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Message: <blockquote data-quote="gideonpepys" data-source="post: 7405370" data-attributes="member: 79141">Session 50, Part OneFollowing Thisraldion’s promise that his son would come to no harm, Korrigan was summoned from hiding.  (Rambylon had taken him, along with Kai, Quratulain and Sly, to an area of rolling hills outside Clover known as ‘the Warrens’, where Sly Marbo could be nursed back to health among his own people.  Sly was left behind in the care of a brace of healers.)While they waited for Korrigan to arrive, they finished their long meal and returned to the audience chamber.  Karrest and Atlsa, who had both drifted away, returned at this juncture.  (They noticed as they headed back to the palace that the sun had not moved since they sat down to eat.)  Over dinner, Gupta spent the time studying Nicodemus’ Ob ring.  There was no inscription on the inside.  Now that they knew the secret of the Ob’s creation, Gupta felt that they could use this ring to locate senior members of the conspiracy.  But not from here!  Uru also asked if they could take a look at the arrow used in Rock’s murder and was told it could be found at the Mosscat Mortuary.Kai’s arrival excited the fey.  Sallin and Furg fussed over him, and extended their offer to his father – that Kai might one day sit on the throne soon to be occupied by Leon. Korrigan said he set no store by prophecies and pre-destination, and did not want to put his son in such a position when he was too young to make up his own mind. The fey seemed to regard this as an acceptance in some way.Thisraldion now repeated his request to the unit, that they should investigate the murder of Rock Rackus and present their findings to both courts in two days’ time. In the meantime, they would be given license to conduct their investigations under the auspices of the Unseen Court, and were offered lodgings on the palace grounds by Sallin. They were also given directions to the Hedgecourt Court, on the assumption that they would want to interrogate them first. They were also told that Rock’s body was found by an elf-like fey named Aric de Rochain in the so-called ‘Krog Tunnel’ (and were given directions there too).Just then, Binniwich the brownie entered and announced the arrival of Ascodel, Herald of the Great Hunt. Ascodel stomped into the chamber, kneeled before Thisraldion and apologised for the Hunt’s failure to capture ‘that blasted fox’.  His only explanation was that people kept getting in his way. Then he stood and gave the party a bold ‘huzzah.’ He recognized them from earlier and apologized if he trampled any of them. He then realised he had interrupted politics, ‘and I hate I politics’, so he made his departure. Once he was gone, the Unseen Courtiers had a laugh: Some days ago, they told Ascodel that a fox had killed one of Thisraldion’s favorite hens and ever since they’d been using him and the whole Great Hunt in battle by luring them around with a relay of foxes. (Uru wondered if they could gain leverage of any kind by revealing this fact to Ascodel.)When it was time to leave, they bid farewell to Thisraldion one by one, bowing before him before withdrawing from his presence. (Only later would they discuss the fact that they had each been left with a very different impression of him, on looking into his eerie mirror-mask.)Leon quietly spoke to Korrigan as he left.  Ascodel had not recognised him.  This put Leon in mind of the fact that, in returning to warn Korrigan that Kai might be abducted, Leon had completely avoided a whole timeline of events (including one in which he met Korrigan as an eighty-year-old and Kai in middle age – floating on a coracle on the seas of Mavisha).  If Ascodel didn’t remember him, it seemed that a lot of things he recalled must never have happened. He wondered what all this meant for the machinations of Jenny Greenteeth, which he hoped to have thwarted.</blockquote>

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