<div class="quoteheader"><div class="topslice_quote"><a href="https://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=57940.msg2632269#msg2632269">Quote from: Empyrean on 13-01-2010, 16:02:06</a></div></div><blockquote class="bbc_standard_quote"><strong>Yu-Shan</strong><br/><br/>The tremor in the Loom of Fate was slight, sudden, and then done. It went unnoticed as one of the many such tiny ripples in the Loom. But there <em>was</em> a reaction. Both Amethyst and Seeker In the Darkened Starlight were confronted by boxes that floated in mid-air. Inside each box was a terse message:<br/><br/><em>"Disturbance detected in far South, near the Fire Mountains. Believed to be affecting others in unknown range. Investigate."</em><br/><br/>There was no signature but then, Oversight never did leave one.<br/></blockquote><div class="quotefooter"><div class="botslice_quote"></div></div><br/><strong><em>The Forbidding Manse of Ivy - Gold Faction subsection</em></strong><br/><br/>Seeker in the Darkened Starlight was sitting in his (entirely too small and cramped, in his opinion) office in the Manse when he got the dispatch order from Oversight.  Reading it with a frown, he crumpled it up and got rid of it.  Dammit, he hated going to Creation.  Hell, he hated leaving the Manse, period.  Too many stupid people to his personal liking out there.<br/><em><br/>Still, a job is a job, and Oversight has its reasons for picking the castes they do.  So, the Fire Mountains, eh?  That'd be near Gem...awful place for something to be happening, though.  There's no civilization for over a thousand miles away.  Still, what's done is done.</em><br/><br/>Leaving his office, Seeker headed out, keeping quiet in the halls of the Forbidding Manse.  His office (though tiny it was), was positioned just so, so that if he kept quiet for about half the trip, he could reasonably expect to get out without running into anyone he needed to talk to - which is exactly what happened.<br/><br/><em><strong>Seeker's Celestial Townhouse</strong></em><br/><br/>Arriving at home, he greeted his servitors at the door, and told them he was on the job, and didn't have time for half the things they suggested, and didn't particularly enjoy the other half.  Entering his room, he gathered his usual equipment for the trip.  Rock Crashing Wave - the wavecleaver daiklaive that he'd recovered from a First Age ruin.  Next was the buff jacket he'd bought (for a pretty dinar) in Great Forks - and so far, it had been worth every ounce of silver.  Third was his bag, into which he stuffed writing materials, a couple of small scrolls of paper, and a few other things.  Last was his purse, which went into his bag, which had silver coinage, but he kept some jade scrip in there as well...just in case he needed to impress someone.<br/><br/>Once he was done packing, he found his lead servant, told him to keep watch over the manse, make sure that people didn't make too much a mess of it, and then promptly left, heading for the nearest Gateway to Creation.  Upon arriving there, he presented the order from Oversight (which he'd remembered to pick up as he'd left his office, instead of leaving it crumpled on the floor), and gave Gem as his destination.<br/><em><strong><br/>The City of Gem</strong></em><br/><br/>Arriving in Gem, Seeker ignored the usual niceties of entering a town, and headed straight for his primary destination: some sort of lodging.  He'd need a base of operations to work out of while in Gem, and as far as he knew, the Golds didn't have anything like that here yet...maybe he could work to fix that in the future.<br/><br/>It was as he was headed down the street that he noticed a rather familiar face.<br/><br/><em>Can't be.  What's a Reckoner doing here?</em><br/><br/>Seeker recognized her, to be sure, but he was amiss.  Investigating disturbances like these weren't part of the usual Reckoner repertoire - this was more suited to Oracles or Harbingers.<br/><br/><em>So what the hell is she doing here?</em>