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<blockquote data-quote="gideonpepys" data-source="post: 7463803" data-attributes="member: 79141"><p><strong>Session 61, Epilogue - What Happened to Uriel</strong></p><p></p><p>When Adriel jumped through the portal to Alais Primos atop the Lance of Triegenes, he was not subject to attack at the other end, as he had been five-hundred years ago. He did not find himself in the midst of an eladrin army, enraged by the death of their goddess, and every woman they ever knew. He was not torn limb from limb as he was back then – a fate which Uriel only narrowly avoided during the memory event he and Kasvarina shared, taking them back to that moment in the Siege when the Avatar of Srasma – Kasvarina’s own daughter – succumbed to her wounds.</p><p></p><p>But he <em>thought </em>that was going to happen, and curled up in a foetal ball, until he gradually realised that he was alone in a farmer’s field. It was the fell of dark, not day, when he unfurled himself. He stood and looked around pointlessly. There was no light at all; no moon. A small movement in the hedgerow behind him suggested that he was not alone after all. </p><p></p><p>“A little light, Festoon, if you please,” said a familiar voice. The pixie obliged, shedding magical radiance all about her, allowing the man in the stove pipe hat to consult his pocket watch. He stood up from the tree stump he had been sat on. “Extraordinary! You arrived precisely when they said you would! Be a good fellow and put these on.” He threw a pair of mage cuffs at Uriel’s feet. “Don’t make us kill you again. They’ve decided it’s not necessary now. You’re to come with us.”</p><p></p><p>Uriel saw no reason to resist. In the first of many such timely premonitions, he felt sure that surrendering was the right thing to do, and would take him where he needed to be.</p><p></p><p>To Governor Stanfield’s island to be precise, where he was stripped of his magical items and placed in an anti-magic demi-plane, in a row of other such ‘portraits’ that the Governor kept in his private study. One of them, he later learned, during conversations with his erstwhile friend, also contained Isobel Travers. Stanfield loudly wondered what would be best to do with her now that Nicodemus had no more use for her boyfriend. He confessed that, although he had never had time for romantic pursuits before, Isobel was fragrant and fetching in the extreme. It occurred to Governor Stanfield that there might be time for such frivolity ‘in the new age to come’, with the added benefit that people would find themselves ‘more open to persuasion’…</p><p></p><p>Stanfield came and talked with him frequently. On one occasion, he told Uriel that Nicodemus had a sentimental attachment to him (as did he). Like Jierre, Adriel helped Nicodemus in his original incarnation, saving him atop the Lance of Triegenes. However, unlike Jierre, his subsequent incarnations had shown inconstant support for the conspiracy, only ever fully supporting it when its true purpose was occluded. “I think Nicodemus regards you as a kind of 'moral barometer',” Stanfield told him. “For some strange reason he urgently hopes to persuade you back to his way of thinking. I too wish that you weren't so hopelessly moralistic and that your current incarnation might be prescient enough to put aside sentimentality and support the Grand Design.”</p><p></p><p>However, Stanfield was not stupid enough to take Uriel’s word for it (even if he had tried to lie, which he was not inclined to do) and had determined that he would remain in the demiplane until after the Axis Seal Ritual was complete. Stanfield then went on to provide a villainous monologue detailing his part in ensuring Risur would fall in line with the Ob's new world. King Aodhan would be removed, of course, and his replacement would be an Ob sympathiser. “Catherine Romana. Perhaps you know her? She niftily side-stepped Nicodemus’ purge and was able to present him with a plan cunning enough to regain his favour. How’s that for a survival instinct? I myself will then perform a ritual here in Flint to impose the conditions of the new world order on a potentially reluctant population. But they’ll soon fall in line; as will you. Then we can be friends again, just like in the old days. Please don’t try to escape. The consequences would be unpleasant and undignified.”</p><p></p><p>Uriel was only too happy to remain in situ. The isolation afforded him the time to meditate and clear his mind now that he was himself again. And in a few weeks’ time his friends would come to let him out.