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	We ended up consulting the authorities after all... Maggie's mom. More and more people got involved, which in one respect took some of the pressure off me, but that really made me feel even more guilty. Plus Tobin, with another spell on him, claimed that he could sense the evilness on people, and he claimed that Madam Lessa, Claire, Tessa, Godric, and, unbelievably enough, Max, were all evil. Max? That's just ridiculous. Moren said that Aridnus had told him Madam Lessa was standing between myself and my atonement, and that she had been judged, and his path was clear. This was all spinning way out of control, and it was all my fault...		We ended up consulting the authorities after all... Maggie's mom. More and more people got involved, which in one respect took some of the pressure off me, but that really made me feel even more guilty. Plus Tobin, with another spell on him, claimed that he could sense the evilness on people, and he claimed that Madam Lessa, Claire, Tessa, Godric, and, unbelievably enough, Max, were all evil. Max? That's just ridiculous. Moren said that Aridnus had told him Madam Lessa was standing between myself and my atonement, and that she had been judged, and his path was clear. This was all spinning way out of control, and it was all my fault...
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	They didn't go for it. To their credit, they didn't act nasty about it. Something about knowing too much coloring my answers. Dammit.		They didn't go for it. To their credit, they didn't act nasty about it. Something about knowing too much coloring my answers. Dammit.

	So, I told them. "Well let's see, the first was from Aebasa, though he wasn't a client. I did have clients from there a couple times though, as well as Eiridia. I remember a few from Oridal, a bunch from Adanar, some of the non-Vortumnus-worshipers from ~~Haleland~~." If they were doing more than just determining if I was telling the truth, if they were really reading my mind, then they were getting a lot of vivid imagery. A lot of the foreigners were actually quite interesting... they just did things differently than the local boys. Not always better of course, but differently. "... and then there was this one youngish guy who said he was from the Great Empire, but I think he was lying. No accent... he was probably from Beilburg or something and had run off to try and be an adventurer, trying to make himself look impressive from being far away." Finally though, I couldn't stall completely, and if I held anything back it could be worse. "And to be perfectly honest, since I wouldn't dream of being any other way," did they smile at that?, "we did rarely get a client or two from Thet."		So, I told them. "Well let's see, the first was from Aebasa, though he wasn't a client. I did have clients from there a couple times though, as well as Eiridia. I remember a few from Oridal, a bunch from Adanar, some of the non-Vortumnus-worshipers from Haleli." If they were doing more than just determining if I was telling the truth, if they were really reading my mind, then they were getting a lot of vivid imagery. A lot of the foreigners were actually quite interesting... they just did things differently than the local boys. Not always better of course, but differently. "... and then there was this one youngish guy who said he was from the Great Empire, but I think he was lying. No accent... he was probably from Beilburg or something and had run off to try and be an adventurer, trying to make himself look impressive from being far away." Finally though, I couldn't stall completely, and if I held anything back it could be worse. "And to be perfectly honest, since I wouldn't dream of being any other way," did they smile at that?, "we did rarely get a client or two from Thet."

	The axe that fell after that wasn't the one I expected. "Did you ever at any time entertain someone from Nadera?"		The axe that fell after that wasn't the one I expected. "Did you ever at any time entertain someone from Nadera?"

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	Finally almost everyone got together at the Rose. Everyone except Agni, whom nobody's heard from since I talked to him. I found myself in the uncomfortable position of sort of defending his actions. It seems I'm the only one who doesn't see him as beyond hope. I'm kind of surprised that Maggie thinks that him paying the money actually would help her opinion of him... maybe I'm misinterpreting that, I don't know. In any case, now the group just wants to find him and get the money from the crowns from him, that's it. I feel I was beginning to get through to him, and that he can learn from his mistake... but if we can't find him, it won't help much.		Finally almost everyone got together at the Rose. Everyone except Agni, whom nobody's heard from since I talked to him. I found myself in the uncomfortable position of sort of defending his actions. It seems I'm the only one who doesn't see him as beyond hope. I'm kind of surprised that Maggie thinks that him paying the money actually would help her opinion of him... maybe I'm misinterpreting that, I don't know. In any case, now the group just wants to find him and get the money from the crowns from him, that's it. I feel I was beginning to get through to him, and that he can learn from his mistake... but if we can't find him, it won't help much.

