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| As it happens, they hear more squelching from the adjoining room along with the sound of snoring. Fearful of what they might find, they peer cautiously around the doorway. A woman lies fast asleep as smaller slugs converge on her. Nikolai and Xenon rush to the rescue, beating back these slugs and picking up the sleeping person. What follows is an incredibly slow chase as they carry her between them, pursued by slugs which ooze out of cracks in the floor and drop from the ceiling. After nearly losing Nikolai, they manage to escape through a door just in time, slamming it shut. | As it happens, they hear more squelching from the adjoining room along with the sound of snoring. Fearful of what they might find, they peer cautiously around the doorway. A woman lies fast asleep as smaller slugs converge on her. Nikolai and Xenon rush to the rescue, beating back these slugs and picking up the sleeping person. What follows is an incredibly slow chase as they carry her between them, pursued by slugs which ooze out of cracks in the floor and drop from the ceiling. After nearly losing Nikolai, they manage to escape through a door just in time, slamming it shut. | ||
| - | Once the person they saved is awoken, she explains that she is Anushka, a scavenger operating out of the Barrens. She takes them to the safety of her base camp where they meet her business partner, Dmitri, who insists that his accreditation from the Shapers' College is proof of his competence. When they are asked about the missing bond, Dmitri sheepishly admits to playing a prank on a former member of their group, Roderika, who left them five months ago to join the Order of the Rod. He used unity of intent to mark Roderika as owner of the bond so that it would follow her around and result in her being technically liable for the upkeep and taxes of the Guild of Artisans. | + | Once the person they saved is awoken, she explains that she is [[user:emma:pc:Anoushka]], a scavenger operating out of the Barrens. She takes them to the safety of her base camp where they meet her business partner, Dmitri, who insists that his accreditation from the Shapers' College is proof of his competence. When they are asked about the missing bond, Dmitri sheepishly admits to playing a prank on a former member of their group, Roderika, who left them five months ago to join the Order of the Rod. He used unity of intent to mark Roderika as owner of the bond so that it would follow her around and result in her being technically liable for the upkeep and taxes of the Guild of Artisans. |
| - | While the scavengers look over their finds, including a strange intricate lattice which Dmitri claims is a shaped item but can't get to work, it soon becomes clear that they have differing views about Roderika. Anushka is still mad at her for leaving but Dmitri seems to have a soft spot for her. | + | While the scavengers look over their finds, including a strange intricate lattice which Dmitri claims is a shaped item but can't get to work, it soon becomes clear that they have differing views about Roderika. Anoushka is still mad at her for leaving but Dmitri seems to have a soft spot for her. |
| - | Having assured the scavengers that their operation appears to be legal and, in return received an open invitation to visit them at the Pickled Inn (“Just ask for Anastasia,” Anushka says), they head to the Order of the Rod. Since Roderika is an exceptionally common name among those devoted to the Rod, it takes a bit of searching through records but they find out that she's away on a routine mission into the Forest. Checking with the Foresters' Guild, they learn that the expedition was near the easternmost village of Edge (not the village of East Edge - that's somewhere else entirely) and that its return is overdue. | + | Having assured the scavengers that their operation appears to be legal and, in return received an open invitation to visit them at the Pickled Inn (“Just ask for Anastasia,” Anoushka says), they head to the Order of the Rod. Since Roderika is an exceptionally common name among those devoted to the Rod, it takes a bit of searching through records but they find out that she's away on a routine mission into the Forest. Checking with the Foresters' Guild, they learn that the expedition was near the easternmost village of Edge (not the village of East Edge - that's somewhere else entirely) and that its return is overdue. |
| They head to Edge to await Roderika's return. The Forest has encroached dangerously close here and crooked men, rot monsters and moss poppets lurching from the treeline. Realising the village is in danger, Nikolai and Xenon valiant defend the settlement until an excited Rod paladin emerges, talking excitedly about her recent battles and ripping the head off a moss poppet. Once the final crooked man falls, Xenon asks this paladin, clearly Roderika, about the bond. | They head to Edge to await Roderika's return. The Forest has encroached dangerously close here and crooked men, rot monsters and moss poppets lurching from the treeline. Realising the village is in danger, Nikolai and Xenon valiant defend the settlement until an excited Rod paladin emerges, talking excitedly about her recent battles and ripping the head off a moss poppet. Once the final crooked man falls, Xenon asks this paladin, clearly Roderika, about the bond. | ||
