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<blockquote data-quote="gideonpepys" data-source="post: 7535218" data-attributes="member: 79141"><p><strong>Session 208, Part One - Loose Ends in Flint</strong></p><p></p><p>Leon and Rumdoom travelled by phantom steed to Seobriga, from the Ziggurat of Av. They arrived without incident on the outskirts of the city and without further ado, Leon teleported back to Flint, picked up the rest of the unit (along with Brakken) and returned to Seobriga. Meanwhile, the refit of the Coaltongue was completed, and the ship headed southwest, for Ursalina. </p><p></p><p>Aboard, in addition to Admiral Smith and his crew: Kieran Sentacore, the royal biographer; most of Rumdoom’s retinue (only Hildegaard and Thurgid had travelled with Leon); Ayesha and her children (but not Kai, who Korrigan preferred to keep with him at all times, where it was safer); and Amielle Latimer, who Korrigan had recruited to provide an additional layer of security (and to keep her occupied).</p><p></p><p>The Coaltongue was protected from scrying by the most powerful wards El Extrano could provide. He had come to visit Korrigan in his chambers (unbidden and unannounced) and put this suggestion to him. The only trouble was that even he would not be able to locate them, and so could not help out without being asked. Korrigan asked him what he could tell them about Ursalina. Disturbingly, the answer was “not much”. Communication was non-existent and teleportation was blocked. El Extrano was working on the latter issue. Korrigan asked if he had an agent in the city. The kobold said, “No. But you do.” It turned out that one ‘Agent Doran’ was known to be in the city when the Great Eclipse caused it to be cut off. Korrigan didn’t recognise the name, until El Extrano provided a list of some of his aliases: Saladoor Saan, Don Zaputo, and the Dread Pirate Roberta.</p><p></p><p>Other loose ends were tied up by the rest of the Unit. Uriel worked with Acting Chief Inspector Dima to put together a new RHC unit for Flint. Dima suggested recalling Carlao and Serena, his old comrades whom Korrigan had transferred after they sided with Saxby. They were both keen to return to their home city. Uriel checked with Korrigan who gave the go-ahead (assuming they were both screened for Ob affiliations). They would join Andrei von Recklinghausen. While at RHC HQ, Uriel encountered the lingering ghost of Doctor Wil Stanmore, late of Unit B, who had been murdered by Ludo Marcione when he refused to join the Obscurati, and was still sat behind his old desk. Neither he nor Uriel could account for the fact that he had lingered here, nor tell why he had not been drawn towards Cauldron Hill. Uriel asked if there was anything he could do to help, and Dr Stanmore said he’d like to ‘get out from behind this desk’, and so a new recruit was added to the roster. Finally, Uriel went to the lunatic asylum to see if anything could be done for Brajham.</p><p></p><p>Brajham had also been a member of unit B, but had lost his mind sometime after the death of his brother Theren, during the assault on Cauldron Hill, and had been swiftly side-lined by Marcione, instead of receiving the help he deserved. Now Brajham was confined behind fire retardant screens, as he blazed with permanent fire, which had immolated his hair and clothes. Though the sorcerer was hostile, Uriel simply became insubstantial, passed through the walls and laid his hands upon the tormented elf. When he was still, Uriel called for Korrigan, who braved the fires and healed him. When he awoke, Brajham was calm and rational, although slightly subdued, and the fires around him still burned. This permanent blaze notwithstanding, he would be interested in rejoining the unit, he said, particularly when he learned that Doctor Stanmore was still around.