Intermission on Scintilla

After returning from Orendell's Tomb, I decided to give my cadre a short break. I felt fairly confident Myrcella Cinderfell would be our next target, but needed to sort out some loose ends on Bastion first.

I was most pleasantly surprised by the mountain of red tape Serbe had left for me. Clearly, someone didn't want me to get anything done. At this point, I was frankly beyond caring if he didn't like me. I acquired 5 high ranking and adepts and 1 sage to help me. I had to do a certain amount of work myself, so for a period I was stuck in my office. The hand of the lovely Ms Rathbone loomed in the background.

In the meantime, everyone else enjoyed some downtime. Scab spent it in his usual fashion, getting shit-faced (a vulgar term I must admit I've taken a liking to) at bars. During one of these nights, he was approached by three tough-looking thugs who inquired as to his identity. After he confirmed he was named "Scab", they attacked him. He barely escaped with his life.

Scab returned to Bastion and was healed by Kaid. They informed me of what happened. I asked everyone to gather and find out why Scab was attacked. After some exciting killing of assassins and other bounty hunters, the truth became clear: there was a bounty on our heads. One of the bigger bounty organizations had announced the prize, 100.000 Thrones for everyone in my cadre and 500.000 for me. Not so surprisingly, there was a link to Myrcella. Cailin Cloud, a relative of the identity Myrcella currently hid behind on Malfi, was the patron of the bounty. Since the cadre was going there anyway, this was merely extra incentive.

I chose to stay behind this time, participating in missions like these is not very conducive to my continual well-being and reputation. Thus, I sent Xanthis, Scab, Sham and Kaid to rendezvous with Scarlet on Malfi, who would lead the operation from there. Meanwhile, Gallia and I would meet with Al-Subaai to see what he learned in the Vault about Marbaras.