The Tale of Telina Delvanni. Chapter 3., Furtherr involving with the temple. Options

[Tellie]

Chapter 2. Of mad wizards duty and faith.



The Tale of Telina Delvanni. Chapter 3. In the footsteps of Vehk.

Ok, so the new chapter is up, and this will be a chapter which will have MANY artistic liberties from my part, enjoy it.


I felt rather dodgy when I woke up the next morning, I had fallen asleep with my face in a book, and I was nearly frustrated by the way my hair had been lately, so I decided to follow Serene’s suggestion to visit Milie Hastien in Balmora, so I took up my brown walking stick, and translocated to Balmora.
Milie’s shop wasn’t to difficult to find, and I was overjoyed when I saw the full closets and shelves with exquisite clothing.

-“Hmm…ok, I’ll have one of those, a little of those, two of these and a lot more”…I quickly realised what I was doing…I was a woman…a woman on a shopping spree. Something I had not done in a long time, so I enjoyed my self to the limit of breakdown of happiness…although the fact that my pouch was quite weightless now than it had been when I came in here, took away some of the delight, but no matter. Fixing my hair was a simple matter, I had previously had my hair in a long ponytail, that was gone now, and my hair was shortened so it reached just a little below my shoulders.

I said that one of my employees would return later to pick up my new clothes, and would give her the password sadalab, in order to get the clothes.

Meanwhile, I somehow felt that I had to get down to Caius…I don’t know what in the names of the tribunes made me feel that, but I did it anyway. I knocked on the door, trying to be polite…

-“Shhh…ennntrr, shhheeeee doohor isssh open”, he stubbed forth. Oh great, what drunk again…I was getting tired of dumping him in the river, but a splash and a quick run up to his house again, got him into remarkable health.

-“Wha…wha you did that for, huh”?, he screamed.

-“Because when I wish to talk to you, I’d rather do that when you are sober…understand me”?. I grabbed up the skooma bottles, the skooma pipe and the moon sugar bags, and threw them into the fireplace.

-“NOOO….MY MOON SUGAR…NOOOOOOO”, he threw himself at the floor, sobbing hysterically, at my feet.

-“Oh come on…it’s not that big a loss, you need to quit with that before you get killed…remember I saved you once, but since I don’t live here I cant watch over you all the time ok”.

HE looked up at me, thinking at what I had told him…the tears was still flowing but he seemed to have established a grip on himself.

-“You know what, you’re absolutely right, now I do have some orders for you…would you be willing to do them straight away”?, Without even waiting for the answer, he continued. “I want some notes from a man called Hasbat Antabolis, but you will have to do a little favour for him first…probably a dirty one I think”.

I mumbled something as “sure”, and walked back out…I had heard of this Hasbat, and knew that he was a member of the fighters guild here in town. True enough, I found him at the bottom of the guildhall, and I had only managed to utter the word Caius, before he started to ramble out of a dwemer puzzle box that he wanted, and that also was to be found in the ruin of Arkhngthand, just outside the imperial fort.

OK, so now I had to pass right by a fort that was probably a bit angry on me still….great. I took the difficult way, and wandered over the hill,, right behind Caius’s house, and not so long after I found the big dwemer bridge that led to the ruin, I was just walking normally over the bridge, when a man on the other side, obviously a battle mage, summoned forth a skeleton, as a warning to me.

I walked closer to him, with my hands in the air, intent on speaking to the man…or let’s say tease him a bit. I stood about ten/eleven paces away from him, when I lowered my arms, and smiled before I opened my mouth.

-“So...interesting, you’re a summoner…me to”, then I spoke the syllables of my summon storm atronach, and again the spell caused three instead of one to be summoned…I did not think something was right…but no time for that now. The skeleton looked at the three large daedras standing before him, before he gave away a bony smile ( the only smile he could give ), and turned tail, and ran like the lords of Oblivion was behind him. The atronachs stormed into the man, and started to batter him around, then they parted up, and started to play what looked a lot like some kind of ballgame with him. Finally he managed to get loose, and he ran as fast as he could forward…a long fall, and a meaty thud later made me turn over the railing and look down. The sight made me loose the little lunch I had eaten earlier today…the man had crushed his head, and all manner of entrails and blood was lying around.

The atronachs had disappeared while I was puking my brains out, so I was all alone again. I started the walk towards the entrance of the ruin again, and I was astonished…the door was blocked by a gigantic stone sphere…a little search later and I turned on a crank that would undoubtly take me in…indeed it did, and I quickly entered the ruin before the turning sphere crushed me flat. The inside was dark, and what little light there was, came from the strange dwemer lamps. I had searched the ruin for hours I thought, before I noticed a single door that I hadn’t searched…sake for the door that would lead down into the lower levels of the ruin…those who would be blocked off, until we managed to assemble the puzzle box

The door led into a room called hollow hands, and in the room, there was of course another bandit…but the Monarch was convinced that his head looked better lying on the ground. Finding the puzzle box wasn’t that difficoult, deciding what to do was something else…so I decided to do something a little mean, but hey one must have a little fun in life.

