*temp LifeMageChance
*set LifeMageSpell inaccurate
*temp Rise
*set Rise inaccurate
*set AntonioLifeMage inaccurate
*label Intro
*if AcceptRamirezProposal
*goto ThreeBellsAgain
*elseif CoercedRamirez
*goto CoercionResults
*else
*rand LifeMageChance 1 100
*if LifeMageChance = 2
*set Rise true
*goto Antonio
*else
*set Rise inaccurate
*goto Antonio
*label ThreeBellsAgain
A few days considering, you next once again dress in clean up clothes and row out of the palace. You make it to the Three Doorbell inadequate training.
*if FDead
As you stand in the hot air, flashing and aggravating to make your eyes legalize to the murk, the proprietress notices you. "Were you looking for Don Enrique?"
You nod.
"He departed this for you." She hands you a small package, attentively wrapped and sealed.
*page break
*if (RDead or LoweredPrice)
Interior organize is a insignificant crystal jug and a folded portion of parchment. The parchment reads, "As promised. Undergo this 1 hour before your minute come close to. It request advance your likelihood from 1 in 100 to 1 in 2."
*set LifeMageSpell true
*goto Antonio
*else
Interior organize is a folded portion of parchment. It reads, "My damage was in any case certain. One death is not enough."
You atmosphere up cynically. "Is Don Enrique here?"
The proprietress shakes her bronze. "Haven't seen him in days. Taking into account he departed the chart, he thought he was leaving on show for a time. I've no viewpoint the same as he request be back."
You can do go fast excluding return to the palace and fume.
The subsequently day, a portion of scoop reaches your ears. The prohibit Enrique Ramirez was blemished in Orovilla. By the terminology of his isolation, his life is hence give up. The $King's protection goes looking for him. He is found and slain in his come close to to escape them. Anything undertaking he represented are blocked to you.
*rand LifeMageChance 1 100
*if LifeMageChance = 2
*set Rise true
*goto Antonio
*else
*set Rise inaccurate
*goto Antonio
*else
But Ramirez is not organize. The proprietress says he has not been seen for days.
You couldn't really demand what besides, not having standoffish your part of the plan. You can do go fast excluding return to the palace and delight your options.
*rand LifeMageChance 1 100
*if LifeMageChance = 2
*set Rise true
*goto Antonio
*else
*set LifeMageSpell inaccurate
*goto Antonio
*label CoercionResults
You character back to the same as you fetched the elixir from the Three Doorbell. Ramirez was not there--perhaps frightened to feel you once again. But he did uninitiated a insignificant chart for you with the proprietress.
Interior organize was a insignificant crystal jug and a folded portion of parchment. The parchment read, "As promised. Undergo this 1 hour before your minute come close to. It request advance your likelihood from 1 in 100 to 1 in 2. I beg your indulgence, but that is the best that I can do."
*set LifeMageSpell true
*if BetrayedRamirez
But that was a variety of days ago. Now is the time to cast the death curse that request rid you of Enrique Ramirez--and with him any end of blackmail.
Currently trajectory the dark of the moon. Hammering curses are intended to be easier to cast at night, but into the day requirement serene work. You faction for some of the servants to undergo Ricardo out, enliven the rest, lock the doorway, and get to work.
Shortly your unit smells of sulphur powder and the build is besieged with blackberry trees and snakeskin. Your hands are dank with the blood of the dozen black kittens. You use the blood to appeal symbols upon the build. You contract them in the prescribed order. You say the ancient words. The lock of hair in the mind of the circle of power request bind the spell to Enrique Ramirez. Whereever he is, whatever protections he may acknowledge, the curse request walk out him.
Can you really do this? Can you use illegal magic to bring to a close the man who promised to agree to you a Vitality Mage child?
*choice
#Enrique Ramirez is a rebel to the realm, and his knowledge may possibly be a force to me. I request bring to a close him inadequate reservations or disbelief.
*label RamirezCurse
You speak aloud the name of "Enrique Ramirez."
And you know you acknowledge succeeded. You conduct his life uninitiated the world. Aquiver with fatigue, you aid to untainted clean your unit build and smuggle the detritus open-air. If somebody ever takes ingress of his death, you never trap of it. Quite a few of the servants may acknowledge noticed a few of your provision, but inadequate any back deaths, and in light of your blocked pore in the Panel, they would not dare to speak of it to somebody.
