Night's Embrace: Part 1--A Touch of Darkness

[Legildur]

Blunt runs his hand across his smooth pate. "The forest sounds like a good place to start our investigations into this cult, but not until young Kel has finished his studies. And not before we speak with the princess."

"I know only a little of the area, but it's a week's hard ride from here. I know the event is some months away, and I'm not keen to spend 2 weeks on the road when we might be chasing the wrong clue."

 

[jkason]

Titus Farrab, human ranger

Blunt runs his hand across his smooth pate. "The forest sounds like a good place to start our investigations into this cult, but not until young Kel has finished his studies. And not before we speak with the princess."

"I know only a little of the area, but it's a week's hard ride from here. I know the event is some months away, and I'm not keen to spend 2 weeks on the road when we might be chasing the wrong clue."

"Well, let's try to tell princess about the letter first, then, and set up a meet while Kel plays star pupil. How about

Haven't found HQ
But have letter between one
agent and his boss.

Anyone want to edit?"

 

[Legildur]

"Certainly Kel needs to meet with her," agrees Blunt. "Once he has done that then we can plan."

 

[Boddynock]

Kel agrees, both with the plan and with the haiku. He's keen to meet Aileen again ... and keen to begin his studies.

 

[Rystil Arden]

*Elenia replies.*

'Wish I could meet, can't
sneak out right now, send again--
still have more to say.'

*If they send her a message (even an meaningless message) on the next day as she suggested, Elenia replies:*

'Can you send it here?
Give the note to Estralla's
Hope to see you soon!'

*Meanwhile, Kel begins to receive his classes on the basics of magical theory. Although it is fascinating, it is somewhat difficult and the material moves quickly, plus the professor for the crash course isn't as great as the ones they use in the real courses. It's the times after the classes that he talks the material over with Sulannus that save him, since being forced to explain it actually helps him learn it better.*

 

[Boddynock]

"I just ... look, it's as if ... oh hell! I wish the teacher was a bit more ... concise in his explanations!"

"Look, I know that doesn't really make sense but ... I think that if ... Oh! OK, that's what he meant. See, if we consider the flux lines to be constant across the duration of the casting ..."

 

[Legildur]

Blunt smiles as Kel explains his difficulties. "If it were easy, where would be the reward in the learning?" he asks. "And wouldn't everyone do it if it were easy?"

"Stick to your path, friend, and you will be rewarded."

 

[Shayuri]

Sulannus nods.

"Magic takes time. If you try to go too fast, you could easily hurt yourself, or everyone around you. These are powerful forces you're dealing with."

"Now...it might help some if you tried drawing a picture. To aid visualization."

She takes a stick and starts to diagram in the dust.

"It sounds as if he was saying that the forces bend...like so..."

And so it goes...

 

[jkason]

Titus Farrab, human ranger

*If they send her a message (even an meaningless message) on the next day as she suggested, Elenia replies:*

'Can you send it here?
Give the note to Estralla's
Hope to see you soon!'

((OOC: I don't think we had anything more to say in terms of delivering info, so I'm going to assume our return haiku was just of the "say what you gotta say" variety unless someone else wants to correct me ))

Titus looks to the others.

"That's better than nothing, I suppose," he says. "We should make ourselves a copy if we need to look it over again later, but this way she'll at least see what we have. We can send her a message in a few days to see if she got it and what she thinks, yeah?"

As Kel's classes and study sessions with Sulannus begin, Titus tends to leave the two alone. While the big man seems full of bravado usually, arcane study seems to make him uneasy.

"I know how to hit things. Track things. I'm good at that; I'll let you guys do the branching out."

 

[Legildur]

"So, while Kel is in class, what do we do?" asks Blunt. <aside from escorting Kel back and forth> [Have we got any leads to follow? or is it best for the sake of inclusion to wait until Kel is finished?]