, where they found two floors of charred defenders, apparently casually torched through a window by the passing Varal. On the third floor, they found a large door, through which they overheard the following conversation:</p><p> </p><p><strong>Duchess: </strong>“Asrabey, don’t do anything you’ll regret.”</p><p><strong>Asrabey: </strong>“Save your pleading breath for prayer.”</p><p><strong>Duchess: </strong>“If you have come for the reason I suspect, you should pray with me as well. You are a murderer, Asrabey. Did I so displease the Court that you needed to slaughter a hundred to reach me?”</p><p><strong>Asrabey: </strong>“To forestall war, yes! Your people must not think we are the ally of a kingslayer. And worse, one who consorts with devils.”</p><p><strong>Nathan Jierre: </strong>“Um, perhaps reason is bit much to expect at this time, but can we talk about this?”</p><p>The sound of a flame whip cracking</p><p><strong>Asrabey: </strong>“You are lucky your cursed flesh will not burn. But I have other ways to make you suffer.” To the duchess he says, “Prepare yourself, and you may die with dignity.”</p><p><strong>Duchess: </strong>“Wait! My brother won’t execute his own blood, and so long as I live I can still oppose him. There are more important matters than-”</p><p><strong>Asrabey: </strong>“You struck the first blow. Aodhan was a soldier, as I am, and forgiveness does not come easily to our kind. He’ll never listen to you, not in the short years he has left. Already you are vilified. You promised your land would pull away from these fiends, would return to the old ways, yet you have fallen in with them yourself.”</p><p><strong>Duchess: </strong>“You don’t understand. Nathan is on our side. There’s a threat to Risur and the Unseen. I told the Court as much-”</p><p><strong>Asrabey: </strong>“Enough. Ethelyn, please do not make me watch you beg.”</p><p><strong>Duchess: </strong>“Asrabey Varal, your closed mind has doomed us all. Very well. Finish it.”</p><p><strong>Tiefling: </strong>“Wait a minute, Varal? Are you kin to a Kasvarina Varal?”</p><p> </p><p>And then Cazara and Ironpeak kicked through the door, where they saw Asrabey preparing to strike down the already critically-injured Duchess as Nathan Jierre cowered nearby. A large telescope dominated the room, and the bodies of a dozen guards and half as many wolves lay scattered about. The wolves were slowly fading out of reality, clearly having been summoned.</p><p> </p><p>Malkie rushed into the room and starting talking down Asrabey. Asrabey was completely impervious to negotiation, claiming that the only way the Unseen Court could have justice was by taking Ethelyn back for a “trial and execution.” Cazara calmed the eladrin by reminding him that proper vengeance should not be meted out in the heat of battle, but should be done carefully and properly.</p><p> </p><p>The two sides agreed upon a trial of the Duchess Ethelyn by a tribunal consisting of one judge from Risur, one representing the Unseen Court and a third neutral party to be agreed upon by the first two. Asrabey specifically excluded any “devils” from the tribunal. When Mort tried to argue for Danoran representation, Malkie and Cazara – sensing that negotiations were perilously balanced – shut him down before he could provoke Asrabey. Mort stormed out in a huff and the RHC proceeded to take the Duchess and Nathan into custody. Asrabey refused to leave the Duchess’s side, claiming that she was also in his custody.</p><p> </p><p>After everyone left the observatory, James stayed behind to see what he could discover. He found Nathan Jierre’s astronomical notebook, full of telescope coordinates. He noted the position of the telescope matched up with a seemingly-important set of notations in the book. Looking through, he noted a particularly brilliant blue star. James also noticed a dissected yellow frog in Nathan’s lab, held down by gold pins. The two of these reminded James of the bayou the group had reality-shifted into on the trek from the mine. As his thoughts turned to the blue sun and yellow frogs of that place, suddenly he was there. As he looked around for any clue about the place, he made the disturbing realization that every yellow frog he could see was looking back at him, and they were slowly closing in. James hurriedly drove an iron spike into the ground and returned to reality. One frog came with him, slowly hopping toward him until it faded out like the Duchess’s wolves. James hurried out of the observatory before something weird happened again.</p><p> </p><p>The prisoners were loaded into the RNS Impossible and, over the course of the night, most of the fleet left the harbor. At daybreak, a Danoran steamship entered the harbor. Lya Jierre was first off the ship. She and Malkie signed the one-page treaty officially handing Axis Island back over to Danor and holding neither side responsible for the Duchess’s actions.