You dispatch the secretary to start expanding your collection of sinister scrolls and baleful booklets filled with forbidden secrets! The secretary gives you a 'why me' look for a second, but then sighs and heads out to make some appropriate arrangements with your web of contacts.
You then sit back and resume reading some of your favorite passages in the teachings of the Stormrider. Swinging hammers and shattering skulls, all that a man of simple tastes needs.
256 S.I., Early Summer
The city is buzzing with rumors as a richly appointed delegation arrived the other night, seemingly from nowhere at all - men and women from Kudu-Kai on living, breathing ships, utterly foreign to these shores. They appear to have requested an audience with the Queen, which she has yet to grant - until then they wait patiently in the harbor, scarcely stepping off their boat except to occasionally procure more feed for it.
You have eyes on the ship, but as of yet they do not appear to be making any moves. You suspect you may need to-
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Kalja steps into your office, looking slightly out of breath. Seems she got here as soon as she was able - you clap your hands together! Kalja! How was Lethop?
She breathes for a second. Well, she says, the book wasn't to be found there, she is sad to say. She did talk to that Yugrom of Kudu fellow, however, and he had quite a bit to say for himself.
Really, you lean in toward her skeptically.
Yes, she continues, seems like he didn't really need that book after a certain point and he said he, er, chucked it somewhere. Specifically, he chucked it into another plane of existence. "So's not to keep bloody tripping over the damn thing all the time" were his exact words if she recalls correctly.
Another plane of existence? How the hell are you supposed to get it, then?
Kalja shrugs. She didn't have a lot of time to question him, truth be told, but the way he went on she got the impression stepping between planes is something he doesn't give much thought. He did say he last remembers putting the book in the Hell of Ten Thousand Needles. Oh, and there's a phrase you need to use if you want to handle it safely, he said it gets a little ornery otherwise. She relates the phrase, which to you is a jumble of nonsense words.
Right then, you say. And the other agents?
Sadly possessed by demons, she shakes her head, along with the pirate crew she brought for muscle. Lethop is... not a friendly place for living things.
A) Well, Kalja, you know what that means - to the Hell of Ten Thousand Needles with you!
B) Exceptionally done! Rest for now - when you've recuperated you'll be shown to your new duties as lieutenant!
C) A respectable enough performance, but the large number of casualties isn't exactly heartening. Keep at it, you're sure she'll make lieutenant someday!
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