Heart of Artifice: Part I--Engineered Enigma

[Velmont]

After an hesitation. "Sounds fine with me. I'm not in the construct business, so I don't care much about that nondisclosure. I understand that concerns about your research. Sorry if I looks like stubborn, but after I got nearly killed in the last week, and more than once, so I perfer to be cautious. Walking blindfolded to somewhere I don't know is not my definition fo cautious."

 

[Rystil Arden]

"Yes, I do understand. Thank you. And you'll understand if you're not the one from whom I'm really waiting to hear agreement on this," she turns towards Aethelus.

 

[Patlin]

Anvuss looks at Aethelus expectantly, believing that everyone knows his position on the matter.

 

[Erekose13]

"I think in this I may have to follow seperate leads to help find the children. Insults to me and mine not withstanding, I will not work at counter purposes to my house and I will not make any sort of commitment that will put me in that position. I would have been willing to follow you into an unknown location provided I could report on what I saw there or at least had the choice to keep my own council. If you are quite certain that you will not face opposition where you are going, then I will depart know and wish you all the best." replies Aethelus.

ooc: sorry its taken a while to post this, it was difficult to come up with after being told that the house you are proud of belonging to is esentially a cross between the mob and microsoft.

 

[Rystil Arden]

(OOC: Makes sense to me--and I know what you mean about the difficulty. That's one of the really interesting things about roleplaying with Dragonmarked Houses: some members of the Houses are good people, some are quite evil, but either way and reconciling the fact that the Houses as a whole generally do act like a combination between the mob and Microsoft (great analogy) can be tough! You should see what the Houses do to anyone who gets the Syberys Dragonmark associated with their House. They protect their monopolies fiercely and without mercy.

I bet Aethelus would be even more confused in Siobhan's current adventure, where the House Cannith fellow tried to bribe, swindle, and threaten everyone and then attacked the party with thugs while lying to onlookers to try to build up crowd support )

 

[Patlin]

ooc: Perhaps I'm wrong and this isn't significant part of the adventure coming up... but I really think this is important to the plot. RA, if this isn't significant please give us some sort of kick in the whatever in order to get us past this. Otherwise, maybe the players can find a way to justify their characters continuing in the adventure?

 

[Rystil Arden]

(OOC: Do you want to know OOC if this is a significant part of the plot? If so, check this SBLOCK

[SBLOCK=Plot Spoiling Yes-or-No answer]Yes[/SBLOCK])

 

[Erekose13]

ooc: k, then scratch what I've said above. I'll go along with the deal, but I want it spelled out what he is agreeing too (he is NE after all and fits into the stereotype more than most, he just doesn't think it appropriate to throw it in his face).

"If I must, for the children then I will follow. What is it you wish me to swear to?" replies Aethelus.

 

[Rystil Arden]

"I'll draw out a standard nondisclosure agreement. You cannot release any information at all concerning the place I am about to take you, including how to get there, with infraction punishable by the highest penalties under Brelish law. If a clue there leads to something else, of course, then the agreement doesn't cover that," Elizabeth replies, trying to be diplomatic about it.

 

[Erekose13]

"Fine I'll agree not to tell anyone be they friend, family, or confidant of where we are going or what I see there." replies Aethelus, he is not very successful at hiding his mood having turned dark when his family is accused of malign deeds.