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[Starfire]

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Tatiana went to Skara Brae to talk to a few shop keeppers. Ivory insisted on going with her. They had just barely arrived in Skara Brae when the winds kicked up and the snow started to come down. Tati was greatly worried over Ivory and took her to the tavern and had her sit near the oven to stay warm. The snow was still falling and it did not look safe to get Ivory out of there. Tati checked on Ivory and then bundled up and went outside to check the conditions.
The wind was howling about and the snow was already shin deep. Fortunately, Valiant could push his way past the snow without too much trouble... but it did not look like it would stop anytime soon.
Tatiana hurried back to the tavern to find Miss Molly, Mr Will and Mr Shihan trapped inside the tavern as well. Tatiana spoke to Miss Molly about going out and checking on the shop keepers and set out into the bitter cold.
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aka: Tatiana Thorn nee Alexi; Summer Kane; Ivory Skyfire; and others

[Molly]

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As the trial ended, Molly and Will excused themselves and found Shihan standing outside waiting. As she made conversation a pigeon flew to her. She read the message. The Rangers in Skara had asked for help. The note was short and the bird was shivering. She looked at Shihan and Will and told them that they needed to head to Skara.

Upon arrival, they headed to the docks where the rangers had sent word of trouble. Expecting to find some kind of dispute instead they found that the ice was formed around the boats. The rangers were trying to break the ice around the boats to free them up for travel. Will, Shihan and Molly headed for town to try and get some help to break the ice but everyone was inside weatherizing their homes and businesses for this unusual snowstorm.

None of them were dressed for the weather, and the cold was taking it's toll so Molly sent Shihan to the provisioners for lanterns, bedrolls and anything else he thought would help. Molly and Will headed for the taylors to get clothing for anyone that might be caught in the storm and carried them back to the tavern.

They ran into Tati there and she and Tati put cloth and boards up on the windows to keep the cold at bay.

Never had she seen snow come down in a coastal town like this. This seemed so unnatural to her. She looked over at Will and he was nearly blue from being out in the cold in only his hunting gear and armor. Settling Will down by the fire she and Will dozed off as the storm raged outside.
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Grand Duchess Molly Kaldhel
Oracle of Truth
The House Gauntlet
Sanctus, Luna, Malas
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xXoGDbJ5nLU
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"In politics, if you want anything said, ask a man. If you want anything done, ask a woman."
-Margaret Thatcher-

[Ceinwyn ab'Arawn]

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Earlier that evening in a much much darker land...



Umbrans gathered on the roof of the Sepulcher for the first chapter in a long plan to cleanse Sosaria. Their goal was to corrupt the cities enough to make them like Umbra. Then, surely, persecution of the darker races would end. If all were alike, there could be nothing to be prejudiced about.




"Kal Por Vas An Flam Uus Rel Skara Brae."

We summon a great cold to raise up and move on Skara Brae

Ceinwyn held the Cryomancer's Grimoire out before her, channeling her energies into the giant snow globe of Skara. She called to the Umbrans to focus their power as she chanted. They all began to pour their energy into the globe, tapping their own respective power sources.





"Darkness that stirs beneath the twilight land of Umbra,
send our dark magics into the globe
and grant our gift of deepest cold to Skara Brae.

Let them be the first in a chain of cities to be cleansed
and brought into our Darkness.



"Be thy city withered and thy people frozen."

The Umbrans began to chant their personal words of power as the skies seemed sway above them, forming a swirling funnel of power that rippled into the globe. Ceinwyn affected a hand gesture in front of her to tie up the spell, speaking with a calm finality on the final three words of true power.

"Be thee Cold."

More ripples of power struck the globe brightly, as the spell struck Skara.



"We have done it, Umbrans! Tonight, the freezing of Skara begins! Soon, there will be no word from that isle, as the snow piles higher and higher... and higher. If you plan to visit that place, I suggest fur boots and heavy clothing."

[Will Kaldhel]

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“Dam, Its cold out here.” Will said to himself. “If I had known I was walking into a rageing snowstorm…

“I think I froze it off.” Will mumbles to himself. “She’s gonna be pissed.”