</p><p></p><p>For the first time in years, he was exactly where he wanted to be.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="gideonpepys, post: 7463803, member: 79141"] [b]Session 61, Epilogue - What Happened to Uriel[/b] When Adriel jumped through the portal to Alais Primos atop the Lance of Triegenes, he was not subject to attack at the other end, as he had been five-hundred years ago. He did not find himself in the midst of an eladrin army, enraged by the death of their goddess, and every woman they ever knew. He was not torn limb from limb as he was back then – a fate which Uriel only narrowly avoided during the memory event he and Kasvarina shared, taking them back to that moment in the Siege when the Avatar of Srasma – Kasvarina’s own daughter – succumbed to her wounds. But he [I]thought [/I]that was going to happen, and curled up in a foetal ball, until he gradually realised that he was alone in a farmer’s field. It was the fell of dark, not day, when he unfurled himself. He stood and looked around pointlessly. There was no light at all; no moon. A small movement in the hedgerow behind him suggested that he was not alone after all. “A little light, Festoon, if you please,” said a familiar voice. The pixie obliged, shedding magical radiance all about her, allowing the man in the stove pipe hat to consult his pocket watch. He stood up from the tree stump he had been sat on. “Extraordinary! You arrived precisely when they said you would! Be a good fellow and put these on.” He threw a pair of mage cuffs at Uriel’s feet. “Don’t make us kill you again. They’ve decided it’s not necessary now. You’re to come with us.” Uriel saw no reason to resist. In the first of many such timely premonitions, he felt sure that surrendering was the right thing to do, and would take him where he needed to be. To Governor Stanfield’s island to be precise, where he was stripped of his magical items and placed in an anti-magic demi-plane, in a row of other such ‘portraits’ that the Governor kept in his private study. One of them, he later learned, during conversations with his erstwhile friend, also contained Isobel Travers. Stanfield loudly wondered what would be best to do with her now that Nicodemus had no more use for her boyfriend. He confessed that, although he had never had time for romantic pursuits before, Isobel was fragrant and fetching in the extreme. It occurred to Governor Stanfield that there might be time for such frivolity ‘in the new age to come’, with the added benefit that people would find themselves ‘more open to persuasion’… Stanfield came and talked with him frequently. On one occasion, he told Uriel that Nicodemus had a sentimental attachment to him (as did he). Like Jierre, Adriel helped Nicodemus in his original incarnation, saving him atop the Lance of Triegenes. However, unlike Jierre, his subsequent incarnations had shown inconstant support for the conspiracy, only ever fully supporting it when its true purpose was occluded. “I think Nicodemus regards you as a kind of 'moral barometer',” Stanfield told him. “For some strange reason he urgently hopes to persuade you back to his way of thinking. I too wish that you weren't so hopelessly moralistic and that your current incarnation might be prescient enough to put aside sentimentality and support the Grand Design.” However, Stanfield was not stupid enough to take Uriel’s word for it (even if he had tried to lie, which he was not inclined to do) and had determined that he would remain in the demiplane until after the Axis Seal Ritual was complete. Stanfield then went on to provide a villainous monologue detailing his part in ensuring Risur would fall in line with the Ob's new world. King Aodhan would be removed, of course, and his replacement would be an Ob sympathiser. “Catherine Romana. Perhaps you know her? She niftily side-stepped Nicodemus’ purge and was able to present him with a plan cunning enough to regain his favour. How’s that for a survival instinct? I myself will then perform a ritual here in Flint to impose the conditions of the new world order on a potentially reluctant population. But they’ll soon fall in line; as will you. Then we can be friends again, just like in the old days. Please don’t try to escape. The consequences would be unpleasant and undignified.” Uriel was only too happy to remain in situ. The isolation afforded him the time to meditate and clear his mind now that he was himself again. And in a few weeks’ time his friends would come to let him out. For the first time in years, he was exactly where he wanted to be. [/QUOTE]
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