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Penthesilea Forum Administrator Offline Warrior Queen, DarkLady, Phoenix, Ghostbuster Posts: 47422 Location: The Castle..... Joined: Jun 21^st, 2006 Gender:	Re: Penthesilea's Castle... posts 3601 to 3695 Reply #25 - Dec 12^th, 2006 at 11:33pm
	#3635 [Rewritten by Penthesilea] Slipping into the shadowed booth with Daemon, Satira places a hand on his arm, a delicate gesture intended to placate any anger that he might feel toward her. Lovemate, where were you? I couldn�t sense you at all. Why did you disappear? Your sister and I were worried.
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Penthesilea Forum Administrator Offline Warrior Queen, DarkLady, Phoenix, Ghostbuster Posts: 47422 Location: The Castle..... Joined: Jun 21^st, 2006 Gender:	Re: Penthesilea's Castle... posts 3601 to 3695 Reply #26 - Dec 12^th, 2006 at 11:33pm
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Penthesilea Forum Administrator Offline Warrior Queen, DarkLady, Phoenix, Ghostbuster Posts: 47422 Location: The Castle..... Joined: Jun 21^st, 2006 Gender:	Re: Penthesilea's Castle... posts 3601 to 3695 Reply #27 - Dec 12^th, 2006 at 11:34pm
	#3637 Penthesilea Penthesilea laughs in Daemon's head *That should keep the Lady Mayor occupied for a while.*
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Penthesilea Forum Administrator Offline Warrior Queen, DarkLady, Phoenix, Ghostbuster Posts: 47422 Location: The Castle..... Joined: Jun 21^st, 2006 Gender:	Re: Penthesilea's Castle... posts 3601 to 3695 Reply #28 - Dec 12^th, 2006 at 11:35pm
	#3639 [Rewrite by Penthesilea] Come with me to my rooms, Lovemate, and let me heal your wounds. Then I must go assist the wizard. We have what we need to find Leverance�s mage construct. We need only to cast the spell.
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Penthesilea Forum Administrator Offline Warrior Queen, DarkLady, Phoenix, Ghostbuster Posts: 47422 Location: The Castle..... Joined: Jun 21^st, 2006 Gender:	Re: Penthesilea's Castle... posts 3601 to 3695 Reply #29 - Dec 12^th, 2006 at 11:37pm
	#3642 Penthesilea Assured that her stubborn brother is in no immediate danger, Penthesilea turns her attention to wardrobe and her personal security. She summons the ranking knight on duty and fills him in on what she will need in terms of bodyguards...
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Penthesilea Forum Administrator Offline Warrior Queen, DarkLady, Phoenix, Ghostbuster Posts: 47422 Location: The Castle..... Joined: Jun 21^st, 2006 Gender:	Re: Penthesilea's Castle... posts 3601 to 3695 Reply #30 - Dec 12^th, 2006 at 11:37pm
	#3651 Penthesilea A short time later, she sends word to Lord Kennicott that his presence at the noon meal is requested.


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Penthesilea Forum Administrator Offline Warrior Queen, DarkLady, Phoenix, Ghostbuster Posts: 47422 Location: The Castle..... Joined: Jun 21^st, 2006 Gender:	Re: Penthesilea's Castle... posts 3601 to 3695 Reply #31 - Dec 12^th, 2006 at 11:38pm
	#3653 Rewrite by Penthesilea Quote: Rewritten by Penthesilea: Come with me to my rooms, Lovemate, and let me heal your wounds. Then I must go assist the wizard. We have what we need to find Leverance�s mage construct. We need only to cast the spell. Business first, Satira. We will have time for dalliance once Torao-Akio's work is done.
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Penthesilea Forum Administrator Offline Warrior Queen, DarkLady, Phoenix, Ghostbuster Posts: 47422 Location: The Castle..... Joined: Jun 21^st, 2006 Gender:	Re: Penthesilea's Castle... posts 3601 to 3695 Reply #32 - Dec 12^th, 2006 at 11:39pm
	#3654 Penthesilea *The Dining Hall* Penthesilea sits in her customary place, Lord Kennicott beside her in the seat usually occupied by Daemon. His hand is roaming and severely testing her temper. She pauses between bites of an excellent soup.... Penthesilea: Lord Kennicott. The merchandise is on display but it is not to be handled. If you persist, I will be happy to remove your hand at the wrist and feed it to you. If you wish to be the finalist in this little contest, I suggest that you spend less time trying arouse my passions and more time telling me why an alliance with you would benefit me and my people. Because, rest assured, that is what the decision will rest on -- the most benefit for me and my people.
