Editing Coronation and Investigation (section)

==Visiting the Sword==

[Salamander 1]

The party takes up Volga's offer to look at the sword, and Investigates it:
* Scout thinks it was probably made with Magic, but it’s a sword now.
* Stella thinks something needs fixing about it, but she still can't put her finger on it.
* Gale thinks it’s a nice sword, but thinks something with Battle might help.  So she wilds up a Battle diagnostic spell for 8s that might help figure out what’s going on, and she goes into a Frenzy while attacking the target dummy.  Scout thinks she’s been hit harder with the Battle magic consequence than she should have been, which shouldn’t have been an issue…

Stella throws her DI at it.  That sword is like a sword made in the Broken Lands.  It is trying to Break people.  You’d have to wield the sword for a year or more before it had that effect.  Fixing things by Cleansing would probably do it.  

Stella explains, but won’t be able to fix it until tomorrow.  

Diomarche remembers that a sergeant in the [[Keep in the Broken Lands]] run wondered how Queen Ionia of Victoria got so many berserkers.  Stella thinks Captain Jones at the Paladins’ camp at the Plains of Gedden had one.  And maybe others?

Vidan visits and chats with Greg - what was up with the whole Rush ceremony?  Is that how things are here?  Greg thinks that is Absolutely Disgraceful, and is willing to be drawn out more than Violet was.   The Church of Rush is totally overstepping its bounds - rituals for the fallen, rituals for the new ruler.  They might not have stepped on Orellian's toes yet, but they have priests of logistics that are kind of Jordian...

Are people happy with this?  He doesn't think so - some people think things should be different, others think this is just how they are, but nobody *likes* it specifically.   Vidan says, let me know if you figure out anything to do - Greg suggests that maybe when [[Middlesea]] gets loose something will happen. 

Thinking about it, Vidan thinks that the Twins are pretty split now too.  Day and Night don't talk to each other, and Balance is in the Bureaucracy and not anywhere else. 

Nesh says that they’ll be at Middlesea when it comes down, is there someone they should be looking for?  The priest of Jord who went with [[Princess Friga]] is named [[Dora]], and [[Westrack]] is a priest of the Nameless from [[Victoria]].

[Salamander 2]

[[Vidan]] gets [[Earnest]] and ? to be convinced about the strange non-Broken swords.  Stella purifies it (9 successes 8 DI blows it away).

Diomarche passes this along to [[Bran]] via a previously set up spell.  

Time to do the ritual.   After some tossing different names around, we settle on Conclave Free Rangers as the name, to suggest  alliance / against-the-Breaker / freedom / scouting.

It's 8 successes rather than 7...

The room fades away, we're on a featureless plain, someone near Scout says "Incoming!", and... 

TO BE CONTINUED