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Lord Eirah: “Please state your name for the assembly.”
Tyto: “Tyto Sable Breanna. Unbound.”
Lord Eirah: “Unbound, ah yes Trastian Feudalism.”
Lord Eirah: “Tell me, are you a solider Tyto?”
Tyto: “Uhm no, I just work as a farm hand. Help my mother with the mill.”
Lord Eirah: “Ah honest work, for the young man. Fair, Fair.”
Lord Eirah: “So, how are any you alive?”
Lord Eirah: “Dangerous constructs against some kids and an honest farm hand?”
Tyto: “err they seemed to miss, a lot.”
Tyto: “Some of their limbs were so rusty they fell off.”
Tyto: “The dam things would attack us as if the limbs were still attached.”
Lord Eirah: “Oh, they all just had rusty limbs.”
Tyto: “We made sure to run past the most broken ones.”
Lord Eirah: “Ah I See, I See, you have good instincts and good fortune.”
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Lord Eirah: “Speaking of misfortune, what about the tragic discovery?”
Lord Eirah: “The dead, presumed Arjen engineers…”
Tyto: “Well, I could be wrong, it just makes sense.”
Lord Eirah: “Yes, yes an unbound who is an expert on corpses.”
The Engineer Assembly: gives off a few snide chuckles
Lord Eirah: “I guess you could tell from their faces?”
Tyto: “They were skeletons, been there for years.”
Lord Eirah: “Yes, yes. How many skeletons?”
Tyto: “I counted 6 in the room.”
The Engineer Assembly: mutters unhappy whispers.
Lord Eirah: “Assuming they from Arjen, returning these bones should be immediate.”
Lord Eirah: “Of course that is not your responsibility.”
Lord Eirah: casts a quick glance over at Princess Faraine.
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Lord Micesh: “If I may Lord Eirah.”
Lord Eirah: bows as he steps aside.
Lord Micesh: “Tyto, young man, quite brave of you to be here.”
Tyto: “uhm really?”
Lord Micesh: “The claim made details many casualties from the constructs.”
Lord Micesh: “The bones you found were also slain by these constructs.”
Tyto: “Well I don’t, the skeletons…”
Tyto: “Most of the other deaths were...”
Tyto: shifts his eyes away from Eirah.
Lord Micesh: “Do you need a moment young man…”
Tyto: “Sorry, I’m, I can continue.”
Lord Micesh: “The casualties, people of poor social and legal standing.”
Lord Micesh: “Were they exiles Tyto?”
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Tyto: “Maybe, I would call them, I guess bandits.”
Tyto: “They could have been unbound.”
Lord Eirah: “Ah yes, since nobility would not be bandits.”
Lord Eirah: “My apologies for the interruption.”
Lord Micesh: “Ahem, so these bandits, they were intending to harm you?”
Tyto: “Yes.”
Lord Micesh: “Would you mind telling us why?”
Tyto: “Sorry, I’m, I can continue.”
Lord Micesh: “Would you mind telling us why?”
Tyto: “We kind of exploded their camp.”
Lord Micesh: “What an overreaction!”
Lord Micesh: “You see Tyto, we engineer lords are used to an explosion or two.”
The Engineer Assembly: gives off some snide chuckles
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Lord Micesh: “So you set the constructs on the bandits, to survive?”
Tyto: “It was the only thing left we can do.”
Lord Micesh: “From the princess’ testimony there was no console.”
Lord Micesh: “How did you activate the constructs?”
Tyto: “Well I did not turn them on, I urged Kyaren to do it.”
Lord Micesh: “Your friend Kyaren, was it?”
Tyto: “Yea, all the pillars seemed linked.”
Tyto: “She did her magic stuff on the pillars.”
Lord Micesh: “Pillars, how interesting.”
Lord Hyroux: “If I may intercede.”
Lord Hyroux: “These pillars, were they connected?”
Tyto: “There were glowing channels in the floor.”
