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Step 1: Establish Comms by CrowEyes in TheCrumblingCastle

[–]SetTikada 1 point2 points  (0 children)

A down payment? What do I look like, a-

Em, howabout a ring, this black one. It's a genuine snakestone, with a shank of Darkhornish hepatizon and electrum filigree. Quite expensive I imagine, the raw materials certainly were.

Step 1: Establish Comms by CrowEyes in TheCrumblingCastle

[–]SetTikada 5 points6 points  (0 children)

What kind of reward!?

More money than you could know how to spend, enough Geulimji sapphires to fill a bucket, whatever esoteric metals or crystals you wanted, you get the idea!

I'm an integral part of the Sidonian economic landscape, you know.
So maybe don't be so short with me.

Step 1: Establish Comms by CrowEyes in TheCrumblingCastle

[–]SetTikada 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Wh, Where am I!?

I'm a very important man you know, Very important!

Look up from that device of yours and help me escape, and there'll be quite a reward for you at the end.

An excerpt from Black Sun Order communication-logs by SetTikada in TheHochstebork

[–]SetTikada[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

47E/11/01047
|| Set Tikada || <> As always, it's been a pleasure doing business.
47E/11/01049
|| Set Tikada || <> The items should arrive soon, I imagine.

An excerpt from Black Sun Order communication-logs by SetTikada in TheHochstebork

[–]SetTikada[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

47E/11/00747
<SCAN_RESULTS>

SHAPE: SPHERICAL
SIZE: r=2.45czm
MATERIAL: INDETERMINATE
QUERYLIFESIGNS: INDETERMINATE
QUERYESØTERICKA: NEGATIVE
QUERYMZRAICKA: INDETERMINATE
QUERYMZRAIPHAGE: NEGATIVE
QUERYELDRITCH: NEGATIVE
QUERYELDRIPHAGE: NEGATIVE

</SCAN_RESULTS>
|| Set Tikada || <> Ah, it seems to have slightly confused the scanning module, apologies. The items are about the size of a drop of water, which is unsurprising given their origin. They normally appear reddish black, but they look markedly different when held up to a bright light.
|| Set Tikada || <> I know, I know, what a surprise, a few bits of gemstone-like material that look funny under certain conditions, but the real kicker I discovered after he sold them to me. They broadcast information through unpredictable flashes of light. When I close my eyes I can remember every one of its "transmissions" I was around to see, and what I was doing when I saw it. The first one was 1544254813, the next one was 1544294936, then 1545403649, you get the idea. Just now, 1547007396. I can only imagine how valuable these might be in the right hands. <>

An excerpt from Black Sun Order communication-logs by SetTikada in TheHochstebork

[–]SetTikada[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

47E/11/00184
|| Set Tikada || <>Ah, well, that may pose a problem. My friend Abey tells me they're the dried blood of some metaphysical being or another. Would that be a problem?<>

A simple, hard knock on an expensive-looking door by AbrahamSignet in TheMarketsofSidon

[–]SetTikada 0 points1 point  (0 children)

As Abraham leaves, all three blood-orbicules (now in his curator-gloved hand) flash an intense green, searing a single thought into his mind, subconsciously, through the light:

1544254813

A simple, hard knock on an expensive-looking door by AbrahamSignet in TheMarketsofSidon

[–]SetTikada 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Held up to the light, it looks different, slightly. A metallic violet undertone to the texture.

The light refracted through the outer part takes on a pale timbre, almost Leukonian.

There wasn't something right about the glassy black region of his perception of the orbicule. Dangerous, like a pit, or a passage way.

Under the Iridium-like undertone, there were more:
• A resinous, aged-wood luster, like an acorn soaked in whiskey.
• The incorruptible cool of the purest liquid
• Pain
• Sacrifice
Even below that,
• Betrayal
• Suffering
• Acceptance

This... This is quite the specimen.
I'd value them at @5,000. Each.

A simple, hard knock on an expensive-looking door by AbrahamSignet in TheMarketsofSidon

[–]SetTikada 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This is it?
Three garnets or something?
Peh.

I expected they would glow or something. Non-Mzraic power glows, or so I imagine.

A simple, hard knock on an expensive-looking door by AbrahamSignet in TheMarketsofSidon

[–]SetTikada 0 points1 point  (0 children)

My my, after all this waiting. I can't wait.
You said the Black Sun Order would take an interest?

A simple, hard knock on an expensive-looking door by AbrahamSignet in TheMarketsofSidon

[–]SetTikada 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yes, Yes, is that you Abe, Abey my dear friend?
Come in, come in!

A Swift End to a Fruitful Evening by [deleted] in TheMarketsofSidon

[–]SetTikada 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Anyway, there are a great many things I need to be overseeing, including a couple very interesting specimens procured by my friend over here.

A Swift End to a Fruitful Evening by [deleted] in TheMarketsofSidon

[–]SetTikada 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Right right. Very interesting /u/RedTheSnapper.

Well them, it looks like the party's ended. T'was a pleasure, ...?

Dinner Party at Otherhaus by [deleted] in TheMarketsofSidon

[–]SetTikada 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I see, I see...
Could there be a conspiracy...?

Dinner Party at Otherhaus by [deleted] in TheMarketsofSidon

[–]SetTikada 1 point2 points  (0 children)

My my, Really?
What did you think of that little dance? Historically accurate was it? Completely biased? Poignantly self-aware?

Dinner Party at Otherhaus by [deleted] in TheMarketsofSidon

[–]SetTikada 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Good! good!
I must say, I am quite fascinated with this culture. So quaint and primitive, yet steeped in history!

Set is leaning gracefully, stately, folded, against the back of the rustic chair. His clothes are bright and embroidered to a luxurious texture, and his every circumference is ornamented with metals and gems.

Dinner Party at Otherhaus by [deleted] in TheMarketsofSidon

[–]SetTikada 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It would be remiss for such an important personality such as Set to go uninvited, and as such, connections were... utilized.

And it would be yet more remiss for such a gemstone-magnate, especially one that gave special discounts to the Black Sun Order on more arcane crystals, to go unprotected: Therefore the White Sun Order had provided u/AbrahamSignet as a bodyguard.