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Message: <blockquote data-quote="gideonpepys" data-source="post: 6249771" data-attributes="member: 79141">Session 98e - BombshellsMarshal Korrigan arrived at Hotel Aurum to meet with King  Aodhan at two in the afternoon.  Also present were Harkover Lee and  Governor Roland Stanfield. While they were waiting for the King  to join them, Korrigan asked Stanfield about Malthusius. Stanfield said he had given Malthusius access to the Canal paperwork, and that  Malthusius had departed in a hurry.  Then King Aodhan arrived in a sombre mood.  When he had seated himself, Harkover Lee addressed  Korrigan: "Yesterday, during preparatory talks with the Danorans, we received disturbing evidence that the man you know as Sergeant Leon Veilleux is in fact the infamous war criminal General Dax, otherwise known as 'Le Corbeau' - precisely the man he claims to have assassinated. This morning I took precautionary measures to incarcerate Sergeant Veilleux, during which I briefly questioned him on the matter. When presented with the manner and nature of the evidence against him, he confessed." Korrigan was speechless.  General Dax was notorious. Leader of the infamous Straw Dogs unit and charged with the capture of Axis Island, he unleashed a campaign of terrifying intensity: Prisoners were crucified on beach-heads; tortured and released, insane, back into the jungle; necromancy and plague magic were used. According to Leon, during his interrogation following capture in the bayou, he had murdered Dax to bring an end to his crimes. (It was this action that led to Leon's exoneration, and his eventual acceptance into the RHC.)  But the version of events outlined by Harkover was very different:  When word of the General's excesses reached Cherage, the Danoran leadership terminated his command, whereupon Dax went rogue until he was assassinated by a subordinate - the real Leon Veilleux. Korrigan was finding all of this difficult to get his head around, let alone believe.  Only Leon's apparent confession forestalled any protest. "As you can imagine, this is appalling and embarrassing in equal measure,"  said the King.  "There is just one question for you to answer before we  move on:  Did you know about this, Marshal Korrigan?" Under close scrutiny from the King and his advisors Korrigan said that he did not, and the matter was left at that.  Time was pressing.  The King  gave orders and an elven noblewoman was admitted to his chamber. She was introduced as Sholaria Dar - an emissary from the Unseen Court.  Before permitting her to address the group, the King expressed anger and regret at the deaths of the children at Gallo's School for Boys and  consternation at Asrabey Varal's behaviour.  (Korrigan listened without comment, but could not help thinking about the deaths of children in factories throughout Flint that went on unchecked and unabated.)   Sholaria accepted that Asrabey's actions were the responsibility of the court, but insisted that more should have been done to stop Ekossigan.  Neither she nor the King had heard any further word on the outcome of the mad fey's incursion into the Bleak Gate. Sholaria then moved on to her reason for coming to Flint: On behalf of the River King, she said, the fey debt owed by Elizabeth Korrigan was hereby absolved, their claim to her unborn son relinquished.  Thanks to Leon Veilleux, word had reached him of the trickery of Ambertain the Black, who had implanted false memories in the mind of Uru Scathaig Ciotog.  As Korrigan's return from the war was not a result of his intercession, there was no debt to pay; therefore no debt to pass on to Jenny Greenteeth. Elizabeth could be freed from her protective prison at the earliest convenience.  Korrigan was stunned. The elven noble woman withdrew and the meeting proceeded, but Korrigan barely heard anything over the rush of blood in his ears. Plans to assault the Bleak Gate were discussed, as was the threat level posed by Luc Jierre.  Danoran demands for the hand-over of Duchess Ethelyn of Shale and Nathan Jierre were raised, as was the theft of Danoran military secrets by a Risuri spy.  As the meeting drew to a close, when he was asked if there was any other business he wished to raise, Korrigan nodded. "My conflicting duties have torn me apart for too long, " he said. "This mission to root out the Obscurati in Flint must be my last. I humbly request that the King accepts my resignation from the RHC."</blockquote>

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