</p><p></p><p>Uru, meanwhile, divided his attention between the Coaltongue in its makeshift shipyard – the huge quarry where Alden Wondermaker lived with his wererat friends – and his newfound interest in blurring the lines between technology and nature. This involved Wondermaker too, for, as the Clockwork King, he had supplied the rudimentary programmes for the experiments of Tortho Chell and, as the sentient creation of Tinker Oddcog, he felt he straddled that dividing line himself. They worked on some simple creations and to their surprise and excitement, found they worked much better than they could have hoped. In a matter of a day or so they raised a clutch of tiny hermit-crab-like robots. How had this been achieved so easily, and yet never been done before? Clues to the answer lay in a breathless report on the over-abundance of food production which had come before the king only a few days earlier. Crop yields had doubled, not just in the weftlands, where the Father of Thunder had promised a bounty, but in the arbours, orchards, plantations and elsewhere. Uriel pondered both matters, recognised the connection, and realised that the cause was Mojang, the plane of Life: the weird purple plane that they had glimpsed all those years ago on Axis Island. Its trait? Artifice! </p><p></p><p>When Leon returned, the others were ready to go. Quratulain returned, and seemed the same as ever (although the keenest of eyes may have sensed something had changed). When they were on board the Coaltongue some time later, Kai slipped a paper ‘Quratulain mask’ under her door. He had drawn a smile on it.</p><p></p><p>Gupta, however was very different. She moved differently. While always focused and patient, she exhibited a different sort of focus, a different sort of patience. Previously, she may have considered an object for a while before reaching for it. Now, she began to reach for it at once, only slowly, so that the same amount of time would have elapsed. “It is nice to see you looking forward,” said Uriel (who sometimes wondered if his own down-to-earth attitude wasn’t designed to avoid doing the very same). Gupta had been wholeheartedly embraced by the Vekeshi Mystics, who revealed that they saw in her a great hope – as if she were their avatar in these end times. Gupta had been driven to them by the realisation that everything eladrin died. That the Great Malice wasn’t some historical event, to be avenged or mourned, but was continual and on-going. Both she and the Vekeshi saw the Obscurati as the real enemy – both the author of current woes in Elfaivar, and of the Great Malice. (And in Gupta’s case, responsible for the death of her whole family.) Gupta also had some hasty regret in that, had she not resurrected Helandra, the Jenny Greenteeth situation might have been avoided. (Oddly, that had been at the urging of Kasvarina. …) Now she felt the need to thwart Greenteeth’s machinations too.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="gideonpepys, post: 7535218, member: 79141"] [b]Session 208, Part One - Loose Ends in Flint[/b] Leon and Rumdoom travelled by phantom steed to Seobriga, from the Ziggurat of Av. They arrived without incident on the outskirts of the city and without further ado, Leon teleported back to Flint, picked up the rest of the unit (along with Brakken) and returned to Seobriga. Meanwhile, the refit of the Coaltongue was completed, and the ship headed southwest, for Ursalina. Aboard, in addition to Admiral Smith and his crew: Kieran Sentacore, the royal biographer; most of Rumdoom’s retinue (only Hildegaard and Thurgid had travelled with Leon); Ayesha and her children (but not Kai, who Korrigan preferred to keep with him at all times, where it was safer); and Amielle Latimer, who Korrigan had recruited to provide an additional layer of security (and to keep her occupied). The Coaltongue was protected from scrying by the most powerful wards El Extrano could provide. He had come to visit Korrigan in his chambers (unbidden and unannounced) and put this suggestion to him. The only trouble was that even he would not be able to locate them, and so could not help out without being asked. Korrigan asked him what he could tell them about Ursalina. Disturbingly, the answer was “not much”. Communication was non-existent and teleportation was blocked. El Extrano was working on the latter issue. Korrigan asked if he had an agent in the city. The kobold said, “No. But you do.” It turned out that one ‘Agent Doran’ was known to be in the city when the Great Eclipse caused it to be cut off. Korrigan didn’t recognise the name, until El Extrano provided a list of some of his aliases: Saladoor Saan, Don Zaputo, and the Dread Pirate Roberta. Other loose ends were tied up by the rest of the Unit. Uriel worked with Acting Chief Inspector Dima to put together a new RHC unit for Flint. Dima suggested recalling Carlao and Serena, his old comrades whom Korrigan had transferred after they sided with Saxby. They were both keen to return to their home city. Uriel checked with Korrigan who gave the go-ahead (assuming they were both screened