Editing Midnight RPG - Chapter 14.09 (section)

== Belal ==
[Assume these conversations are continuations of the private chat and the things discussed with the group.  Belal continues chatting with you at various times during the day of your Ritual preperation for Shadaar...]



...the little ambassador, smiles a toothy grin of thanks - to the mystic-companion Kyuad.  A wise and old look glazes his bulbous eyes, the imp strokes his head - long spindly fingers scraping his reptilian-like hide from the back of his neck up and over his scalp, finally reaching the space between his eyes as they blink slowly while the little courtesan's mind-gears tumble...


He looks and considers if the Erenlander called Kyuad Finustion will parlay with him a bit more...




'''''"...yes... it WAS your man - Durgaz that shared a touch of the tale with me.  The orc would not seem it but he is very very proud of his doing and daring deed.  It was alarming to hear him speak of his power to be able to survive the blast of his own accord, he did not once mention how your troupe aided him.  He requested my role in spreading the songs and tales of the task.  I am happy to oblige, but it is of best interest that I seek to know the entirety of the tale before I can offer my prose.  For this, I ask how you and your troupe played a part in the story.'''''  ... nearly stumbling, the little curious seeker sits on his hands and looks to Kyuad for insight...  But before hearing the tale in greater detail he perks up to ask of the mage's writings.  Something the little imp seems keenly interested in...


'''''...ma-lord Kyuad, it seems you tend to your writings a great deal.  May I ask you what it is that you write in your books?  What is it you hope to accomplish in studying the dead-man there...'''''  as the little questioner nods to Shadaar.  '''''I have never found the need for such tools of symbol making.  My kind is blessed with the mind of a steel trap.  My memory holds my lore and legends learned through dozens of ages, and I have never faultered.'''''  Belal smiles widely and taps on his noggin.  ''''' Is this book of yours something that you hold dear?  I should enjoy having you share how it is your put down your writings.  This is very very interesting to me.  If you wouldn't mind I should like to watch over your shoulder as you write from time to time.  I can offer my lorebook mind to you as well, for that is something I hold dear.  Should the shadow ever be able to take my mind I would be lost.  Is this one of your worst fears as well?  The loss of such knowledge, burned in the fires of Shadow would be unkind, but losing the power to have privy to such thought would undo me.  In destroying your lore, would this be the worst thing the Shadow in the North could take from you?  For if you were to read the words to me I could forever recount them back to you or your ancestors long after you leave the mortal plane....  or forgive... or is it something greater than your written pages?'''''  



'''''"...ma-lord Kyuad, you speak of times before the Shadow fell... when men united with elf, dwarf and dragon to battle side-by-side in the great wars prior to the veil cast only a short time ago at the dawn of this... the 'last age'.  I have walked with rulers, kings, queens, and those that should have been as much or more.  I would be honored to share the lives of the respected dead and the ancestry of long gone lines of hope...'''''  as the imp points at Kyuad's lorebook that he has seen used much...  '''''...What areas would you like to begin in our study sorceror?  I have not spoken of kings in a century.  That was not a subject for which the Vile cared to hear.  He preferred hearing of flights of the future, as I could only guess...'''''  the little advocate paces back-hunched over with a fist stumping the ground as a makeshift cane now and again as his kingly cloak drags the wooden floor.  He then slows and stops looking up to Kyuad...


'''''"...some would say my kind serve to live...  I differ, it has always been my pleasure to live to serve and Lord Finustion - while it is MASTER Ghulvenne to which I am bound, I can already see that he needs not some of the services I hold best.  I have ability to ferry magic words and spell.  I would gladly offer those kindnesses to you as needed for but a small price...  A quite simple one.  I ask that you play to parlay with me.  Conversation of might and magic with little need of guile and subterfuge.  I grow tired of plying the path of the deciever that my masters would make of me.  Might you give this gift to me, and for that I would gladly be your advisor of such things?"'''''  The little imp looks up to you, literally and figuratively as it settles once again to watch (and help?) you work... Now and then looking to hand you an implement, a scalpe, a tool of surgery...