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Message: <blockquote data-quote="gideonpepys" data-source="post: 6234699" data-attributes="member: 79141">Session 97a - 12th SpringWhile the rest of the unit were engaged at Sharon Baker Subrail Station, Leon led an assault on Machete Hill. The operation had gathered a lot of intel about this stronghold, and their preparations ensured the mission ran smoothly: Clockwork bombs made by Uru were used to blow a hole in the exterior walls, bypassing the gauntlet of cannon.  The defenders surrendered immediately and the cannon were seized and brought back to RHC HQ. In the aftermath of the hostage situation, Colonel Tucker was furious. He had a troop of men heading down from the battalion who were itching see some action. Matunaaga suggested that Tucker and his soldiers join them in their assault on Grand Suites later that day and Tucker jumped at the chance. Back at RHC HQ, Delft was over the moon. The unit had done the RHC proud, he said. Flushed with enthusiasm, he predicted the fall of the Kell Guild within the next twenty-four hours. "But that's just a sideshow now," he said, spitting tobacco at a bin, which he missed by a few feet. "I've been thinking:  we have everything we need to make our move. There must be more of those wands within the Gate.  Let's plan to make our move tomorrow evening, regardless: right when the Peace Conference is opening!"  The unit was slightly less enthusiastic, and hoped to glean more information from Kell himself. Back in their office, Kvarti thanked Rumdoom for giving him the chance to exonerate himself.  In return, he volunteered to help the unit against these 'Bleak Gate people', having picked up enough to know that there was something afoot.  He also counselled Rumdoom against using the dread mordenkrad wielded by Zubov.  "This weapon is a bane, and it were better it had stayed lost. I will make a hammer for you." He took Rumdoom's rune-scribed craghammer and said he would return it the following day. As was traditional in Drakr, he sealed their friendship by pouring out two mugs of a powerful dwarven spirit, and passing one to Rumdoom. Having been sober for months Rumdoom hesitated, but only for a moment.  He downed the drink, and then another.  For the rest of the day he struggled to work out what was going on. With Tucker's men in tow, the unit moved on Grand Suites:  Another resounding success.  They returned to RHC HQ to prepare for their sting on the fake eladrin traffickers, and an astonishing sight greeted them. Having only just bidden farewell to one troop of soldiers, they saw another arriving:  Twenty-four men dressed in the livery of the Governor, half of whom were mounted.  Their leader called for Inspector Malthusius, but Malthusius had not yet returned.  The unit were told that he had convinced Stanfield to commit everything at his disposal to the effort to destroy Lorcan Kell. Not only had these guards been made available, but Stanfield had ordered the police captains from each district to commit any men who had previously been assigned to the terrorist case. They would be gathering at RHC HQ over the next few hours. Along with the cannon seized at Machete Hill, Korrigan was now in charge of a small army. While he made detailed plans, the rest of the unit went to bust up the trafficking ring.  (Surely it could not be long before they heard from Dester Rathtine?  Even Unit B were involved: Falkrow the Fixer had told them where they could find Vander Lepage, the tiefling crime boss and Kell associate who had given them the slip a few week's back.  Given the way things had gone of late this would surely be little more than the icing on the cake, but it was a cake the ambitious Professor Marcione was keen to get a piece of.)  The sting went well, and soon the unit were back at headquarters chalking up another victory. Asrabey Varal arrived.  He brought sad tidings:  A mob of townsfolk had murdered Doyle Idylls, mayor of the Cloudwood!  This, boomed the eladrin, is what came of ignoring Ekossigan's presence in their midst.  He demanded that they accompany him on a last ditch effort to find the traitor.  Korrigan was affected by the news as Doyle Idylls had supported him wholeheartedly in his political campaign.  He was a good man; a man who struggled as Korrigan did, to marry the old traditions of Risur with the progress demanded by the King.  Delft was affected too, but in a less introspective fashion.  Seeming to forget all their successes of late he bemoaned the unit's failure to catch Ekossigan and reminded them that the King had promised the Unseen Court, under the laws of Kelland's Tribute, that every effort would be made to stop him before he disrupted the conference. With that, Leon, Uru, Matunaaga and  Rumdoom were dispatched to the Cloudwood with Asrabey, while Korrigan led his force against the Theatre of Scoundrels.</blockquote>

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