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Penthesilea Forum Administrator Offline Warrior Queen, DarkLady, Phoenix, Ghostbuster Posts: 47422 Location: The Castle..... Joined: Jun 21^st, 2006 Gender:	Re: Penthesilea's Castle... posts 3601 to 3695 Reply #33 - Dec 12^th, 2006 at 11:40pm
	#3655 Penthesilea With a carefully neutral expression on his face, Lord Kennicott removes his hand. Penthesilea does not need a mind reading spell to know what he's thinking. He's thinking about drugs... and her brother.. and her. Penthesilea schools her expression to calm and continues eating while Kennicott makes his case..
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Penthesilea Forum Administrator Offline Warrior Queen, DarkLady, Phoenix, Ghostbuster Posts: 47422 Location: The Castle..... Joined: Jun 21^st, 2006 Gender:	Re: Penthesilea's Castle... posts 3601 to 3695 Reply #34 - Dec 12^th, 2006 at 11:41pm
	#3658 [Rewritten by Penthesilea] Daemon refused Satira�s immediate aid, much to her immense disappointment. He insisted that he was well enough thanks to his Father�s gifts to wait until Torao-Akio�s work was done. They entered the wizard�s workroom to find the ritual already in progress. To one side, a drum pounded out a complicated rhythm without benefit of a drummer. Torao-Akio himself stomped his feet to the same beat while chanting in one of the Eastern languages, Daemon didn�t know which one. Having watched the wizard in action before, Daemon was not surprised at the physically vigorous actions the rite required. Satira, however, was slack jawed in astonishment. Who would have thought that such a seemingly frail individual could carry on with so much energy! Snatching up Leverance�s under linen with a flourish, Torao-Akio waved it over his head before dropping it into a large iron cauldron to be followed quickly by the hair that she had retrieved from Leverance�s hairbrush and various herbs and other substances that Satira could only speculate about. Suddenly, a huge puff of noxious smoke erupted from the cauldron and Torao-Akio motioned for them to approach. They peered into the cauldron. The surface was as bright and reflective as a mirror. Quietly, and with great concentration, Torao-Akio began another chant. The surface changed from a mirror to a window and the threesome looked into a windowless room that gave no indication of its location. There, moving around an altar stained with what had to be blood, was Leverance�s hideous mage construct. Satira managed not to vomit. She didn�t know if the thing she saw had been born or made. She did not know how such a thing could survive birth or having survived it, would be allowed to live. The jumble of arms and legs, some shrunken and deformed, sprouted from a conjoined torso that should* have been at least two and was topped by three hideously deformed heads. She did know that it was the most evil thing that she had ever seen. Still chanting, Torao-Akio pulled a tightly bound bundle from his robes and handed it to Daemon who, having been involved in such operations before, pulled a small ring free from the bundle and thrust it into the cauldron and therefore into the room they viewed. * �Better step back, sweets.� He said and she had just enough time to do so before the sound of a huge explosion echoed through the room. A blast of intense white light blasted upwards from the cauldron, nearly blinding them. The light quickly faded and they looked again into the cauldron. Nothing remained to be seen in the room but the burned out interior, the stone altar that had been the room�s centerpiece reduced to a half melted lump. Of the monstrosity that had worked there, there was not even ash left. With a few more words, the scene faded and the cauldron was nothing more than a pot full of odd ingredients. It was the work of moments for Torao-Akio to secure the area and shut down the remains of his successful magickal operation. Then he went to a large cabinet and pulled out a large bottle that Satira recognized as being one of the world�s more potent whiskeys. Torao-Akio cracked the seal and chugged a third of it before coming up for air. He extended the bottle in their direction. �Drink?�
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Penthesilea Forum Administrator Offline Warrior Queen, DarkLady, Phoenix, Ghostbuster Posts: 47422 Location: The Castle..... Joined: Jun 21^st, 2006 Gender:	Re: Penthesilea's Castle... posts 3601 to 3695 Reply #35 - Dec 12^th, 2006 at 11:42pm
