From: Shadow Date: Fri, 26 Feb 2016 22:37:19 +0000 (+0000) Subject: (no commit message) X-Git-Url: http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/ucgi/~jdamery/git?a=commitdiff_plain;h=6cd1f50ea29f2c8f664441fc43e5bf20faccd116;p=ArtibusWiki.git --- diff --git a/Chronicle/Downtime/AbandonedApprentice.mdwn b/Chronicle/Downtime/AbandonedApprentice.mdwn index f6a01bd8..02a51d74 100644 --- a/Chronicle/Downtime/AbandonedApprentice.mdwn +++ b/Chronicle/Downtime/AbandonedApprentice.mdwn @@ -1,20 +1,26 @@ -From Johannes, Summer 1222 +From Johannes, Summer 1224 -> To the respected Mathieus of House Jerbiton, Johannes Roth sends greetings and good wishes: +> To Iudecum ex Guernicus, Senior Quaesitor of the Stonehenge Tribunal, Johannes sends respectful greetings: +> +> My sodales and I recently chanced to discover in the pursuit of other goals +> that a Gifted individual had been living in secret some few miles downriver from +> Cambridge. > -> My friend Alexios has spoken much of your wisdom and understanding, and thus, being -> unsure where else I might turn, I am venturing to contact you in this matter, and hope -> that you will not take it amiss that I have done so, whether you are able or willing -> to help, or not. +> The shocking aspect of this encounter was that the individual in question was +> protected by something that seemed like, and turned out to be, the Parma Magica. > -> I have reached that age wherein a man begins to consider marriage and the continuation -> of his line. Sadly, owing to the strain in my relationship with my father, Baron Roth, -> the origin of which lies in the irregularity of my conception, I find myself unable, -> to seek his advice - or at least unwilling to do so and reopen old wounds. -> -> I know you have many claims on your time, but I am hoping nonetheless that you might -> be able to offer me some advice on how I might proceed; I would be most grateful no -> matter how much or how little. +> It transpired that they had once been an Hermetic apprentice, but that their +> parens had cast them forth with their training incomplete - and had most foolishly +> allowed them to learn the Parma before they did this! +> +> The apprentice in question is not of sweet disposition, but did most willingly +> swear the Oath in my presence and that of my sodales, and has pledged himself +> to abide by its tenets; it is clear that he needs to be admitted into one of +> the Houses, but now past the crisis, I must confess that I do not know the +> correct protocol and procedures to follow. +> +> I enclose a full report on the matter, which I hope you will be able to +> appropriately pursue. > > Yours with respect, >