Orhan 2 Day 45 TE 6064

It turns out that the Minister of State dies in the night. Poor guy.

The peace talks are delayed for a month and moved to Kenezon.

We regroup to decide what to do.

Oathar and Alynna stay a few days to maintain cover and recoup some gold. The rest plot about how to get the armies fighting again.

Orhan 2 Day 48 TE 6064

While maintaining cover, Oathar gets detained and then questioned, but between his skills and those of the Great Brando, he turns out to be innocent.

Orhan 2 Day 50 TE 6064

Imre reports in to Gireg Jan. Oathar reports in to Coran Maas. Coran Maas gives Oathar access to the Prince's Black ops ("disaster prevention") fund.

Haeraan, Imre, and Kyrik go to Pocantos to contact the resistance. They meet with Kenny, their contact.

Orhan 2 Day 50 TE 6064

Kyrik does some research.

The Order of the Ring had four divisions: Science, History, Magic, and Law. Each had a separate headquarters. Science (astrologers - Observatory of Talaun - Loremaster); In 1451, the Library of Essence was founded, in NE Emer. Law had a citadel in the far NE near Selkai. Magic had a school on the island to the SE near Lys.

The sword in the table in the shadow tower is called the "Source of Justice".

We plan to someday go investigate the ancient observatory controlled by our secret masters.

Orhan 2 Day 51 TE 6064

Haeraan dreams of the Tower of Strok. It's south of Arakin.

Orhan 2 Day 53 TE 6064

We sail the sky ship to Santa Vallandra and look for the Lens. Imre gets a deaf guy to teach him 5 ranks of lipreading.

Kyrik thinks he found the tower. We head down. There's a grey stone tower sitting on the peak of a mountain. We park the ship and walk to the tower. There's a wooden door at the base of the tower. Imre casts Presense. There's one inside the tower. The door opens silently. We enter and climb the stairs. We pass a door, but Haeraan's presence says to keep going up. Imres head explodes from his spell. He recovers.

We head to the top, to where the open level is. Pillars with huge windows, and the lens and the chair. Sitting in the chair is an old man. On the ceiling is the night sky. Around the upper edge are the names of towns and distances in Old Emer. The Seer peers at Oathar, and gives his agreement. Haeraan heads up to the lens.

He starts by spying on the Temple of the Kings in Kenezan. Then teh temple of the Snake. There, people are discussing how they are going to sacrifice a bunch fo guys to get their god to tel them who is going to interfere. Then Hareann looks in on the armies, which are bored. he gets a good look at their maps.

Then he looks around Arakin for Votanian Tech. He finds it in a storeroom in the basement of the palace. Two anti-aircraft batteries, a battletank, crates, and other terrible stuff including a giant bug thing with wings.

In Ardania, he looks in the defense ministry map room and get the locations of all the armies right now.