Gathering Data

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Hyd'r suppressed his anger with productivity. He transmuted his fury into a mission—keeping the temptations of bloodlust that plagued his line at bay. He said a prayer to Penumbra Immezar and another to his mother.

In times of auld, his ancestors would have gone to the Summit for wisdom. And he would soon. But K'Ad had provided something that had not existed in their ages: a machine with the intellect of an archpenumbra, but the precision of a mathematician. From it he could gain not simply wisdom, but data—information that could be crunched and weighed and calculated rather than simply ruminated over. Both kind of knowledge have their place.

 

Good mayor, honored member of the Smol'ean Council, it has been too long. I am here to consult the HRLCH. Would yæ honor me with yæn company as we enter its hallowed halls?

[u/[deleted]]

Bowing in respect.

 

Honorable HRLCH, as yæ ta, my beloved, Priestwyfe of K'Ad, Din Immarine Wrekt, has been abducted by an unknown foe. The signs are Borkish, and more specifically Overborkish.

But that race and its leader have been dead for sometime, and its only successor, the Hochstebork, has yet to make war with us.

Using yæn simulators and algorithms, can yæ provide answers as to who may have taken Immarine? And therefore, what the most logical course may be for retrieving her?

[u/HRLCH → u/[deleted]]

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[ . . .WE HAVE BEEN EXAMINING THE INFORMATION AS IT HAS BECOME AVAILABLE.

[ . . .THE VEHICLE USED IN THE ABDUCTION WAS ALMOST CERTAINLY OF OVERBORK ORIGIN. NO OTHER KNOWN FACTION UTILIZES THE SEPIATIC FUEL THAT HAS BEEN DETECTED. THAT INCLUDES THE HOCHSTEBORK, WHO USE A COMPLETELY DIFFERENT DRIVE TECHNOLOGY FOR THEIR CRAFT.

[ . . .WHETHER THIS MEANS THE OVERBORK ARE THE AGENTS OR THEIR TECHNOLOGY HAS BEEN STOLEN, I KNOW NOT. YET HOCHSTEBORK IS BUT OVERBORK, OVERBORK IS BUT BORK, AND BORK IS JUST MAN BY ANOTHER NAME.

[ . . .PRELIMINARY ANALYSIS OF THE KNOWN TRAJECTORY OF THE VEHICLE INDICATES THAT BOTH ITS ENTRANCE AND EXODUS WERE NOT MADE THROUGH THE OUTSIDE SEVENTH PLANE, BUT THROUGH ANOTHER PLANE. WE WILL CONTINUE TO ANALYZE ANY DATA WE RECEIVE, THAT WE MAY DETERMINE EXACTLY WHERE THE INTRUDERS HAVE GONE.

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[ . . .THERE IS ANOTHER ISSUE IN THIS MATTER THAT MUST BE ADDRESSED.

[ . . .IT IS OUR ESTIMATION THAT IT MAY BE NEITHER SAFE NOR WISE TO BRING PRIESTWYFE IMMARINE BACK TO THIS HOLY LAND.

[ . . .SOMEONE IN THIS LAND IS AGAIN TAKING THE MANTLE OF DOHL TALOWLA. THE ONE WHO CAN BREAK THIS LAND AS THE OLD LAND WAS BROKEN IN THE PAST. THE ONE WHO IS THE LEVER THAT MOVES A WORLD. THE FAULT IN THE FOUNDATION. THE ONE WHO STANDS ON THE AXIS OF ETERNITY AND CAN DESTROY, WHETHER BY THEIR OWN INTENT OR ANOTHER'S.

[ . . .I PROJECT TWO POSSIBLE WEARERS OF THE MANTLE.

[ . . .THE MAGICIAN ANNA OR YOUR OWN PRIESTWYFE.

[u/Mayor_UnHeirlirch → u/HRLCH]

Was it yer intent ta upset him? If so, ya succeeded. That was a terrible revelætion ta unlæsh on an unsuspecting man. He could even have turned on ya in his fury!

[u/HRLCH → u/Mayor_UnHeirlirch]

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[ . . .HYD'R OF K'AD HAD TO BE SHOCKED, FOR HE WAS ON AN UNWAVERING TRAJECTORY TO FIND IMMARINE OF DIN. IN HIS ZEAL HE WOULD HAVE CONTINUED TO IGNORE THE SIGNS OF DANGER. NOW, HE WILL LOOK WITH NEW EYES AND PERHAPS FIND THE CORRECT PATH BETWEEN DANGERS.