Into the Moral Darkness: IC

[Velmont]

Venial heads back to his appartement, where he decide to take some rest before attacking the next day, that should carry his lot of trouble.

As he awaken, he sees the sun barely showing his nose over the house on the other side other street. He sits down and starts to think again at the possible mole and what he could do.

[SBLOCK=OOC]Venial will start by taking time to list all the person that could have some kind fo interest in either having him kill or seeing the Baron weaken, can he be inside or outside the Baron surrounding.[/SBLOCK]

 

[Nonlethal Force]

[Sblock=Other names]In addition to the people found in This Post, Venial is able to come up with a few more outside the Baron's service who often align themselves against the Baron for various reasons:

Terrence Newburg - Human of significant importance within the city of Stalagmite. He serves on the city's council and has often joke about how the city would work better on an officially elected board of directors as opposed to a Baronry. In fact, he has gone so far as to suggest that if Stalagmite could be done successfully that all of Fenneress could one day have people elected - rather than born - into leadership.

Aeleaen Thourissaal - Vocal elf concerning the problems of Quehalost. She has no royal connections or official office, but she does seem to know important information regarding the efforts of the military regarding its attempts to hold back the evil dwelling within Quehalost. Her official stance is that the Baron and the other lords of the land should be doing more to productively purge Quehalost rather than simply use the mountains to keep the evil in check. She typically passes this information along to officials in Stalagmite through public meetings that are advertised well in advance.

Boch Drackthor - Hobgoblin leader of what has become known as the Underleague. The land of Enigmatica is much a blended land. No longer do races live live in divided communities. Most races blend together in the cities and surrounding suburbs. Of course, this has begun to be true of creatures like hobgoblins, goblins, orcs, and even a few enterprising gnolls. Granted, these traditionally more evil denizens have not unanimously embraced civilized life and their wild relatives can still be quite evil. But the Underleague is an organization created to ensure that the Baron is aware of any crimes against minority races (traditionally evil goblinkin, gnolls, orcs and their kin, etc). Some of the crimes are from pure racism, some of the crimes are because those desiring civilization don't always make the right choices and get what they deserve. Either way, the Underleague makes sure that the Baron is aware when these newest converts to civilization find themselves abused.

Eidon von Stallitz - The Baron's half-brother through his mother. Nearly a decade after the Baron was born, the aron's mother was attacked and raped. Eidon is the offspring of that crime. Another decade and a half later, the Baron's father was assassinated, putting the current Baron in position of authority. There are some who claim that the assassination was an inside job in an attempt to put te current Baron into power. There are others who claim that the assassination attempt was botched and it really was an attempt to eliminate all but Eidon so that he could rule. In any case, tension has grown between the Baron and Eidon over leadership, even though technically Eidon has no genetic link to the prior Baron. The tension has grown so intense that Eidon has officially changed his last name in protest.

Those two lists should keep you busy for a while....

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[Velmont]

Venial write down each of the name on teh paper and look at them. He then write down all the reason why there name have appeared on the list. "Ok, Eidon seems the obvious choice, a bit too much, and even if he want to lead this country, it doesn't mean he want Vecna to be at his side..." Venial write down next to his name Too obvious

He then look at another name "Aeleaen have no reason to join force with Vecna, he should i opposite keep away all the evil of this land, the one inside first then the one on teh otehr side of the mountain." Venial write down Unlikely

He then look at Tressie. "If she respect her god, she should help me, or at least, not hinder me and just wait for me to get into my own problem." Venial adds a note. Bound to her faith?

"Mahrdarr... now that is one that have the opportunity to meet Jairal himself and have a motivation to get me kill.... to take my place. Could he really allied himself to Vecna? Yes, he might." Venial takes his inkpen and adds Desesperate

"Rufus. If he would have give me to Jairal, most likely it would be ebcause he would think I was a mole, but that would have hurt too much the Baron..." Venial adds to his notes: Unlikely

"Boch... ok, he doesn't like much teh Baron, but they have some cooperation. I think he don't have an interest to get rid of teh Baron until eh is sure to have better.... it is not Eidon who will be better" Venial adds: Unlikely

"Finally: Pohk. Jealous, nit sure why, he is teh better alchemist, I'm a second grade, but I'm better than him in too many things and he got scared.... but now to tells he would do that." Jealous

"Terrence... would he really have acted? It wouldn't be his kind." Big speaker, little doer?

"That's all for now. Ok, let's see."

Most likely: Mahrdarr Beck
Likely: Eidon von Stallitz, Terrence Newburg
Unlikely: Pohk Naratte, Tressie Toptuft, Aeleaen Thourissaal
Most unlikely: Rufus 'Six-digits' Jackson, Boch Drackthor

"Ok, let's start by finding where was Mahrdarr these last times, then I'll investigate the others. Let's just hope my intuition is good." tells Venial. He then bring the parchemin he has taken note on over the candle and look at it burning. Once no trace of what he has written is left elsewhere then in his head, he heads outside. He will first need to make his official appearance, and in place where he will eb abel to see teh recation fo some of his suspect. He now thinks where he coudl do that and what reason will bring him there.