	We got another note from Hector... something about a plague in ~~Hartland~~ stopping shipments of Brambleberry Wine, and a suspicion that Thet might use ~~Hartland~~ as a place to attack Valduran. I'm not exactly thrilled about traveling into a plague...		We got another note from Hector... something about a plague in Hyddtir stopping shipments of Brambleberry Wine, and a suspicion that Thet might use Hyddtir as a place to attack Valduran. I'm not exactly thrilled about traveling into a plague...

	We went to Eisenstadt, where we were going to ask at the Academy if they'd seen Agni and go to the Abirisians to sell them the mask and disk... the Master of Antiquities was such a nice old man. We were also going to sell the horses and get another wagon. We stayed at the Flying Stag. I noticed Niccolo taking Adelaide aside, and when he came back he said he'd given her some medicine because she'd been feeling under the weather. She'd been feeling under the weather since I met her months ago. This wasn't just because she was tired. After everyone else had gone to bed I asked her about it... it was syphilis. She said she was just happy that the Stag kept her on to wait tables. It's a family there, just like the Rose. There are places that would kick her out on the street after that, when it's not her fault. What creeps with that disease are doing giving that disease to prostitutes, knowing that they'll kill her and she'll probably give the disease to others before she knows she's sick... that is just sickeningly wrong. Adelaide did not deserve this.		We went to Eisenstadt, where we were going to ask at the Academy if they'd seen Agni and go to the Abirisians to sell them the mask and disk... the Master of Antiquities was such a nice old man. We were also going to sell the horses and get another wagon. We stayed at the Flying Stag. I noticed Niccolo taking Adelaide aside, and when he came back he said he'd given her some medicine because she'd been feeling under the weather. She'd been feeling under the weather since I met her months ago. This wasn't just because she was tired. After everyone else had gone to bed I asked her about it... it was syphilis. She said she was just happy that the Stag kept her on to wait tables. It's a family there, just like the Rose. There are places that would kick her out on the street after that, when it's not her fault. What creeps with that disease are doing giving that disease to prostitutes, knowing that they'll kill her and she'll probably give the disease to others before she knows she's sick... that is just sickeningly wrong. Adelaide did not deserve this.
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	We started up towards ~~Hartland~~, and the tension in the group was practically visible. This really wasn't good at all. I don't know if the rest see how bad it is. I mean, I think they see the tension, who wouldn't? But I don't think they realize that we're not going to accomplish a damn thing the way we are right now.		We started up towards Hyddtir, and the tension in the group was practically visible. This really wasn't good at all. I don't know if the rest see how bad it is. I mean, I think they see the tension, who wouldn't? But I don't think they realize that we're not going to accomplish a damn thing the way we are right now.

	It got even worse when Agni just showed up one day. Most of the group was even reluctant to tell him where we were going. I tried to work things out by taking him aside that night, but someone followed from the camp. We went back, and it was either just Quinn or maybe Quinn and Niccolo. Niccolo came up with some lame excuse about establishing a perimeter or something like that. I just said, "Look, this group has got some serious trust issues right now. I'm actually trying to fix some of that now, but it would be a lot easier if I could talk with Agni in private first." Maggie got offended that we'd suggest she was following us, and Quinn said "Fine!" and huffed off. This wasn't exactly working. Maybe I should have let them be when I heard them shuffling in the woods, but I thought it might be someone attacking us.		It got even worse when Agni just showed up one day. Most of the group was even reluctant to tell him where we were going. I tried to work things out by taking him aside that night, but someone followed from the camp. We went back, and it was either just Quinn or maybe Quinn and Niccolo. Niccolo came up with some lame excuse about establishing a perimeter or something like that. I just said, "Look, this group has got some serious trust issues right now. I'm actually trying to fix some of that now, but it would be a lot easier if I could talk with Agni in private first." Maggie got offended that we'd suggest she was following us, and Quinn said "Fine!" and huffed off. This wasn't exactly working. Maybe I should have let them be when I heard them shuffling in the woods, but I thought it might be someone attacking us.
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	We stopped in Kreuzung to change over our money and learn more about the ring and the wand. The wand turned out to be a pretty powerful weapon for Agni (only Gunther and Theo could have used it otherwise, and they have better weapons), and the ring turned out to work just like Agni already knew, but he found out it comes from another world, like Manslayer. He also suspects that Geldemar and possibly also Alexander Crownwarden are from other worlds as well, though has no evidence but intuition for the last. Theo and Quinn got work for a kid's birthday party, and now that we had the ring to pick them up, we went ahead and left them behind.		We stopped in Kreuzung to change over our money and learn more about the ring and the wand. The wand turned out to be a pretty powerful weapon for Agni (only Gunther and Theo could have used it otherwise, and they have better weapons), and the ring turned out to work just like Agni already knew, but he found out it comes from another world, like Manslayer. He also suspects that Geldemar and possibly also Alexander Crownwarden are from other worlds as well, though has no evidence but intuition for the last. Theo and Quinn got work for a kid's birthday party, and now that we had the ring to pick them up, we went ahead and left them behind.

