Victorious advance

[Anastasia]

"No one right now," Dragodan says, "Efforts in the west were lost." With a scowl, "Your friends in the Guard are annoying, Marie."

Antenora smiles at that.

[Ebiris]

"I'll make sure to pass that on," Marie says reassuringly. "Do you have any new potentials you're working on? The ones in the desert had come very far in a short amount of time."

[Anastasia]

"No, only the ones in the desert that were crushed," Dragodan agrees, "The ones here were going to be the start of something stronger."

[Ebiris]

[16:55] <@Ebiris> roll 1d20+52+30+15 Alicia senses motives, moment of prescience/divine insight
[16:55] <Penuche> Ebiris invokes Penuche's magic: < 102 > [d20=5]

To see if he's being straight with us.

[Anastasia]

He seems to be on the level so far.

[Ebiris]

"What about on other primes then, someone like you must be kept busy training up new disciples and overseeing plots, right?" Marie asks, no interruption from Alicia.

[Anastasia]

Here Dragodan smiles. "That's in the Caverns, dear Marie. Lovely you may be, but you won't find that told as a lover's whisper, for I can't."

[Ebiris]

"Yes, I know the type," Marie says, just glad his brain hasn't dribbled out of his ears as a black sludge that then attacks them. "So tell me something I don't know. How often do you meet up with others of the Shadow Twelve?"

[Anastasia]

"When I return to the Plane of Shadow," Dragodan says, "We meet there."

[Ebiris]

"Who are the other eleven, then?" she asks.

Even if they're all proxies Shar can still fit in a bunch more at that, so unfair!

[Anastasia]

Here Dragodan hesitates, "Should I speak of that to you, my love?" he asks, "You don't know, and not knowing would benefit Shar."

[Ebiris]

"I'd like to know," Marie says, feeling her last meal wanting to force its way back up her throat at the term of endearment from him. "Please don't leave me in suspense."

[Anastasia]

Diplo check here, Marie.

Normally this spell wouldn't work like this, but this is hardly a normal person or situation.

[Ebiris]

[18:05] <@Ebiris> roll 1d20+55 diplo
[18:05] <Penuche> Ebiris invokes Penuche's magic: < 65 > [d20=10]

[Anastasia]

Yet something in Dragodan's gaze softens, lost in admiring you. "Well...it's okay if it's you, my love," he says. "You deserve to know."

Antenora's expression is growing tighter, she quietly steps aside a bit, out of Dragodan's possible line of sight.

Jessica watches, staying out of it and keeping an eye on Dragodan.