	#3679 Penthesilea *The Great Hall* After getting through lunch in Lord Kennicott's company without killing him like a pig to be slaughtered, Penthesilea send word that Lord Gallagher should join her in the Great Hall. He appeared promptly and she led him to one of the hearths that lined the walls of the hall. Penthesilea: Do you play chess, Lord Gallagher? Lord Gallagher: Yes, my Lady. I'm considered quite good. Penthesilea smiled one of her more winsome smiles. We'll see about that, she thought. Penthesilea: There is a board set up here by the fire. Let's have a match while we talk. Penthesilea took one seat and Gallagher the other. Penthesilea took a pawn of each color and hid her hands under the table. She pulled out her closed fists and held them out to her opponent. He tapped her left hand and she opened it, revealing a white pawn.You chose well. She said as he returned the pawn to its place.You are already sitting on the white side. We won't have to turn the board. As the White player, Gallagher moved first. He chose a standard opening move that Penthesilea immediately answered.I will ask you the same question that I asked Lord Kennicott. How will an alliance with you benefit me and my people? Gallagher moved again and began talking. Penthesilea answered his move and waited. He moved again and kept talking. Penthesilea could see where the game was going. Penthesilea couldn't see any way around it. She sighed inwardly and made her move.Checkmate. Stunned into silence, Gallagher stared at the board. It was true. She had checkmated him in a total of 6 moves. She smiled into his stunned expression. Care for another game?


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Penthesilea Forum Administrator Offline Warrior Queen, DarkLady, Phoenix, Ghostbuster Posts: 47422 Location: The Castle..... Joined: Jun 21^st, 2006 Gender:	Re: Penthesilea's Castle... posts 3601 to 3695 Reply #36 - Dec 12^th, 2006 at 11:43pm
	#3680 Penthesilea Penthesilea gave up after winning 6 games. The man was no challenge -- on the chessboard or elsewhere -- and Penth had just let him make his case without further humiliation. That would come later when she had him facing the business end of her sword. When he started to repeat himself for the third time, she excused herself and returned to her Tower. She felt dirty and she needed a bath....


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Penthesilea Forum Administrator Offline Warrior Queen, DarkLady, Phoenix, Ghostbuster Posts: 47422 Location: The Castle..... Joined: Jun 21^st, 2006 Gender:	Re: Penthesilea's Castle... posts 3601 to 3695 Reply #37 - Dec 12^th, 2006 at 11:44pm
	#3681 Penthesilea After a long hot soak that, at least, cleaned her body if not her soul, Penthesilea dressed for the evening meal. When Daemon and Satira did not appear -- a situation that did not surprise Penthesilea in the least! -- she directed one of her Lady Knights into Satira's place and Sir Alexander into Daemon's. In that way, she was able to eat in peace and actually enjoy the food. After the dessert course was done, Penthesilea signaled for attention. Word had come to her shortly before dinner started that Leverance's hydra had been taken out. She had smiled. It was time for the Endgame. She rose and addressed the diners.* Penthesilea: Lord Gallagher. Lord Kennicott. I have heard each of your arguments in favor of an alliance marriage. I'll will retire now to consider my decision. I will announce my choice in a day, no more than two. Good night, gentlemen. With that, knights in tow, Penthesilea retired from the Dining Hall.
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Penthesilea Forum Administrator Offline Warrior Queen, DarkLady, Phoenix, Ghostbuster Posts: 47422 Location: The Castle..... Joined: Jun 21^st, 2006 Gender:	Re: Penthesilea's Castle... posts 3601 to 3695 Reply #38 - Dec 12^th, 2006 at 11:50pm
	#3682 Penthesilea *The Keyholder's Sitting Room* *Penthesilea had changed out of her formal gown into a shirt and pants of the sort that had been her usual attire before the suitors had arrived. Now she sat before the fire, thinking. All she had wanted to do was reclaim the family Castle, take up the office of Keyholder and give her girls somewhere safe to be while SpiritFire explored her gift for magick and MoonCat blew things up! Now her daughters were in hiding, she couldn't walk her own halls without an armed escort and there was a pack of human hyenas at her door ready to pick her bones. She had never wanted anything except to raise her girls, protect those people who looked to her for protection and maybe find someone to love along the way. Not really that much to ask of life. She was uncomfortable with being a "Lady". The thought of being a "Queen" terrified her. A Queen was never free -- bound always by politics and what was necessary to protect her nation. A Queen could not even give her heart where she willed unless by some happy accident she fell in love with a politically suitable man. Penthesilea knew finally, in her heart of hearts, that while she might not be called by the title -- yet -- she was a Queen with a Queen's responsibilities. Now, she had to decide what kind of Queen she would be. She would be a Queen for a very long time, after all. She stared at the fire for a long time before she had her answer. Then she smiled. She was Penthesilea, daughter of Ares and a Warrior Born. She would be an Amazon Queen....