	Travel to ~~Hartland~~ after that was really uneventful. The biggest event was in finding out, once we got there, that it was the grapes that had the plague, not the hobbits. I believe everyone at this point felt the whole trip was a big waste of time. But we didn't have any other leads. We decided to go on to Oridal and maybe talk to Geldemar's Augur teacher, if we could find him (and Agni was sure he could). Wayfair, the capital of ~~Hartland~~, was on the way anyway, so we went there.		Travel to Hyddtir after that was really uneventful. The biggest event was in finding out, once we got there, that it was the grapes that had the plague, not the hobbits. I believe everyone at this point felt the whole trip was a big waste of time. But we didn't have any other leads. We decided to go on to Oridal and maybe talk to Geldemar's Augur teacher, if we could find him (and Agni was sure he could). Wayfair, the capital of Hyddtir, was on the way anyway, so we went there.

	They had a human-sized inn there (with incredible food... I know Godelina's not just a fluke!), and I chatted up the locals. I learned all about the major families... Munys are lazy, Bramblebushes are greedy, but they make the wine, Taigs are the respectable ones and tend to have positions of authority, and the Billyson-Gowers have tempers and tend to get into fights. At least, that's what I heard from Taigs. A couple Munys told me the Taigs are all stuck-up and make everyone else work. In any case, they didn't want to talk much about the grape plague, but gossiped about everything else under the sky. About all I learned (and this was from some Halic construction workers) was that they blamed humans for the plague.		They had a human-sized inn there (with incredible food... I know Godelina's not just a fluke!), and I chatted up the locals. I learned all about the major families... Munys are lazy, Bramblebushes are greedy, but they make the wine, Taigs are the respectable ones and tend to have positions of authority, and the Billyson-Gowers have tempers and tend to get into fights. At least, that's what I heard from Taigs. A couple Munys told me the Taigs are all stuck-up and make everyone else work. In any case, they didn't want to talk much about the grape plague, but gossiped about everything else under the sky. About all I learned (and this was from some Halic construction workers) was that they blamed humans for the plague.

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	==Game One==		==Game One==
	January 26, 2002		January 26, [[2002]]

	I'm not sure why I thought helping Geldemar out was the thing to do. Or why I thought he might need my help. He told Lessa he needed "brave" individuals. I may have held off that wererat for a while, but he was the one who blasted it into bits--if he needed help with something, I didn't imagine there was much I could do. If he needed information about someone, why didn't he just ask Madam Lessa for it? Maybe he needed a spy to get real close to someone, and maybe it was slightly risky, so he thought of the brave rat-fighting whore? I mean, my reputation might be growing more respectable, but I seriously doubted he wanted me for my rather new connection with Betshaba.		I'm not sure why I thought helping [[Geldemar]] out was the thing to do. Or why I thought he might need my help. He told Lessa he needed "brave" individuals. I may have held off that wererat for a while, but he was the one who blasted it into bits--if he needed help with something, I didn't imagine there was much I could do. If he needed information about someone, why didn't he just ask Madam Lessa for it? Maybe he needed a spy to get real close to someone, and maybe it was slightly risky, so he thought of the brave rat-fighting whore? I mean, my reputation might be growing more respectable, but I seriously doubted he wanted me for my rather new connection with Betshaba.

