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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Silver Moon" data-source="post: 1497680" data-attributes="member: 8530">Game #7 - 4/18/04Chapter 52, “Lord Arkadiam's Health”, December 19th, 1881:Everyone returns to each of his or her respective rooms.   Arcade and Morgana decide to work off some of their frustrations, after which she suggests that since the whole house is asleep it would be a good time to go and check in on his father.    “Fine let’s go,” he states, stepping out of bed.   As she slips into her clothes she suggests, “Shouldn’t you put something on?  It wouldn’t be appropriate for the young Lord of the manor to walk down the hallway naked.”   He replies, “You’re right.  I’m an English Gentleman.  I should be wearing a hat.”    Once attired they quietly make their way down the hallway and to the room.   Arcade’s father is sleeping very restlessly as they enter and shut the door behind them.   They approach the bed and the Lord calls out “Come back for more?”   He does not appear to be talking to them, and Morgana softly asks, “Sir.  To whom do you speak?”  He continues to ramble on an assortment of phrases, none of which make up coherent sentences.   She asks “Are you traveling or are you here?”  He starts to call out about “Danger.”  “Be calm, you’re safe with us,” she says in a soothing voice, which appears to have a relaxing effect on him.   She also casts her healing spells onto him, with no discernable differences. “I don’t like it here,” he exclaims to her  “Where are you?” she asks.  He replies, “Damn it, can’t you see?  Another one who doesn’t know what’s going on.”    She replies, “I see that you are lying in the bed in your room at the manor house.  Is that what you see?”  He answers, “No, it’s much brighter and much louder than that?”   One player quips “Maybe he’s at a Rolling Stones concert.”  Another player retorts, “Maybe.  Mick Jagger’s old enough to have been around in 1881.”Morgana tells Arcade, “I think we should try something.”  He answers, “Right here?  In front of my father?”   She explains that she wishes to follow his soul-thread, which anchors his spirit to his physical body.    She will need Arcade to act as her own anchor.  He does not fully understand what she is talking about but agrees (a sign of a good husband).    She casts a spell incantations and her body appears to go limp in his arms.   A conversation then begins between Morgana and Lord Arcadiam, with Arcade hearing what is said even though neither of them is moving their lips.   She is able to derive that something is seriously wrong and that the Lord blames his son William for the problem.  She then returns to her physical body and they go back to their own room. At 7:00 A.M. the gang meet for breakfast in the formal dining room.  Morgana explains to the others about the visit and what she discovered.  Qualtaqa suggests that it sounds like William may have given his father some type of narcotic, and suggests that she cast a Neutralize Poison spell onto him.   Before they can plan further Lady Arcadiam joins them.  While continuing to ignore Morgana she gives a friendly greeting to the other members of the gang.  Hank asks about borrowing horse to take a ride around the estate.  She says, “What a lovely idea.  Perhaps I’ll join you.”   “That would be wonderful” Qualtaqa replies.  Arcade whispers to Sam, “Yeah, right.  I doubt she even knows where on the grounds the stables are located.”    Qualtaqa continues to try to impress her with flowery language and courtesy.   He goes on at length about Arcade’s keen business sense and leadership qualities.  Arcade whispers to Hank, “If Newlegs keeps up with this B.S. I suggest that we have him run for Parliament.”Morgana decides to take advantage of being totally overlooked by excusing herself from the table and heading back upstairs.    She heads directly to the father’s room, finding the bed empty, unmade and not even warm.   She checks the adjacent rooms and bath facility, but he is in none of those places.  She returns to the dining room, whispering this information to Arcade.   He suggests that the group go for a stroll around the gardens.  They head outside. He leads them directly to the duck pond, Morgana filling them in about the missing father.   Arcade says that he will cast a Reflecting Pool onto the pond.   He starts the spell, seeing his father sitting at a desk and reading a book in a brightly lit room.   Morgana suggests, “Pull back on your focus”.  The image zooms out, to reveal the desk is located in a vast room filled with machinery.   He continues to pull back and up, in order to locate where the room might be.  They discover that it is deep underground, heading up several stone staircase.   They eventually reach the surface.  As he pulls up higher they find themselves looking at a part of a city near a river.    Arcade pulls up even further and announces, “That’s London and I recognize the Parliament Building.”  They then see William approaching and Arcade ceases the spell before his brother sees what they were up to.   “What are you doing over he?” he exclaims in an accusatory manner.   Qualtaqa decides to cover for the party by taking advantage of the fact that William already views him as an uncivilized savage, stating “Saw you had pond with ducks so wanted to throttle one and then eat it.”   William is appalled, and lectures them about leaving the birds on the estate alone.  Louie interjects, “What?  You no like to eat duck?  I have good recipe for Peking Duck.”   Qualtaqa gives the young Lord assurances that they will leave the birds alone.   Morgana then comments about wanting to go shopping in London.   They invite William to show them around the city.  He becomes very suspicious.   “You can show us the sights,” Sam states.  William replies, “That won’t be necessary.  I’m sure you’ll have no trouble finding people who will tell you where to go.”Qualtaqa suggests that they spend the day riding around the estate.   William exclaims, “Planning to ride all the way to London?”  Arcade says, “Not at all.  We’ll tour the estate today and go to London tomorrow.”    They invite William to join them but he declines, making a derogatory comment about his brother’s companions.   Louie corrects him, declaring “We be respectable gang, on both sides of ocean.”  They reach the stables and start to pick out horses.   Qualtaqa comments that he and Louie will wait there, as neither of them knows how to ride.    “What? You were a horse!” Hank exclaims.  Qualtaqa replies that while he is personally familiar with how a horse travels he has no experience with sitting atop one or how to command it to move.   Arcade states,” Well then it’s high time that you learned.  You too Louie, each of you grab a horse.”It takes quite a while to teach the two new riders the basic mechanics, although the one who seems to have the hardest adjustment is Hank as the English saddles are different from the Western version that he is used to.   They ride off, with both Qualtaqa and Louie each thrilled at acquired a new skill.   “They seem mighty proud of themselves,” Hank comments.   Arcade replies, “Sure do, let’s slap their horse’s butts and see how they react.”   Morgana exclaims “Don’t you dare!  I’ve already used up all of my healing spells today on your father.”They spend the next hour riding around the estate.  From a frozen hilltop Morgana spots a group of buildings in the far distance and asks her husband about it.   Arcade says, “That’s the local village.  The tenant farmers that tend my father’s lands live there.”   She says, “Then we need to go check it out.  They may know what has been going on.”   “Is there a tavern in the village?” Hank asks.   Arcade replies, “Yes, and they call them ‘pubs’ over here.”   Hank replies, “I don’t care what they call it as long as I can get me a drink.”  They ride on in the direction of the village.</blockquote>

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