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 Post subject: An Ancient Purpose [EM0]
PostPosted: Mon Oct 16, 2017 5:09 pm 
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Right after the prayers at dawn, Mahasin descended from the minaret and put an announcement on the communal board just outside the mosque. Similar announcement was later put by the garrison at the heel of the Hoof.

Able subjects of the Khans without urgent commitments needed to assist in a search.
- Imam Mahasin bint Hanan al-Yujjeh



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PostPosted: Mon Oct 16, 2017 8:26 pm 
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Ruqqayah was the first to appear, entering the mosque and performing the appropriate actions before seeking out the imam.



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 Post subject: Re: An Ancient Purpose [EM0]
PostPosted: Mon Oct 16, 2017 9:28 pm 
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Mahasin was leaning over a scroll on a lectern, but raised her gaze when someone appeared. She smiled gently.

"You look familiar and yet I don't know your name. How strange."



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Khenbish had been en route to the stables to see to Yul when he noticed the posted message. He read it three times, eyebrows drawing together slightly, before reaching up and yanking the piece of paper off the wall. Why all the mystery and secrecy? he mused with a quiet grunt, turning and making his way to the mosque instead.

As he walked, he folded the little piece of paper and tucked it into his belt pouch along with the various other sundry he regularly carried. He bowed his head respectfully as he entered, spying the pair of women in headscarves and approaching slowly.



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 Post subject: Re: An Ancient Purpose [EM0]
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Tucking Tristan away after reading the note, she headed to the mosque only to find Khenbish entering before her. She followed, noting the message had been removed from its original place.



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"Please, come here, faithful. I assume you're here because of the announcement."

Mahasin gestured the others forth, taking a book under her arm.



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Khenbish bowed respectfully to the gathered women as he drew closer.



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Akaichou was awed at the beauty of the mosque. The light streaming through the colored glass, playing against the walls, that tapestries... She made her way to the small group. She wasn't surprised to see the faces that met her although she wondered if more would be coming with the notice gone.

She bowed to those present. "Pardon my intrusion. The notice has been removed. Are other Ki-Rin meant to join us?"



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"The three of you may be sufficient. The matter at hand requires a balance between efficiency and discretion. And it would be something you'd have to do for the Unicorn, not for personal aggrandisement." Mahasin commented, looking between the trio.



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Khenbish shifted his weight to his other foot, get on with it, he mused bitterly, wondering why the woman sought to draw out this meeting.



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Akaichou nodded. The entirety of her life would not be measured by what she did, but rather how well the clan now fares. She hoped to one day be as respected as her father, but that was achieved doing both public and private tasks for the Unicorn.



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Pleasantries exchanged, Mahasin invited them to follow her.

"Ide-san, you are probably aware what happened with the treasures of your family sixty years ago when Ide Sunosa and Moto Hulagu embarked on a voyage to establish Ki-Rin embassy in the Kingdom of Merenae. Much has happened ever since and some have forgotten how our maritime history began. And it began with grave tragedy that cost our people more than our forebears could have ever imagined. Garen Hawthorne, a notorious corsair, is the great villain we have not taken revenge on the way we brought down Chephren and his evil Senpet masters."

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"It is in the compassion of the Lost Daughter that I do not argue for vengeance against every Thranish pirate we may encounter. The Yodotai have been enough of a bane for them lately. However, Hawthorne has a history on this island. A prominent landmark at its northern tip is named after him. As one of his stopovers and supply bases before our loyal Hateru took control of it, the island is as likely as any other hideout to have been his hiding place for what he had stolen from us. And I have discovered something lately that may point to this being the case."



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Khenbish nodded, crossing his arms over his chest. He began lining up the information he would need in his head, organising his thoughts.



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Mahasin led them to the inner side of the library and approached the volume on the lectern. It looked like it was in a very poor shape. The pages were yellow from rot, stains of dirt dotted the rims, sheets had holes from some insects that bore through it. Mahasin donned gloves before approaching it. The volume exuded a faint scent of death.

"I guarantee to you this is not "Reu Nu Pert Em Hru" even if it looks like one." She chuckled to ease the discomfort. "Its owner, a man called Archibald Dunfrey, didn't take proper care to preserve it." She was leaving a part of the story there. "Hence, not everything is readable. But this passage is. The man was the quartermaster on the Eternal, one of the vessels in the last of Hawthorne's armadas. He kept an extensive log. And here it is mentioned that when Hawthorne discovered the island, he stayed in these waters for two weeks. And that by the end of that fortnight, he gave out four pieces of a map - or four separate maps, it is unclear - to four of his officers, and ordered them not to say a word about them to the Merenaese they had sighted and intended to approach. Dunfrey actually sneaked into his captain's cabin and copied the map, or so his diary claims. But the page..." She turned several. "...is missing. It was torn out."

Mahasin turned around to look at their faces.



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 Post subject: Re: An Ancient Purpose [EM0]
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Khenbish exhaled, pushing the unpleasant scent out of his nostrils, though his face betrayed no reaction to the odour that rose from the tattered and decayed tome. With the barest twitch of an eyebrow he glanced to the young Ide; he assumed his job didn't begin until they at least had some idea of where the map had gone, so he added nothing, not yet.



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 Post subject: Re: An Ancient Purpose [EM0]
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Akaichou rounded the lectern to gaze over Mahasin's shoulder at the tome. It was indeed in very poor condition, but she too could make out the passage. "I had heard of this voyage. I take it the impression of the stolen page is no longer retrievable because of the decay." She touched her nose at this, for the first time giving any display that the smell bothered her.



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"Unless it was better preserved after it had been taken. Either by someone who buried Dunfey or one that robbed his grave." Mahasin shrugged as if it was cold. "Or maybe it hadn't been there even earlier. What I assume, however, is that the page robber knew what he or she was taking. So probably knew the story and was looking for the same thing as us. Maybe even had other pieces."



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His lips pressing together were the only hint to Khenbish’s interest, recover the map, recover the artefacts.



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She dipped her head slightly. "Forgive me, I misspoke. I'm sure you know as books are written there are impressions left on the page below it. I think this tome in particular may be past recovering the lost information, be it with a rubbing or other method. Unless you disagree? You undoubtedly know more about such intricacies than I."

Akaichou took a breath. "Assuming the information is lost from the tome, how might we go about our search?"



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"The man's past. His associates. It's unlikely a complete stranger had taken his page." Mahasin sighed. "I'll also tell you where he is entombed in the cemetery."



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