I translocated myself back to Baladas, who was more than happy to make a copy out of it, but he changed about half of the images on the copy, so poor Hasbat wouldn’t get entrance to the lower parts I’m afraid…but we would. I was particularly happy when I gave Caius the notes, so he gave me a little something…that turned out to be a ring with a nice paralyzing spell on it, so I thanked him, and told him I would drop by soon..yeah like that’ll ever happen, and then I transported myself to the Ald Rhuun temple.

This post has been edited by Telendil Delvanni: Mar 31 2006, 02:05 PM

[Tellie]

Ok, this is the part where the artistic liberties really kick in, and I sure hope you like it...I basically have to make quests for an entire faction...but I think I'll manage.


I woke up quite early, so I broke my fast, to head on to Vivec, until Tharer had some more work for me that was. Vivec was truly an amazing city, had it not been for the Ordinators…I wanted them to treat me nicely…hey wait nicely, that’s a brilliant idea, why don’t I go join them straight away. I remembered hearing Berel Sala was the commander of the Ordinators, so I guess starting with him was a good idea. Finding him was not difficult either, he was at the hall of justice, in the biggest office, behind the biggest most decorated desk…figures dont it....

-“I’m sorry outlander, but what the hell, are you doing in my office”?, he said in probably the rudest voice he could manage, but I restrained myself from giving him an angry retort.

-“I wish to join the Ordinators my lord, as you can see I have already a middle rank in the temple, I just wish to do more service in the name of the tribunes”. I crossed my fingers, before hearing him say something that sounded a lot like “humph”, and finally. “Well, we could use more Ordinators, at the moment one is M.O.A. that’s missing on assignement to be correct, and we also have some Ordinators who have been killed lately, to be allowed onto our training program you must first prove yourself”.

-“You see, couple’o days ago, seven people was killed, five outlanders, and two Ordinators”. “I suggest you start asking around in the foreign quarter, where the last two murders happened”.

I gave a quick nod, and walked back out down to one of the gondolas, to get a little trip to the foreign quarter. The thing that worried me was not that the person had killed seven people, it was the fact that two of the victims had been an Ordinator patrol, the murderer had killed both of them even before they had managed to draw their weapons. I gave the gondolier a sarcastic “thank you”, before I walked out of her gondola. Since I had already had dealings with Jobasha, that seemed like a good place to start asking. His bookshop was as crowded as ever, in other words only him and the Ordinator standing guard inside the shop was there.

-“Ahh, Miss Delvanni, what can Khajiit do for you today”?, he purred a little bit, after seeing someone he regarded as “friend”, but a Khajiit contact is always good to have, as I got to know.

-“Ah, seek foul killer do you”. “Killer Dark Elf woman with nasty dagger, and netch leather, hanging in underworks of this canton she does, yes yes…but friend don’t go to her, evil woman yes, kill people she do”. I ensured him that I would do no such thing, and I walked back out from his shop.

I just hated the underworks, almost as much as I hated the sewers in this city. The underworks was filled up with thieves, drunks, and my hate object, skooma addicts, but still it would be easy to spot a Dunmer woman in netch leather, most of the people down here had not even pants. Easy…well lets just say that was a HUGE error on my part, but the famous Delvanni luck came to me at last, all alone she was standing in a corner, she had apparently killed someone again, as her hands was running with newly shed blood.

-“Ahh look what we have here, another victim, and a Dunmer even, my my, I’m gonna enjoy this”, she smiled at her insult, she clearly took me for a fool, I was by no means going close to her.

-“Oh really, as a matter of fact I have been looking for you”. “You are now officially under arrest by the order of the watch, I advice you to come with me peacefully and you will not be harmed”, I knew she would not listen but it was always worth a try.

-“Not harmed, as soon the Ordinators get their hands on me they’ll rip me to shreds”, she fetched up a rather ruddy looking knife, but I was not fooled by it, it was singing with enchantment. “Now you die!!!AAAHGRH”.

The frost spell caught her straight in the chest, and she as slammed back towards the wall, where she banged her head, and was knocked out cold. I managed to get some rope, so I tied her up, and put her in a sack, before I cast almsivi intervention, and stood outside the temple again. Berel Sala, was pleased with me when I told I had the murderer, and had even captured her alive, so he went out into another room for a moment, before returning with a bulgy sack.

-“Ok, Delvanni, first I am now putting you on the training program, you will stay at the Ordinator barracks, until further notice”. “Since you did this so well, I think you deserve a little something extra, so you can either choose to have this belt here, or you may get the first piece of your Indoril armour, in that case the cuirass, and a helmet…but you’re not allowed to wear the helmet before you are a fully educated Ordinator, what do you choose”?

Well, I had noticed that my Dark Brotherhood armour was getting massively battered up, I just wished I could have a black hand set again…for those of you who have not spent time in the brotherhood as I have, the black hand set, is a robe, some boots, gloves and a hood. It’s not armour, but it’s dark as the night, and have many fine enchantments…ahh, I can still remember the lesser members of the brotherhood look upon me with awe, when I was wearing that robe, but those times had passed.

I reported in at the Ordinator Barracks, and was shown to a acceptable bed in the female rooms, there I put off my old brotherhood set, and lifted the heavy cuirass upon me. The weight was massive, and I buckled from where I stood, before managing to get back into control, I sighed, tomorrow would be a hard day.

I'm sorry for not updating sooner...I should have done that.

This post has been edited by Telendil Delvanni: Apr 5 2006, 04:33 PM