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<blockquote data-quote="skotothalamos" data-source="post: 6623167" data-attributes="member: 83398"><p><strong>Mother's Day, part 1</strong></p><p></p><p>The constables rushed to Slate to have a meeting with King Aodhan about their vision of ObCon. They shared ad much as they could remember, together with the information that Livia Hatsfield and Catherine Romana were Obscurati members. When Cazara asked if Aodhan knew that Hatsfield was a spy, he said that, yes, she was his spy in the Obscurati. </p><p></p><p>The constables followed Summer to Cauldron Hill, where her last recovered memory in Risur waited. Talking to Captain Dale, they secured access to the destroyed Obscurati facility, which was no longer in the Bleak Gate (usually). Summer and the constables descended into the wreckage, where they relived many memories of Kasvarina, Leone Quital, and Alexander Grappa running the facility. Kasvarina mostly worked on teaching the witchoil golems. She taught them and learned their different personalities, and they called her “Mother.” Their father was the man who had designed their consciousnesses: the “Mindmaker,” Grappa. After a series of such memories, Summer had a memory of Kasvarina sharing a bottle of wine with Leone Quital while they discussed the betrayal of Grappa. During their discussion, Quital noticed that Grappa was eavesdropping inside a nearby air vent. He used his magnetic powers to pull the vent from the wall with Grappa still inside. Grappa was taken away to a prison cell.</p><p></p><p>The final memory at Cauldron Hill involved Grappa’s bronze-golem servant coming to Kasvarina and telling her that Grappa wanted to talk. When she went to him, he used his mind powers to wipe away centuries of her memory. He told her that people are just the product of their accumulated experiences, and that he believed that Kasvarina was at heart a good person, but had suffered some horrible experiences. By wiping away those experiences and regressing her to her younger self, Grappa hoped that Kasvarina would return to the idealism of her youth, and then the memory ended. But the constables knew the rest of the story: Grappa and Kasvarina escaped in the early days of Summer. He and his golem were tracked down and destroyed by Quital, though Grappa was able to transfer his consciousness to the decapitated head of his golem, where it stayed until the RHC found it. Kasvarina wandered the Cloudwood until Gale found her and brought her to live with Nevard’s Skyseers. Kasvarina had no memory of even her name, and was called “Summer.”</p><p></p><p>The constables returned to a more regular schedule for a month or so before being called to a meeting with Clint City Governor Roland Stanfield. During that month, Alienor brought her daughter over to Risur from Danor to keep her safe. Alienor wanted her daughter to live with the Skyseers as Summer had, and to be watched over by Gale. Gale, of course, indicated that she could not take responsibility for a teenager, but she would do her best to make sure she was well taken care of. Alienor’s daughter wanted nothing to do with it, having been plucked from the cosmopolitan lifestyle of Cherage and dumped in the middle of a damp forest with a bunch of old hippies. Alienor put her foot down and insisted that she stay and learn about those different from herself, especially the eladrin.</p><p></p><p>At the meeting with Stanfield on the 1st of Autumn, the constables (and their boss, Delft) were informed that the Flint city government was not satisfied with the performance of the RHC in the city. The RHC’s best constables spent more time on international missions than they did dealing with the problems in Flint. Stanfield had Captain Dale read off a list of problems, from riots to maritime troubles, but Delft cut him off. He informed Stanfield that he had a classified mission to send the constables on, but he would do his best to reinforce the local RHC office with more fresh graduates from the academy in Slate. Delft then said the meeting was over and instructed his constables to leave.</p><p></p><p>On the carriage ride back, Delft told the constables about their new mission: to track down Leone Quital, the “Steelshaper.” Delft produced a letter from Alexander Grappa, who said he had been destroyed by Quital again during the collapse of the Cauldron Hill facility, but he had managed to transfer is own consciousness into the back of Quital’s mind. Grappa stayed hidden away while Quital was awake, but once Quital fell asleep, Grappa could take control of the body. Grappa said he needed the constables’ help to get free of Quital and get a body for himself. He offered a carrot in exchange for their help: information about an upcoming Obscurati meeting for which Quital was coordinating the travel plans of a half-dozen or so travelers. The meeting would take place on the 79th of Autumn, and Grappa knew where and how to get in, but he would only offer that information in person after the constables had rescued him.</p><p></p><p>The constables and Delft realized that ObCon had not yet happened. Somehow they had experienced a vision of the future!