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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Rastfar" data-source="post: 3461425" data-attributes="member: 9596">18, Sek 637 M.Y Again Laarus has placed me in awkward position.  I respect his station as ordained by Ra, but I must also show deference to a fellow Academy mage in his post.  Fortunately, I believe that I have remedied the gauche unpleasantries.  And I am glad that I did later return, as I have gleaned more specifically on the nature of the Kingstones.  They are the olden tombs of barbarian kings who reigned, in what we now call the Disputed Territories, shortly before the Time of the Six Kingdoms.  These caves have been unsealed and ransacked; used by various humanoids as homes, some of which have dug to connect the tomb entrances with deeper lairs.  Long ago many orcs lived in the area, but most were wiped out during the Second Humano-Orc War.  Now the Kingstones are mostly utilized by a goblin tribe of some vowel-filled mouthful of syllables, and the odd ogre.  It seems that a barbarian tribe called the ‘Ray-Ree’ patrol the area.  At one time they guarded the tomb as their duty; but as they either failed or gave it up, they still regard the general area as their hunting and living grounds.  I am hopeful that this last bit of information is exactly the benefit we need.  My aim is that we should be cunning enough to use this situation to our tactical advantage and make allies of these barbarians.  For if indeed I am to believe what I have been told; then it is in the interest of the Ray-Ree to aid us in, or rather in our interest to aid them, in the cleansing of the Kingstones.  Of course the trouble shall come in attempting to make them see the merit in our proposition.  Especially given my present company.  Laarus alone harbors disdainful opinion of the uncivilized ‘greenbacks’.  I fear it is indicative of other prejudice which may colour any negotiations with the barbarians, human or otherwise.  We shall see.Young Lord Swann seems to enjoy the ceremony and circumstance accompanying his appointment.  He is certainly comfortable with his newly assumed mantle; indeed it his glib talk of politics and the role he shall play in their future which unnerve me.  His favor goes to Sir Septimias Benedict Swann and this concerns me more, as the knight is the House vassal assigned such negotiations.  The Gold Straw tribe would find diplomacy difficult at best.  It is obvious that ‘the Lizardbane’ wouldn’t mind adding a few more trophies to his repute, going so far to ask where there tribe was located.  I should have interceded, assured the Lord such trivial matters were best left to those who’d time for these things; not assigned to his prize winning murderer.  As it was left, he assured me a place in the Lizardbane’s company.  I do not know if I could bear to lead the knight out there, to see the queer expression on Chok’tem’s face as he attempted to discern why, again, these humans thought it alright to lie to him, to hear their screams as a host of warriors descended on them, all the while the lizardman knowing I broke my oath to them.I do realize that I put the rest of the group in an impossible situation, involuntarily asking them to tarry here while I saw to the end of the task I enlisted myself too.  In an effort to be expeditious and realizing that indeed, even after our passage, this is really a concern for the local watch-mage, and as such is his jurisdiction, I consulted with Oroleniel.  He offered sound advice.  I am to invoke a clause in which precedent exists where the half-elf will stand in my stead as it is a matter of seniority.   I am sure that Lord Swann will find this arrangement agreeable.Laarus has exhibited illness three times now.  First on the eve of the 10th, then yesterday during our ride here, and now this evening as we congregated after dinner.  Either he has a weak constitution or there is some malady more foul at work.  I hope for our sake that it is the former, and not my paranoia of the latter; the fate that befell my mother was an end most unbecoming.  Not to mention what it reveals of piety.</blockquote>

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