[FFML] [Exalted]The Broken Circle 2/5

[DB Sommer]

Since the first one seems to have disappeared, here it is again.

Sorry it took me so long to get to this:

miashara at deepfriedpuppies.com wrote:

 > Exalted is the creation and property of White Wolf Publishing. No
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 > As desperately as we needed to bring Angel to medical care, taking 
her  directly to one of the doctors of Nibeldamt would prove its own 
death  sentence. We were of the opinion that the Dynast would probably 
be a  little testy after everything that had transpired


%  Yeah,  I don't see them being good sports about it.

 > only so many places we could hide from him. Instead we took 
advantage  of the fact that Ragara's mansion was on the outskirts of 
town. We  made for the mountains, and found a small cave. It was 
littered with  old spoor of wolf and bear, but showed no occupancy for a 
while.
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% Search for treasure. Always do it like in D+D cause sometimes you find 
the odd magic item that got left behind.


 > ?Mortals, have you come to my abode to offer me a sacrifice?? it  
asked. The voice was deep, fitting that it should come from the  
mountainous body. It's lungs must have been cavernous and provided a  
voice that was filled with age and the old powers.
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% Odd. Questions marks seem to have replaced quotes in my version.

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 > Now if there's one thing I was filled with, lunacy would be a good  
name for it. ?I'm not as creative as he is, but I'm a lot more  
spiteful,? I admitted. ?Should you harm her, there is no limit to the  
horrors I will eagerly seek out to visit upon you, until the gods come  
to plead with me to stop our revenge.?
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 > ?You stand in the presence of a god now!?
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% Dog: Cool. I never killed a god before.


 > ?The other foundries,? said Angel, suddenly coming to a logical  
conclusion after silently placing the intervening blocks. ?Ragara  
controls one foundry, maybe more, and clearly makes a lot of money  
doing it. If someone else controls the other, they could be feuding  and 
with this much money at stake, they afford some very exotic  assassins.?
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% Exotic assassins always make things more fun. Just look at Trigun. It 
didn't take off until the Gung Ho Guns showed up

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 > I stared at the two of them. ?It doesn't matter,? I explained. ?It's  
just a personal thing.?
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 > ?This whole thing is a personal thing,? Angel countered.
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% There are varying degrees of personal, though.

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 > The other two of us


% other two of us is awkward, but I'd be darned if I can see how to fix it

 > Of the other four foundries, all carried the colors of brilliant  
crimson peaks on a field of green. The same symbol was repeated on  
great lumberyards to the south, and the city's formal garrison. Rows  of 
houses and shops bore the crimson and green, or stylized  iron-wrought 
portrayals of it. Clockwork Dog glanced at it and  concluded 'Gens 
Maheka' in a confident tone. On the southern end of  the city stood a 
large estate, less ostentatious than that of the  Dynast, but more 
defensible. Above it blew the crimson and green over  ornate walls that 
remained fully functional. Carvings and bass reliefs   
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% bas reliefs

 > designs and mandalas. All five elements repeated, though earth 
symbols  were most common. More subtly displayed, his wealth was 
apparent in  well crafted doors and rooms, a plethora of guards and 
servants that  wore the best in armor and livery, and imported flatware 
and exotic  fruits in baskets. Everything was amazingly functional, but 
no more  expensive the best need be.
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% 'expensive than the best need be' perhaps?

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 > ?I'm here, aren't I?? I shrugged. ?This isn't the first time 
someone's  sicked dogs on me.?
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% sicced

 > ?You didn't lead a very honest life before coming to Highmere, did  
you?? he observed.
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% Nonsense. I was always alive during my life. Honest.

 > ?Murderer,? he whispered and took my consciousness with his boot.
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% Nice work. It might take a while but I'll continue.

DB Sommer

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