 

[Nonlethal Force]

[Sblock=OOC]What sort of insight are you expecting from me? Is there information you need before acting?

I'm not trying to be silly or obtuse in asking the question, I just don't want to say too much ... but at the same time I know that since it is a homebrew involving people that you don't know (although Venial would) I know I need to fill in some details. What details are you looking for ... and I'll see if its in the DM's perrogative to give them out...[/Sblock]

 

[Velmont]

[SBLOCK=OOC]Venial want two thing, first, doing his first public appearance since he returned, and he want to do that infront of some of the people he has put on his list. If there is some occasion for him to met one, or vene better, more than one of them, eh will try to present themselves to them to see there reaction.

For Mahrdarr Beck, he will just try to learn where he was in the last weeks. Venial thinks that if he is the traitor, most liekly he would deliver himself the messages as his job allow him to travel a lot. If he has gone between teh time teh mission was given and his appearnce in Jairal's mansion, he will do a nice suspoect.[/SBLOCK]

 

[Nonlethal Force]

[Sblock=OOC]As far as a public appearance, most of the people who would care about Venial (or even know him enough to know that he was out of town) would be in the Baron's employ. Anyone else in the town who would know him would be through any dealings that he had personally. Simply running through his normal daily routines would probably be as public as he need get. It isn't like most of city likely even knows Venial exists.

As far as meeting many of the people together in one venue, that is largely unlikely unless it happens by circumstance. The best way to check with that would be to go to their offices (for those officials who have offices), go to their station (for those in the Baron's employ who have posts {or commanding officers who are in town}), or their businesses (for those outside of the Baron's employ but who do business with the Baron).
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[Velmont]

[SBLOCK=OOC]Ok, in that case, Venial will head to teh castle by his 'usual' mean, in other word, same door than teh day before, but not disguised. He will ask an audience to the Baron for the next day, officially for a report. After that, he will start to investigate on Mahrdarr Beck, trying to bring the less attention possible on him.[/SBLOCK]

Venial take his clothes and grabs his things. He puts the dagger of his father at his belt and the ring of his mother in a chain around his neck. Once prepared, he head toward the Baron's mansion, and that time, as himself.

 

[Nonlethal Force]

Venial is able to receive entrance to the Baron's estate without much hassle at all. The Wall is not on duty this time, but the guards do not hold him back any the less. Venial is not escorted to the Baron's office. The guard at the entrance into the actual building exlains, "I'm sure you know the way, sir. Please stay to the designated areas."

Once inside the building, Venial is free to roam the official areas of the Baron's estate. The official offices would include the members of the Baron's cabinet: military affairs, national defense, religion, economics, council relations, ambassadorial affairs, legal counsel, and a few other minor offices. Of course, each of these offices has a secretary that would be happy to greet Venial if he should be in need of their services.

 

[Velmont]

[SBLOCK=OOC]Is Mahrdarr Beck working under one of these office? Also, what my character know about the religion office? Who is leading it? What are they hadnling exactly? I am thinking I could gather a bit more information on Vecna...[/SBLOCK]

 

[Nonlethal Force]

[Sblock=OOC]Sorry about the delay. Your questions were valid enough that I wanted a bit of time to thoroughly think out an answer that handles what you are looking for. Plus, it was a busy weekend and I wanted to get to a point where I had the time to make a good post.

Information requested:

1. Mardahr Beck would likely fall under the office of national defence as far as Venial would know. It is possible that if he were involved in agressive tactics into Quehalost that he could fall under the office of the military. The more likely place to start - given Venial's knowledge of Beck - would be the office of national defense.

2. The Chairperson over the office of national defense is a woman who goes by the name Terelinda Raih [Last name pronounced like Rye, the bread]. Not much is generally known about her except that she is in that office because she seems to have an unusual knack for knowing necessary information about the defense of the country before it becomes necessary to need it. In other words, the country is well defended because she has always known where to bolster the defense before a threat becomes too real.

3. The office of religion would likely not be working favorably with any of the followers of so blatantly evil dieties. The Baron and his office much more commonly support the good deities and this means that the followers of evil deities oten see themselves at odds with the Baron and his cabinet. The office might know information about Vecna and that particular deitiy's followers ... but it would be information gleaned out of opposition rather than cooperation.

4. The Chairperson over the office of religion is a man called Derik Balan. Although he hates the term, his fierce devotion to a broad pantheon of good deities has earned him the nickname of "His Eminence." He is known to be a fair man, although clearly responds more favorably to those who see religion his way.

5. The office of religion typically handles anything from handling religious uprisings, religious conflicts, working to defeat the plots of evil deities, handling the very rare visits from celestial emmisaries (And by very rare I mean only a few times a millenium), organizing religious relief efforts to the needy, and things along these lines.

Anything else? I have ben vague in some areas because Venial would have only basic knowledge as a citizen. Deeper knowledge could be gained through further questioning, of course.[/Sblock]