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<blockquote data-quote="Lylandra" data-source="post: 7461631" data-attributes="member: 6816692"><p><strong>A night at the opera</strong></p><p></p><p>As we hope to find the two Kell guildies who tried to abduct Morena to maybe get more info about the guild from them, we travel to the police station in the Nettles and ask for their whereabouts. We are told that the two men were brought to the prison ships after being found guilty, so we decide to visit these strange ships once more. Fortunately, Lord Vantrys agreed to inherit the ships from Guy Goodson <span style="color: #008000">(Leaving them in the hands of Fordren would have been dangerous for everyone involved)</span> and so we find that the conditions there have improved a lot.</p><p></p><p>We find the two men sitting in a literacy course led by a tattooed docker lady. The teacher agrees to let their “students” leave for some questioning and so we take each of them aside to ask them questions about their Guild affiliations. We tell them both that they are fortunate ones indeed as they were imprisoned before their Guild was charged with high treason, so they might not necessarily end on the gallows, unlike their fellow brothers-in-crime. We promise them protection and a rather soft process should they decide to hand us crucial information, and so they decide to talk.</p><p></p><p>We get the info that Hammerton has been part of the Guild for quite a while, but the other lieutenants got exchanged after the grand Flint harbor massacre 13 months ago. Both talk about one lawyer who did a terrific job in defending the new recruits when they were charged and brought to court. We also get more information about the “Knife” as his name sounds like “Obers de somehing-with-ville” and that he also has a habit of visiting the Navras Opera house. “Meat Hook” on the other hand is more of a brute who likes to hang out in the Casa del Kell. </p><p></p><p>As we don't know whether one of these little birdies might get a change of mind during the next days and decide to give Kell a warning, we'd like to request that all of their mail lands on our office desks before delivery. The head warden of the prison ships would love o help us out in this regards, but he needs to get the okay from the Lord Judge first. So we head to the courthouse next. </p><p></p><p>There, we see that the Lord Judge is about to say goodbye to Mr. Morgan Cippiano who promise each other to go see the next grand Opera show in their usual loge. Cippiano bows his head as soon as he sees the two of us, but prefers to leave with this rather distant form of greeting. We tell the Judge about our suspicion that two imprisoned members of the Kell Guild might try to contact their criminal friends in the near future which is why we'd need to scan their mail in advance. The man sees no problem in our request and grants us the permission to get the mail delivered. We also ask to take a glimpse at archived files about the grand harbor massacre and the Judge sends us to the court archives. </p><p></p><p>There we find the name of the “excellent lawyer” of the Kell lieutenants, a man named Mr. Augst who's residing in North Shore. So one more on our list. As it is getting late this day, we decide to call it a day and resume our work on the next day. </p><p></p><p>The next morning, Auryn has a light hangover due to a rendezvous with a bottle of wine. When she's asked if everything's alright, she just says that she got a lot of strange news yesterday and couldn't really get enough sleep. The corresponding headache needs to be put aside though as we just got our first meeting with our brand new anti-Kell-strike force on the schedule. </p><p></p><p>We visit the 50 officers in their barracks in Pine Island where they are being stationed alongside their families. Auryn gives a short speech where she thanks the brave policemen and -women for their devotion to the cause and their courage to fight the cancer of the Kell Guild. She calls upon their secrecy, loyalty and comradeship so they might be finally able to do what no official of Flint has dared to do before: getting rid of the blot that is the Guild altogether. We then tell the officers that we already planned our first trike against the Casa del Kell on the next morning and we expect everyone to be ready by then. We'll take the day to collect some final information about the “fortress” and hand them the details of our plan later. </p><p></p><p>We head to the RHC and find that the collection of illusion scrolls we ordered a while ago just arrived in time. We plan to use them during our first strike to make it seem as if we got actually masses of police officers instead of a mere 50. </p><p></p><p>(<span style="color: #008000">we know that each of us might take on multiple Kell goonies, so we'd like to hide inside a police swarm illusion. Regarding the scrolls, we always request the “Harkover Lee special”, a specific kind of scroll developed by the Principal Minister that can be used by everyone even when they lack the Use Magic Device skill. I don't know whether these are canon and whether they are still made by Lee himself, but we find the thought of the king's best man scribing a fair amount of scrolls for our missions quite hilarious. Not that we use up too many scrolls though...)