enthraller | ooc - quest log for eachdraidh

>> quest is given by morla
>> discussion with and recruiting of the brucolac
>> meeting reynard in treun and stealing his white serpent brand
>> the midnight court
>> finally arranging a deal with tzilan
>> later, bringing tzilan to morla

KING OF THE MIDNIGHT COURT

Having just arrived in the Drabwurld, Saralegui met with the monarchs in hopes of finding some way to gain power that might help in the long run -- either in getting home, or establishing himself here if that would truly prove impossible. Morla gave him the task of bringing the vampire Tzilan to her, with a promise to make him king of Cothromach if he succeeded.

After gathering some information on vampires in general and acquiring one called the Brucolac as an ally, Saralegui traveled to Treun just in time for Tzilan's Midnight Court. He sat himself down in a seedy part of town to act as bait for the sort of undesirables that might know something about the Court in question, but was instead approached by a fox. Reynard the Fox, as it turned out, who took Saralegui to an empty courtyard so that they might have a chat.

Reynard revealed his "invitation" to the Midnight Court -- a strip of human skin with a white snake tattoo on it -- but when Saralegui didn't know anything about it and refused to barter for information as the Fox wanted, Reynard made a move to kill him and was stopped by the Brucolac, who'd tracked his scent across the city and arrived just in the nick of time. There was a scuffle and a great deal of bloodshed between the two immortals before Saralegui stepped in. He hypnotized Reynard into answering his questions, took the strip of skin, and gave Reynard a final command to never harm him or his companions.

Saralegui and the Brucolac used Reynard's "invitation" to enter the Midnight Court, but its magical security measures declared them intruders and dumped them at the foot of Tzilan's throne. Alyosha of Redgate, a friend of the Brucolac, stopped Tzilan from simply killing them, suggesting that they might instead be of some other use and offering to pay their blood price. Reynard revealed himself then and took that challenge, fatally injuring Alyosha in the duel that ensued. While others attempted to take down Reynard, the Brucolac bit the dying Alyosha to infect her with his vampirism, and Saralegui was transported along with them, Tzilan, and some others to the manor of Treun's governor.

At the manor, while the Brucolac took Alyosha away to suffer through her change, Saralegui finally had a chance to speak with Tzilan. They eventually made a deal that Tzilan would go to speak with Morla willingly, if Saralegui would in exchange go to Troichean Beinn and confirm that the Doorway to Beyond was indeed there, and Tzilan gave Saralegui a brand of the White Serpent -- on his own skin, this time.

Later, after matters in Troichean Beinn were taken care of, Saralegui returned to Caer Scima with Tzilan in tow to meet with Morla. It was not a fun meeting.

>> quest is given by tzilan
>> getting in contact with red (a.k.a. the dick who broke into sara's room)
>> recruiting help
>> gathering the party and working out some details
>> meeting sansa stark in troichean beinn's market ring
>> saber tells sara about sansa and tzilan
>> gathering info in the king's ring and meeting with tzilan
>> the cothromach meeting
>> plotting and flirting with tzilan
>> post-mortem meeting with alyosha about redgate
>> red throws a tantrum
>> mindfucking bordan gret and simultaneously arranging an alibi
>> the aftermath with morla and tzilan

THE DOORWAY TO BEYOND

With his new quest to confirm whether or not the Doorway to Beyond is in Troichean Beinn, Saralegui returned to Caer Scima and immediately set out in search of Red, the contact Tzilan had mentioned. Red found him first, however, and eventually agreed to help (despite Sara's poorly hidden dislike of the man).

Saralegui gathered some protection from among the other shardbearers, keeping them in the dark about the true purpose of their trip to Troichean Beinn. Some, including the lady-knight Saber, found out anyway while overhearing the king and Red discussing the details of their search for the Doorway, during an otherwise uneventful trip to the dwarven city.

In Troichean Beinn, while waiting for Red to finalize arrangements for the King's Ring, Saralegui explored the Market Ring under Saber's watchful eye, where he finally came face to face with Sansa Stark, Keeper of Cothromach, the city that Morla had promised him. While they had a "pleasant" conversation, Saber had a conversation of her own with Tzilan, visiting the city for reasons of his own and watching over them. Later, Saber mentioned this encounter to Saralegui, describing him as Sansa's "mentor" and voicing her concerns about the whole situation. Saralegui went trolling for gossip in the King's Ring, where he learned that the famous smith Bordan Gret was working on a secret project for the king that was likely to be the Doorway, and ended up bumping into Tzilan. He confronted the vampire with Saber's concerns, earning a brief explanation of the current situation and a promise of all the answers he wanted come Samhain.

Sansa arranged a meeting with Saralegui while they were both in the city and, guarded by Saber and Sansa's Ser Gendry, they came clean about all the political secrets they'd been dancing around and discussed Cothromach properly. More specifically, they discussed an offer Morla had made to Sansa -- to be married to Saralegui, in order to avoid war. It was the best way to keep Morla appeased for the moment and avoid bloodshed, but no one was happy about this arrangement, and eventually Gendry interrupted to speak up against it. Noticing the seal that marked him an apprentice to Bordan Gret, Saralegui extorted a promise from Gendry to arrange him a meeting with the smith, in exchange for his letting Sansa reject the marriage offer. She would keep Cothromach and fight off Morla's forces in its defense, and by Tzilan's arrangement, Saralegui would instead receive control of Redgate -- the city founded by Alyosha.

