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<blockquote data-quote="gideonpepys" data-source="post: 7555747" data-attributes="member: 79141"><p><strong>Session 212, Part One - The Hidden Enforcer</strong></p><p></p><p>They agreed to investigate the Jaula next, waiting only to receive a reply from Salome Nieves. Meantime, they contacted the Coaltongue and asked them to be on the lookout for hiveminds. Nieves’ reply came a few hours later (which gave them all a chance to rest up). In his mind, Dieter had already moved his plan to march on the Cadagyr Estate forward to the following ‘morning’, once the curfew was over, and was frustrated by their insistence on heading to the Jaula first – prioritising animals over people, to his mind (although they suspected this kind of talk was mostly motivated by bravado). When the response came from Salome, however, it turned out that the meeting-place she suggested was more-or-less on the way to the Southern District, where the Jaula was to be found.</p><p></p><p>Despite her earlier request not to disturb her further, the unit teleported to the closest, secluded spot they knew: Flida’s Finest. The shop was dark and silent when they arrived. Flida was rudely awakened by the noise they made on their way out. She was by turns terrified, then apoplectic – a frightening vision, in face-mask and curlers.</p><p></p><p>Breaking curfew, under the cover of illusions (disguised as an orcish police patrol), they made their way through the Troughs to the appointed meeting place: a noisome trash-filled gorge at the eastern edge of the city. There, near a burning pile of rancid refuse, they found Salome waiting for them: a tall, well-groomed orc, with short-cropped black hair and a physique built for smashing evil-doers with a staff. Glaucia revealed herself and introduced the others. Nieves bowed low to her mentor then held out an urgent hand for silence. She had grown paranoid and throughout their conversation intermittently glanced skyward or hushed the group to listen for the ‘hiss-groan’ of invisible observers. “Haven’t you heard them?” she asked, surprised. “There’s one above the Executores’ Lodge. That’s why I couldn’t go back there. They don’t like noxious fumes, that’s why we’re here. When they first started following me, I tried hiding in tunnels. But I was only able to shake them when I fled through an open-air alchemy market, where strange smoke was thick in the air.” She was also convinced that someone was able to listen to the sending she sent, because minutes afterwards, officers came to arrest her. There was a fierce fight in the Executores Lodge, and after she and her sisters defeated the police she entreated them to flee, but they wouldn’t. She suspected the Obscurati, but she hadn’t seen any of their agents, and elsewhere in Ber they acted openly. There were no hallmarks of Pemberton’s duplicants either: those who were acting odd were still eating. She had detected no undead who might be possessing people. Salome did not know who these invaders were, but they had control of the Jaula, the Cadagyr’s Estate and possibly the Triunfo Vida too.</p><p></p><p>Salome said that she had encountered a number of citizens who had proven resistant to whatever influence the rest had succumbed to. She mentioned Flida, Dieter, and Commodore Anjela Deinousa – the orcish commander of two thousand marines on twenty frigates that had been scheduled to sail up and assail the Risuri city of Shale, but were now stuck in dock. The Commodore was a martinet, and her grip on her troops was such that her own clear-headedness extended to them. (Here was something solid they could gain from their actions: the city of Ursalina would be unlikely to consent to the launch of the fleet if the Risuri had freed them from the grip of this mysterious menace. Glaucia would see to that, she said.)</p><p></p><p>Glaucia was harsh in her criticism of Nieves: she had not followed her training, or cleaved to protocol. This information should have come in her second sending, no matter what the risk to her own person. In failing to follow up on her initial report, she had risked the lives of all those who subsequently came to investigate: five members of King Baldrey’s famous entourage – the saviours of the Bruse and of Ber – were now missing. Nieves bowed her head. Leon felt sorry for her and complimented her on her survival; Korrigan felt it was not his place to say anything, as she was Glaucia’s subordinate.</p><p></p><p>They grilled Salome for a little longer. Had she encountered anyone, or the rumour of anyone, matching the description of the missing unit members? No. Did she know any more about this ‘masked vigilante’? No more than they did. Had she noticed the cerebral mesh in the Northern District? No, she hadn’t.</p><p></p><p>Warned about the possibility of sending interception, their next sending to the Coaltongue was coded. They told them to be cautious in case they too were being watched.</p><p></p><p>Once Salome had confirmed that she was battle-ready and willing to stand alongside them, they set off for the Jaula.