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Message: <blockquote data-quote="megamania" data-source="post: 942918" data-attributes="member: 9255">UNDER A DARKSUNSEGMENT 077“A Templar’s Revenge”Keela was quite unhappy.  The only man to ever defy her…the only person (excluding Nibenay himself if you wish to refer to him as a person that is) escaped her with his life.  Worse, he escaped with a woman whom rumor has it is his new love interest.  The ****ing pig! She thought to herself.  I will…No I must fix this.  I must have my revenge.She pushed her thoughts back as it was time for the meeting.  The security branch was meeting today on Veela’s wishes.  She had to go.  She arrived directly on time (though still the last to arrive) and took her place.“So good of you to arrive Keela.” Mocked Veela.  Waiting until Keela had her first drink near her lips she then asks- “I trust you are past the whole Mania / Alliance thing by now.”  She hears a satisfactory snort of liquid being spit up.“Ah…yes High-Templar Veela.  I have.” She answers as she dabs her mouth and nose of upset wine.  She thinks dark thoughts to herself then returns with her own barb.  How did your last meeting with our husband go?  I heard he was most upset that the Veiled Alliance was not crushed; that we only found about 15 of the estimated 150 members.  That would be…a mere 10% I suppose.None of the other templars interrupted the silent stares each had for each other of utter hatred and murderous intentions.  “Hmmmm…yes well the king is more understanding than most parents.  Barb finished she switches to the business on hand before Keela can make a reply.Most of the meeting was about standard things the justice branch dealt with.  Rumors of Veiled Alliance activity, rumors of Shadow theft and murder and even rumors of the great bounty hunter Tangiers arriving in the city that week.  Veela spoke of the bounty hunter, being sure that Keela could hear her well enough but allowing no eye contact or other unintentional warning to herself be revealed.  Keela was silent for the rest of the meeting.  Veela was certain she took the bait. Veela’s personal bodyguard, Stiffler, spent the next three days spying on Keela.  He noted everything about her and her activities.  He then reported every detail to Veela.“Hahahahahahahahha Oh Stiffler.  I wish I were there to witness this.  This upstart sought to replace me but fell in love with a Veiled Alliance accomplice.  She knows not whether to love, leave or kill him.  Her love of power is great.  I will make these her instrument of self-destruction.  I am quite certain Tangiers will agree to the contract but for a fee just out of Keela’s grasp.  She will be forced to sell things…favored things to obtain the money.  She may even be forced to betray her family in the process.  With luck, commit a crime I can act on even.  And still, she will not be able to afford the bounty hunter.  Somehow this information will get out.  She will be ruined and exposed as the sham she is.  I will be rid of another would be High-Templar seeking my seat of power.  Hahahahahahahahahhahaha.”Keela has four days to raise an insanely high cost.  It will be worth it she thinks.  She must have her revenge.  She wants Mania dead.  Personally killed by her if possible. 150,000 Gold though.  So much!She begins by collecting her own money.  Then she collects on old debts.  She uses her influence to take money out of the city treasury (for city business of course).  She nears a mere 40,000 Gold.  Desperate, she begins to sell services to other templars, nobles, merchants and travelers.  She even sold a few potions (questionable quality) to some adventurers passing through.  Unknowingly, she even gets indebted to many senior Veiled Alliance members in hiding.  A mere 50,000 raised in her first day.Crazed and on the edge of inner madness, she decides to ask her parents for help.  She gets little.  The next night, a thief made it into her mother’s room and a noble’s home nearby.  She raises a total 110,000 Gold.On the third day Keela is quite merciless collecting taxes at the gate.  Several Shom operatives are furious.  She is reported but little can be done.  She collects a mere 150GD that day.On her fourth and final day, with 110150 Gold before her, Keela stares.  She has until midnight this night to raise more money.  40,000 Gold.  It can not be done.  She has come to realize that she mistrusted now, could be brought up on treason, stole from her mother and another family that she always disliked and now made mortal enemies with House of Shom.    And still it wasn’t enough.Night falls.  She goes to the family country house to decide what to do after drinking an entire bottle of Red Cactus wine.  She feels a need to relieve herself when a lizard appears.  Tied to it’s tail is a string.  On the other end is a small pouch with a note.She picks up the lizard, looks at it briefly then pulls the string roughly from it’s tail.  It hisses menicely then moves under a table to inspect the injuries.  The whole time watching her.Watching through the eyes of her familiar, the Obe of Gulg watches Keela open her note and read it.  Watches as a cruel smile flashes across her face.  Watches as Keela greedily tears at the tie-strings of the pouch.  From the small pouch of holding fall 40,000 gold worth of gold, silver and ceramic coins.  She gathers it all up and hurries to the meeting place Tangiers requested.  She might just make it.The Obe of Gulg sits back from her scrying pool.  I know not why I have done this for sure, but I see at the least, an opportunity to confuse and redirect Nibenay’s templars at just the right point.  The forest and grasslands will be mine again.</blockquote>

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