>>5707984The two Paladins stare at each other in silence. They both know who this description matches: the ‘Queen of Bloodrise, bride of this draconic invader from the monster-haunted mountains, is the spitting image of their own Princess Ekaterine, and her husband’s humanoid form a perfect match to her Easterling adventurer husband.
“Do you think it is here?” the young Redwell Paladin asks. “Or… A lizard in disguise?”
Ewald shakes his head, for he does not rightly know.
“What do we do, Sir Ewald?”
The elder paladin takes a deep breath, whispers a prayer for guidance, and decides…
>To privately confront Prince Rufos with these rumours, and with his suspicions, and to do what must be done if the Secondborn Prince will not act>To take his Paladin Order in force to investigate Sir Yosef’s property—the one whereupon demoniac activity seems to be centred—and to uncover what is really going on in his city>To take the best of his Paladins and ride for Blackpine—to determine the truth for himself, to rescue the Princess if possible, and to reveal and destroy the monstrous ‘nobility’ if not[Welcome back! We're leading with an interlude again, as in the last quest, before we return to directly controlling the adventures of 'Long Wang', AKA 'King Theral of Bloodrise', AKA the Dragonborn Antipaladin! We'll touch on a few other characters and the initial outcomes of major policy decisions our protagonist made last thread, and then zoom back in on his rather tense trade negotiations in Blackpine.]
[If you're just joining us, the archives of this thread can be read at
https://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/qstarchive.html?tags=reptoidqm, as well as the previous quest, though Reptilian Infiltrator isn't at all required reading.]