</span></p><p><span style="color: #008000"></span></p><p>As we managed to get last minute tickets for today's beran opera premiere in the Navras Opera house, we try to get our hands on the “Knife” next. Auryn seems to be quite excited at the prospect of visiting her favorite flinter building and her mood brightens up immediately once the two of us set a foot in the opera plaza. Carlyle remembers that he had the chance to be here when the Opera House was finally finished after almost two centuries of construction and he says that this building has been around as long as he himself, considering the fact that Navras must have left Elfaivar roughly at the same time as he left Crisillyir. He then, again, points out that Navras' Dirge of Vekesh had been truly impressive and a once-in-a-lifetime event, leaving Auryn both envious and incited. </p><p></p><p>We meet a couple of acquaintances and “other people we know” in the Opera's grand foyer, including Morgan Cippiano, accompanied by the Lord Judge of Flint, Lord Vantrys and Cecilia Fordren, as well as the Carlyle couple and Mr. Fordren. For once, we are glad that Morris Dawkins, being an opera enthusiast himself, skipped the event as we both really don't know what would happen if these two men met. Courtesy dictates that we greet and exchange a few words with each of them, so Auryn tucks her arm into Carlyle's before we wish everyone a pleasant evening. Fortunately, Fordren seems to be keen on making profitable investments in Ber and isn't menacing at all. </p><p></p><p>“Yeah, just try to introduce your lowly danoran industry standards and slavery-like working conditions to Ber. You're going to have great fun with the Executores Dola Liberta and their whips. They surely know how to get rid of tyrants...” she whispers once we are out of hearing range. </p><p></p><p>Carlyle chuckles a bit at her comment after being slightly worried about the fact that his partner obviously sought his support during their encounter with Fordren. </p><p></p><p>As we stride towards our loge, we find the two Starkes chatting with a man who matches the description of our wanted “Knife”. From their conversation we hear that the man is actually called Aubert de Chartville and not “Obers” <span style="color: #008000">(thanks goodness, as “Obers” is actually the austrian-german word for cream and would have led to a lot of silly wordplays)</span> and the moment he realizes that young Tyler has quite the amount of knowledge about music, he invites both father and son to join him in his loge. </p><p></p><p>We, on the other hand, are rather unlucky, as we find that our loge neighbor is none other than Rock Rackus. Rock isn't interested in the opera at all as he's just here to “check the location for his next gig” and jokes about finding different ways to tear the whole building down. Needless to say that we both are rather appalled at both the prospect of having Rock perform in the opera house and his blasphemous thoughts. So Auryn jokes that Rock might want to perform in the most famous Scoundrel's Theater instead.</p><p></p><p>Carlyle takes the first half of the opera to closely watch the Starke/de Chartville loge, fearing that the Kell assassin might take a strike against the prosecutor. Meanwhile, Auryn tries to keep Rock from doing anything stupid or embarrassing. </p><p></p><p>During the first break, Auryn seizes the opportunity to greet the Starkes and introduce herself to Aubert de Chartville. They talk a bit about music, the opera and Tyler's progress in playing the piano. As the Starke son seems to be quite adapt at musical theory as well, she tells him about her own “Dirge” project and promises to hand him some copies of her drafts so he may add a comment or two. At first, Aubert is quite enthralled by the exchange of the two artists, leaving the impression that he's really an enthusiast and not just playing a role to get a job done. </p><p></p><p>But when Auryn mentions her “dear Mr. Carlyle” who'd surely love to join their chat, de Chartville suddenly realizes that the two of us must be these famous RHC agents that were all over the news. So he excuses himself and heads towards the gent's bathroom. We follow him shortly after and Carlyle catches him inside where he's just about to jump out of the window.</p><p></p><p>We are able to arrest the tiefling without causing too much ruckus and bring him to the RHC. Unfortunately, this means we also miss the second part of the opera show. Once we get him to a cell, Aubert starts trying to negotiate for his freedom. He offers us names and places, but he insists to be released and freed of all charges. All we offer him though is the prospect of some years in prison instead of a public execution for high treason. After all, this guy does love his job as a high class hitman and the comfort that comes with the corresponding payment far too much. So we don't come to an agreement and decide to let him rot in our cells for a while. </p><p><span style="color: #008000"></span></p><p><span style="color: #008000">(We really tried, but the “Knife” insisted on an all-or-nothing deal: Either complete freedom or he'd prefer death and stay silent. Even tried to commit suicide at one point. What a weirdo.