Lord Hyroux: “All connected, channels, pillars and the constructs.”
Lord Hyroux: “Thank you Tyto, my other lords?”
Lord Micesh, Lord Eirah: both shake their heads.
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Lord Eirah: “Please state your name for those present.”
Kyaren: “Kyaren Onder, Unbound.”
Lord Eirah: “You are a graduate of Royal Academy of Scendall.”
Lord Eirah: “What was your field of study?”
Kyaren: “Mage craft, theoretical incantation.”
Lord Eirah: “What a coincidence, activating the constructs would be your specialty.”
Kyaren: “I did not know those things would be there.”
Lord Eirah: “Why abandon such a facility for plucky youths to find?”
Lord Eirah: “Sounds like a trap.”
Kyaren: “I don’t know.”
Lord Eirah: “I would think, the kingdom of Scendall is trying too hard to make its case.”
Kyaren: “I don’t deny that I don’t know the whole picture.”
Kyaren: “As the princess said we only wish for an explanation.”
Lord Eirah: “I have no more questions for this witness.”
Lord Hyroux: “I have some questions…”
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Lord Hyroux: “So how did you do it?”
Kyaren: “It, barely required much effort…”
Kyaren: “The pillars house a water pump...”
Kyaren: “The water was filled with Azralens…”
Kyaren: “Just kick start one and it makes the energy filled water flow.”
Kyaren: “All the connected channels activate the other pillars.”
Kyaren: “Once enough pillars begin pumping energy....”
Lord Hyroux: “There is a critical mass of energy in the system.”
Lord Hyroux: “And the constructs begin to activate.”
Lord Hyroux: “Hmm, a cascading system start-up, quite remarkable.”
Kyaren: “In theory, in practise the system broke down.”
Kyaren: “After the constructs started attacking, the pumps stopped working.”
Lord Hyroux: “hmmm, most likely the constructs drained all the Azurlens available.”
Kyaren: “Was that a question?”
Lord Hyroux:gives Kyaren a snobby grin.
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Tyto: “Alright, your non execution is riding on this performance.”
Greyside: inhales and exhales deeply
Tyto: “Alright Greyside give it your all.”
Greyside: “I am ready. I have prepared myself mentally.”
Lord Eirah: “I have no questions for this witness.”
Lord Micesh: shakes his head.
Lord Hyroux: “Let us begin our deliberations then.”
The Engineer Assembly:begins to shuffle out of the room.
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Mitelan: “In a few days the assembly will reconvene then vote.”
Mitelan: “If they vote to believe us, the treaty holds.”
Mitelan: “They will be obliged to help us investigate further.”
Faraine: “They gave up way too easily.”
Kyaren: “Did I give too much detail?”
Faraine: “Kyaren it was enough, we needed to bait them.”
Tyto: “They must have what they wanted.”
Faraine: “What did they want?”
Kyaren: “Confirmation.”
Tyto: “It means they believe us.”
Tyto: “Then why not just say that it to begin with!”
Mitelan: “Theatrics, they don’t want to appear weak to us.”
Faraine: “Not to us, to each other.”
Faraine: “They are trying to trick each other.”
Greyside: “I had some really good lines….”
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Kyaren: “What happens if they vote not in our favour?”
Mitelan: “The peace treaty will become worthless.”
Faraine: “Do not be concerned, we did tell the truth.”
Faraine: “If they vote no, they get nothing from Pylock depths.”
Tyto: “Oh, soo what now?”
Lord Micesh: “Might I suggest the glassworks.”
Lord Micesh: “Always a sight to behold there.”
Mitelan: “Thank you for the suggestion Lord Micesh.”
Faraine: “Come to see us off?”
Lord Micesh: “Not every day we have such an esteemed guest visit us.”
Lord Micesh: “My apologies in advance though...”
Lord Micesh: “I may not be able to submit a float in time for the seed fall parade.”
Faraine: “There is a parade?”
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