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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Herremann the Wise" data-source="post: 1849677" data-attributes="member: 11300">Hello Again,The following short post will hopefully fill in a few pieces of the puzzle awaiting the dramatic conclusion to be posted soon. Apologies if you need to reread previous posts to make full and complete sense of the following.***The Early Evening of Chess’ Dramatic Performance at Gumbil’s TurmAbout three hours before her appearance upon the stage… After a week of gauging attitudes, routines and the disposition of the principals in his deadly and dramatic arrangement, Jerigar (Primmas Rose) leant against the wall of the shack casually surveying the first “Act” of his work. The primary thrust of his current engagement had gone as per plan. He was now ready for the “Encore”. The plan was of an intricacy and complexity that only one of his skill and élan could encompass all the elements involved for the eventual and desired effect. In one fell swoop; he had destroyed the primary players of the miscreant trading arm of the Elarayan House as per instructions; deflected blame towards Chess whose precipitant murder would reflect culpability back towards the Elarayan house and thus and most importantly for him, eliminate the only person{1} who could link Primmas Rose to Jerigar of Mysellkoten.Unfortunately, he had used the Bard’s skills in a previous operation in Peronsil. She was well placed at the time and the effort saved him considerable difficulty on a separate matter. In the process however, she had been given circumstances to make a link between his two personalities, a situation he knew she would have connected together. While he could do little about it at the time, he knew that he would eventually have to nullify the possibility of his duality becoming known. Thus, Chess would die this evening.Within the scroll handed to him by The Baron were details of Gareth of Elarayan’s movements and current amour with the performer. On further discrete investigation, he was surprised to discover her motives – revenge for her mother’s and by cause and effect her own banishment from the House. Indeed she intended to somehow bring the House to its knees through some scandal{2} or another. The fact that she was a bastard of the House was certainly fuel to be used at a later point. Cunningly however, he had already used this information. He had expressed these details in fullest detail in a missive to Teroncé Elarayan. Using one of his spies neatly placed in the house, he had learned of Teroncé’s immediate fury and then the housemaster’s own plans to take the performer prisoner for a no doubt grisly end this evening. He would of course beat such efforts to the punch with his superior abilities and thus the blame for each of the murders would neatly be placed in each other’s court – Chess’ on House Elarayan and House Elarayan’s on Chess{3}. For the moment however, he left the scene{4} quickly to make preparations for his own performance this evening.***{1} While Jerigar knew that Gregor Mysellkoten and two others of the House had their suspicions, The Baron and his two advisors politely failed to acknowledge the alias in Jerigar’s presence. {2} While he did not yet have the details of this scandal – Gareth had appallingly spilled all he knew [Under the circumstances, that is an incredibly poor pun by me the author] for no further enlightenment – Jerigar would need to discern Chess’ methods, devices and strategy before her death.{3} Jerigar had neatly sculpted a note to the local watchhouse that would be delivered later this evening making her supposed culpability known.{4} The two bodies of Heron and Saul were deposited underneath the planking currently supporting the headless corpse of Gareth.</blockquote>

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