*set Magic %+25
*set Status %-15
*goto Antonio
#I quail at the assumed, but I acknowledge no boss. If he were to reveal that I had dealt with him... it is too unbearable to be attracted to. He basic die. It is the slightly way.
*goto RamirezCurse
#I... I... I cannot do this.
At the hang on peak, you break down vocalizations the words of power, tarn moments before you would acknowledge spoken his name and finished his life. The magic reverberates within you for a variety of desire moments, wracking you with annoy. But towards the end, it begins to dwindle, and you momentarily happen and the sigils on the build, deduction the curse before it was ever unleashed on its charge. Enrique Ramirez request stop.
*set Magic %-30
*set BetrayedRamirez inaccurate
*goto Antonio
*else
*goto Antonio
*label Antonio
*page break
As a result of very desire, you and the $King next once again come close to to devise a child.
The months of waiting are torturous. You manipulation a lot of your time pacing the precincts and calculating likelihood in your bronze. If slightly it is a Vitality Mage this time...
*page break
*if BetrayedRamirez
To your very big surprise victory, your flash son Antonio is a Hammering Mage as soon as his brother and his parents. $Agustin is disappointed, period $he pref expected go fast besides. $!He pref is meet to you and the child in a chill report of way.
Maybe Ramirez guessed that you studied to lie to him. Or possibly he allied the magic in the elixir to his own life. The mega you character about it, the mega inborn that seems. If you had standoffish your lip of the plan, possibly you would acknowledge a Vitality Mage child now.
*set RelKing %-25
*set StopWanderingEye %-25
*goto KingChasingSkirt
*elseif (LifeMageSpell or Rise)
*set AntonioLifeMage true
*if LifeMageSpell
And--to your stupefaction, gratitude, and delight--it is. Ramirez's magic has worked as promised.
Your son Antonio is as sure a Vitality Mage as somebody has ever seen. "A miracle!" the Panel declares. Courtiers wondering if you did what to aid the be in awe have available their opinions to themselves.
*goto Antonio2
*else
And--to your stupefaction, gratitude, and delight--it is. Steady inadequate the sustain of a powerful Vitality Mage spell, organize was a insignificant end that your child would be a Vitality Mage--and you were very lucky certainly.
Your son Antonio is as sure a Vitality Mage as somebody has ever seen. "A miracle!" the Panel declares. Courtiers who intrude on, wrongly, if you did everything to aid the be in awe have available their opinions to themselves.
*goto Antonio2
*label Antonio2
*if MarriedKing
$Agustin is incoherent with joy. "The powers of Vitality and Hammering acknowledge smiled upon us," you make sure $him pref, and $he pref can do go fast but organized.
All Iberia rejoices with you--except for Family de Aguilar, of course. Recently $King $Agustin has a legitimately-conceived Vitality Mage offspring.
*if HeirAnnounced
Undoubtedly, suddenly in the past Antonio's confusion as a Vitality Mage has been verified, the proclamations go forth that he is now the offspring to the throne of Iberia, not $Heir.
*set Child "Antonio"
All is well.
The $King showers you with ornaments, ache, special treatment, and honors. You conduct yourself fasten, and character organize is every scene of you and the $King and your sons living helpfully ever in the past.
*set RelKing %+90
*set StopWanderingEye %+90
*set DeclawAguilar %+90
*set DeclawJuanita %+90
*set wealth %+90
*goto KingChasingSkirt
*else
$Agustin is favorable certainly. And you conduct yourself enjoyable to inhabit a infantile. Now you acknowledge a child at negligible the equal of Tom'as de Reyes.
*if ((HeirAnnounced=false) and (RelKing > 75))
And matters are through even superior the same as the $King publicly declares that, in the opposite of a authentic Vitality Mage offspring, Antonio request be the offspring to the throne of Iberia. You may not wear the crown of the $queen same, but someday your son request but be King.
*set HeirAnnounced true
*set Child "Antonio"
*set RelKing %+75
*set StopWanderingEye %+75
*set wealth %+75
*goto KingChasingSkirt
*else
But--small surprise--your flash son Antonio is a Hammering Mage as soon as his brother and his parents. $Agustin is disappointed, period $he pref expected go fast besides. $!He pref is meet to you and the child in a chill report of way.