	I walked into The Unicorn and got the usual winks and studious avoidance. I returned the winks and pretended to ignore those who wanted to pretend I didn't know what they looked like naked. After all, I could lose so much business if I weren't discreet. One who did acknowledge my presence, though, who was sitting alone, was Niccolo, the leech.		I walked into The Unicorn and got the usual winks and studious avoidance. I returned the winks and pretended to ignore those who wanted to pretend I didn't know what they looked like naked. After all, I could lose so much business if I weren't discreet. One who did acknowledge my presence, though, who was sitting alone, was Niccolo, the leech.
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	Maggie found us some caves, but not before we got to a stream and I got to refill my waterskins and take an actual bath, and clean all that soot off of me and rewet my hair properly. I tried talking nice with Salvasia... Niccolo had been personally offended that we hadn't taken his word that we could trust her around the crown. I was a bit taken aback by that... how can he know he can trust her that well just because she's family? I mean, wouldn't her loyalty be to her ruler first? Still, I felt bad about offending Niccolo. I think I've known him long enough in the biblical sense and otherwise to know he's not a bad person. A little disturbing, maybe, but not bad. Nice-talking Salvasia resulted mostly in sarcasm back. She also delighted in telling me how Children of St. Chlodomer are hunted down and it's a badge of honor for recruits to kill one. That's horrible, but I'll admit I couldn't quite fill myself with righteous anger. I'm sorry Betshaba, but if an enemy says "convert or die" I can sort of understand why they choose to fight back, even though converting would be the best for them even without the threat of death. Not the whole badge of honor thing, but the choice to fight back. Anyway, that kind of killed my attempts to be friendly, though I continued to try... being friendly isn't just polite, it's my career training.		Maggie found us some caves, but not before we got to a stream and I got to refill my waterskins and take an actual bath, and clean all that soot off of me and rewet my hair properly. I tried talking nice with Salvasia... Niccolo had been personally offended that we hadn't taken his word that we could trust her around the crown. I was a bit taken aback by that... how can he know he can trust her that well just because she's family? I mean, wouldn't her loyalty be to her ruler first? Still, I felt bad about offending Niccolo. I think I've known him long enough in the biblical sense and otherwise to know he's not a bad person. A little disturbing, maybe, but not bad. Nice-talking Salvasia resulted mostly in sarcasm back. She also delighted in telling me how Children of St. Chlodomer are hunted down and it's a badge of honor for recruits to kill one. That's horrible, but I'll admit I couldn't quite fill myself with righteous anger. I'm sorry Betshaba, but if an enemy says "convert or die" I can sort of understand why they choose to fight back, even though converting would be the best for them even without the threat of death. Not the whole badge of honor thing, but the choice to fight back. Anyway, that kind of killed my attempts to be friendly, though I continued to try... being friendly isn't just polite, it's my career training.

	We had a visitor the next morning though... a priest of Abaris named Rexar. He wanted to know why all he'd seen when trying to scry the last four days had been us. I was the only one polite enough (or trusting enough, I guess) to give my name, but after that and me pointing out that he'd come into our camp, he explained himself. We decided to go ahead and show him the lead crown to see if he knew what it was... if he could only scry on us, he'd find out about it anyway. I was worried that this thing might be attracting everyone's magic to us, but then Rexar said he was probably one of the only people currently alive who would recognize it. It's over 2000 years old, from the end of the Second Age of ~~Mankind~~, and designed to protect the wearer from something called psychic power, which is something like magic but without spells. At the time it would have been priceless, but now almost nobody has that kind of power.		We had a visitor the next morning though... a priest of Abaris named Rexar. He wanted to know why all he'd seen when trying to scry the last four days had been us. I was the only one polite enough (or trusting enough, I guess) to give my name, but after that and me pointing out that he'd come into our camp, he explained himself. We decided to go ahead and show him the lead crown to see if he knew what it was... if he could only scry on us, he'd find out about it anyway. I was worried that this thing might be attracting everyone's magic to us, but then Rexar said he was probably one of the only people currently alive who would recognize it. It's over 2000 years old, from the end of [[the Second Age of Man]], and designed to protect the wearer from something called psychic power, which is something like magic but without spells. At the time it would have been priceless, but now almost nobody has that kind of power.

