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, here comes the long awaited, (hopefully) update. oh, thanks for all the patience you have shown me...I have been VERy busy lately, so I haven't had the time to write or update.



-“You see Delvanni, we have heard rumours that the Dark Brotherhood, have established a base here in Vvardenfell, and that they have been getting increasingly aggressive”.

-“Last night there was an attempt on lord Vehk’s life, that was obviously stopped, so we want you to retrieve the information from the assassin…as he was taken alive”, ok, so Czevahk wanted me to do a little interrogation, on the organisation that I had started to hate…hehe, fine by me.

-“As a matter of fact my lord, I happen to know who the leader of the Brotherhood here on Vvardenfell is…but well, you probably won’t believe me”, I said…”Oh, I do…spit out”, he said back with an exaggerated voice.

-“Ok, you see I happened to be a member of the brotherhood…many years ago, and I was told who he was…I know where to find several of them…but the main leader is actually Vedam Dren…but we have to be careful about him”.

-“Now I do have some contacts, so I’ll make them give us information enough to get to Dren, meanwhile I’ll try and get as many of the other Brotherhood members as possible, ok”?

The look upon his face is one I will never forget. He rubbed his hands together in glee, as he saw a Big opportunity to actually get rid of Dren…the main person who could cause trouble for the Temple….and I could see that he was greatly pleased with me.

-“Oh, may the Almsivi bless you Delvanni…I think a promotion is in order, so, for the moment, you’re promoted to chief interrogator, of the order of Indoril…but if you manage to catch or root out a certain number of Dark Brotherhood members…maybe the rank as Inquisitor or High Inquisitor is at an order…as I will probably be chosen as Lord Inquisitor of Indoril, that is the highest rank, here in the Inquisition”.

-“But, here is the key, to the cell of the brotherhood member, just…do your thing, meanwhile I’ll take a visit to lord Vehk, and arrange the papers that will give you full authority to get to these places, and arrest or kill anyone you know or think is a member…sake for the duke of course”.

I took the key, and headed for the cells, there I asked the lead Ordinator, Ilnori Staurosin, where I could find the assassin. I closed the door after me…and we were completely…alone.

-“Ok scum…tell me, who gave you this mission”?...the answer was a huge pile of spit that landed right before my feet…a kick in the chest made sure that he would not be able to do that again.

-“I ASK YOU AGAIN…WHO GAVE YOU THIS MISSION”, and this time my voice was VERY loud. He looked up at me, hatred in his eyes, before he told me, “go to Oblivion you filthy outlander”.

I shouted for Ilnori, who came in fast…and I gave him a little nod. He smiled, and enclosed upon the Dark Brotherhood assassin, the he unsheathed his ebony longsword, and put it in his hands…a little jerk later, and the blade snapped in two pieces…and the assassin’s eyes widened when he was told by Ilnori, that if he did not answer my questions, Ilnori would do the same thing with his….essentials.

-“My name is Raven Berenal, Listener of the Dark Brotherhood, I was given a contract by the leader of the Cammona Tong, to assassinate Lord Vivec”, he rambled out…clearly he cared about his essentials….”OK, wait a moment, who is the leader of the Cammona Tong”?, I asked him.

-“It…it…it’s Orvas Dren, he rambled something about Lord Vivec being a threat to the country, that’s why ha wanted Vivec….dead”.

I nodded to him, and I and Ilnori left him in there, while we went out to discuss his punishment…”He tried to kill Lord Vehk, that’s punishable by death, so how do you want him to be killed”?, Ilnori asked…”make it fast…and clean”, I answered. Then I left him, to talk to Czevak.

-“Ah, so Orvas Dren is the leader of the Cammona Tong…and he wants Lord Vehk dead…well, I want you to persuade him otherwise, I’ll give you five Ordinators, to take with you, his plantation is about half an hour north of here…good luck”.

I was given my letter of Emergency authority, and collected five Ordinators, and headed out towards the Dren plantation. We had just gotten away from Vivec, when the rain started, and within five minutes we were soaking wet, and I was almost shivering when we had come to the Dren plantation. With a single knock on the door, we entered, and made our way, up to where Orvas Dren was….

This post has been edited by Telendil Delvanni: Apr 15 2006, 11:15 PM