<strong>Name</strong>;  Eldrith Lightstone, Rose Blackthorne<br/><strong>Location</strong>;  The cemetery in Everesta<br/><strong>Time</strong>;  1 in the afternoon.  A new day....a new trial<br/><strong>Tagged</strong>;  Everyone in the Copper Ram...more personally Morgul.<br/><br/>"It's obvious isn't it?  I followed you here Morgul.  I was wanting to meet these people you've thrown your lot in with.  And now that I have, I can see why you consider them capable enough to do this.  I do apologize for my words but it is how I am, as Morgul here will be happy to tell you....if he didn't already leave with that elf girl."  Still, she shrugged and didn't seem the least bit affected by Victoria's ramblings, even grinning slightly and outright laughing when the barkeeper dumped a bucket of water on her that smelled like it had come out of a trough.  It probably had.  Still, she did eye Mizuki carefully and nodded, her eyes flashing once as the woman who had foolishly met her eye would feel a spike in arousal hit her where it counted most.  "And didn't your mother ever tell you not to meet a succubi's gaze?  Do not threaten me girl, since you don't know who you're up against.  I am not as heartless as you make me out to be, but neither will I be pushed around.  It should be YOU that watches her words, not me."  Still, a wave of her hand and the spell she had hit Mizuki with disappeared almost as soon as she had cast it.  Simple illusion work like that was easy for the likes of her, given her demonic halfbred nature.  "Ok, so I'm not a full succubus, just half of one, even so I would still be careful how you address me.  I'm a powerful rogue and bard, able to seduce and glamour people and creatures with song and dance, before slitting their throats with my twin blades, if I so choose of course.  Still, I didn't come here to argue, only to get to know the people I must travel with.  I am sorry that 'one out of a thousand players' were killed, and I am sure if you had a mind you could easily ruin me and the company I work for, but if you do you will never get the answers you seek, so it seems we're at a stalemate, wouldn't you say?"  Standing up just as the assassin was tossed, Rose decided to make her own way for now, having made her point clear enough.  She'd be around tomorrow, bright and early, whether they wanted her or not.  Before she left however Rose did turn and offer one last piece of advice, sorrow tinting her voice which was as honest a feeling as they'd ever get out of her.  "I do not want to shut this game down, not because of the money it makes daily, but because a lot of people use it to make themselves feel normal again.  I was in a coma once, a special one that allowed my mind to function yet my body did not.  Outside of VR college courses, I had little else I could do at the time.  Why do you think this world was created?"  With that Rose left the Copper Ram, knowing that everyone there had heard her if they had been paying attention.<br/><br/>------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br/><br/>Eldrith didn't let her hand slip free from Morgul's arm, needing his support more than ever as she heard Rose's comments to the group.  She balled her free hand into a tight, bloodless fist, wanting to tear the woman apart with her bare hands for her brash attitude towards everything that they had gone through already, but she relented as she walked away with Morgul, her personal Goliath.  No, she was too tired despite it only being close to 1;30 in the afternoon, to fight anyone.  She was too emotionally distraught to do anything useful, but she felt comforted by Morgul/Karl as she knew from the emails he had sent to her and Melisa who she suspected was Mizuki thanks to the slip of the tongue that had come from the ninja.  She sighed and was led upstairs to the private rooms where the moment she could she slipped out of her pack and gear and laid on her side, away from the necromancer unless he pulled her to him.  She hoped that he did.  "What you did today....at Zachariah's funeral....it truly was an amazing sight, as was Victoria's show of magical power as well.  I cannot thank you enough for that Morgul, or do you prefer Karl?"  She asked, barely above a whisper since she couldn't manage anything higher than that.  "Would you be terribly upset if I killed your boss?"  She flat out asked, knowing he'd probably say no but she was sure she didn't have to explain why she had asked to begin with.