<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:verdana, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt"><div><span>"It is a pity that Kalen is not functioning. Imagine what he could tell us about this mechanical castle" Rotterex ponders "perhaps inside we may find some method of repairing the Mostel - it may be better than our own floundering attempts at working it" </span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: verdana, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.33px; font-style: normal; background-color: transparent;"><span></span> </div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: verdana, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.33px; font-style: normal; background-color: transparent;"><span>Rotterex prepares to sniff around....</span></div><div><br></div> <div style="font-family: verdana, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> <div style="font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <div
dir="ltr"> <font size="2" face="Arial"> <div style="margin: 5px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); height: 0px; line-height: 0; font-size: 0px;" class="hr" contentEditable="false" readonly="true"></div> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">From:</span></b> "lev@mimesisrpg.com" <lev@mimesisrpg.com><br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> HeroQuest Glorantha <ignorance@mimesisrpg.com> <br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Wednesday, 12 September 2012 3:34 PM<br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> Re: [HQ Ignorance] Scene 133: The Many Surprises of Hum Chang<br> </font> </div> <br>> Rikku didn't expect any reward. To place trust in his brother...hah! Fat<br>> chance. But Rikku had to get away from him. He had to regroup and<br>> formulate<br>> a plan to annihiliate his brother once and for all. But for now.....its<br>> duck hunting time!<br><br>With new
clothes, and a his sharpened and polished sickle, Rikku is taken<br>out of the luxurious villa and past its walls into the bustling city that<br>is Hum Chang.<br><br>Taken into a huge jinrikisha, pulled by a giant, Rikku, his brother and<br>his entourage, are taken past the various buildings of the state with the<br>wide plazas, through the tightly packed markets with their throngs of<br>people, and to the outskirts of the city, where Rikku is returned with the<br>Fellowship.<br><br>Notably present is the Dragonewt, in the same form as he was previously,<br>albeit this time with a beaked colleague. Also present is the giant Kui<br>Hui, bearing a klanth-flail.<br><br>Alighting from the jinrikisha, Can Shu bows slightly to the party with his<br>never ending smirk. "So very gracious, my lovely brother, has made a<br>commitment to assist me. After all, it was under his choice that The<br>General of Puppetland was defeated, and the Wizard was
victorious."<br><br>"I do wonder how this place will stand when I bring the Amethyst Dragon of<br>Greater Chaos to defeat the August Dragon. Oh, don't look so shocked. The<br>people hear are civilized, and if I come without immediate violence, there<br>is no doubt they will entertain me diplomatically. After all, I did fight<br>to protect them from the General - and with your help, to victory, eh? Now<br>all of "Puppetland" will be rightly mine, isn't that right Kui?"<br><br>The giant snorted. From the distance, a castle marches towards the<br>Fellowship.<br><br>"This castle is what remains of the General's Iron Fort. A strange thing,<br>designed to protect us from outsiders, but inhabited by the worst<br>cybernetic secrets of the Godlearners", boomed Kui.<br><br>The giant pauses looking at Rikku and his brother.<br><br>"But I understand originally designed by the Mostali. You had a noble<br>Mostal in your group, one Kalen Irohand, who sought to end the
powers of<br>violence, Chaos, and war, in your distant lands. I have meditated on what<br>Yao Fune would do in this situation, and he spoke to me. He said, 'Kui,<br>give the castle to the Fellowship. I will be with you when Can Shu<br>attacks. But they have a long way to travel, and a mighty opponent.<br><br>So the castle is yours. We have another power to protect us. And good<br>Dragonewt, who has sided with people of peace? I give you this", handing<br>over the flail to the Seeker. Yao Fune's flail, made from two klanths of<br>your people. Use it defensively, it is believed that no weapon can bypass<br>this when it is used to parry and protect."<br><br>Beyond the corner legs of the castle, in the very centre of the stonework,<br>is a hole in the foundations. The giant nods as the Fellowship looks<br>towards this entrance.<br><br><br><br><br>_______________________________________________<br>Ignorance mailing list<br><a
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