for Ob affiliations). They would join Andrei von Recklinghausen. While at RHC HQ, Uriel encountered the lingering ghost of Doctor Wil Stanmore, late of Unit B, who had been murdered by Ludo Marcione when he refused to join the Obscurati, and was still sat behind his old desk. Neither he nor Uriel could account for the fact that he had lingered here, nor tell why he had not been drawn towards Cauldron Hill. Uriel asked if there was anything he could do to help, and Dr Stanmore said he’d like to ‘get out from behind this desk’, and so a new recruit was added to the roster. Finally, Uriel went to the lunatic asylum to see if anything could be done for Brajham. Brajham had also been a member of unit B, but had lost his mind sometime after the death of his brother Theren, during the assault on Cauldron Hill, and had been swiftly side-lined by Marcione, instead of receiving the help he deserved. Now Brajham was confined behind fire retardant screens, as he blazed with permanent fire, which had immolated his hair and clothes. Though the sorcerer was hostile, Uriel simply became insubstantial, passed through the walls and laid his hands upon the tormented elf. When he was still, Uriel called for Korrigan, who braved the fires and healed him. When he awoke, Brajham was calm and rational, although slightly subdued, and the fires around him still burned. This permanent blaze notwithstanding, he would be interested in rejoining the unit, he said, particularly when he learned that Doctor Stanmore was still around. Uru, meanwhile, divided his attention between the Coaltongue in its makeshift shipyard – the huge quarry where Alden Wondermaker lived with his wererat friends – and his newfound interest in blurring the lines between technology and nature. This involved Wondermaker too, for, as the Clockwork King, he had supplied the rudimentary programmes for the experiments of Tortho Chell and, as the sentient creation of Tinker Oddcog, he felt he straddled that dividing line himself. They worked on some simple creations and to their surprise and excitement, found they worked much better than they could have hoped. In a matter of a day or so they raised a clutch of tiny hermit-crab-like robots. How had this been achieved so easily, and yet never been done before? Clues to the answer lay in a breathless report on the over-abundance of food production which had come before the king only a few days earlier. Crop yields had doubled, not just in the weftlands, where the Father of Thunder had promised a bounty, but in the arbours, orchards, plantations and elsewhere. Uriel pondered both matters, recognised the connection, and realised that the cause was Mojang, the plane of Life: the weird purple plane that they had glimpsed all those years ago on Axis Island. Its trait? Artifice! When Leon returned, the others were ready to go. Quratulain returned, and seemed the same as ever (although the keenest of eyes may have sensed something had changed). When they were on board the Coaltongue some time later, Kai slipped a paper ‘Quratulain mask’ under her door. He had drawn a smile on it. Gupta, however was very different. She moved differently. While always focused and patient, she exhibited a different sort of focus, a different sort of patience. Previously, she may have considered an object for a while before reaching for it. Now, she began to reach for it at once, only slowly, so that the same amount of time would have elapsed. “It is nice to see you looking forward,” said Uriel (who sometimes wondered if his own down-to-earth attitude wasn’t designed to avoid doing the very same). Gupta had been wholeheartedly embraced by the Vekeshi Mystics, who revealed that they saw in her a great hope – as if she were their avatar in these end times. Gupta had been driven to them by the realisation that everything eladrin died. That the Great Malice wasn’t some historical event, to be avenged or mourned, but was continual and on-going. Both she and the Vekeshi saw the Obscurati as the real enemy – both the author of current woes in Elfaivar, and of the Great Malice. (And in Gupta’s case, responsible for the death of her whole family.) Gupta also had some hasty regret in that, had she not resurrected Helandra, the Jenny Greenteeth situation might have been avoided. (Oddly, that had been at the urging of Kasvarina. …) Now she felt the need to thwart Greenteeth’s machinations too. [/QUOTE]
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