Heart of Artifice Temporary--Kharas Alone

[Rystil Arden]

*The Baroness nods.*

"Farewell Kharas. I wish you luck in finding these children."

*The servant leads Kharas to the lavatory.*

"Here you are, sir. The Master instructed me to give you this. He says to use it in the lavatory."

*The servant hands Kharas a small strange sphere.*

 

[Velmont]

Kharas take a look at the sphere. "Well, thanks. He told nothing else?" he wonders.

 

[Rystil Arden]

"No, nothing else. Is that sort of thing used by your people to wash up, I guess?"

 

[Velmont]

OOC: What the material of the sphere.

 

[Rystil Arden]

(OOC: It is metal. There is a button on it)

 

[Velmont]

"No, we use soap and water. It is pretty good like that and we don't need our arti... I mean spark doing some device in large quantity. Anyone can create soap... anyway, that's not teh first, nor the last difference between our world. I think I'll prepare myself. Thank you."

Kharas enter the lavatory and take a quick look at the sphere before pushing teh button.

 

[Rystil Arden]

*As Kharas pushes the button, the sphere lights up and projects a small holographic image of the Baron's face (not unlike the projection of Leia in the first Star Wars movie):*

"Kharas, listen--there isn't much time. Leywytch Jadishtai is looking for you--she claims you're a heretic and terrorist, and she figured out that I've met you. Listen, she wants to capture you, and she's threatened to take away my Elysia as a vassal, and she'll do it too. You can't tell anyone about this--as you can see, few hold my beliefs that the Artifex Maximus is just a very talented Spark, so almost anyone will be willing to turn you over once the Leywytch makes her proclamation against you public, as the words of the Leywytch speak for the Artifex Maximus, and he is their god."

"All is not lost--I have found two good things. First, I detected the presence of a signature in this city other than you, somewhere out of the castle in the city proper. It looks like one of your four kids is there. Second, I noticed a time-lapse signature at the coordinates of a temple with lion statues. Elysia will know how to get there. Apparently the signature is periodic but only appears once every few hours--perhaps this is your way home?"

"The main exits are all being watched by minions of the Leywytch, as she thinks you may still be inside, but there's a secret way out that she doesn't know. I need you to head to the dungeons and take the secret passage to the catacombs--it's in the back between the fifth and sixth cells, eighth flagstone from the back will open it, it's a bit off-colour. I told Elysia to meet you there. Don't give her details, but you need to get her out of here--follow the passage through the catacombs to a secret exit, where there should be a broken Drakeflyer that you can repair and fly off. Please, nowhere in the Niaran Kingdoms will be safe for my daughter because of my help to you--I beg of you to hide her in your world for the time being, where we know she will be safe. Kharas, I'm counting on you. You're my only hope."

 

[Velmont]

"That was too good!" mumbles Kharas to himself. He then heads toward the dungeon. He tries to remember the way and to avoid any exits he knows, he will then climb down the stair to the dungeon. "Unforged he told me... I hope it is just rumors made by teh Baron to keep people away from it."

 

[Rystil Arden]

*Kharas heads to the stairs leading down towards the dungeons, and he finds Elysia waiting there, seeming bewildered and confused and looking around.*

"Oh, there you are! What's going on? Daddy said I had to meet you here and do whatever you said. Is this a new game?"

 

[Velmont]

"Kind of... more a test. Your father have found the signature of one of the kid in this city. We need to find him. Only thing, we will need to get a low profile. No one have to learn what we are doing... they must even not learn we are out of the castle. Imagine what people could tell seeing you with me but without your father, they would say that I've kidnap you. It's false, it is your father who ask you to help me finding the kids. So, to do all that, you'll need to apply what you've learn up to now.

So, we have four things to do before coming back here:

1. Repair the drakeflyer that is awaiting for us a bit farther.
2. Make sure no one recognize us.
3. Find the kid that is in the city.
4. Find the others kids, that should be in this world too.

You'll see, doing things in a lab, and applying your knowledge on the field, it is two things. Let's go to the drakeflyer. On the way, you'll have to suggest me how we solve the second problem, going unrocosgnize in the city... which is not easy, I'm the only dwarf in this whole world.

Does that sound interesting?"