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	Speaking of which, we're getting no further in our quest to avenge Geldemar. We've got no leads besides an old well poisoning. The circlet that my fellow-travelers think to be the "first piece" is a bit of nonmagical lead, and as such makes me a little skeptical.		Speaking of which, we're getting no further in our quest to avenge Geldemar. We've got no leads besides an old well poisoning. The circlet that my fellow-travelers think to be the "first piece" is a bit of nonmagical lead, and as such makes me a little skeptical.

	The most difficult thing in helping my father fight his battle for kingship hasn't been raising the money -- I got 10 bars of gold in a 10-minute meeting -- but in understanding the war itself. Being fought over me? The present king of Eeridia (whom I don't believe to be a ~~worshipper~~ of Phlegethon, but hey, you've got to prop up your team with a little ganda) might have been a closer relative of that girl I was supposed to marry than I thought, but running out on an engagement party isn't a jailable offense. I wonder if he might actually be involved in Geldemar's life and death, in ways I don't fully understand, and on the opposite side as me. Another thing I'm totally in the dark about is how much of a military chance Dad really has. I've never studied strategy. I think part of my talk about how quickly the "pretender" is going to be dethroned is to convince myself. It seems clear that someday, not long from now, I will have to visit Eeridia. I wonder if I'll take the party, or whether they'll be more trouble than they're worth.		The most difficult thing in helping my father fight his battle for kingship hasn't been raising the money -- I got 10 bars of gold in a 10-minute meeting -- but in understanding the war itself. Being fought over me? The present king of Eeridia (whom I don't believe to be a worshiper of Phlegethon, but hey, you've got to prop up your team with a little ganda) might have been a closer relative of that girl I was supposed to marry than I thought, but running out on an engagement party isn't a jailable offense. I wonder if he might actually be involved in Geldemar's life and death, in ways I don't fully understand, and on the opposite side as me. Another thing I'm totally in the dark about is how much of a military chance Dad really has. I've never studied strategy. I think part of my talk about how quickly the "pretender" is going to be dethroned is to convince myself. It seems clear that someday, not long from now, I will have to visit Eeridia. I wonder if I'll take the party, or whether they'll be more trouble than they're worth.

	Another thing I think I'd better do soon is to get baptized into the Betshaban faith. I think this will do worlds for me in the way of contrition to anybody who's offended by that Charm Person thing. (I'm not for using the word rape. Rape is an act of bullying violence and I don't condone it.), and also for my political standing at home. So much to think about, it almost takes my mind off my heart, and how Roxanne wouldn't let me share her bed, and just hold her, when everyone else had turned their backs on me. But that was a moment of weakness. It's ridiculous, really, that a crown prince would get at all upset over the fickleness of a hooker, even a hooker-turned-priestess.		Another thing I think I'd better do soon is to get baptized into the Betshaban faith. I think this will do worlds for me in the way of contrition to anybody who's offended by that Charm Person thing. (I'm not for using the word rape. Rape is an act of bullying violence and I don't condone it.), and also for my political standing at home. So much to think about, it almost takes my mind off my heart, and how Roxanne wouldn't let me share her bed, and just hold her, when everyone else had turned their backs on me. But that was a moment of weakness. It's ridiculous, really, that a crown prince would get at all upset over the fickleness of a hooker, even a hooker-turned-priestess.
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	The next trick will be to get both Father and my comrades to approve of my plan for naval attack against Kavalar, the capital city. I'll plead with Gunther that I'll need his elemental magicks for a sea battle. You need to feed people's egos sometimes. If Gunther comes, the rest will follow. Roxanne had wanted to sneak in under the cover of night and snatch the Sword of Koss from the Pretender-king. That's the poorer plan, especially when we have at our fingertips the military might to end this war against the Betshaba-fearing Eeridians. I think I already made a strong case to Father about sailing on Kavalar.		The next trick will be to get both Father and my comrades to approve of my plan for naval attack against Kavalar, the capital city. I'll plead with Gunther that I'll need his elemental magicks for a sea battle. You need to feed people's egos sometimes. If Gunther comes, the rest will follow. Roxanne had wanted to sneak in under the cover of night and snatch the Sword of Koss from the Pretender-king. That's the poorer plan, especially when we have at our fingertips the military might to end this war against the Betshaba-fearing Eeridians. I think I already made a strong case to Father about sailing on Kavalar.

	Interestingly, I had always thought this "King of Eeridia is an evil Phlegethon ~~worshipper~~" was just a ploy for my father to rally troops. It may still be -- he might have never touched the Sword of Koss. But doesn't the information about the sword fit in nicely to the story my father and I have been telling all along?		Interestingly, I had always thought this "King of Eeridia is an evil Phlegethon worshiper" was just a ploy for my father to rally troops. It may still be -- he might have never touched the Sword of Koss. But doesn't the information about the sword fit in nicely to the story my father and I have been telling all along?