“Wearing metal armor isn't the best thing to be wearing Will.” He tells himself.
He could barely feel his legs now. His throbbing legs were almost numb now along with the rest of him.
The cold air felt like fire in his lungs, every breath torture.

“Guess this is how it feels.” He mumbles threw his frozen lips remembering a time not to long ago of
Someone very close to him.
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Hate binds a warrior,
Anger is the gateway to impatience,
Impatience is the pathway to defeat,
Opportunity is the stepping stone to victory

[Starfire]

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Tatiana was starting to really worry. The snow was mounting and showed no signs of letting up. The west side of town was worse because the wind was pushing it against the wall. It was even creeping in the windows. Miss Molly helped Tatiana resecure the coverings over the windows.
Tatiana told Miss Molly she was going to make sure the doorway was clear so the townsfolk good get in. She went out the door and had Valiant push snow from the doorway keeping it open. It was storming so and the wind was really whistling between the buildings. She just could not get past it.... it had never snowed this bad before in all her memory.
Tatiana checked with the tavern keepper to make sure the food stores were okay. Jarrod checked the larder and said it was fine unless the snow held for along time. Sighing a bit, she tried to relax knowing that all that could be done for the moment was taken care of... but could not help but worry......
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aka: Tatiana Thorn nee Alexi; Summer Kane; Ivory Skyfire; and others

[Molly]

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Just before laying down to sleep she takes out a piece of paper and jots a note. She takes out her pigeon and appologizes to it for having to ask her to make this dangerous flight and attaches the note. She goes to the door and pushes it opened moving 3 inches of fresh snow with the door as the wind swirls in. She closes the door behind her and kisses the pigeon before releasing her to the wind. The graceful bird flies into the flying snow and disapears. Pulling her cloak close she struggles with the wind to open the door again and returns inside, closing it behind her.

"Malic, I hope you can help.", she whispers as she returns to the bedroll where Will is reslessly sleeping. She lays down beside him and he shudders with the cold from her clothing but snuggles next to her as she dozes off.
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Grand Duchess Molly Kaldhel
Oracle of Truth
The House Gauntlet
Sanctus, Luna, Malas
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xXoGDbJ5nLU
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"In politics, if you want anything said, ask a man. If you want anything done, ask a woman."
-Margaret Thatcher-

[Starfire]

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Tatiana sat beside the oven and watched as folks slept on the bedrolls. She smiled a bit sadly to herself seeing Miss Molly and Mr Will so happy together. She wiped a tear from her cheek and turned to look about the room. There were many peasants sleeping on bedrolls, couples curled up together, children beside them. There was an empty one set up for her, but she just could not bear to sleep yet. Sleep had come in fits since her chat with Mr Ronin. Tatiana had heard Beowulf was leaving.... guess she would never see him again .... not that she mattered much to him...... Wiping another tear off her cheek she stood up and spotted Miss Ivory with her two dawgs curled up beside her. That strengthened her; Miss Ivory lived with more troubles daily than most saw in a lifetime. Sighing softly, Tatiana layed down and tried to get some rest....
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aka: Tatiana Thorn nee Alexi; Summer Kane; Ivory Skyfire; and others

[Molly]

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After quelling some violence in the streets over wood she headed back to the tavern with Will.

They are running out of wood to burn. Supplies are low in the homes. I told them to come to the tavern for food and shelter, it is warm and there is food there. she tells Shihan as he returns from shoveling snow.

She goes to the docks for a look-see and the boats are hopelessly frozen but the ice is plenty thick to cross if the wind and snow would slow. She heads back to the tavern and as she turns she hears a sharp squeel of a horse. She turns to see a rider coming across the lake. Slipping and sliding he makes his way to the shore.

Can you direct me to Duchess Molly?

I am she.

He hands her a message as he slides from the saddle into a snowbank.

Come in to the tavern and get warmed before you freeze.

They head for the tavern in drifts nearly as tall as the horse's head. They enter the warmth of the room and the man slumps on a close bench where Molly and Will get blankets for him to warm him.

You will stay the night and I will write a message to send back with you. You are in no condition to travel in this tonight.