</p><p> </p><p>After the treaty was signed, Malkie dutifully gave the three Golden Icons to Lya, explaining how they had been gifts from a crazy miner and that they seemed to be tied to the planets, but probably only worked on Axis Island. Lya looked them over, thanked Malkie for returning Danor’s property to Danor, and then promptly gave them back to Malkie, saying they were a gift for the constables, to thank them for all their hard work. She then made sure to invite the group to her wedding next year to King Aodhan before they parted ways.</p><p> </p><p>And so the constables returned to Flint and to their relatively normal lives of crime and paperwork.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="skotothalamos, post: 6145940, member: 83398"] The constables made their way to the lighthouse to achieve the first part of their objective. They found the guards on duty to be pretty easily swayed by Malkie’s bribes of Fey Pepper, and were inside the sea gate control room without a fight. When the sea gate opened, the constables found themselves in a pitched fight with a wizard and some soldiers, but the RHC won out and, with the expert help of the Earth Elemental from the Golden Icon of Urim (who Ironpeak named "RockDog" or possibly "RawkDawg") they managed to set up enough defenses to withstand wave after wave of rebel soldiers. Within ten minutes, the Risuri navy had arrived and the latest battle for Axis Island ensued. With the loyalists outnumbering the rebels five to one, and a contingent of Danorans freed from prison and already running rampant inside the walls, the battle did not last long. Captain Smith offered congratulatory cigars and urged the constables to go and arrest the Duchess as soon as the Inner Keep could be breached. While the constables were still prepping for their next escapade, one of the Risuri ships erupted in a ball of flame. A figure with a flaming sword and throwing shield could be seen cutting a swath through the Risuri troops on his way to the central tower of the fortress, where the duchess was believed to be hiding. He leaped walls, walked up walls, and burned everything in his path. James, Mort, and Ironpeak agreed that the attacker matched the description and fighting style of Asrabey Varal, an eladrin who had fought alongside Risuri forces in the First Yerasol War, some two hundred years’ past. The constables headed after him as quickly as they could follow. At the Inner Keep, they found the Risuri loyalists preparing siege engines to scale the walls while rebels harassed from behind crenellations. As Asrabey approached the wall, reality shifted, replacing an area of wall with daylit jungle. Asrabey dove into the jungle and passed into the keep. With the reality shift rapidly closing, the constables dashed into the weird jungle. Malkie was forced to don her hood to avoid the sudden sunlight. Through the jungle the constables rejoined reality and found themselves on the edge of a hedge maze, through which a direct path had been burned. The path could be followed, but only at risk of lighting fire themselves. The group’s Tiefling, Mort Stark, led the way, completely unconcerned about being burned. Ironpeak followed, trusting in her Golden Icon of Urim to keep her safe. James used a pair of infusions to make himself and Cazara briefly fireproof, and Malkie invoked her Golden Icon of Avilona to leap from one hedgerow to the next, avoiding the fire entirely. Halfway across the maze, the constables were accosted by Ghillie Dhu, a nature spirit who demanded to know their reason for trespass. Cazara quickly explained that they needed to stop Asrabey from killing the Duchess, and Ghillie Dhu waved the group through. He had a fire to put out anyway. Through the hedge, they spied Asrabey walking up the outside of the tower. James got off a potshot with his musket, but to no avail. Ironpeak used her knowledge of Martial Science to judge that Asrabey was probably at about the 20[SUP]th[/SUP] level of fighting prowess, and thus would be nearly impossible for James to effectively hit. The group headed inside the tower, where they found two floors of charred defenders, apparently casually torched through a window by the passing Varal. On the third floor, they found a large door, through which they overheard the following conversation: [B]Duchess: [/B]“Asrabey, don’t do anything you’ll regret.” [B]Asrabey: [/B]“Save your pleading breath for prayer.” [B]Duchess: [/B]“If you have come for the reason I suspect, you should pray with me as well. You are a murderer, Asrabey. Did I so displease the Court that you needed to slaughter a hundred to reach me?” [B]Asrabey: [/B]“To forestall war, yes! Your people must not think we are the ally of a kingslayer. And worse, one who consorts with devils.” [B]Nathan Jierre: [/B]“Um, perhaps reason is bit much to expect at this time, but can we talk about this?” The sound of a flame whip cracking [B]Asrabey: [/B]“You are lucky your cursed flesh will not burn. But I have other ways to make you suffer.” To the duchess he says, “Prepare yourself, and you may die with dignity.” [B]Duchess: [/B]“Wait! My brother won’t execute his own blood, and so long as I live I can still oppose him. There are more important matters than-” [B]Asrabey: [/B]“You struck the first blow. Aodhan was a soldier, as I am, and forgiveness does not come easily to our kind. He’ll never listen to you, not in the short years he has left. Already you are vilified. You promised your land would pull away from these fiends, would return to the old ways, yet you have fallen in with them yourself.” [B]Duchess: [/B]“You don’t understand. Nathan is on our side. There’s a threat to Risur and the Unseen. I told the Court as much-” [B]Asrabey: [/B]“Enough. Ethelyn, please do not make me watch you beg.” [B]Duchess: [/B]“Asrabey Varal, your closed mind has doomed us all. Very well. Finish it.” [B]Tiefling: [/B]“Wait a minute, Varal? Are you kin to a Kasvarina Varal?” And then Cazara and Ironpeak kicked through the door, where they saw Asrabey preparing to strike down the already critically-injured Duchess as Nathan Jierre cowered nearby. A large telescope dominated the room, and the bodies of a dozen guards and half as many wolves lay scattered about. The wolves were slowly fading out of reality, clearly having been summoned. Malkie rushed into the room and starting talking down Asrabey. Asrabey was completely impervious to negotiation, claiming that the only way the Unseen Court could have justice was by taking Ethelyn back for a “trial and execution.” Cazara calmed the eladrin by reminding him that proper vengeance should not be meted out in the heat of battle, but should be done carefully and properly. The two sides agreed upon a trial of the Duchess Ethelyn by a tribunal consisting of one judge from Risur, one representing the Unseen Court and a third neutral party to be agreed upon by the first two. Asrabey specifically excluded any “devils” from the tribunal. When Mort tried to argue for Danoran representation, Malkie and Cazara – sensing that negotiations were perilously balanced – shut him down before he could provoke Asrabey. Mort stormed out in a huff and the RHC proceeded to take the Duchess and Nathan into custody. Asrabey refused to leave the Duchess’s side, claiming that she was also in his custody. After everyone left the observatory, James stayed behind to see what he could discover. He found Nathan Jierre’s astronomical notebook, full of telescope coordinates. He noted the position of the telescope matched up with a seemingly-important set of notations in the book. Looking through, he noted a particularly brilliant blue star. James also noticed a dissected yellow frog in Nathan’s lab, held down by gold pins. The two of these reminded James of the bayou the group had reality-shifted into on the trek from the mine. As his thoughts turned to the blue sun and yellow frogs of that place, suddenly he was there. As he looked around for any clue about the place, he made the disturbing realization that every yellow frog he could see was looking back at him, and they were slowly closing in. James hurriedly drove an iron spike into the ground and returned to reality. One frog came with him, slowly hopping toward him until it faded out like the Duchess’s wolves. James hurried out of the observatory before something weird happened again. The prisoners were loaded into the RNS Impossible and, over the course of the night, most of the fleet left the harbor. At daybreak, a Danoran steamship entered the harbor. Lya Jierre was first off the ship. She and Malkie signed the one-page treaty officially handing Axis Island back over to Danor and holding neither side responsible for the Duchess’s actions. After the treaty was signed, Malkie dutifully gave the three Golden Icons to Lya, explaining how they had been gifts from a crazy miner and that they seemed to be tied to the planets, but probably only worked on Axis Island. Lya looked them over, thanked Malkie for returning Danor’s property to Danor, and then promptly gave them back to Malkie, saying they were a gift for the constables, to thank them for all their hard work. She then made sure to invite the group to her wedding next year to King Aodhan before they parted ways. And so the constables returned to Flint and to their relatively normal lives of crime and paperwork. [/QUOTE]
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