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| Nikolai and Xenon find themselves faced with psychic manifestations of strength. Feeling the gaze of the Rod and compelled to never surrender, they fight. The Rod is impressed both by Xenon's strength and skill and by Nikolai's resolve and tenacity. | Nikolai and Xenon find themselves faced with psychic manifestations of strength. Feeling the gaze of the Rod and compelled to never surrender, they fight. The Rod is impressed both by Xenon's strength and skill and by Nikolai's resolve and tenacity. | ||
| - | The manifestations fade and now they see a huge, monstrous Anushka and a diminutive, adorable Dmitri. They fight against the hateful Anushka who chides them as being unworthy, weak and unwanted while Dmitri offers encouragement and support. Together, they manage to bring down Anushka and her form shifts to be human once more before she and Dmitri fade away. | + | The manifestations fade and now they see a huge, monstrous Anoushka and a diminutive, adorable Dmitri. They fight against the hateful Anoushka who chides them as being unworthy, weak and unwanted while Dmitri offers encouragement and support. Together, they manage to bring down Anoushka and her form shifts to be human once more before she and Dmitri fade away. |
| Roderika rejoins them and explains that they're only part way there. “It's like when you want to smash something but it's inside a box so you have to smash the box first,” she says. “We've only broken the box.” | Roderika rejoins them and explains that they're only part way there. “It's like when you want to smash something but it's inside a box so you have to smash the box first,” she says. “We've only broken the box.” | ||
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| Having first checked with Nikolai, Xenon brings the documents recovered from the former Guild of Artisans to the Circle of the Enlightened Mind who are quite interested. He also enquires about the lattice that Dmitri found and one of the professors recognises the description as being of a simple spinning toy. Xenon is recommended some reading material and goes on to consider the existence of such artefacts as proof of the glory of the Empire of Rastaban. | Having first checked with Nikolai, Xenon brings the documents recovered from the former Guild of Artisans to the Circle of the Enlightened Mind who are quite interested. He also enquires about the lattice that Dmitri found and one of the professors recognises the description as being of a simple spinning toy. Xenon is recommended some reading material and goes on to consider the existence of such artefacts as proof of the glory of the Empire of Rastaban. | ||
| - | Nikolai heads to the Pickle Inn where he speaks to Anastasia who reluctantly permits him entry into a back room where he meets Dmitri and Anushka. He convinces Dmitri that he should go and see Roderika. With her colleague gone, Anushka offers to buy Nikolai a drink. | + | Nikolai heads to the Pickle Inn where he speaks to Anastasia who reluctantly permits him entry into a back room where he meets Dmitri and Anoushka. He convinces Dmitri that he should go and see Roderika. With her colleague gone, Anoushka offers to buy Nikolai a drink. |
| - | Meanwhile, Xenon has returned to the Order of the Rod and convinced Roderika to go to Dmitri. There's an awkward moment as she kicks in the door to the backroom of the Pickle Inn only to discover that Dmitri has left to find her. After a brief argument with Anushka which Nikolai sensibly refuses to involve himself in, Roderika kicks her way out the back door and leaves. | + | Meanwhile, Xenon has returned to the Order of the Rod and convinced Roderika to go to Dmitri. There's an awkward moment as she kicks in the door to the backroom of the Pickle Inn only to discover that Dmitri has left to find her. After a brief argument with Anoushka which Nikolai sensibly refuses to involve himself in, Roderika kicks her way out the back door and leaves. |
| - | That night, Nikolai – dressed inconspicuously so as not to bring the Commission inter disrepute – and Anushka go for a romp around the Barrens, with Anushka taking him on a tour of many of the seediest spots and dankest dives. | + | That night, Nikolai – dressed inconspicuously so as not to bring the Commission inter disrepute – and Anoushka go for a romp around the Barrens, with Anoushka taking him on a tour of many of the seediest spots and dankest dives. |
| Romance is in the air elsewhere in Rastaban as Roderika and Dmitri reunite. | Romance is in the air elsewhere in Rastaban as Roderika and Dmitri reunite. | ||
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