He nodded and sipped on some warm mulled wine.
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Grand Duchess Molly Kaldhel
Oracle of Truth
The House Gauntlet
Sanctus, Luna, Malas
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xXoGDbJ5nLU
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"In politics, if you want anything said, ask a man. If you want anything done, ask a woman."
-Margaret Thatcher-

[Starfire]

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Tatiana consulted with Samuel, the tavernkeeper. She was growing concerned over the food supplies. The snow was still impassable, the winds howled and filled up what they managed to dig up. Many of the townsfolks were sleeping fitfully here and there. They were as comfortable as she could make them, dry warm clothes-Miss Molly had thoughtfully gathered those, wood to keep the room warm.
With Valiant's help she had at least managed to keep the doorway free of snow. All the hard work she and Mr Shihan had done was now undone. The winds had filled the space back in with snow. Tatiana stood at the doorway and sighed, glancing about one last time to check on Miss Ivory and the others. Tightening her coat about her, she went out into the freezing night to check on other buildings.
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aka: Tatiana Thorn nee Alexi; Summer Kane; Ivory Skyfire; and others

[Ronin]

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Ronin threw open the door to his office, stared for a moment at the guard standing outside, hissed once showing his anger and slammed the door close.

“You must be protected my Prince. You have too many enemies to travel by yourself my Prince” Ronin was tired of the constant guard about him, he swore one day he was going to wake in his coffin to find one of his guards in there with him. “Enough” Ronin said to himself. “I’m going for a walk and my guard can be damned."

Ronin walked back into his office, picked up the rune book from his table without looking at how many charges were left, opened it, and whispered an incantation, disappearing.

Arriving next to the Moongate just outside Minoc, Ronin pondered for a minute where to go on this evening, “Skara Brae I think, I’ve not been there in a while.” Without hesitation Ronin stepped through the gate to Skara Brae.

“What in Sosaria is this?” Ronin found himself in the middle of a storm so terrible he knew it could not be natural. Instantly he opened the rune book and spoke another incantation but the spell fizzled, there were no more charges left in the book.

Ronin tried desperately to make it back through the Moongate but all his attempts failed; the snow and fierce winds were just to much. Ronin pulled his cloak over his head and started making his way into the town with only one thought on his mind -- the chewing out he was going to get for being out without his guard and no way to get back.

“Oh great, Ian is going to have a field day with this one” he muttered as he walked on.
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"Sic Gorgiamus Allos Subjectatos Nunc...
We gladly feast on those who would subdue us."

[Garrick Koetrig]

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As the Armies of Stahlkrieger approached the town Garrick called for all to hold. Something was not right, it was winter but the amount of snow seen in town and coming down was not natural for the area. It was in the warmer climate region near Sosaria's center. Encampments would be held outside of town to prepare. After the storm would come the siege.
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A government must not waiver once it has chosen it's course. It must not look to the left or right but go forward.--Otto von Bismarck
Any alliance whose purpose is not the intention to wage war is senseless and useless- A Hitler
Exterminate heresy, lest it take root and overturn the state and social order-Charles HRE
Er aber, sag's ihm, er kann mich im Arsche lecken!

[Nh'bdy]

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A strange man, clad in plate-mail and bearing the insignia of the House of the Chaos Guard, tops a hill roughly a half days casual travel from the Spirituality shrine, Pausing a moment he gazes North, adjusting his bearings slightly.

*Post a half day's travel*

Topping another hill on what could be considered the East most extensions of the boarders of the City if Britain, the ponderously out of place guardian allocates a moment to survey his surroundings. Satisfied, he removes his helmet, revealing a silk hood. Removing a ponderously dark spyglass, which casts it's gaze towards the boarders of Skara Brae

Never been much for the cold really- hrm.

Seeming satisfied, the figure replaces his helm and makes his way silently back down the hill.
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"What do you call a fish with four legs? A stool pidgeon! Bwuagh bwuagh bwuagh bwguagh!"
~Malorn

[Ceinwyn ab'Arawn]

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Some did not need to go to Skara to know it would be cold. Some had the luxury of knowing exactly what was going on...