Samhain began, and Tzilan found Saralegui at the revels as promised. The king was more than a little irritated by the fact that the marriage offer had been kept from him, but an apology was given and they moved on to discuss the plan to meet with Bordan Gret and find out about the Doorway. Tzilan explained that he intended to have the Doorway stolen, eventually, if it turned out to indeed be in Troichean Beinn, and Saralegui offered to kill two birds with one stone and arrange for the theft himself while meeting with Gret. They worked out the details of this plot, and eventually shifted gears into more personal talk, flirting, and dancing. Towards the end of the holiday, Saralegui managed to meet with the now ab-dead Alyosha as well, and they worked out the details of Redgate's inheritance and their cover for it.

Back in Troichean Beinn after Samhain's end, Saralegui attempted to have a talk with Red to discuss the new plans for the Doorway, but the information trader was unhappy at having been left out of things so far. When Saralegui refused to apologize for handling things on his own and the conversation turned antagonistic, Red broke off their arrangement and left the city.

The meeting with Bordan Gret finally arrived, and Saralegu used his hypnosis powers to confirm the Doorway's presence in the city and arrange for its theft -- by Gret himself. The plot was set to occur at least a month later and Gret would eventually name Red as the mastermind once interrogated, so that nothing remained that might tie the incident to Saralegui himself. Breaking the spell, he used the rest of the meeting to commission a gift, to give his visit credibility with solid evidence, and even managed to get a discount on the whole deal by complimenting Gret's work on the "late" Alyosha's mechanical arm.

With all that taken care of and the rest of the group all having gone their separate ways after Samhain, Saralegui went back to Caer Scima with just Tzilan to finish his original mission. During the meeting with Morla, the Unseelie Queen nearly killed the vampire and berated Saralegui for failing to take Cothromach. He bartered for Tzilan's life with apologies and promises to fix things, and once she was pacified and they were away from her gaze, Saralegui revived Tzilan with some of his own blood.

>> the warning about reynard
>> saralegui's call for aid
>> heading out from caer scima
>> news of reynard's incarceration and tzilan's task for alice
>> john's arrival and reynard's escape
>> the brucolac's arrival and the meeting with reynard
>> getting dumped in the fucking ocean
>> the rescue team arrives
>> the return to redgate

REYNARD IN REDGATE

Only a few days after the meeting with Morla, a warning was sent that Reynard the Fox was riding for Redgate. Anticipating some disaster, arrangements were quickly made for the city's defense between all that had been given the warning, and all those who responded to Saralegui's subsequent call for aid. Some quickly began the journey to Redgate via their own means, but Saralegui and those who'd agreed to travel with him from Caer Scima -- Eren, Alice, and Grell -- took the more direct route, and teleported straight to Redgate with Tzilan's help.

Upon arrival, they were informed that Reynard was already in custody, having arrived a few days earlier calling himself a guest and asking to see the new lord -- Saralegui, that is. The guards had arrested him for various past crimes and put him in a cell, even knowing that such a prison could never truly hold the Fox. As he'd remained there quietly for those previous days, Saralegui guessed that Reynard had been waiting for him and arranged for their arrival to be kept quiet until the others coming to Redgate's aid got there so the situation could be dealt with at full strength. As teleporting into the midst of all Redgate's magic-suppressing blood granite had left Tzilan looking ill, Saralegui had shooed him off to be looked after by Alice, and in that private moment the vampire had given her a task to investigate some parts of the fortress for him, suspicious that Reynard had some other operative working for him there.

Word somehow reached the Fox despite the hush order, as he broke out of his cell only two days later, when only John Grimm and the Brucolac had so far joined them. Reynard gathered up the group of shardbearers for an impromptu meeting to negotiate for the bones of Alyosha's kin. During the meeting, Alice revealed that she'd found evidence of someone rummaging around in the crypt already, and just as John guessed that it might be Reynard's daughter and Saralegui was about to put out an order to hunt for intruders, Tzilan strode into the meeting dragging said daughter with him. The bones were already gone, he'd discovered, but they still weren't sure what the Fox was trying to accomplish. And while the group was trying to piece together the puzzle, Reynard sprang his trap -- his daughter struck Tzilan through to keep him busy, while Reynard used the power of his shard collection to teleport the group of shardbearers right out of Redgate.

They were dumped into an ocean across the map, in the middle of a naval battle between a giant sea serpent and the ship it was preying on. A loophole in the command Saralegui had put on Reynard to never harm him or his companions -- the Fox didn't have to harm them himself if they were left to drown or be killed by a sea monster. Luckily, Eren revealed some unique powers of his own and turned into a titan, grappling the serpent and killing it with his bare hands. The group was brought on board of the saved ship, and they recovered there for about a day before a team came to rescue them, put together by the others involved in Redgate's defense who'd grown suspicious of the radio silence from the city and had investigated on their own.

Returning to Redgate some days later, Saralegui immediately sought out Tzilan, who'd been taking care of the city in his absence. He found the vampire in the crypts, badly wounded from a fight with Reynard and his daughter and hiding in the dark, refusing to be seen. He explained the the Fox had gotten away, and with nothing more he could about that matter or to help Tzilan, Saralegui had to let it go for the time being and tend to Redgate.

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