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Message: <blockquote data-quote="The_Universe" data-source="post: 1640278" data-attributes="member: 8944">What to do, what to do...Good post Kat--gave me a couple of things to think about.  But now, onto the comments...  If information is all you need, there's something to be said for writing letters.  While there isn't an equivalent of the USPS in the Falcon Kingdom, there are messengers who can be hired for varying prices, depending on the degree of speed, security, and privacy that you might want.  You could, relatively harmlessly, try to get a letter to Kaereth's master, and see what he could tell you.  However, you're looking at a couple of weeks between responses with that option... Presumably, there might be magical ways to speed the transmission  of such messages, but doing so might require further use of those pesky blue mages...maybe even everyone's favorite blue mage--Arthur Cawys, bartender and black marketeer extraordinaire!  Then again, it may not.  You'd have to ask IC, for which we have a different thread. You actually have several Sylvannus connections, should you choose to employ them.  (1) Everyone's favorite broody Viscount is potentially the ruler of Sylvannus, as his parents and sister disappeared some months ago, shortly before he was set to hunt down that pasky rebellious Jaine Rilmore, and her Army of the Phoenix.  (2) Everyone's favorite formerly-dwarven-but-now-elven bard was raised by elves in the vicinity of Sylvannus, and was born in the now abandoned halls of Karak Throll (AKA Dwarven Sylvannus).  (3) When you set out from Thanesport, the orginal idea was that you would meet Jaine in Sylvannus.  Clearly, she has some connections there, perhaps most notably one Darmoc the Smith, who was to be your contact in the city, before the crap was forcefully propelled toward the proverbial fan.  (4) It's possible that at least one spiritblade is hidden in the area, with potential for at least 1 more, if there is a blade hidden in the wall (although it could be on the other side of the wall, as well...)  Especially the one supposedly hidden with the Bluestar's blood.  See previous reference about broody viscounts... Just a few reasons I could come up with off the top of my head...Lots of adventuring potential in Sylvannus.   There are a couple of ways to do this, all of which would be fun.  You could go find one or more that are not yet in the possession of the bad guys (get past enemy lines + dungeon crawl + pursuit, probably), or try to get one that they already have (get past enemy lines + high fantasy espionage + James Bond + court intrigue) or do both--gotta catch 'em all, as they say at Wizards of the Coast... <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />   All good ideas.  I hope my comments help to clarify things...</blockquote>

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