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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Plane Sailing" data-source="post: 497405" data-attributes="member: 114">Dala starts to have second thoughts about helping out and he arranges a meeting for the following evening. Anne-Marie meanwhile spends another evening with the charming Jordan, wined and dined, taken to the theatre. She spends the night with him at his exclusive townhouse...The next day dawns bright and fair, ready for the jousting. There is a tremendous atmosphere and great fun. Trajan whispers encouragement to his assigned horse, encouraging it with his skills and getting that little bit extra out of it… and he manages to squeak through the quarter finals and eventually finds himself in the final, facing last years champion, an equally powerful knight from Tanor. Trajan is outclassed and his earlier luck deserts him; he is unseated by his opponent and loses the match - although he has caught the eye of the Countess Naomi who provides him with a “favour”, and an invitation to the grand ball at the end of the week.That evening they prepare a room for the meeting with the cabalists. With Trajan watching invisibly from the shadows Dala waits for Vigdis to arrive. She is with a couple of other members of her cabal - the matronly Elva and the waif like twins Godfred and Fyoder.  It seems that this cabal was set up by the Blessed, and left with someone in charge of Vigdis and her fellow acolytes... they had thought it was interesting and exciting - the Blessed had spoken of mysterious things and taught them magical powers. But then the Blessed left to continue some “unfinished business” late last year. Paulo was left in charge, but when he summoned something from a scroll in the cellar it all went horribly wrong and the creature dissolved him and ate him. It’s still there in the cellar, making noises. They are scared and don’t know what to do...Dala agrees to help, as do the others. It sound like another gibbering mouther problem. This could be the chance to put these misguided people back onto the straight and narrow, and keep them from falling further into the clutches of evil.</blockquote>

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