[HQ Ignorance] Scene Four and a Half: The calm before the storm...

[Nic Hughes]

Sam Elliot wrote:
>  
> Not waiting to see who is listening, as if keen to speak and have done 
> with it, she continues, "Let us convince him that we know his name, or 
> that we know the mysteries to uncover it. Did not your goddess," she 
> is addressing Jareena the Ernaldan now, "weave a cloak at the Dawn, in 
> what you call the Silver Age, one which bore all the names of all the 
> things, living and dead*? Can we not convince the Nameless Man that 
> our purpose here is to get but a token of him, a glimpse, an image, 
> and that we are then to depart on a Quest to discover his name?"
>  
> "I am no weaver and no seamstress, Jareena, and I suspect we have no 
> suitable cloak here. But I have the means to create a semblance of a 
> cloak." As she says this, a small furry head pops out from within her 
> branches and scowls at her. "We can imbue this semblance of a cloak 
> with radiant magics so it takes on the appearance of Ernalda´s cloak, 
> so it appears holy. And Jareena, you can prepare yourself to weave 
> into the cloak an image of the Nameless Man, the token which we need 
> for our fictitious quest. Perhaps, should we have a steed fast enough, 
> you can then be borne away and we can try to hold this Nameless Man 
> here and convince him that we have this power over him. Then we can 
> bargain with him for what we seek."
>  

Aalmon had tried to suppress his wry smile as he listened to this - too 
clever by half he had thought to himself. Then when it seemed nobody 
else would speak he answered "Well we could try that but maybe we could 
simply ask politely for his help first and see how he responds. We don't 
know what trickery or coercion might work or fail so to attempt any 
seems rather risky to me. Of course if being nice does not work or his 
demands are impossible then I'm sure we could try something like you 
suggest, Baros and I could help a bit with weaving an illusion if that 
is what we needed to do."

Nic

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