Tehr glanced at Emily who was blushing at the older gentleman who Tehr also assumed be an ir'Staro.  Then leaning in to Samuel he said quietly, "Well, of the members of the Queen's guard that I've had the honor of meeting, they are fine and noble women to be sure.  Especially the captain, Lillian, if she was once of your house.  As for the church...."<br/><br/>Tehr made a grimace, as if he'd just tasted something awful, "I care not for the weight they've been swinging, and the alliances they've made lately, including some of the other houses."   Tehr gestured towards where Johr Faudin ir'Dale waited for time alone with the queen.  An event that did not look imminently likely.  He'd probably have to wait till the ball began to wind down thankfully before he could make his move, and hopefully by then, Tehr would be ready to swoop in and 'rescue' the queen.   But once Samuel's eyes found Johr, Tehr would continue, "I'm sure that it's no surprise to you that house Dale has allied with the church strongly and is making several pushes to claim power.  I tell you that I for one care not to see town guardsman wearing the livery of any house alligned with the church, and even less so one as ambitious and dangerous as house Dale."<br/><br/>Tehr sighed, then putting on a soft sigh, added, "But what can we do?"  This last was a calculated risk of course.  Tehr was already in motion to stop Dale's machinations, but simply because ir'Staro said he was with the queen didn't mean that he'd support active political sniping between houses.  Then again, maybe the older nobleman would have a thought of his own.<br/><br/><br/><div class="spoiler_container"><div class="spoiler_header" onclick="hideSecond (this);" role="button">ooc</div><div class="spoiler_body">I very much understand being in too many games.   I had to start turning down all requests for new games.  On my 'all about rhev' thread one of the first things you see is that I'm no longer accepting new games.  I'm at six games now (counting this one) and other than this, I GM all of them.  I had to just say no more, in fact, I wish I'd stopped at 5.  <br/><br/>I've been trying to help you run this one a little bit, without stepping in too much.  Saying things like what Tehr does and the actions of other NPCs.  Like in this post how I said what Emily and Johr were both doing.  I hope you are ok with that and understand that I'm just trying to help take a little pressure off you.   In addition, I think one other thing we could do to make things a little easier is not worry about money in game.  It's pretty well established that Tehr has several sources of income, especially now that he's recommended to his mother who to give to the mining contract too.  So we could just say that for most things it's not an issue of money.  Likewise, I'm not going to run out and try to buy him magic weapons or rings or anything.   I've established that Tehr is fairly conservative with his coin, spending small amounts (a gold here or there) liberally but not really blowing his money on anything.<br/><br/>In the same vein, I don't know if you keep track of EXP, but you really don't have too.   I dont' care much about it, and care more about the story.   If you want Tehr to level up, just let me know and he will   :)   Otherwise no biggie.<br/><br/>Also, I don't know if you ever use the OOC thread I made <br/>http://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=131758.0 (http://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=131758.0)<br/>But if there's anything you want me to add / change / etc   I'd be happy too.  Otherwise feel free to use it.   There's a lot of good recap type stuff there and while it's not really 'caught up' on the story that much, I go in spurts where I update it.   It might help to remind you what's been done and such.<br/><br/>Anyways, anything I can do to help you, I'd be happy to do.  Just to reitterate, while I hate waiting days for posts, it's only because i like the story so much.  So don't feel guilty if you aren't feeling the inspiration or desire to post.  Just do it whenever you can.  :)</div></div>