Ceinwyn stared into the over-sized snowglobe, looking down upon the lifelike buildings and figures. An outsider looking in would have remarked about the sheer realism of the replica. Snow fell from seemingly nowhere within the glassy dome, and occasionally one could make out the small figures of men and women dashing here or there amongst the drifts and downfalls. Breath fogged in front of them as they moved about, such was the realism! One might think that one was actually viewing the actual Skara Brae, but that was, of course, impossible. Wasn't it?

She, the woman called the Ice Queen by a few (was it any wonder?), gazed down into its glassy confines, studying the happenings of that first unfortunate target on her list. The people's movements had become scarcer until they'd begun to notice their supply of wood was depleting. The fighting in the streets of man against man ushered forth a harsh laugh from the half-drow.

"You are all nothing but savages when the comforts of civilization are removed."

In her hand, an item twisted and twirled, end over end between her fingers. A glass dagger given to her by a stranger on that alter-plane of Moonglow. Studying it and the facts surrounding it had led her to believe it was somehow related to the Gem of Immortality. She had closely followed all of Nystul and Clainin's writings about the shards and the Gem. The story of Captain Johne and what he had done to his loved ones with similar crystal daggers had stirred the first bits of hope within her. Her dabblings had led to the creation of this giant snowglobe. Nothing close to Mondain's replica of Sosaria, merely a fraction of what that great mage had accomplished. But still, it had proven to be enough for her current designs.

Logic allowed that most of the town would keep together, to share the warmth and wood. She knew a few homes on the edge of town would be beyond saving, as would the homeless. Without heat, they would become offerings to the afterlife. Soon, she knew, their food would begin to run out, as well. She glimpsed all of this without an iota of guilt or conscience.

The only prick of discontent with the whole plan lingered in the back of her mind, where she'd tucked it away for the moment. Tatiana was down there, somewhere in that town. She'd warned the woman to keep from the cities. But no, the woman had to go and ignore it. Reflecting upon Beowulf's seeming lack of concern for the crafter's condition, she reasoned that perhaps it would be better off this way for Tatiana. Perhaps she would be put out of her grief and sadness.

It was amazing how murder could be rationalized so easily.

[Starfire]

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Tatiana was really beginning to worry. Everyone was so lethargic. Even Valiant was having a harder time making his way through the snow. Miss Ivory had sent one of her dogs to Sanctus to try to get help. Tatiana didn't know if the dog could find his way but they had to try something. The food was getting very low and everyone seemed to be giving up hope. She kept trying to keep everyones spirits up but it was getting harder and harder. Tatiana strode to the doorway again and stared out into the deepening snow......
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aka: Tatiana Thorn nee Alexi; Summer Kane; Ivory Skyfire; and others

[Molly]

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She bathed Will's feverish head with a cloth from a bowl of snow water she had brought in. She had changed his blistered hands and feet and salved them with the herb potion she commonly used but inspite of all that he developed an infection on his left hand.

In his delirium he kept mumbling about when she herself had been frozen by the enchanted doll that Ceinwyn had given her daughter years ago. He kept repeating Ceinwyn's name and looking up at her with glazed eyes. At one point he grabbed her robe and begged her to stop Ceinwyn. She calmed him that time but he continued to toss and turn and call out in his sleep.

Finally he was resting comfortably so she made her way into the main tavern and sat down to drink some hot cider and eat a few bites of bread. The door opened and Tati came in shaking snow from her skirts.

She told her of Will's deteriorating condition and she conveyed concern. They talked of his delusions and Tati had a very strange reaction. She said that Ceinwyn had told her to stay out of towns. They discussed that Ceinwyn could be capable of such magic though they had no idea of how they would stop it or how to get the word out to check out the possibilities.

Tati said she would have Ivory look at Will and ask her to send her dog with a message. Molly heard Will call out and she excused herself to attend to him as Tati stoked up the fire in the stove.
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Grand Duchess Molly Kaldhel
Oracle of Truth
The House Gauntlet
Sanctus, Luna, Malas
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xXoGDbJ5nLU
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"In politics, if you want anything said, ask a man. If you want anything done, ask a woman."
-Margaret Thatcher-