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Message: <blockquote data-quote="skotothalamos" data-source="post: 6663274" data-attributes="member: 83398">ManhuntJames, ever playing catch-up after side missions to create artificial limbs and party, disembarked in Alais Primos just in time to see the shadow of a massive six-armed woman dissipate just outside the walls. It did not take him long to find the constables, as they scrambled to don disguises and whisk a catatonic Summer into hiding before anyone started asking questions. Though Summer had indicated pulls to three different locations, the constables decided that given her extreme emotional distress and the very public nature of the last memory, perhaps it was wise to wait for a new day before continuing to follow that thread. Instead, they set about their more immediate business of tracking Leone Quital. Though El Extraño had given them a good lead, the constables decided to be thorough. They started at the docks, where they learned that the ship Quital hired out of Flint, the Cold Vessel, had arrived on Spring 20, but no passengers had been recorded. The workers on the pier remembered seeing Quital who wanted new clothes and was referred to a particular shop. By that time it was getting late so the constables decided to continue in the morning and crashed at Oksana’s flat. After resting, Summer felt a bit better and was motivated to continue gathering the memories set in Alais Primos, as traumatic as they may prove. The constables agree to accompany her before continuing after Quital, and they all followed her to a chapel in the Grand Librarium.The arc transformed a chapel into a room set up for triage, in the year before the Malice. Cots lined the walls instead of pews, set in private and magically soundproofed booths. Two dozen injured Eladrin lay in the cots, medically sedated and chained by the wrists to the walls. A single human man tended them. The memory unfolded into a month’s worth of recollections. The man spoke to a few of his charges every day, asking what they believed, their opinions on the war, whether Elfaivar had any who would acquiesce to a truce, whether they had family back home. Every day, a few of his charges died.He spoke to Kasvarina, too. She told him first that she hated priests, that her husband died in the first Holy War. When he speaks to her again he did not wear his Clergy robes, and told her that he was raised in the faith, but no longer believed. He introduced himself as William Miller.After a week, only four Eladrin remained, including Kasvarina. She had regained much of her strength, and the man sat beside her bed. He removed her chains and she remained and spoke with him for a long time. He proposed that the two of them escape the city and try to negotiate a truce in Elfaivar. Kasvarina discussed the plan in its minutia with him, and then agreed. She wondered if some other of the patients could join them, and he informed her that she had been the only one left for several days. He gave her medicine to sleep, and then quietly chemically executed the other three remaining prisoners. The memory faded, and the group informs Summer what they saw of Miller’s scheming. Oksana, who felt a deep personal connection to Miller and his works, speculated that this event must have been the point at which Miller’s schism from the Clergy began - that his time working with Kasvarina must have changed him in some way. Cazara and Ironpeak were far less impressed, feeling his actions spoke far more of his character than his words. Summer felt a new memory pulling her to the third floor of the Jenevah Grand Librarium.This memory took place not long after the last. Miller and Kasvarina met with a couple of bishops and a priestess. Miller explained that Kasvarina would represent the Eladrin in initial peace talks. He explained his reasoning for acting without the Church’s approval, and gently suggested that the Clergy’s leadership was corrupt and wanted replacing. The priestess signaled an alarm, and guards surrounded and bound the pair. The bishops told an inquisitor that Miller had disclosed heretical plans.Miller tried to reason with them and Kasvarina advised dying with dignity. An inquisitor told her that they were not sentenced to death but to imprisonment on the Isle of Odiem. The pair were dragged away, Miller cursing and Kasvarina silent. As the memory faded the group exchanged uncomfortable looks. Summer reported that the other memory pull in Alais Primos - one near the outer walls - had flickered out. She intuited that they could have learned nothing there that they had not learned already.The constables spent the rest of the afternoon following Quital’s trail. They checked in the clothing shop, where Quital had ordered clothes to be picked up on the 28th, and asked about a wine and cheese shop. The constables deduced that he had probably stayed at a nearby inn, which (they learned after Alienor flipped the concierge a Lucky Coin,) he had checked out of on the 28th. He had mentioned then that he was heading to Enzyo Mons.The next day Cazara, Summer, and Ironpeak visited the mountain, leaving James, Alienor, and Oksana to investigate the wine merchant. The road up Enzyo Mons was lined with shrines to various Clergy Gods; the constables admired a shrine to Wilik, god of civilization, and Cazara paused to ask the Shrine of Dana the Far-Seeing what she had seen of Quital. The shrine remembered someone matching that description pass last Spring, carrying a curious metallic likeness of a human head. They reached the Cathedral at the top, and Summer asked the priests what they had seen. They indicated that they would not speak with her until she made an offering to the volcano, and she threw a number of coins into the net they’d set within the caldera. They confirmed that they had seen Quital, and that he had left via carriage with a younger man whose features were similar to Leone’s. When prompted by Cazara, the cathedral itself remembered him lobbing the golem head beyond the tithing net and into the volcano proper before he’d left.When the Constables reconvened, those who had visited the cheese shop reported that the shop had not seen Leone, but that they had a shipment from the Quital Winery on the 28th. Alienor presented the bottle of Quital Wine she had purchased, with information about the Vineyard on the label.Satisfied that they’d tied up all loose ends, the constables decided to head for Vendricce. Summer had a strong pull from the Arc of Reida toward Odiem, and the constables agreed to detour there just long enough to ascertain how much time those memories would take. It would not do to get trapped in the Crypta again, with Leone’s trail cooling so rapidly.</blockquote>

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