>>5426582>Metallurgy:Adambomb >alt text: A copper knife with a tiger maple handle sitting on a rabbit pelt alongside copper beads and spirals.Agana: Norodom tried to kill me.
“What?! How?”
Agana: Or at least incapacitate me until the election.
She walks to the broken jar you saw here, in her room, the other night.
Agana: This was over twice my normal strength. She swore to uphold any laws I passed after the council. If I wasn’t able to make any laws, she would be free to do as she pleased.
“Where is she now?”
Agana: Campaigning with the Illa, probably to avoid consequences until the election.
“We have to do something.”
Agana: We don’t have enough evidence and pushing the matter could start a civil war, we’ll have to beat her with votes.
“I’ve got that under control. Kaori joined us and we’re moving to speak with the Ponni. Between her and the Ebbikele...”
Agana: You can’t bring it to them. Or anyone else.
“Why not?”
Agana: You saw what it can do out there. It’s the most powerful weapon in human history. We can’t pass it around The Island. If someone like Norodom, or Zees, or our parents got it, the Great Wars could start all over again.
“It’s the Treasure of the Seas. It's what you promised everyone on The Island the fleet was for. It’s your DREAM.
Agana looks out the window and sighs. She speaks without turning.
Agana: Sometimes we have to wake up. The tribes will still benefit from the Ebbikele. Thank’s to it, no one will have to pay another tribute again. And the new Fleet built with it will push The Great Peace for generations.
She turns to face you.
Agana: But the material itself has to be contained. Controlled.
“Distributing the Ebbikele is the final duty of The Great Fleet, of me.”
Agana: They’ll just have to give it back to pay next year’s tribute anyway. Why drop it off then waste time and effort collecting it again?
“And people won’t notice?”
“The tribes are growing closer but The Island is still large. No one knows the total amount that exists except me, you, the Anyaten, and a few members of the fleet. It will take a while before people will catch on.
“And by then, the Axeholder can claim it for the tribute.”
Agana: Take the Ebbikele here, where it’s safest. For it, and for The Island. When you win the election you can send the fleet for more.
“It’s meant to help the Island.”
Agana: You can’t help The Island if it tears itself apart.”
>Tell Agana you’ll stop passing out the Ebbikele.>Tell Agana you will keep passing out the Ebbikele.(Note: This is just what you are SAYING to Agana. Your actions later will be a different vote.)