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="skotothalamos, post: 6623167, member: 83398"] [b]Mother's Day, part 1[/b] The constables rushed to Slate to have a meeting with King Aodhan about their vision of ObCon. They shared ad much as they could remember, together with the information that Livia Hatsfield and Catherine Romana were Obscurati members. When Cazara asked if Aodhan knew that Hatsfield was a spy, he said that, yes, she was his spy in the Obscurati. The constables followed Summer to Cauldron Hill, where her last recovered memory in Risur waited. Talking to Captain Dale, they secured access to the destroyed Obscurati facility, which was no longer in the Bleak Gate (usually). Summer and the constables descended into the wreckage, where they relived many memories of Kasvarina, Leone Quital, and Alexander Grappa running the facility. Kasvarina mostly worked on teaching the witchoil golems. She taught them and learned their different personalities, and they called her “Mother.” Their father was the man who had designed their consciousnesses: the “Mindmaker,” Grappa. After a series of such memories, Summer had a memory of Kasvarina sharing a bottle of wine with Leone Quital while they discussed the betrayal of Grappa. During their discussion, Quital noticed that Grappa was eavesdropping inside a nearby air vent. He used his magnetic powers to pull the vent from the wall with Grappa still inside. Grappa was taken away to a prison cell. The final memory at Cauldron Hill involved Grappa’s bronze-golem servant coming to Kasvarina and telling her that Grappa wanted to talk. When she went to him, he used his mind powers to wipe away centuries of her memory. He told her that people are just the product of their accumulated experiences, and that he believed that Kasvarina was at heart a good person, but had suffered some horrible experiences. By wiping away those experiences and regressing her to her younger self, Grappa hoped that Kasvarina would return to the idealism of her youth, and then the memory ended. But the constables knew the rest of the story: Grappa and Kasvarina escaped in the early days of Summer. He and his golem were tracked down and destroyed by Quital, though Grappa was able to transfer his consciousness to the decapitated head of his golem, where it stayed until the RHC found it. Kasvarina wandered the Cloudwood until Gale found her and brought her to live with Nevard’s Skyseers. Kasvarina had no memory of even her name, and was called “Summer.” The constables returned to a more regular schedule for a month or so before being called to a meeting with Clint City Governor Roland Stanfield. During that month, Alienor brought her daughter over to Risur from Danor to keep her safe. Alienor wanted her daughter to live with the Skyseers as Summer had, and to be watched over by Gale. Gale, of course, indicated that she could not take responsibility for a teenager, but she would do her best to make sure she was well taken care of. Alienor’s daughter wanted nothing to do with it, having been plucked from the cosmopolitan lifestyle of Cherage and dumped in the middle of a damp forest with a bunch of old hippies. Alienor put her foot down and insisted that she stay and learn about those different from herself, especially the eladrin. At the meeting with Stanfield on the 1st of Autumn, the constables (and their boss, Delft) were informed that the Flint city government was not satisfied with the performance of the RHC in the city. The RHC’s best constables spent more time on international missions than they did dealing with the problems in Flint. Stanfield had Captain Dale read off a list of problems, from riots to maritime troubles, but Delft cut him off. He informed Stanfield that he had a classified mission to send the constables on, but he would do his best to reinforce the local RHC office with more fresh graduates from the academy in Slate. Delft then said the meeting was over and instructed his constables to leave. On the carriage ride back, Delft told the constables about their new mission: to track down Leone Quital, the “Steelshaper.” Delft produced a letter from Alexander Grappa, who said he had been destroyed by Quital again during the collapse of the Cauldron Hill facility, but he had managed to transfer is own consciousness into the back of Quital’s mind. Grappa stayed hidden away while Quital was awake, but once Quital fell asleep, Grappa could take control of the body. Grappa said he needed the constables’ help to get free of Quital and get a body for himself. He offered a carrot in exchange for their help: information about an upcoming Obscurati meeting for which Quital was coordinating the travel plans of a half-dozen or so travelers. The meeting would take place on the 79th of Autumn, and Grappa knew where and how to get in, but he would only offer that information in person after the constables had rescued him. The constables and Delft realized that ObCon had not yet happened. Somehow they had experienced a vision of the future! [/QUOTE]
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