Into the Moral Darkness: IC

[Velmont]

Venial hands him the missive and await a minute so he can read it.

Venial Bayleef, the carrier of this missive has been trusted to some delicate mission by myself. I trust him and I ask the reader of this message to listen to him as he would have listen to myself.

Ardak Steelsun
Head of the Figther Guild of Mistrolla

As the Eminence raise his eyes, Venial quickly tells the reason he is there.

"Thank you to listen to me, chairman Balan. If I am here it is of some trouble in the figther's guild. A few years ago, Master Steelsun have discovered that his guild had been infiltrated. He has things under control for now, but new information have come to him. It seems that an infiltrator was a cultist of Vecna.

Mistrola, as you know, is a border town, but faith have no border. Master's Steelsun influence extend well to the Kingdom of Barghost, but not in Fereness. He has start to do his investigation in Barghost, but he need to see if the cult could be base in Fereness too. Only a matter to keep all possibility open for the moment. He has been a close friends to my parents and so he has trusted me to speak with you to know if you would be willing to help him to fight against the cult of Vecna who is trying to infiltrate his guild.

All he needs for the moment is information about the Vecna in general, and if you are aware of any active cult in Fereness. He is aware that some information might be confidential and will not be offended if you refuse to give him some information you have, but if you decide to share it with him, he will keep it for him. You can trust his silence as you can trust mine, as I wouldn't betray a friend.

And if you still wonder for the reason of so much precaution, it is Master Steelsun want to make sure no word of his investigation could reach any member of the cult of Vecna."

[SBLOCK=OOC]Venial try mianly two things in this speech: Ask all information teh Eminence has on Vecna but also that he can trust that anything he would tell to him would be known to only two persons, Venial and Steelsun, that there goal are true and they both can be trusted.[/SBLOCK]

 

[Nonlethal Force]

The chairman responds, "Unfortuantely, the cult of Vecna is indeed mysterious and dark. There is little that happens in Vecna's circle that is know to those outside the circle. That makes it difficult for us, of course."

"However, it also makes it easier for us. The fact that they are so secretive means that by definition they are small. Followers of Vecna fear allowing too many into their midst, because too many people means it gets disproportionately harder to keep any secrets. For a religion based on secrets, it implies minimalism as well."

"The long and short of what I am telling you is that we are not aware of any substantial cults of Vecna, nor are we monitoring any. We are sure there are some out there, but they have been keeping to themselves lately. If you were asking about Hextor, or even Gruumsh we could have a better discussion. But knowledge about the cults of Vecna are quite limited."

"Please give your master my apologies, but also my confidence that there is little activity of Vecna within our borders. If there is activity along the border between Barghost and Fenneress, then you can be certain that it small and scope. That does not make it less dangerous, of course. But it does mean that your master can narrow the scope of his search."

 

[Velmont]

"I see. It is good to know that, but at teh same time, it will not be what Master Steelsun would have like to hear, but he will have to do with that. But if we have to search farther there wouldn not be anything in other region of this country, even if it is near the Quehalost border. I know too many dark can come from this part." asks Venial

 

[Nonlethal Force]

"As I said, you can find worship of Vecna in many small areas throughout all the lands, but not of them would be so large that they would threaten a country. From what sounds like is happening in Mistrolla is an isolated incident. A small group is seeking to infiltrate your master's guild for some reason. The likelihood of that same group being alrge enough to influence us here is extrwemely small. The distance is too great and their numbers too small."

 

[Velmont]

"So they generally act in small group? How many the typical group might be? And if you have such difficulty to identify them, it is because a group following Vecna prefer to stay hidden and underground or it is because they are pretty good at infiltration? Any little bit of information that might help master Steelsun would be more than welcome." asks Venial without putting any insistance and keeping all the time a respective attitude toward the Eminence.

 

[Nonlethal Force]

The chairman replies, "Each group is relatively small, of course. Some are only a handful. Usually the largest groups do not count more than 50 or so. As for infiltration, the followers of Vecna keep their own secrets. They are definately good at iding. As to how well they are at infiltrating, they may be experts, they may be no better than you or I."

 

[Velmont]

"Thank you, I will not waste more of you time. My friend will much appreciate the time you have been given me." On that he salutes and leave teh chairman.

For the next hours, he will finish his gathering he was doing about Terrence Newburg.

[SBLOCK=OOC]Sorry for teh slow post. I liek th egame, but I have been sick and I didn't had much time to answer all the threads where I am.[/SBLOCK]

 

[Nonlethal Force]

[Sblock=OOC]I understand, although to be honest the slow rate of posting has really hampered my ability to DM the game. I have honestly lost all the momemtum for the story. I end up having to reread many of the latest posts just to make a new one.

That takes alot of time and honestly spending about 20-30 minutes for a single post isn't really worth the effort. Not to mention the fact that I've just had an insanely busy week ... hence the lack of logging on.

My honest recommendation is that we close this game. You seem to be struggling to post and I'm struggling to keep the story moving forward as well as keep the storyline straight in my mind.[/Sblock]

 

[Velmont]

[SBLOCK=OOC]I understand. I am also taking time to reread everything I consider a clue to make sure I havn't lost something of the picture, but real life have been taking some place this past month and it doesn't seem to relax either, not that it matter for me, but it leave me less time to go on teh net, and my charge in PbP seems maybe a bit too large for me for teh moment.

Thanks for the try. I hope your other games will go better. And maybe we might find ourselves in a futur game.[/SBLOCK]

 

[Nonlethal Force]

[Sblock=OOC]You're certainly welcome. I enjoyed the game, so don't take anything personally. It just was too much upkeep in our seemingly both busy lives.

Have a great time gaming on the games you have that are left![/Sblock]