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Post by Admin on Apr 12, 2020 3:25:55 GMT
#s://i~ibb~co/4swKk3x/14302505740-0d1932de2e-w~jpg Random is looking around distractedly while Leonil speaks. He sees Hammett come to the top of the stairs. "What, you're here too? Get over here." he calls down the corridor to Hammett. He then focuses on Leonil and the scroll. "You did that? It looks very unstable. And you look like hell; I guess walking the Pattern didn't agree with you."Leonil does realize that the scroll is crackling with barely controlled energy |
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Post by Hammett on Apr 12, 2020 5:18:17 GMT
Hammett arrives and raises an eyebrow at the cracking scroll and Leonil's haggard state.
"King Random, is everything alright?" He looks around for a chair to put Leonil in and maybe a glass of water for the man.
"Was he aboard Gerard's fleet in the battle?"
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Post by Deleted on Apr 12, 2020 5:43:05 GMT
< sigh > " hiya Hammet, you look easy. what lazy vacation place did you come from ? Shangri-la ? "
I carefully walk to one of the chairs in Random's apartment and collapse into it. ooops.
I gotta get this blasted easel and everything off my back
aarrgghh. I still don't have any coffee !
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Post by Hammett on Apr 12, 2020 7:32:32 GMT
Hammett adjusts his cuff-links, "Nothing wrong with a little style and classing the place up a bit, Leonil. And I always take it easy. You should try it sometime. From the looks of it, you'd live longer."
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Post by Deleted on Apr 12, 2020 14:23:22 GMT
" yah. try walking the pattern and then doing a major spell-writing at the same time.
here, help me setup this Easel and board so you can read the spell I wrote -
and I never did ask, how much sorcery training did you ever get ? "
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Post by Hammett on Apr 12, 2020 18:33:20 GMT
<<OCC: don't want to get too far ahead of Random, so will wait for him to say something before continuing.>>
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Post by Admin on Apr 13, 2020 12:50:11 GMT
Random stops all the easel setting up work.
"Ahh, no. That scroll is more like a bomb. Get it out of here and dispose of it quick. I just got the castle set up the way that I like it after the last explosion and ain't in the mood to start the decorating all over again."
They are in a large room with Random's desk near the door. To the back are a few couches and workspace for Vialle's sculpting. She is there now working on something and pays no attention to the visitors.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 13, 2020 14:37:49 GMT
"" Sire, who then may we go ask about spell-casting ? Bleys ?
that is a writing of a control-weather spell to deal with all
of this insanely bad weather we're having ""
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Post by Admin on Apr 13, 2020 14:48:21 GMT
"If you can find Bleys let him know that I'd like to talk to him," Random replies.
"No one can control the weather here, just the Jewel was used for that when we found it necessary. These storms are something we are going to have to live with until someone finds Coral and cuts the Jewel out of her head.
"Now get that thing out of here quick!"
Leo and Hammett notice that Vialle's ears seem to perk up at the mention of Bleys. Maybe she isn't conpletely ignoring the conversation afterall.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 13, 2020 16:43:15 GMT
<groan> " Hammet, PLEASE can you help me find Bleys
so I can talk to him about this weather control spell ?
if *I* try to cast it the way I am feeling right now
I'm going to knock myself flat out unconscious.
we need another spell-caster to help out with this ""
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Post by Hammett on Apr 13, 2020 18:49:11 GMT
"I'm not a spellcaster, Leonil. I know little to nothing of those things. I do know that Bleys is avoiding contact right now. He is either injured or in hiding, either way he doesn't want to be found or contacted. Trust me, I've tried numerous times over the last few days. The only powerful spellcaster I've ever heard of is Merlin, but I've never met him and have no idea how to contact him. Sorry, I wish I could be of more help. Plus, I have several urgent matters to discuss with King Random right now."
Hammett turns to Random, "I just escaped from shadow Kasaba. I believe you know something about what has been going on there. Some delegates were here recently, I believe. But things have gotten much worse. The "German" forces took the city, and they were using powerful allies to help them. Including shapeshifters. When I defeated one of their human commanders in combat, the shifter's took on their true form and attacked me saying that "According to my dossier I was an Amberite" and that they had never tasted an Amberite before and looked forward to eating me. You know I'm no slouch when it come to a sword fight, but they would have killed me then and there if not for a friend showing up in time to help me escape."
He pauses, to catch his thoughts before telling the next part of the story, "Meanwhile, Gerard was going to attempt to close off the shadow for good. He was there with his fleet, but the enemy forces somehow knew what he was doing and threw everything they had at him. I could not see much from where I was, but the battle did not appear to be going in Gerard's favor. I tried to reach him by trump but got no reply, then I had to flee and I came here to see you as soon as I could. Plus, there is even more, separate events going on, but the events in Kasaba and with Gerard are the most pressing."
Hammett waits then for Random's response.
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Post by Admin on Apr 16, 2020 13:04:19 GMT
"No word from Gerard, huh? That's not good."
He rifles through a pile of papers on his desk the pulls out a grainy black-and-white photograph of a woman.
"He suspected this woman - Lady Vada of the Courts - to be pulling the strings in Kasaba. He didn't know why she was venturing so far out of the Courts or why she chose that place. You lived there so tell me what makes it so special."
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Post by Hammett on Apr 16, 2020 17:51:51 GMT
Hammett studies the picture for a few moments, memorizing all the details he can, before he hands it back to Random and replies.
"It is a shadow at an interesting point of development. Enough technology to be livable and allow for business and fast travel, but not so advanced that you are being monitored and recorded everywhere you go. Allows for more shady activities to pass with little trouble. It is also just outside of the Golden Circle. So close to the heart of everything, but not part of it. It is on many of the trade routes, but not subject to any of the Golden Circle laws or enforcement, at least not until Gerard sailed his fleet into the harbor. Also, since the shadow storms of the last war started there has been an influx of people and beings from other shadows arriving there, as it is one of the last points to get to before travelling to the relative safety of the Golden Circle shadows. So it is a big melting pot of people and cultures, once again allowing most people to pass unnoticed if they want. If this Lady Vada wants to control it, I would imagine that it is because of all of those points. It would allow her quick and easy access to the Golden Circle and to Amber itself and it has enough technology that it allows it to be strongly defended, as Gerard found out."
Hammett motions to the photo, "What do you know of her?"
While saying all of this he is still keeping an eye on Leo and the dangerous scroll and on Vialle to see if she is still listening in on everything.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 16, 2020 18:41:15 GMT
Leonil simply sits and listens carefully to what's being discussed.
I am desprately trying to gather up a 2nd wind for whatever comes next.
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Post by Admin on Apr 17, 2020 21:41:46 GMT
Random raises an eyebrow clearly unused to and unappreciative of junior members of the family talking to him thus. He is about to say something when Leonil's scroll stops buzzing and sparking like it was before. It then starts to burn and emit purple sparks.
"I said that that thing was dangerous. What the fu--"
There is a bright light and a loud sound. Then nothing.
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