<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt"><div><span>Azhur stood calm in front of a vehement Rikku and kept speaking with a low tone:</span></div><div><span>- "As you wish Rikku, but if I trust your description of your Brother, his essence is quite wicked and his reflection here should have kept some of this nature... I do not trust a so called omnipotent Wizard who needs anyway to intoxicate his visitors before talking to them..."</span></div><div><br><span></span></div><div><span>Looking on the various sources of fumes, he showed them discretely to Rikku:</span></div><div><span>- " Could you do something to preserve our clearness of thinking. We are playing with our lives and perhaps more, we need to be at the best of our abilities for such a negotiation..."</span></div><div><br><span></span></div><div><span>Loran<br></span></div><div><br><blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid
rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; margin-top: 5px; padding-left: 5px;"> <div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> <div style="font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <div dir="ltr"> <font face="Arial" size="2"> <hr size="1"> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">De :</span></b> Damien Bosman <damien.bosman@gmail.com><br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">À :</span></b> Loran <aillet_l@yahoo.fr>; HeroQuest Glorantha <ignorance@mimesisrpg.com> <br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Envoyé le :</span></b> Jeudi 16 février 2012 0h40<br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Objet :</span></b> Re: [HQ Ignorance] Re : Scene 128: The Wizard of Puppetland<br> </font> </div> <br><div id="yiv1388099773"><div class="yiv1388099773gmail_quote">On Wed, Feb 15, 2012 at 11:43 PM, Loran <span dir="ltr"><<a rel="nofollow" ymailto="mailto:aillet_l@yahoo.fr"
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<div><div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><div> </div><div>Azhur then lowered his voice and addressed only to Rikku:</div><div>- "Remember, we are on the Heroplane, Puppetland is a representation of Kralorela and the Wizard isn't your brother but merely his echo here. By studying this figure and its weaknesses, you may learn something from your brother, something you may find useful later in front of his true-self... Stay cool and keep your eyes open. We need your brain if we want to survive and escape this cursed place..."<br>
<span><br></span></div></div></div></blockquote><div> </div><div> <br>Rikku blinks, slowly coming to terms with the situation.</div><div> </div><div>After a while, he responds to Azhur, "You may be right. Maybe violence won't solve this situation. I will listen to you this one time."</div>
<div>Rikku steps back from the Wizard. Once the chairs & tables align, however, Rikku confronts Azhur, "I am willing to halt my actions, I am willing to NOT kill this thing, however I will NOT sit at a table with the face of my brother present. I know he is not my brother but I still cannot do it. You do not know what he has done to me."</div>
<div> </div><div>Rikku turns to find somewhere to observe from a distance. He briefly turns back and in a rare moment of concern, "Don't forget about the dwarf machine thing."</div><div> </div><div>He departs the table, finds a quiet place on the floor, and flips through the Abiding Book looking for some illusion or spell to change a person's facial features [Disciplined 17].<br>
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