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Post by Cody D'Avalon on Apr 13, 2024 5:58:11 GMT
Cody chuckles at Lord Han, "So, not a bald faced lie but a gentler white lie?"
Cody looks at the stone walls and observes the forming chrystals. He shrugs, noting that most are salts and other water soiliable minerals. Not to throw out the wheat with the chaff, he notices that some of the minerals have value and there are minute traces of semiprecious stones. Of course there would be. The cavern and staircase are cut through a mountain.
Cody then considers Lord Han's assessment of the fellow named Hammett. Similar to what King Brian said.
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Post by Admin on Apr 14, 2024 6:08:45 GMT
#s://i~ibb~co/28Y9wNs/Calvera~jpg "Discreet or subtle doesn't matter if one plays with powers one can't hope to control. Their scheme must have sounded better and played out better in their planning and experimenting, but it didn't work in the field. Amateurs."They're at the bottom of the stairwell and now trudging through the caves. Water has seeped down to this part of the cave system, making most of their walk a slog through a couple of inches of water except where the passageway rises.
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Post by Cody D'Avalon on Apr 14, 2024 9:21:14 GMT
Cody made mental notes on the things Calvera was talking about. In his own experience Cody saw how Merlin's Construct has gone rogue. Suddenly frightened by the concept that it builds a following that worshipped it and what that could mean. And the power expelled to do so much damage to Castle Amber.
"Tell me something Prince; Did the explosion happen before or after the Shadow Storms began; and were there any other changes?"
Reaching the bottom of the stairs, Cody's heart sinks. Living in the damp environment is going to be a test of his endurance and resolve.
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Post by Cody D'Avalon on Apr 15, 2024 3:14:06 GMT
<OOC> A little slow taking a hint. Did Cody notice anything valuable and/or interesting amongst the Chrystal formations? </OOC>
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Post by Admin on Apr 15, 2024 4:19:25 GMT
OOC: What's valuable to someone who can travel anywhere in shadow? The crystals are just a curiosity, added to embellish the seeping water fact.
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Post by Admin on Apr 15, 2024 4:22:40 GMT
#s://i~ibb~co/28Y9wNs/Calvera~jpg "The first before, the second after. Things continue to get worse, but were already worsening before the second blast. What are you getting at?"
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Post by Cody D'Avalon on Apr 15, 2024 4:59:18 GMT
"I'm not getting at anything. Just gathering clues." Cody replies as he sloshes through the water.
<OOC> Just don't want to leave any stone unturned. </OOC>
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Post by Admin on Apr 15, 2024 5:07:20 GMT
#s://i~ibb~co/28Y9wNs/Calvera~jpg "Clues!" Calvera snorts. "There's no need for them. I hold Amber with Xu and maybe Rinaldo. The rest of them go and chop Coral's head off then bring back the Jewel of Judgement. Simple. No need to make it more complex, eh Xu?"
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Post by XuLiang on Apr 15, 2024 14:09:05 GMT
Xu considers Calvera’s statement. “Perhaps it would be more accurate to say all we hold Amber in trust until the matter of succession is settled. Though there does not appear to be any work being done to do that settling, which is a bit disconcerting.” He barely hesitates before stepping into the water and ruining his nicest pair of shoes.
Kai pauses and wrinkles up his nose. He gives Xu a look of, really?!? Do we have to? Which Xu blithely ignores while responding to the Prince.
“Killing her risks her blood curse. Having seen the results of Corwin’s Curse when he was not in possession of the power of the Jewel, that is a risk that seems unnecessary when there are other methods to try first. Guāng.” At the last word a palm sized ball of light appears in Xu’s open hand and floats up to just above and in front of his head. It casts a lantern’s worth of light around the room illuminating the dank area.
Kai gives a low growl but as they go through the door to the hallway he splashes after them.
“But before we can do any of that, we would have to find the young lady first. And the latest rumours are that she is currently … involved with King Merlin of Chaos. Bringing her back to Amber looks to be a legendary Heroic Quest.” As he speaks the last sentence some of his youthful enthusiasm starts to shine through despite the gloomy surroundings.