</span></p><p><span style="color: #008000"></span></p><p><span style="color: #008000">On a second thought, Auryn was really disappointed that a refined man like de Chartville would talk so little and refused the chance to save his life as she found him quite charming and enjoyed talking about music with him. Carlyle on the other hand could appreciate his manners, but he totally loathed the rest of Chartville's character)</span></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Lylandra, post: 7461631, member: 6816692"] [b]A night at the opera[/b] As we hope to find the two Kell guildies who tried to abduct Morena to maybe get more info about the guild from them, we travel to the police station in the Nettles and ask for their whereabouts. We are told that the two men were brought to the prison ships after being found guilty, so we decide to visit these strange ships once more. Fortunately, Lord Vantrys agreed to inherit the ships from Guy Goodson [COLOR="#008000"](Leaving them in the hands of Fordren would have been dangerous for everyone involved)[/COLOR] and so we find that the conditions there have improved a lot. We find the two men sitting in a literacy course led by a tattooed docker lady. The teacher agrees to let their “students” leave for some questioning and so we take each of them aside to ask them questions about their Guild affiliations. We tell them both that they are fortunate ones indeed as they were imprisoned before their Guild was charged with high treason, so they might not necessarily end on the gallows, unlike their fellow brothers-in-crime. We promise them protection and a rather soft process should they decide to hand us crucial information, and so they decide to talk. We get the info that Hammerton has been part of the Guild for quite a while, but the other lieutenants got exchanged after the grand Flint harbor massacre 13 months ago. Both talk about one lawyer who did a terrific job in defending the new recruits when they were charged and brought to court. We also get more information about the “Knife” as his name sounds like “Obers de somehing-with-ville” and that he also has a habit of visiting the Navras Opera house. “Meat Hook” on the other hand is more of a brute who likes to hang out in the Casa del Kell. As we don't know whether one of these little birdies might get a change of mind during the next days and decide to give Kell a warning, we'd like to request that all of their mail lands on our office desks before delivery. The head warden of the prison ships would love o help us out in this regards, but he needs to get the okay from the Lord Judge first. So we head to the courthouse next. There, we see that the Lord Judge is about to say goodbye to Mr. Morgan Cippiano who promise each other to go see the next grand Opera show in their usual loge. Cippiano bows his head as soon as he sees the two of us, but prefers to leave with this rather distant form of greeting. We tell the Judge about our suspicion that two imprisoned members of the Kell Guild might try to contact their criminal friends in the near future which is why we'd need to scan their mail in advance. The man sees no problem in our request and grants us the permission to get the mail delivered. We also ask to take a glimpse at archived files about the grand harbor massacre and the Judge sends us to the court archives. There we find the name of the “excellent lawyer” of the Kell lieutenants, a man named Mr. Augst who's residing in North Shore. So one more on our list. As it is getting late this day, we decide to call it a day and resume our work on the next day. The next morning, Auryn has a light hangover due to a rendezvous with a bottle of wine. When she's asked if everything's alright, she just says that she got a lot of strange news yesterday and couldn't really get enough sleep. The corresponding headache needs to be put aside though as we just got our first meeting with our brand new anti-Kell-strike force on the schedule. We visit the 50 officers in their barracks in Pine Island where they are being stationed alongside their families. Auryn gives a short speech where she thanks the brave policemen and -women for their devotion to the cause and their courage to fight the cancer of the Kell Guild. She calls upon their secrecy, loyalty and comradeship so they might be finally able to do what no official of Flint has dared to do before: getting rid of the blot that is the Guild altogether. We then tell the officers that we already planned our first trike against the Casa del Kell on the next morning and we expect everyone to be ready by then. We'll take the day to collect some final information about the “fortress” and hand them the details of our plan later. We head to the RHC and find that the collection of illusion scrolls we ordered a while ago just arrived in time. We plan to use them during our first strike to make it seem as if we got actually masses of police officers instead of a mere 50. ([COLOR="#008000"]we know that each of us might take on multiple Kell goonies, so we'd like to hide inside a police swarm illusion. Regarding the scrolls, we always request the “Harkover Lee special”, a specific kind of scroll developed by the Principal Minister that can be used by everyone even when they lack the Use Magic Device skill. I don't know whether these are canon and whether they are still made by Lee himself, but we find the thought of the king's best man scribing a fair amount of scrolls for our missions quite hilarious. Not that we use up too many scrolls though...) [/COLOR] As we