Video | July 24th - Library Research | Seelie-Locked

[waterbearer]

[ The video is aimed at a small reading nook in the Seelie library, with piles of books surrounding the central figure, as well as several stacks of parchment-sheets with copious notes.

Kaldur finishes the last of his notes before turning back to face the locket. ]

To those of you who do not know me, I am Kaldur'ahm. I am currently researching a location known as the 'Redgate' and all knowledge of myths surrounding the Lady Knight 'Alyosha'.

[ Some of the titles of the books are visible, and the piles seem to be organized by topic. There is a stack on mountain-castle fortifications, another on mining practices, and yet another on mythologies and tales of the drabwurld.

There seems to be others working just as diligently nearby, muffled sound of movement and the scritch-scritch of a nib on parchment. ]

If any of you know something of this matter, I ask that you share it with us, for there is another in need whom we seek to help with this knowledge.

[ He sounds purposefully vague, but his expression is flat and serious. Kaldur means business. ]

We thank you for any help that you can provide.

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[waterbearer]

[ Kaldur makes to record what there is to be found, consolidating everything as neatly as possible.

His focus after turns more towards general reports of the region, any data on imports-exports, what sort of raw materials are native to the region and general geography. The super boring stuff. ]

Cassie, see if you can find any accounts about the Unseelie King around this time period.

[ Let Cassie chase after the tales of romance and knights and kings, battles and fights. Much more to her interest. ]

I'll look for the more mundane details. [ He pauses a moment, considering. ] Like waterways. See if there is another access point into Redgate. [ He can swim up any underwater streams, lakes, or pipelines, provided they are large enough.

[fairyfoes]

[ Accounts of the Unseelie king are far and few, but to name him; far more are the annals full of battles, each with long lists of victors and the dead.

Kaldur finds only records of trade maintained with the area; chiefly common agricultural export, tolls for use of the Western road, and the import of small amounts of the Blood Granite itself, as well as more common minerals and ores and a few alpine luxury goods. ]

crashes the party

[sangilak]

[ and here comes korra, back from a run around the castle grounds.

look, she just. she had to stretch her legs, okay? she was going crazy. however, she does catch the excited expressions on cassie's and kaldur's (relatively speaking in his case) on their faces and she quickly jogs over. ]

Did you guys find anything?

we lu 2 korra

[waterbearer]

A few possible leads, for Alyosha's motive, and an account of the events. Here. [ Kaldur moves to let Korra peer in at the tome itself.

He turns his focus instead on the lists of victors and fatalities, looking for any name that seems tied to or similar to Alyosha. Perhaps a lover or sibling or child, some sort of relation. He makes notes of those, as well as general facts about the battle to be shared with Masamori later.

No one said you only had to research one thing at a time, after all.

He turns his attention back more towards Korra. ]

I think we ought to ask the dragon some questions, to have a better idea of what we face.

[sangilak]

[ rrRRRGGGHhh she makes it through the prose relatively easy enough but... argh. it's still frustrating to read in an language she's only understood (and magically so) for a short amount of time.

her face screws up.. something about this doesn't feel right. ]

It sounds like her kids went to kill the dragon but ended up... [ getting killed instead. she sighs, and pulls at one of her wolftails. ] I don't think we'll have time before we have to leave for the army, but I'll see what I can do.

[waterbearer]

[ Yeah, it doesn't feel right to Kaldur, either. But if he had to guess, he'd say both sides were lying, somewhere. ]

Don't worry about it just yet, it can wait until after the battle has passed. It is only something I believe we should do before we leave for Redgate.