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Penthesilea Forum Administrator Offline Warrior Queen, DarkLady, Phoenix, Ghostbuster Posts: 47422 Location: The Castle..... Joined: Jun 21^st, 2006 Gender:	Re: Penthesilea's Castle... posts 3601 to 3695 Reply #39 - Dec 12^th, 2006 at 11:51pm
	#3684 [Rewritten by Penthesilea] After informing the Keyholder of the successful removal of Leverance�s mage, the trio retired to the Castle Pub for a well deserved celebration. Much food and drink was consumed and as the evening wore on, singing broke out. Eventually, Daemon and Satira retired to his rooms to continue the celebration while Torao-Akio sought his* rooms with two agreeable serving girls....
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Penthesilea Forum Administrator Offline Warrior Queen, DarkLady, Phoenix, Ghostbuster Posts: 47422 Location: The Castle..... Joined: Jun 21^st, 2006 Gender:	Re: Penthesilea's Castle... posts 3601 to 3695 Reply #40 - Dec 12^th, 2006 at 11:52pm
	#3685 Penthesilea *Morning.....* *Penthesilea slept well after her decision was made and she allowed her brother, Satira and Torao-Akio to enjoy their Pub crawl in peace. Just because such things were becoming impossible for her didn't mean that she would make others join her in misery. Besides, she had been perfectly aware of Satira's state the day before -- having been in it herself on many an occasion -- and wanted to give the girl a chance to do something about it! She did not want Satira, or Daemon for that matter, cranky with "pent up demand"! For herself, she wanted Leverance's head -- publicly! -- for trying to kill her. She was finding the thought of executing him with her own sword very appealing... She dressed for the day in clothes she preferred -- Amazon style -- and called for Daemon, Satira and Torao-Akio to come to her study in the Tower....
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Penthesilea Forum Administrator Offline Warrior Queen, DarkLady, Phoenix, Ghostbuster Posts: 47422 Location: The Castle..... Joined: Jun 21^st, 2006 Gender:	Re: Penthesilea's Castle... posts 3601 to 3695 Reply #41 - Dec 12^th, 2006 at 11:53pm
	#3686 Penthesilea *The Keyholder's Study* While waiting for her friends to arrive, Penthesilea received good news. The overland passes through the Cold Heights Mountains were snowed in for the season. There would be no unwelcome visitors from that quarter until Spring -- maybe not until early summer.


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Penthesilea Forum Administrator Offline Warrior Queen, DarkLady, Phoenix, Ghostbuster Posts: 47422 Location: The Castle..... Joined: Jun 21^st, 2006 Gender:	Re: Penthesilea's Castle... posts 3601 to 3695 Reply #42 - Dec 12^th, 2006 at 11:54pm
	#3687 Penthesilea After looking over the reports on the Castle Pub's consumption of beef since the arrival of her brother and his Wolfkin allies, Penthesilea authorizes imports of slaughtered beef and more breeding stock for increasing the herds.
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Penthesilea Forum Administrator Offline Warrior Queen, DarkLady, Phoenix, Ghostbuster Posts: 47422 Location: The Castle..... Joined: Jun 21^st, 2006 Gender:	Re: Penthesilea's Castle... posts 3601 to 3695 Reply #43 - Dec 12^th, 2006 at 11:55pm
	#3691 [Rewritten by Penthesilea] The appointed time for the council arrived and Daemon led Satira and Torao-Akio out of the Dining Hall and toward the door to the Keyholder�s Tower.
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