*set RelKing %-25
*set StopWanderingEye %-25
*goto KingChasingSkirt
*label KingChasingSkirt
*if ADead
*if StopWanderingEye > 65
You patrol the $King restlessly to see if $he pref pursues other young people with the especially raptness $he pref showed to Adelita. To your advantage, $he pref does not. You peek to acknowledge ashen $his pref special treatment back to you, at negligible for the clever appearance.
*goto MendosaReturn
*else
Miserably, the production represented by Adelita de Delgado was not solved by her death. The $King's eye continues to draw every more readily fresh thing in Panel. Countless of them wind up in $his pref bed. That is proper the way $Agustin is, and no action of yours seems thin to transfigure $him pref. It is not a punish or a overgenerous thing to judge.
*goto MendosaReturn
*else
*if StopWanderingEye > 65
To your advantage and ecstasy, the $King breaks off $his pref section with Adelita. You patrol $him pref restlessly to see if $he pref pursues other young people, but $he pref does not. You peek to acknowledge ashen $his pref special treatment back to you, at negligible for the clever appearance.
*goto MendosaReturn
*else
The $King's section with Adelita does not hang on very desire... but before you can conduct advantage at its deduction, $he pref is pursuing something else teenager. $!His pref eye continues to draw every more readily fresh thing in Panel, and many of them wind up in $his pref bed. That is proper the way $Agustin is, and no action of yours seems thin to transfigure $him pref. It is not a punish or a overgenerous thing to judge.
*goto MendosaReturn
*label MendosaReturn
Antonio is three months old, and you are meeting in the garden enjoying one of the hang on featureless evenings you demand the summer to agree to you the same as a servant approaches you.
"$given? Spare me for disturbing you, but... I am the bearer of an eccentric be valid. Organize is a wandering versifier who has proper fashionable at the palace gates and wondered if $he pref energy beg an spectators with you."
How odd, you character. But it has been an without any passion few weeks and organize seems to be no intelligence not to sift this strange happenstance. "Incredibly well," you say.
*page break
You grasp $him pref before $he pref has crossed part the garden. $!He pref is annoying well-worn clothing, and $his pref feel is in general underground by a hat, but the stop and the gait are clear. And so is the invent, the same as $he pref courteously greets you.
It is $Gabriel de Mendosa.
*page break
*if RelMendosa > 70
$!He pref lifts $his pref eyes to yours, and a serene smile spreads condescending $his pref feel. "$given name," $he pref says-- "... $given... It is such a joy to see you once again." Roughly, $he pref clears $his pref be gluttonous and says mega remotely, "I fantasy I find you well. I trap that good for you are in order, with regard to the start of your son Antonio. My felicitations."
*goto YourResponse
*else
"$given," $he pref says, "I do thank you for sinuous me an spectators. I fantasy you are well."
*goto YourResponse
*label YourResponse
How do you respond?
*choice
#I am on cloud nine to see $him pref, and I make constant $he pref knows it.
*set charm %+20
*set satisfactory %-20
*set scandal %-30
*set RelMendosa %+50
"$Gabriel!" You outset to your feet and walk out to undergo $his pref hands. "Hammering and Vitality, what a super surprise!" $!His pref hands nearest condescending yours and procure fast for a peak before you appeal on show and renew your seat. "It has been too desire."
*goto MendosaSpeech
#I at ease $him pref with the stash away consider to my consign and $his pref.
*set charm %-20
*set satisfactory %+20
*set scandal %+30
*set RelMendosa %-20
"I am very well, thank you, $Don pref $Gabriel. To what do I owe the hallucination of this unexpected visit?" The word "hallucination" is a manners, no mega. Your tone is cool, apt, repellent.
*goto MendosaSpeech
#I at ease $him pref with consider stash away, but with a compassionate smile on my feel.
Are you smiling to the same degree of seeing an old friend, or is organize everything mega than that?
*choice
#Neither, really. I am smiling to the same degree I longing Mendosa to character that we remain receptive, in gather in a line $he pref can be obliging to me.
*set charm %+10
*set satisfactory %+10
*set scandal %-15
*set RelMendosa %+20
"I am very well, thank you, $Don pref $Gabriel. To what do I owe the hallucination of this unexpected visit?" De Mendosa smiles in gathering to your pleasantries--and if $he pref interprets them as mega than tarn manners, so a lot the superior for like lightning oppress condescending $him pref.
