The Heretic Knowledge Vault:Current events

From The Heretic Knowledge Vault

For older versions, see Current events/Archive. SPOILERIFIC! Read the comic first!

As of 6 February 2009, Sarine, who's showing a bit of wear and tear, is the center of action, as she desperately searches for some way to not only keep the I-bomb from going off again, but also keep the elves from making a bad situation worse by weaponizing Senilis. Her attempts to get the Tsuirakuan government to quietly put the kibosh on the elven plans didn't come off, to put it mildly, as Meji's Grandfather and General Izayoi have reached the conclusion that the only way to meet the threats is to use force. This didn't sit well with Sarine, and there's a hole punched in a wall somewhere in Tsuirakushiti to prove it.

Predictably, Sarine is berating herself for possibly starting a war rather than defusing a threat -- she does this a lot -- and is hatching a plan to get herself, Meji, Jon, Sara, and maybe even Bani Igaaru into a position to keep things from blowing up -- she does this a lot too. After Meji revealed that Ian had fenced the book on the Lorenzel Excavations at a Tsuirakushiti bookstore ("Arcana Unearthed"), Sarine swapped the proprietor an elven knowledge crystal to get it, and the gang is now trying to get clandestine access to a warp gate, via a ruse involving Sara posing as Bani's country-bumpkin cousin from Farrel. This probably will not end well.

Still no news from Emerylon, the Ensigerum village, etc., but life probably isn't the greatest there either.

Incidentally, in the parallel universe of Errant Road, both currently active threads are also careening toward encounters of some ill-defined but probably violent kind. It's just a violent world.