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This young woman isn't! At least not detectably so! She is refilling the fountain out in front of the church and she jumps a bit at the Teleport, before identifying those people as not demons.

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Francesca is scanning the air with Detect Magic and she nods.

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"Clear," says Ettore, slackening the draw.

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Meanwhile, a large half-orc man will give a couple more people a hand getting out of the sacks.

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He'll half-bow to Stasia. "Select?"

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Aspex said that when reinforcements from Lastwall (he says Lastwall with a different twist in his voice than Hulrun, but still with a twist in his voice) arrived she should escort them directly to Irabeth. But she wasn't sure quite how to tell which were renforcements from Lastwall. She bows back. "Sir?"

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"I am Ettore Castelloni, Inquisitor of Iomedae on assignment from Lastwall," he says, raising his holy symbol. "This is Guistina Agliana de Caserta, teleporter," who is going to be heading back as soon as she gets her load of corpses and information, "her bodyguard, Corporal Arnisant Gouveia," big guy with a big sword, "my assistants, Francesca de Ybarra," woman who is obviously a wizard, complete with the glowing Mage Armor, "Silvio Zavala," the aforementioned large half-orc, "Enric Madeiros." The last couple people being pulled from bags he doesn't introduce. The temple doesn't look too destroyed...

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(Meanwhile, he's sure none of the 'empty space' surrounding him is Evil, Chaotic, Lawful, Good or magic, right?)

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Someone actually came through a couple nights ago killing every Evil thing around including the invisible quasits!

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Well, of course that would be how you'd know someone's from Lastwall, they'd announce it immediately. "Welcome to Kenabres," she says. "If you don't mind, sir, I've instructions to introduce you to Irabeth, when you get here. Irabeth runs the Eagle Watch, which is also just the only Watch, now."

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... She's Lawful, Good, and has no illusion or abjuration magic active?

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That sure appears to be the case!

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"Lead the way."

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(He's Lawful, Good, and has no apparent illusion or abjuration magic active?)

 

 

(Asking on behalf of an Arcane Eye as they pass through the city, naturally.)

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He's Lawful, Good and has no illusion auras.

... He's got three faint Abjuration auras, though, two on his gear and one on his person.

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Irabeth says she is honored to meet the new Inquisitor and so grateful that he has come to the aid of Kenabres. If someone is good at discerning if they're being lied to they'll get the sense that they are not being lied to but that this is maybe about as close to lying as paladins are allowed to get.

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Castelloni is very good at this, but assumes that this is probably this is just because everyone who isn't from Lastwall hates inquisitors. In the interest of basic security precautions he'll make sure she's glowing properly Lawful and Good first but really he's doing that with everyone who is supposed to be a paladin.

Does she have a status report on what happened?

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"Six days ago Deskari showed up in person to kill Terendelev, throw the wardstone halfway across the city, carve a rift in the ground, and then leave. Demons and local cults then tried to kill everyone. We got word they had some plan to corrupt and destroy the wardstone. We attacked the grey garrison, where it had landed, to try to drive them off. Against all odds, we won. When Her Majesty's army arrived to our aid, the city was already safe. She took it as a sign of the gods' favor and appointed Sir Aspex, who led the city's defenders, to the position of the Knight Commander of the Fifth Crusade."

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"What?"

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And here he thought it was just that nobody told him anything.

He nods. "Acknowledged. Sir Aspex?" Is he in the room?

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"A veteran adventurer who happened to arrive in Kenabres shortly after we were attacked. He is Lawful Good. He told me under a truth spell that he served Iomedae...no, not quite. That he did not believe his priorities diverged from Hers in any important way." Though he said that before he met Hulrun, and something tells her he might've given a different answer after. "I don't know if he was known already to Galfrey." That would make sense of the very swift appointment. Neither of them said anything about it but she's getting the sense that Sir Aspex isn't big on saying things. 

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Aspex is the most common name in the western Taldane regions. Therefore he is either:

- Genuinely named Aspex, and did not give himself any famous or dramatic nickname to distinguish him from all the other Aspexes out there. This means he is an adventurer who is not completely driven by his ego, was strong enough to be capable of saving Kenabres from whoever Deskari left behind, and who has not picked up enough of a reputation to have someone else bestow a name on him. The odds seem negligible.

- Taldane and picking the most obvious fake name possible.

- Wants people to think he is Taldane and unimaginative.

Castelloni finds all of these either distasteful or improbable.

"Acknowledged. Thank you." It's good to say that on a regular basis. "Do you have information on the events leading to the Fall and death of Prelate Hulrun?" That is probably the second-most-important thing.

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Irabeth freezes up slightly. "He Fell?"

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"As was confirmed following his resurrection. He is cooperating fully and we expect him to return to the faith, but it is unlikely he will return to Kenabres."

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"It was a very difficult situation that I expect he can speak to more fully than I can. There were a great many people in the city who did turn out to be followers of Baphomet, or of Deskari. I think Hulrun often found his suspicions of - everyone - validated. I also think that he - well, I think he would have agreed that sometimes he was killing innocent people, or people not guilty of important crimes, when with slightly more care he could have given them the opportunity to distinguish themselves as innocent, and I think he would have said that he could not afford the care to distinguish them thereby. It was not obvious to me, whether one should expect an inquisitor to fall for that."

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