Exile on Main Street

[Rezantis]

Rez stopped typing and just looked at Drac.

"You have got to be kidding me."

[Dracos]

"No.  I'm not.  And hell, check this sword out.  Look familiar at all?"

Dracos

[Rezantis]

"It looks swordy, and chunky.  Why?"

[Dracos]

"It's a claymore.  A magical claymore.  Owned by the same person who sold me the other claymore...which is almost exactly the same save for a slight difference in the hilt wrapping."

Dracos

[Rezantis]

"Wait, wait, wait.  Who sold you the other claymore, and what's their other claymore doing in Brian's old house?"

[Dracos]

"If I read the writing on the wall right....  Brian's mother or Grandmother was the one that sold me the other sword."

Dracos

[Rezantis]

"So let me get this straight.  You bought a sword off Brian Randall's mother or grandmother.  After breaking your sword, you find a near-identical one in our safehouse, also owned by the same lady.  In a house that just so happens to be the old house of Brian Randall.  So we have a bunch of people who knew Brian Randall, including Unseen who just - completely coincidentaly - rocked up, meeting completely by accident in what none of us knew was Brian Randall's house.  We're all in trouble with organizations that, apparently, knew of Brian Randall and made files on us the day he died.  Apart from that he's listed as a suspect for the first break-in to the place we just levelled, and one of his friends, a guy called Stirling, was part of an organization that was attempting to fight the Seventh Cabal - calling themselves Big Fire, and just so happening to use one of Brian's favoured calls for it's motto.  You know the one.  Coincidence is officially out the fucking window, what did, or DOES, Brian have to do with this?"

[Dracos]

"Ten bucks says Ceran is a code name for Brian Randall."

Dracos

[Rezantis]

"I don't buy that.  Pax said Ceran was someone else, and while I don't necessarily trust them, it doesn't seem to fit the pattern.  I concede that you might be on the right track, but it doesn't seem to fit all that well.  But if Brian was somehow affiliated with Pax Arcana, that would explain a lot, like why he was a suspect in the workshop raid.  But none of this explains why Ayame put us in Brian's old house."

[Dracos]

"Well, perhaps he's the operator.  Only person we could ask though about your question would be Ayame herself.  And well..."

Dracos

[Rezantis]

"Yeah, well."

Rez starts typing away at his keyboard again.

[Dracos]

"Anyhow, lemme know if you have a breakthrough.  I'm going to try and figure out just why there are several items of magic running around his house."

Dracos turns and heads into one of the empty rooms, laying out the stuff on the table and going and getting the other claymore.  To start he looks at both claymore's side to side.

Dracos

[Rezantis]

"Wait, wait," Rez calls out, "Magic?"

[Dracos]

"Yes, Magic.  What, you didn't think I was carrying around all this junk because it looked shiny, did you?"

Dracos

[Rezantis]

"Well, I figured you were carrying around the sword because it was fairly swordy, and everyone wants oversized marbles."