*goto MendosaSpeech
#I proper cannot have available a smile off my feel. The way $Gabriel makes me conduct... I had assumed I would never see $him pref once again.
*set charm %+20
*set satisfactory %-20
*set scandal %-20
*set RelMendosa %+50
"I am very well, thank you, $Don pref $Gabriel," you say, aggravating to have available your tone cool and apt, but the joy in your living being cannot be downright unspoken. You can conduct it twitching harshly your jaws, and de Mendosa smiles once again at the scene. "To what do I owe the hallucination of this unexpected visit?"
*goto MendosaSpeech
#I am lucky to see an old friend, and not frightened to show it, but $he pref is go fast mega to me than that.
*set charm %+10
*set scandal %-10
*set RelMendosa %+20
"I am very well, thank you, $Don pref $Gabriel." You smile in the main at an old friend, but inadequate any hint of apprehension or sparkle that energy commend everything regrettable. "To what do I owe the hallucination of this unexpected visit?" De Mendosa smiles in gathering to your pleasantries--although you find yourself wondering if $he pref is a infantile disappointed that your gathering is slightly receptive.
*goto MendosaSpeech
#I at ease $him pref pitilessly.
*set charm %-20
*set satisfactory %-20
*set scandal %+40
*set RelMendosa %-50
"I am well, thank you," you say placidly, looking condescending $his pref bronze. "In the role of machine brings you here?"
*goto MendosaSpeech
*label MendosaSpeech
*if RelMendosa > 70
"I acknowledge missed you so!" $he pref breathes, and as well as catches $him prefself once again. Near what seems to be an transport, $he pref resumes a smart courtier's connection.
*goto MendosaSpeech2
*else
*goto MendosaSpeech2
*label MendosaSpeech2
"I acknowledge come to make a outline to the $King," $he pref says, "and I hoped you energy be set to give support to me in entreating my gather in a line.
"As you know, the armies of Iberia depend on the power of the noble Hammering Mages who command them. As Hammering Mages, we can bring great mystical power to pin down opposed to any enemy--more powerful and fit than any bow, with far a cut above walk out than any pierce or sword. And yet, our realm's power has habitually been private. Casting spells of power toll us with a vast charge. While a few powerful volleys of fire and power, our Hammering Mages are too clich, too passed out to do any mega for the armed forces. And we all know that our armies habitually acknowledge too few Hammering Mages of ingress accompanied by them... and the crowd are, with few exceptions, disallowed to display any Hammering Magic to speak of at all.
"Until now. I acknowledge worked with the top figure of our theorists of wizardry, and some of the peak powerful Hammering Mages in all of Iberia, and we acknowledge found a way to transcend the grounds that acknowledge understood back our realm. We can now plow magical power in the field of a structure. If we aroma a rod with a gobble up of fire, as well as any one with even a hint of magic--a Vitality Mage, certainly, but proper as a lot a commoner who cannot even bring to a close a fly with magic but can store forth the feeblest magic--can emanate the rod's magic. The especially is true, at negligible in guideline, of Vitality Magic--a Hammering Mage may possibly be point a rod able of healing grievous wounds."
*page break
Your wisdom coat as you delight the significance of what $Gabriel de Mendoza has thought. If Hammering Mages may possibly create a suit supply of such guns... Iberia's armies would be inescapable. All of the $King's behind schedule worries in the South would be as go fast before such an inescapable run. Sahra, de Aguilar, any other bullying that energy jam, any neighbors that show not enough high opinion to Iberia... they may possibly all be put in their sitting room. Undoubtedly, the slightly problem would be how best to use such a engine capacity.
And yet... the life of the nobility--indeed, the nobility's very status--depends on their carry out condescending the forces of magic. A tool that would agree to that power to the crowd, even if they remained delegation on true Mages to aroma their strategy with magic, may possibly assassinate the convivial order that has served Iberia so well for so desire. The especially convivial order that has brought you to the chief of power.
As you character, de Mendosa speaks once again. "Organize request be many who would not wish to see such a thing brought to antiquated. And it request charge money to make mega than a handful of samples--vast money, money that slightly $HM may possibly supply. Demand, $Given... request you speak to $HM on my behalf?"
You ponder your options, worldly wise that what you say minute may possibly acknowledge a boundless feature on Iberia and your own individual history.
*page break
*goto scene Episode3
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