[Video 001: Arrival] Tuesday, Week 37

[threesovereigns]

[Zevran has been trying to ignore the fact that the book found with his gear upon his awakening has been talking. Given that it looks almost exactly like one of the mages' tomes that even he felt would be better not to light-finger, the sounds couldn't possibly be anything good. But the book would not shut up, and the strange place he was in was providing no answers. He turned to a page within it that seemed to be some sort of Fade portal made paper, and after tracing a few moving symbols with a wary fingertip, a blond elf appears on the network.]

Ah, this seems to be working at last and does not seem to have transformed me into a newt. Wonderful!

If you can hear me, I wish to introduce myself.

My name is Zevran, which I first thought would be foolish to share, but upon reflection I have concluded that, should you have been sent to kill me, you likely already know that I am here.

I must ask... does this strange country possess anything approaching a tavern? I confess that I am very lost, and would feel much better if I was considering my fate with a glass of wine in hand.

I am not a man without talents, so if the wine comes with a price... well, let us negotiate, yes?

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[growingwild]

The ladies are always fortunate. [Briar keeps his face straight, but it's clear that there's an amused glint in his eye]

Hold on - that don't mean everything here's all nice. There's the Authorities, and they...[Briar paused, floundering a bit] They used to be aggressive. But just recently all of us from the ship somehow ended up flung about in time. I got no idea how we did, but when we were brought back things here were different, and the Authorities apparently no longer wanted to kill us all. To be honest, I don't really know what they're like now, or if we could trust them, but I'd bet on the side of being careful.

[Briar shrugged, as if to say that he wished he could say more]

These Templars of yours, they don't like mages? I'll be glad they're not here too, then. I'm a green mage myself.

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[threesovereigns]

If you do not have maddened dragon gods arising from their centuries-long sleep in the bowels of the earth in the form of corrupted archdemons to lead an army of tainted and twisted souls against the surface races, blighting all that they touch, I would argue that is all we have to worry about is the unknown intentions of authority... it is still very nice here.

[For all Zevran's lightness, though, there's a sense that Briar's caution has indeed been processed and received, all in the glint of his eye and the set of his mouth.]

As for Templars, they dislike apostate mages, which is what they call any mage not living in a Tower Circle and overseen by the Templars. Apparently if they aren't watching them intrusively every second of the day they will all clearly turn to blood magic. Because, of course, the notion that hunting and killing those mages who would prefer a more private life will in no way turn them to blood magic out of desperation simply fails to dawn on them...

Suffice it to say that should one appear, I would recommend keeping your talents quiet.