	Once I'm the crown prince, I'm going to want to see Bragh have his status restored in Halan. At least. His story is sad. I sense there's a bit more to it... his father's sudden decision to become a bandit just because he was firstborn just doesn't seem ... complete. Nonetheless, I'm thrilled about traveling with Bragh, since it gives us a legitimate tie to the nobility of another nation, and because he's so easy to deal with.		Once I'm the crown prince, I'm going to want to see Bragh have his status restored in Halan. At least. His story is sad. I sense there's a bit more to it... his father's sudden decision to become a bandit just because he was firstborn just doesn't seem ... complete. Nonetheless, I'm thrilled about traveling with Bragh, since it gives us a legitimate tie to the nobility of another nation, and because he's so easy to deal with.
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	If this is victory, where is the rush, the flavor, the jubilation at standing over a defeated opponent? I guess you don’t get that when you’ve been playing for the wrong side.		If this is victory, where is the rush, the flavor, the jubilation at standing over a defeated opponent? I guess you don’t get that when you’ve been playing for the wrong side.

	I never thought Phlegethon had any place in this conflict. Although I was quick to follow my father’s pronouncement and decry the King of Kyroklos as a ~~worshipper~~ of the God of Tyranny, I figured it was just a political maneuver to rally support for Aeolen. But there was a Phlegethonian, and it was Dad. Oh, Dad, you politician, you wolf. Your voice, booming and flat, always the loudest in church. And you started the massacres, didn't you? And every poor sap, every farmhand militiaman who went marching to his death with a spear to the central hills, they were fighting for Phlegethon, under you. The foreign mercenaries should have told me. No... it did tell me. It was an uncharecteristic move, kind of dishonorable in a civil war. I knew you weren't fighting against Phlegethon. I figured you just wanted the throne really, really bad. I never guessed that everything we said about Kyroklos was true of you.		I never thought Phlegethon had any place in this conflict. Although I was quick to follow my father’s pronouncement and decry the King of Kyroklos as a worshiper of the God of Tyranny, I figured it was just a political maneuver to rally support for Aeolen. But there was a Phlegethonian, and it was Dad. Oh, Dad, you politician, you wolf. Your voice, booming and flat, always the loudest in church. And you started the massacres, didn't you? And every poor sap, every farmhand militiaman who went marching to his death with a spear to the central hills, they were fighting for Phlegethon, under you. The foreign mercenaries should have told me. No... it did tell me. It was an uncharecteristic move, kind of dishonorable in a civil war. I knew you weren't fighting against Phlegethon. I figured you just wanted the throne really, really bad. I never guessed that everything we said about Kyroklos was true of you.

	I suspected your allies. The Lord Magus is almost certainly a foe -- Demetrious's instincts were right. This is the same guy who recruited me for the Academy of Eisenstadt. Was he working in the interests of Phlegethon when he did that? Maybe he needed to get me out of the way... maybe he thought I'd be useful to his cause once I got some powers, and in the short term you could say he was right, but he'd better get his chuckles now, cause it's hard to laugh in a noose. And that Narisian pirate -- ooh, I'm killing him so dead. I can't believe he persuaded me not to take the admiral's quarters. I certainly made a great move by bunking with the sailors like I did... a good politician can make a defeat into a PR victory, but he made me sleep in a cot for two fucking weeks. I could take that from a loyal Betshaban warrior under duress to liberate the country. But he was guiling the whole time. Dead dead dead.		I suspected your allies. The Lord Magus is almost certainly a foe -- Demetrious's instincts were right. This is the same guy who recruited me for the Academy of Eisenstadt. Was he working in the interests of Phlegethon when he did that? Maybe he needed to get me out of the way... maybe he thought I'd be useful to his cause once I got some powers, and in the short term you could say he was right, but he'd better get his chuckles now, cause it's hard to laugh in a noose. And that Narisian pirate -- ooh, I'm killing him so dead. I can't believe he persuaded me not to take the admiral's quarters. I certainly made a great move by bunking with the sailors like I did... a good politician can make a defeat into a PR victory, but he made me sleep in a cot for two fucking weeks. I could take that from a loyal Betshaban warrior under duress to liberate the country. But he was guiling the whole time. Dead dead dead.

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	I guess that, nicely or nastily, is the real question. Out of the corner of my eye I can see Maggie tensing for the attack. I can hardly fight now... I'm fresh out of offensive spells, so I can't physically stop her. To fight him right now, you'd have to take him, his mage, and a shitload of mercenaries who followed them in. But tomorrow, all the mercenaries outside the gate will be in the city. Maybe, with diplomacy and maneuvering, I can turn this thing around, act all nicey-nicey, have a big victory banquet, and sow the seeds for a fast, clean coup d'etat. I'm sure Maggie and Gunther would rather go, choppy choppy, blaze of glory, gets real gory. I guess they're both expendable. They can get killed by themselves, cause I don't think I have any fight in me right now. In the long term, I'll come out on top. In the short term, I don't know what to do.		I guess that, nicely or nastily, is the real question. Out of the corner of my eye I can see Maggie tensing for the attack. I can hardly fight now... I'm fresh out of offensive spells, so I can't physically stop her. To fight him right now, you'd have to take him, his mage, and a shitload of mercenaries who followed them in. But tomorrow, all the mercenaries outside the gate will be in the city. Maybe, with diplomacy and maneuvering, I can turn this thing around, act all nicey-nicey, have a big victory banquet, and sow the seeds for a fast, clean coup d'etat. I'm sure Maggie and Gunther would rather go, choppy choppy, blaze of glory, gets real gory. I guess they're both expendable. They can get killed by themselves, cause I don't think I have any fight in me right now. In the long term, I'll come out on top. In the short term, I don't know what to do.
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