	So how is that the Piece? It looks complete. Maybe this Manslayer has this kind of power. I mean, he comes from another world, maybe they have that power there. Or maybe the dwarves or the dark elves Salvazia mentioned that he brought with him, maybe they have this psychic power. Oh, and he was able to look through that augury of the past which Galia said was impossible, maybe that's because of this special power. Of course, if this crown is supposed to protect us from him, it will only protect one person, and I somehow doubt a little crown will protect against that quarterstaff through the chest. Maybe there's another Piece that does that. Then again, we still don't know... this was the best-protected thing we saw, but we didn't see everything... I hope this is what we were looking for.		So how is that the Piece? It looks complete. Maybe this Manslayer has this kind of power. I mean, he comes from another world, maybe they have that power there. Or maybe the dwarves or the dark elves Salvazia mentioned that he brought with him, maybe they have this psychic power. Oh, and he was able to look through that augury of the past which Galia said was impossible, maybe that's because of this special power. Of course, if this crown is supposed to protect us from him, it will only protect one person, and I somehow doubt a little crown will protect against that quarterstaff through the chest. Maybe there's another Piece that does that. Then again, we still don't know... this was the best-protected thing we saw, but we didn't see everything... I hope this is what we were looking for.

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	We ended up consulting the authorities after all... Maggie's mom. More and more people got involved, which in one respect took some of the pressure off me, but that really made me feel even more guilty. Plus Tobin, with another spell on him, claimed that he could sense the evilness on people, and he claimed that Madam Lessa, Claire, Tessa, Godric, and, unbelievably enough, Max, were all evil. Max? That's just ridiculous. Moren said that Aridnus had told him Madam Lessa was standing between myself and my atonement, and that she had been judged, and his path was clear. This was all spinning way out of control, and it was all my fault...		We ended up consulting the authorities after all... Maggie's mom. More and more people got involved, which in one respect took some of the pressure off me, but that really made me feel even more guilty. Plus Tobin, with another spell on him, claimed that he could sense the evilness on people, and he claimed that Madam Lessa, Claire, Tessa, Godric, and, unbelievably enough, Max, were all evil. Max? That's just ridiculous. Moren said that Aridnus had told him Madam Lessa was standing between myself and my atonement, and that she had been judged, and his path was clear. This was all spinning way out of control, and it was all my fault...
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	Getting a secret audience with Agni's father wasn't as easy as we thought and we ended up causing quite a ruckus before we got the audience. But once we did, it was relatively pleasant. He was thrilled that Agni actually had spiritual counsel with him, and he took my opinion seriously. That just doesn't happen often enough. I was surprised that Agni's battle plan, the one he presented to his father, included hiring a Narisian fleet to storm the capital. I had assumed we'd be sneaking in. His father didn't want to bloody Betshaban's waters with such a fight. I imagine Betshaba wouldn't mind a little blood in the cause of the greater good (especially since part of my hope in using this sword against the Rod, the sword would be destroyed as well), but how would shooting cannons at them get us their magical sword?		Getting a secret audience with Agni's father wasn't as easy as we thought and we ended up causing quite a ruckus before we got the audience. But once we did, it was relatively pleasant. He was thrilled that Agni actually had spiritual counsel with him, and he took my opinion seriously. That just doesn't happen often enough. I was surprised that Agni's battle plan, the one he presented to his father, included hiring a Narisian fleet to storm the capital. I had assumed we'd be sneaking in. His father didn't want to bloody Betshaban's waters with such a fight. I imagine Betshaba wouldn't mind a little blood in the cause of the greater good (especially since part of my hope in using this sword against the Rod, the sword would be destroyed as well), but how would shooting cannons at them get us their magical sword?

	Game Sixteen		==Game Sixteen==
	October 19, 2002		October 19, 2002

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	I was more concerned, however, with the lives of those I cared about in Futtersharte. If it was this crazy Druid doing all the skinning, maybe he hadn't gotten any further than here backtracking us, and maybe they were okay. But we didn't know if this was the guy who did it. I wanted to get back.		I was more concerned, however, with the lives of those I cared about in Futtersharte. If it was this crazy Druid doing all the skinning, maybe he hadn't gotten any further than here backtracking us, and maybe they were okay. But we didn't know if this was the guy who did it. I wanted to get back.

	Game Seven		==Game Seven==
	May 18, 2002		May 18, 2002

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