He then realizes this and smirks at himself and shrugs. “Well it sounds a lot more exciting than trying not to get in the way of the Rangers when they are doing their job. When I came through Arden to come to Amber they certainly appeared to be well organized and ready to turn any invaders into arrow cushions. And while you, Prince Calvera, may hope he does not return, I have faith that Prince Rinaldo will come back and resume his post.”
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Post by Cody D'Avalon on Apr 15, 2024 19:57:41 GMT
<OOC> Having just gotten around to reading the Leonil archives: Leonil trying to end the storms with a spell scroll... When the Scroll blew up.
Then, trying to figure out when and how Dorian became Leonil's pet...
From Dorian's thread: Wondering if there was a lingering effect that the Storm was still being held back over part of the Castle.
I'm guessing that something that subtle would be lost on someone as brutish as Calvera. Any clue Cody can collect fuels his theories. </OOC>
"'Involved with King Merlin.'!? Cody retorts.
"It would be news of the town if King Merlin had Princess Coral on his arm. And the repatriation of the Serpent's eye! Can you imagine the Courts!"
"No. I imagine that Princess Fiona is correct in her accounting. Princess Coral is being held - Against her will - Presumably 'In a harum'."
"Held, anyway."
"It must be a very powerful sorcery to hold her. Not something where you could just waltz in and lob off 'er 'ead."
Cody had not figured or factored in the earlier explosion and didn't realize how Amber was being assailed by misfortune for so long. From his distant view from the Courts, Cody had believed that Amber had entered a Golden Age with the defeat of The Courts and the coronation of King Random. Up until the second explosion, anyway.
Cody continues his rambling thinking out loud as he plods along the dank corridors of the dungeon.
"As the self-proclaimed feminist, I wouldn't consider being used and set aside as a happily-ever-after."
"I would imagine an outpouring of mixed anger and sadness. Combine that with the power of the Jewel and the Shadow Storms are the result. At least the worsening."
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Post by XuLiang on Apr 16, 2024 4:04:05 GMT
”She might be choosing to stay there if she feels that others would attempt to forcibly remove the Jewel from her.” He looks at Prince Calvera and raises an eyebrow, then returns to talking to Cody. “Hierophant Dworkin must have had a plan when he did what he did, but what it was and if it is still a valid strategy are far above my ability to discern. So the Prince is right in one sense, we should focus our efforts on the small problems that can be solved on the way towards the larger ones.”
A thought pops into his head and before he thinks about it too much he asks Cody, “Is Mirror magic something that is known and common near Chaos?”
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Post by Cody D'Avalon on Apr 16, 2024 4:17:55 GMT
To Cody's thinking, possession of the Jewel made Coral the heir apparent but it wasn't worth repeating. To the other subject Cody replies, "As far as I know, the Mirror Mages are native to Rebma."
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Post by XuLiang on Apr 16, 2024 13:26:48 GMT
“That is what I thought also, but then Lady Katerina came and told us about the Mirror Maze in Eshanta. And then there is the Hall of Mirrors in Castle Amber. So I was curious if it was only an Amber thing or if it also existed near the realms of Chaos.”
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Post by Cody D'Avalon on Apr 17, 2024 7:05:44 GMT
"I'm sure there are people in the Courts that use Mirror magic but I've never heard of it until I got to Ghera."
"Funny thing is..." Cody pauses suddenly realizing that coincidence may have been more of an omen.
"Funny thing is that the last bit that I scavenged from the Pit was a few shards of a broken mirror."
"Not really worth anything but I hate coming out of the Pit empty handed. I figured that I could use the larger piece to make a hand mirror and the smaller bits could be made into a compact. Trinkets I could sell in the market."
"Then I had my run in with Princess Fiona. I showed them to her and left them on her table."
"When I was in Rebma the other day Princess Lorelei gave me a compact and a little demonstration on how she could contact me through it." Cody opens his sporran and rummaged around but can't find it.
Cody remembers the previous afternoon when he and Jessup attempted to contact Lorelei and failed. Then realizing that Jessup now has it.
"I'm afraid that I've misplaced it."
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Post by Admin on Apr 22, 2024 4:52:05 GMT
#s://i~ibb~co/28Y9wNs/Calvera~jpg "It won't be of any use to you where you're going. We can take it from your girlfriend and return it to Lorelei."
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