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="gideonpepys, post: 7555747, member: 79141"] [b]Session 212, Part One - The Hidden Enforcer[/b] They agreed to investigate the Jaula next, waiting only to receive a reply from Salome Nieves. Meantime, they contacted the Coaltongue and asked them to be on the lookout for hiveminds. Nieves’ reply came a few hours later (which gave them all a chance to rest up). In his mind, Dieter had already moved his plan to march on the Cadagyr Estate forward to the following ‘morning’, once the curfew was over, and was frustrated by their insistence on heading to the Jaula first – prioritising animals over people, to his mind (although they suspected this kind of talk was mostly motivated by bravado). When the response came from Salome, however, it turned out that the meeting-place she suggested was more-or-less on the way to the Southern District, where the Jaula was to be found. Despite her earlier request not to disturb her further, the unit teleported to the closest, secluded spot they knew: Flida’s Finest. The shop was dark and silent when they arrived. Flida was rudely awakened by the noise they made on their way out. She was by turns terrified, then apoplectic – a frightening vision, in face-mask and curlers. Breaking curfew, under the cover of illusions (disguised as an orcish police patrol), they made their way through the Troughs to the appointed meeting place: a noisome trash-filled gorge at the eastern edge of the city. There, near a burning pile of rancid refuse, they found Salome waiting for them: a tall, well-groomed orc, with short-cropped black hair and a physique built for smashing evil-doers with a staff. Glaucia revealed herself and introduced the others. Nieves bowed low to her mentor then held out an urgent hand for silence. She had grown paranoid and throughout their conversation intermittently glanced skyward or hushed the group to listen for the ‘hiss-groan’ of invisible observers. “Haven’t you heard them?” she asked, surprised. “There’s one above the Executores’ Lodge. That’s why I couldn’t go back there. They don’t like noxious fumes, that’s why we’re here. When they first started following me, I tried hiding in tunnels. But I was only able to shake them when I fled through an open-air alchemy market, where strange smoke was thick in the air.” She was also convinced that someone was able to listen to the sending she sent, because minutes afterwards, officers came to arrest her. There was a fierce fight in the Executores Lodge, and after she and her sisters defeated the police she entreated them to flee, but they wouldn’t. She suspected the Obscurati, but she hadn’t seen any of their agents, and elsewhere in Ber they acted openly. There were no hallmarks of Pemberton’s duplicants either: those who were acting odd were still eating. She had detected no undead who might be possessing people. Salome did not know who these invaders were, but they had control of the Jaula, the Cadagyr’s Estate and possibly the Triunfo Vida too. Salome said that she had encountered a number of citizens who had proven resistant to whatever influence the rest had succumbed to. She mentioned Flida, Dieter, and Commodore Anjela Deinousa – the orcish commander of two thousand marines on twenty frigates that had been scheduled to sail up and assail the Risuri city of Shale, but were now stuck in dock. The Commodore was a martinet, and her grip on her troops was such that her own clear-headedness extended to them. (Here was something solid they could gain from their actions: the city of Ursalina would be unlikely to consent to the launch of the fleet if the Risuri had freed them from the grip of this mysterious menace. Glaucia would see to that, she said.) Glaucia was harsh in her criticism of Nieves: she had not followed her training, or cleaved to protocol. This information should have come in her second sending, no matter what the risk to her own person. In failing to follow up on her initial report, she had risked the lives of all those who subsequently came to investigate: five members of King Baldrey’s famous entourage – the saviours of the Bruse and of Ber – were now missing. Nieves bowed her head. Leon felt sorry for her and complimented her on her survival; Korrigan felt it was not his place to say anything, as she was Glaucia’s subordinate. They grilled Salome for a little longer. Had she encountered anyone, or the rumour of anyone, matching the description of the missing unit members? No. Did she know any more about this ‘masked vigilante’? No more than they did. Had she noticed the cerebral mesh in the Northern District? No, she hadn’t. Warned about the possibility of sending interception, their next sending to the Coaltongue was coded. They told them to be cautious in case they too were being watched. Once Salome had confirmed that she was battle-ready and willing to stand alongside them, they set off for the Jaula. [/QUOTE]
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