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Kaelan, Fiji, your ball. Response is needed. Come on, wake up.

'Herault has probably run for it, probably cross country to Auvaine city, but he's an old man who doesn't move very quickly, and is very well aware of his own limitations. He'll be moving slowly, hiding, using what he is good at. Decide for yourselves of course, but I think he'll be a few miles, fiv...

'Right- who gets to go and do that? Most of those taken are in the castle's cellars, there may be a couple of wounded who managed to limp away before the collapse, let us think. The archpriest? Killed on the field. The court chaplain? Did anyone see or hear tell of him?' Lisanna begins to go down th...

Random question first; it's a typographical error. The various 'Resist' skills- poison, injury, persuasion, magic- are defensive skills, used to oppose poison, injury, etc as appropriate. 'Survival'- not drowning while trying to cross a river, knowing which berries won't poison you, so forth- pretty...

Lisanna looks up at that. 'Floating eating creature? We also have an impossible murder to solve, remember- one of the Baron's mistresses, that set everyone at court on edge, everybody suspecting, everybody fearing and hating everyone else. Perhaps I'm being unfair; I don't like her, I'd like to blam...

Starting from the top- Imperial class are horribly overmanned, which has a lot more to do with doctrine and politics than physical need, it seems- the Mon Cal MC80 cruisers are a reasonable match for them, if possibly actually larger due to the shape of their hull, and they get by with something aro...

Dale has a very good question there, and there is an interesting situation at the root of it; of the fourteen gods, some are more clearly gods of the people, that everyone has some cause to ask something of at some point, and some are gods of the few, of specialists and elites that few need to pray ...

Yes, what they did was abuse of power in at least two senses of the term. Determination is a tricky one, because it has the potential to be a panacea augment, useful to add a little bonus to everything; it can be used to persuade or to resist, but at reduced value- and it mainly gives bonuses to oth...

D'Avariel is an outsider, not a native of the county or, probably, the country; the Fourteen Gods are common throughout South Vathlin (the continent), remember, although they do sometimes take on local aspects; she arrived only about a day or so before the party did, and spent most of that time taki...

The tale the acolyte tells is long and rambling, made slightly more so by being helped on the way- in addition to "don't let him eat me"- and it goes back to before last autumn, in its' roots. When the grand consistory came apart and the nation looked ready for civil war, the Valdemironi w...

Oh, good, you're back. I presume Dirt will be willing to cooperate with this? (I presume the party will tell Dirt at some point that he's only to pretend to be about to eat the human- he hasn't had a good live meal in a while?) A potion of recovering consciousness is brewed up, and enchanted- stirri...

'I don't think you can alchemically assay a human mind; the problem we're all hoping someone else will think of an answer to is that of all the gods and all the talents, the one best fitted to identifying and sifting out the truth is the set of abilities belonging to our victim, here. We can take th...

It is the senior Ikhrani acolyte who says 'Politics is only their...raw material. Oh yes, they enjoy it, they play it with great skill, they may even become addicted to it, but ultimately it means no more to them than, say, sandstone means to us. It is what they mean to create out of it, the situati...

Lisanna is to be found looking at the edges of the breach in the wall; looks round at Dirt who has the priest still slung over his shoulder, at Larric, says 'We need to talk.' starts heading for what is left of her official residence- if you recall, the court wizard's tower was cut down from six sto...

Yes, I'm not sure they ever got the balance right really; the second edition was closer to what appeared on screen, in some ways, but it discombobulated the hell out of the Centauri, who lost almost all their edge, became the sort of shambling wrecks you might expect from a dying, collapsing empire....

Hm. Right. Yes, you do need some time, and so does everyone else really- this would be a good point for nothing to happen, it has been a rather traumatic day for almost everyone involved (no matter how much they may happen to be gloating inside), so barring meteors falling from the sky there shall b...

Most of the ships in the series seem to suffer from Stormtrooperitis- for all the metres thick armour shells, you very rarely see anyone other than a main character's ride withstand much in the way of punishment at all. Broken bits of ships, almost certainly mission kill and probably CTL, drift acro...

Yes, all of those things are true; she is in fact an ex adventurer. Also adventuress. So gang, what now?

This is actually the first I've heard of them; watched the series, bought the DVDs, never bought the T-shirt (I'm allergic to logos these days), played the games- was one of the playtest group for Mongoose's A Call to Arms in fact, when they still had the license (they ignored our recommendations- a...

The latest version of Kaspersky, aha, failed to install; swallowed a ~500mb download and did smeg all with it, again failure to update. Not sure if virus, other malware or simply dodgy settings really- I gave up in the end and started in on Windows Defender; running win 8.1 and Google Chrome now. Be...

I'm using Kaspersky at the moment, and it has developed an odd and worrying bug- run updates refuse to take. It is stuck on a set of virus definitions from the 24th; running updates result in the package downloading but completely failing to install, it just comes up with the same definitions out of...

Sorry to hear that, Jub; we were just really starting to get a sense of the character and where he fitted in. Doing something like this is usually good, for me anyway, for recharging the old creative wellspring, but whatever's right. Dale' s aggressive challenge is met coldly, at first, a raised eye...

If she could break out of that mould and do something different, stop misreading him according to her own standards and do something different, it would maybe be a healthy thing for her; but it would also make her a more dangerous opponent. 'Too long speaking to people who use words purely for effec...

Doesn't look as if Dirt's brain has caught up quite yet- most of the fighting is over, unless he's talking about grabbing the fallen Valdemironi away from the men from the castle who have come to take the priests prisoner. In which case, to where and to what end? (In terms of intentionality, that is...

Some of the fitter ones can be assumed to have made it, and you do have some backup, yes. Lisanna is looking at the castle walls and what has been done to the wards, the fittest acolyte is just arriving at the same time as you are.