Deathbringer: Hi Elksia, you doing alright?
Deathbringer: I guess you’re busy. Do you mind popping me a message when you’re available?
Deathbringer: I just want to make sure you’re alright,
Deathbringer: Elksia?
Deathbringer: Hope you’re doing well and are safe and all that.
Deathbringer: Elksia?
Deathbringer: I just had a wild thought.
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Silverspear: Sorry, Arkay, was busy!
Silverspear: I’m alive.
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Silverspear: That’s a great idea! Do it!
Silverspear: Do it do it do it do it!
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Shieldbearer: sory have custmers will tlk in 1 min
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Mimicblade: Is that…
Mimicblade: Is that OUR Retvik?
Mimicblade: You FOUND him, Arkay?
Deathbringer: Actually, the other Retviks found him.
Deathbringer: Like, a whole year ago.
Deathbringer: He runs a small pub in the Ventra Expanse, and he was a member of the Ventra before they split up.
Deathbringer: I just don’t know why I haven’t gotten around to inviting everyone into a group chat. I should have done this after that weird Justarian party or something.
Mimicblade: Let’s be fair, you’re a busy guy.
Mimicblade: And Elksia is a super busy Justarian person.
Mimicblade: You’re a Justarian Lord, right?
Silverspear: Oh yeah.
Silverspear: Uh…
Silverspear: Well, I’m one of the Border Lords, as some of the guys put it.
Deathbringer: So what happened to that Goldclaw guy?
Silverspear: Yeah…
Silverspear: Uh…
Silverspear: He ded.
Deathbringer: Oh.
Silverspear: But, like, uh, turned out he just… died.
Silverspear: He wasn’t murdered.
Silverspear: Or, like, obviously murdered.
Mimicblade: Uh, what the fuck?
Silverspear: There’s been… weird stuff happening here on the Justarian border.
Silverspear: One of my Truthtalker underlings attacked me, and it turns out there’s been a spree of Truthtalkers attacking people.
Mimicblade: There’s more than one of that gigantic Truthtalker bastard?
Silverpear: They’re a whole species descended from “that Truthtalker bastard”.
Deathbringer: Well, it’s more that the original Truthtalker created a bunch of kids and they all serve him.
Deathbringer: Is he even aware his kids are killing people?
Silverpear: No idea.
Silverspear: I don’t think he’d ever admit it.
Silverspear: Because he considers himself perfect and stuff.
Silverspear: And suggesting that Truthtalkers can lose it and kill people would be a major morale blow and stuff like that.
Mimicblade: But what if Truthtalker is using his Truthtalkers to kill people he doesn’t like, so he can replace them with people he does like?
Silverspear: But… we’re all pretty damn loyal to the Claws of Justice.
Silverspear: He already has like, a ton of control. Dunno why he’d need more.
Mimicblade: Doesn’t mean that he wants more control.
Mimicblade: As a member of a race that was full of egotistical people on power trips, you can quickly reach a point where you constantly want more and more power, where you never have enough.
Mimicblade: The Justar are the most powerful sect by a mile, but they could be more powerful. The Justarian Circle is already huge, it could be larger, and they could definitely start spreading.
Silverspear: That… huh…
Silverspear: That might explain why the Border Guards are getting planned expansions down south. Not going to affect us northern guards, but maybe…
Mimicblade: There’s not much down south, as far as I’m aware. Everything’s up here in the north west side of Patagenic and south west of Kentarasa.
Mimicblade: Have all these murders been among border patrol guys?
Silverspear: Basically, yeah.
Silverspear: Admittedly, it’s like five murders, six if you include Goldclaw.
Deathbringer: Do you think he was murdered?
Silverspear: I dunno.
Silverspear: Like, he was really fucking old.
Silverspear: We’re still waiting for a report.
Silverspear: Also gotta work out who’s gonna be in charge of the group now.
Silverspear: Personally?
Silverspear: I think someone… helped him along. Just gave him that nudge. Finished him off.
Silverspear: Because his second in command was a Truthtalker.
Mimicblade: Well, Elksia, mate, if you have trouble, if someone else tries to kill you, I want you to get your ass out of the Justarian Circle.
Silverspear: I can’t abandon my post.
Mimicblade: Get your entire sub-sect out.
Mimicblade: I kid you not.
Mimicblade: Your crew are all on one ship mostly. Just fucking fly out of there if you’re in trouble.
Silverspear: I don’t think it’s that dire.
Mimicblade: It could be.
Mimicblade: You guys don’t know about really old Alsyr lore but they had a big massive internal civil war thingy. They were once the size of the Justar. Tons of them split off and went back to Deathven.
Mimicblade: Elksia, you need to plan for that sort of shit.
Deathbringer: Tenuk’s right.
Deathbringer: They already tried to kill you once.
Deathbringer: Nothing stopping them from trying again, even if you’re more aware this time.
Silverspear: You’re both kinda scaring me.
Deathbringer: Sorry, sis, but it’s a scary situation.
Deathbringer: At the very least, you do have your own ship, you can get into the Goldtorn Remains and then make your way to the Kinigian Wilderness. Or you can go to the Ventra Expanse if you’re worried that the Phantai will bother you. They won’t, but Vick lives there, and it might be closer.
Silverspear: He lives there?
Silverspear: Isn’t it dangerous there?
Deathbringer: Not really.
Silverspear: There’s no sect there.
Deathbringer: Yeah but most folks there are chill.
Deathbringer: The Ventra Expanse is a quiet place.
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Shieldbearer: hello
Shieldbearer: bar is empty now I can talk
Shieldbearer: hi arkay who r these people?
Deathbringer: Silverspear is our old friend Elksia and Mimicblade is our older friend Tenuk.
Shieldbearer: woa rly
Shieldbearer: that is so weird
Shieldbearer: u shud all come 2 my bar
Silverspear: I… kinda can’t.
Mimicblade: Yeah you can. Surely you got holiday leave and shit.
Silverspear: I guess.
Mimicblade: Like, Arkay and I are sect leaders, we can do whatever the fuck we want. You’re a sub-sect leader, you can do shit too.
Silverspear: Honestly, might be a good idea. I’ve been super stressed.
Shieldbearer: id love 2 see u
Shieldbearer: also sory 4 typing bad its hard on my tablet
Shieldbearer: tiny screen, big stupid fingers
Deathbringer: Well, I’m gonna bring you a new tablet when we all come to visit.
Mimicblade: Yeah!
Mimicblade: Elksia, work out when you’re free, and we’ll all join you.
Silverspear: Sure thing. I’ll let you know.
Silverspear: Speak soon guys.
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