managed to get last minute tickets for today's beran opera premiere in the Navras Opera house, we try to get our hands on the “Knife” next. Auryn seems to be quite excited at the prospect of visiting her favorite flinter building and her mood brightens up immediately once the two of us set a foot in the opera plaza. Carlyle remembers that he had the chance to be here when the Opera House was finally finished after almost two centuries of construction and he says that this building has been around as long as he himself, considering the fact that Navras must have left Elfaivar roughly at the same time as he left Crisillyir. He then, again, points out that Navras' Dirge of Vekesh had been truly impressive and a once-in-a-lifetime event, leaving Auryn both envious and incited. We meet a couple of acquaintances and “other people we know” in the Opera's grand foyer, including Morgan Cippiano, accompanied by the Lord Judge of Flint, Lord Vantrys and Cecilia Fordren, as well as the Carlyle couple and Mr. Fordren. For once, we are glad that Morris Dawkins, being an opera enthusiast himself, skipped the event as we both really don't know what would happen if these two men met. Courtesy dictates that we greet and exchange a few words with each of them, so Auryn tucks her arm into Carlyle's before we wish everyone a pleasant evening. Fortunately, Fordren seems to be keen on making profitable investments in Ber and isn't menacing at all. “Yeah, just try to introduce your lowly danoran industry standards and slavery-like working conditions to Ber. You're going to have great fun with the Executores Dola Liberta and their whips. They surely know how to get rid of tyrants...” she whispers once we are out of hearing range. Carlyle chuckles a bit at her comment after being slightly worried about the fact that his partner obviously sought his support during their encounter with Fordren. As we stride towards our loge, we find the two Starkes chatting with a man who matches the description of our wanted “Knife”. From their conversation we hear that the man is actually called Aubert de Chartville and not “Obers” [COLOR="#008000"](thanks goodness, as “Obers” is actually the austrian-german word for cream and would have led to a lot of silly wordplays)[/COLOR] and the moment he realizes that young Tyler has quite the amount of knowledge about music, he invites both father and son to join him in his loge. We, on the other hand, are rather unlucky, as we find that our loge neighbor is none other than Rock Rackus. Rock isn't interested in the opera at all as he's just here to “check the location for his next gig” and jokes about finding different ways to tear the whole building down. Needless to say that we both are rather appalled at both the prospect of having Rock perform in the opera house and his blasphemous thoughts. So Auryn jokes that Rock might want to perform in the most famous Scoundrel's Theater instead. Carlyle takes the first half of the opera to closely watch the Starke/de Chartville loge, fearing that the Kell assassin might take a strike against the prosecutor. Meanwhile, Auryn tries to keep Rock from doing anything stupid or embarrassing. During the first break, Auryn seizes the opportunity to greet the Starkes and introduce herself to Aubert de Chartville. They talk a bit about music, the opera and Tyler's progress in playing the piano. As the Starke son seems to be quite adapt at musical theory as well, she tells him about her own “Dirge” project and promises to hand him some copies of her drafts so he may add a comment or two. At first, Aubert is quite enthralled by the exchange of the two artists, leaving the impression that he's really an enthusiast and not just playing a role to get a job done. But when Auryn mentions her “dear Mr. Carlyle” who'd surely love to join their chat, de Chartville suddenly realizes that the two of us must be these famous RHC agents that were all over the news. So he excuses himself and heads towards the gent's bathroom. We follow him shortly after and Carlyle catches him inside where he's just about to jump out of the window. We are able to arrest the tiefling without causing too much ruckus and bring him to the RHC. Unfortunately, this means we also miss the second part of the opera show. Once we get him to a cell, Aubert starts trying to negotiate for his freedom. He offers us names and places, but he insists to be released and freed of all charges. All we offer him though is the prospect of some years in prison instead of a public execution for high treason. After all, this guy does love his job as a high class hitman and the comfort that comes with the corresponding payment far too much. So we don't come to an agreement and decide to let him rot in our cells for a while. [COLOR="#008000"] (We really tried, but the “Knife” insisted on an all-or-nothing deal: Either complete freedom or he'd prefer death and stay silent. Even tried to commit suicide at one point. What a weirdo. On a second thought, Auryn was really disappointed that a refined man like de Chartville would talk so little and refused the chance to save his life as she found him quite charming and enjoyed talking about music with him. Carlyle on the other hand could appreciate his manners, but he totally loathed the rest of Chartville's character)[/COLOR] [/QUOTE]
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