RPM:21 Art Emergency

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Starring: 🏹 Ehsan, 🐺 Ildefons, 🐘 One-Tusk, Renard
Guest Starring: Yasser Ajam, Sima Patil, Nabila Mahakala, Ridwana Al-Amin, Fa'iq Qarot
Challenge: Relations with Kirkush; Assassination attempt on Qamar Mahakala; Chasing Fa'iq down
Location: Mahakala (City), Wurud Palace, Crystal Rose Garden,
Date Played: 24 Jan 2017

Splitting the Party

🐘 One-Tusk talks trade with Ridwana Al-Amin

🐘 One-Tusk: I didn't expect success, and I wasn't disappointed. While we're here in Mahakala, there's opportunity to open trade, and it would be mutually beneficial. The Revolution has the resources to unleash the power and creativity of the citizens of Mahakala… which is exactly the opposite of what the ruling powers want.

They're reactionary, hidebound, and Ridwana strikes me as the kind of person who I'd feel bad sending to the guillotine… but I'd send him nonetheless. Our conversation is pleasant, but unproductive- wasting the wealth and strength of their citizens on scut labor is the foundation of the social order, and they're not eager to change it.

While I was waiting, I discovered he had a book written in Untari. That's… interesting. I've… "borrowed" it. To share with the Pride. This is something I haven't yet done, as other problems cropped up.

Chasing Fa'iq Down

🐘 One-Tusk: After the attempt on Ehsan's sister, Ehsan is incandescent with rage. Catching the culprits is well and good, but she hounds down the obvious trail, and it's a trail I fear will eventually come to a dead end, if not a trap. As is the trend in Mahakala, no one listens to me, so we go haring off. Eventually, we find Fa'iq at a way station in the hinterlands of Mahakala.