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[Anastasia]

A huff from Grias and then...

Next move, waiting on Jetina?

[Nephrite]

That's fine. He'll do some research as best he can (knowledge checks, mostly) on Salty Pier and high-profile targets (either in terms of super bad dudes or super notorious places for slaves and that sort of thing) and he'd try and do some digging on what sort of response this is likely to provoke.

[Anastasia]

By high profile targets, do you mean in Salty Pier or in a wider sense?

[Nephrite]

Let's limit it to Salty Pier at first and if there don't seem to be any good ones there we can branch out to the surrounding areas.

[Anastasia]

Okay, K:P.

[Nephrite]

Take 10 for 89, then.

[Anastasia]

Salty Pier is under military administration and thus the Sultan directly. In a general sense, everything traces back to him.

More locally, Azam the Firebearded is the local source of slaves. He works with several slave networks, supplying fresh bodies for the market here. The salt mining is hard work that has a high fatality rate, thus even with good treatment - the slaves are treated reasonably well for economic reasons - they require a lot of new slaves. Under him are various overseers and managers, that sort of thing, but he's the face of it for Salty Pier.

[Nephrite]

Okay. In that case the gameplan is this: Go beat up Azam, find his sources of slaves and then go disrupt those too.

[Anastasia]

As Moore works up his plans in his room...a knocking on his door.

[Nephrite]

"Come in!" Moore calls.

[Anastasia]

Jetina comes in, wearing her armor and gear. She takes a seat, "Talk to me," Jetina says, "I'm hearing so many strange things are going on here."

[Nephrite]

Moore puts his work down to turn and give Jetina his full attention.

"Here as in here, or here as in general here?" Moore asks. "Let me start at the beginning as best as I can. When we defeated Taelfagn in Lifasa's Heart, he mentioned the Prophecy of Primus. That is apparently a prophecy wherein Shar wins and completely destroys everything and shrouds Creation in total darkness." Moore says.

"I've been charged with opposing Shar and any other evils in creation to the best of our ability." Moore goes to his desk and takes out the missive he received and the various charges he'd been assigned and offers it over to her. "This should explain it for the most part."

While she's reading, "There is apparently more to all of this than I realized originally. As you've probably noticed, the light of Chronias is brighter. There's something afoot in creation itself that seems to be manifesting itself as... bonds? That's the best way I can describe it. The bonds people forge between themselves seems to be taking tangible form and offering boons to people. I don't know how or why it's working, but it's happening. Finally, there seems to be an accelerated growth that's possible with everyone... my guess is it's a result of these bonds." Moore says.

[Anastasia]

A terse nod is your reply as Jetina sinks back into her chair. "I've hardly had a breath since beginning this second life," she remarks, "But idle hands are the tools of devils." After a few moments, "What do you think of all of it?"

[Nephrite]

"I can't say I like obviously being someone's pawn." Moore admits. "At the same time, the decisions I've made in my life have been my own, for better or for worse. I intend to keep following the path in front of me and taking turns as I deem necessary. "

[Anastasia]

Sitting back at that, eyeing you and taking a long breath, "What about Ilsenine? Are you still going to marry her? Oh, and congratulations, I heard the rumors. I mean, you are marrying her, right?"