Destiny's Tears-Prologue: A Jewel in the Shadow Part I

[Brother Shatterstone]

Molpe Lilypetals: Limnad/Female (Siren)

[sblock]Molpe smiles, stopping as she walks in the room, as she address Esperanza, “No, you had it right, little one. You only have so many spellsongs in a day but you really are a quick leaner with an amazing ear. I would imagine someone would have to have able to hear in perfect pitch to pick up spellsongs as quickly as you have.”

Molpe takes a few steps to Wei-Han’s side and looks apologetic, “Hun, I’m sorry,” she pauses her words as she sings the same soft melody that Esperanza had been singing and the dirt and grime quickly falls from Wei-Han, “forgive me?” [/sblock]

 

[Rystil Arden]

Molpe:
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"Thele is nothing to folgive, Yuri. Now that I know you wirr nevel judge me or cease to be my fliend, you could never do anything that lequiles folgiving. It is celtainry good to be clean, but even the firth would have selved as a lemindel of oul time together to herp hold me off fol the spa...so you see, with you hele, everything alound you become wondelfur and rovery."

"Perfect pitch? Does that mean I can throw stuff real well? I'm glad you think my ears are pretty--your ears are real pretty too!"
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[Thanee]

Melody, Dolathi Eldritch Infiltrator

A/Z:

[SBLOCK]Being given an opportunity to answer Zykovian's questions about the convocation, Melody gladly explains, what she has gathered about it so far, which is little enough.

“The convocation, yes. The Dolathi Archduke, that's the leader of this world, is sponsoring some sort of exploratory missions via the Alliance, which I suppose he is standing behind. Apparently, members would even get their own Spelljamming ships, at least on loan to begin. Quite a generous offer, and in exchange, all the Alliance wants is for the members to complete certain exploratory, diplomatic, and other proprietary missions from time to time. So it offers the opportunity to explore, and also whatever is needed to fulfill them. This sounds really good, don't you think? Now, a suspicious nature might not believe this to be true, but I tend to approach these things in a rather naive way. I don't know, maybe this is wrong, but so far I have not been disappointed. In any way, we will soon be able to judge it with our own eyes.”[/SBLOCK]

 

[Rystil Arden]

Melody:
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*When you hear the rough estimate of the eagle's sense, you begin running through areas in your mind that would be close enough to fall within the radius without going too far. If you imagined the city as a circle and the wards as sections of that circle, then even walking directly to the centre of that circle into the Archduke's Ward would be too far for the eagle to sense. That leaves only a few places, but which would be most likely to house an Amaranthian thief? The Traveler's Ward, where they were right now, was a good option, although if the jewel were there, then they should already be in the eagle's inner circle of detection, meaning that leaving the ward should make the eagle's sense of the Jewel attenuate. The Grand Bazaar and the Merchant's Ward were both good places to sell things, if the criminal wanted to fence the stolen merchandise, or the Dock Ward if she wanted to escape the planet with it. Though the Festive Ward was also possible, as Melody remembers from her short time on Amaranthia learning Seelie that the Amaranthians do love their pleasures...*

[OOC: Knowedge (local- Kanath) 16 + 4 =20]
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[Keia]

Zykovian T’Erilan, Male Altanian Arcanist/Marksman

Melody & Abdiel:
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" . . . To answer your question, there are three heights in a branch-length, and five branch-lengths in a tree-length."

“Well, let’s see, you look about . . .yes, yes, carry the one, . . . just under a two mile radius, with an inner radius of between a half-mile and three-quarter mile,” Zykovian replied. “That is wonderful news. However, time would seem to be of the essense. The theif who was last known to have the gem was an Amaranthian, and we need to narrow down the field of where she might be. Also, walking around with a Mojiin and a large eagle hasn’t drawn attention yet, but it is certain to.”

“Once we’ve identified to be within the inner radius, Abdiel, we can use your senses to narrow the area . . . perhaps with a random search algorithm using mathematical spiralling.”[/sblock]

 

[Keia]

Zykovian T’Erilan, Male Altanian Arcanist/Marksman

Abdiel and Melody:[SBLOCK]

“The convocation, yes. The Dolathi Archduke, that's the leader of this world, is sponsoring some sort of exploratory missions via the Alliance, which I suppose he is standing behind. Apparently, members would even get their own Spelljamming ships, at least on loan to begin. Quite a generous offer, and in exchange, all the Alliance wants is for the members to complete certain exploratory, diplomatic, and other proprietary missions from time to time . . . In any way, we will soon be able to judge it with our own eyes.”

“That does have some interest for me as well, Melody,” Zykovian answered. “I would be somewhat suspicious as well . . . I must admit, it comes with the territory. There are several reasons I have for traveling . . . though returning this gem might be more important than all of them.” [/SBLOCK]

 

[Thanee]

Melody, Dolathi Eldritch Infiltrator

A/Z:

[SBLOCK]At Zykovian's words, Melody looks thoughtful for a moment before she says:

“Your tree-lengthes and branch-lengthes confuse me some, but if the gem has to be within two miles, then it cannot be at the center, where the Archduke's Ward is located. Going from there, this leaves this quarter of the city, where we have the Traveler's Ward, where we are right now, but that is too close, you would know the gem is here, right? Hmm... what else... we have the Grand Bazaar and the Merchant's Ward nearby, also the Dock Ward, all these might be places where a thief could try to hide or quickly fence the loot. But my guess would be the Festive Ward. The thief is Amaranthian, you say? Of course, we could just head to the left or right for a while and then walk along a half-circle around our current position... and trust your eagle's senses to pick up the trail.”[/SBLOCK]

 

[Keia]

Zykovian T’Erilan, Male Altanian Arcanist/Marksman

Melody and Abdiel

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“Your tree-lengthes and branch-lengthes confuse me some, but if the gem has to be within two miles, then it cannot be at the center, where the Archduke's Ward is located. Going from there, this leaves this quarter of the city, where we have the Traveler's Ward, where we are right now, but that is too close, you would know the gem is here, right? Hmm... what else... we have the Grand Bazaar and the Merchant's Ward nearby, also the Dock Ward, all these might be places where a thief could try to hide or quickly fence the loot. But my guess would be the Festive Ward. The thief is Amaranthian, you say? Of course, we could just head to the left or right for a while and then walk along a half-circle around our current position... and trust your eagle's senses to pick up the trail.”

"I'm not one to doubt a woman's intuition," Zykovian commented in Seelie, "let's head toward the festive ward." [/SBLOCK]

 

[Rystil Arden]

Zykovian, Melody, and Abdiel:
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Melody:
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*One advantage of the choice to head to the Festive Ward is that if you head clockwise towards it around the outer eight wards, you will be able to pass through, and thus also check, the Dock Ward and the Labourer's Ward, and if you head towards the centre of the city and then back out the other end, you will pass through the Grand Bazaar.*
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*There are several ways to get to the Festive Ward, including walking clockwise around the outer perimeter of the city for a few wards as well as heading inwards toward the centre and cutting back out to the Festive Ward diagonally. The group should decide on which of these two paths to utilise, and then they can head out, in search of the Crazan Arris!*
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[Brother Shatterstone]

Molpe Lilypetals: Limnad/Female (Siren)

[sblock]Molpe beams a most wonderful smile at Wei-Han before turning her attention to Esperanza, “No, little one, it means you have a far easier time mimicking the subtle, almost hiding, notes that invoke the spellsong. These notes are hard for most to hear, as these notes are hidden the melody of many notes, but you have mastered them no hardly any time at all. You should be quite proud of yourself. I know its silly to ask but have you had any training in the arcane arts?” [/sblock]