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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Knightfall" data-source="post: 8277662" data-attributes="member: 2012">Breva watches as Akos works to help Roland clear out the onlookers.As he muses, Breva tries to focus on what he does know. The crisis with Mani seems to be over but there could be political repercussions that hopefully won't fall on him or his new allies. There is Phelix Del Cannitha and his Loyalists. The renegade sorcerer seems to be pulling string from his planar hideout. Breva feels that it would be next to impossible for Phelix to send the Rising Swords after them and the doppelganger without help from someone in the city. At the very least, Breva is sure that the arcanist is responsible for the missing guards. He probably bribed them or had his ally, the one Mani had mentioned, bribe them for Phelix. Breva tries to recall the person's name but does remember that a shop near the Gardens is acting a front for a guild of thieves. Of course, that assumes the doppelganger can be trusted. If so, that means that Phelix has two doppelgangers in his employ."Oh, he does, does he?" Oakfirst replies to Akos. He raises an eyebrow and looks Falen over again. "He seems to be lost in thought right now." He smiles. "As for Relgar, if he felt he had to go his own way, it's not for me to say. He'll likely have to deal with the Wizard Council, but I'll let Lady Pomander know he's gone back to his home in the Wizard District." He shrugs. "She probably won't mind. We both noted that his heart didn't seem to be into all this sorcerer hunting."Falen is indeed lost in his own thoughts. The Iron Gate has been opened. If Lord Max had been standing here next to him when it happened, his mentor would be both giddy with excitement and very, very worried about the Fate of Bluffside. From what he heard Lord Oakfirst shout at the lieutenant, it wasn't one of The Five of who ordered from the Great Gate Construct to be activated and the gate to be opened. Could one of the other Lord Commanders being planning a coup on the sly while this renegade is on the loose? Falen had seen dozens of broadsides with the man's face and name on it as he traveled from the embassy to here, the Gate of Scales. Lord Max knew most of Old City's gates by name and studied most of them, casually, in his research into the district and the Iron Gate, in particular.He glances at Sir Oakfirst and the other men and woman gathered around him. Sir Tymbeck is large man who towers over everyone. He is obviously more than human, but Falen isn't sure what his other half is. There is the man who calls himself Vinny. He looks like he might be another guard, but he doesn't look like he's a member of the Regulars. There is the Paladin of the Purifier, Breva Sciarra. For a paladin to be involved in the hunt for this Phelix person means that the renegade must be very dangerous... or very evil. There is the man who came alongside the Lord Commander and behaves like he knows Akos and the others.A big dog comes up to Falen and sits down right in from of the half-hobgoblin. He looks happily at the seer and wags his tail. He seems to be waiting for Falen to pet him. A kobold walks up to the large canine and pats him on the head. The dog pants and wags his tail more as the kobold scratches the dog's ear.Besides the guard Roland, there is a female halfling who Roland seems to defer to, as well as the woman who took one of the bodies into the guard post. Falen didn't catch her name or the name of the other guards who helped with the fallen... brigands. Falen thinks he hears someone mention "Rising Swords" and he's heard of them. They are a bunch of nasty mercenary types who are plague. The Rising Swords are banned from entering most of the good-hearted city-states and kingdoms of Kanpur's Northwest, although sometimes coins speak louder than deeds. No one seems to be saying anything about The Dusk, which doesn't surprise Falen.Falen notes that the noble who was so irate a moment ago is still hanging around. His curiosity seems to be keeping him from rushing off, or maybe it is the fate of his shop and his employees cat that is keeping him nearby. He keeps motioning for the Lord Commander to speak wit him but Sir Oakfirst keeps waving the man away.Finally, Roland has to pull the noble aside. He orders him to go wait in a nearby tavern called The Round Axe. "I will come see you shortly and handle this matter, personally. The Lord Commander is too busy right now."The man glumly agrees and head off through the gate and out of sight. Roland begins chatting with the halfling woman. he calls her Herleva and she motions for him to check on the prisoners first before heading off to help the noble. He heads into the guard post while she orders the other human guards "to get to work putting the guard post back in order."By the time Falen has circled back to Sir Oakfirst, the head of the Bluffside Regulars is once gain looking at him. The look on his face says that he is waiting for Falen to either speak to him or leave.</blockquote>

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