The King is dead. Rumours are that he was poisoned, and did not die of natural causes. Of course, no medical examination of the King has been released to the public to confirm this, although it is widely public knowledge that the King had insulted the Regent several months back. In the newspaper yesterday was a story of a guard at the palace confessing to help a painter by the name of Trinia poison the King. The authorities then allowed him to commit suicide before anyone else could ascertain if he was telling the truth. Something is rotten here, and we are not in Denmark!
The Acadamae has been found. It is in Constantinople, and surrounded by a force screen of some type, so there is no communication with anyone inside it. This still leaves me as one of the few wizards left in the city. And the government knows it, as the Ministry of War summoned me to their aid. Well, attempted aid - they wanted to see if I could mentally contact the Duke of Wellington. In my studies, I never made it to the subjects on mind-to-mind contact - so much more I still need to learn! I believe that my companion Dr. Ming might be able to show me a few pointers down that path. He has attempted to hide his abilities, but I recognize the signs of another adept, no matter what he says.
My sources finally told me that the Necromancer who bought my brother was expelled from the Acadamae, and that he was a surgeon prior to becoming an adept. Not much to go on, but anything is better than nothing. At least I can be confident he is not in Constantinople, which makes the odds of finding him here more likely.
Our band of companions went after Mei Mei's sister at the brothel House of Clouds. This was one of 5 ships at Eel's End, a despicable part of the city, but one which obviously serves a purpose, judging from the number of clients to be seen. On our way there we rescued a noble who had been cornered by some street thugs. The noble had, or course, less than noble reasons for being there, and he went on his way with no more than a word of thanks.
After searching the House of Clouds, we stepped the quest up and confronted the King of Spiders himself, in his lair. The Lt played knifies with a few of the King's henchmen, and won the Lady Wordsworth the right to Mei Mei's sister. The King instead gave her Mei Mei, captured wandering around, and refused to give up our prize. Combat ensued, and my little burst of air took out the King himself, quickly ending the melee. We then discovered that the girl we were after had been taken the previous week by the Red Mantis, a group of Chinese assassins. We departed with Dr. Ming gaining a pet dragon, Lady Wordsworth gaining a pet boy, and all of us gaining more confidence in each other, but precious little closer to either of our missing relatives.
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