Board Thread:Roleplay/@comment-28358106-20171226225247/@comment-28358106-20180124184422

"Perish the thought," Adelaide says matter-of-factly. "Had I wanted you excluded from the proceedings, Mister Baku, you would now still remain at the mercy of my seneschal. No, this conversation, I think, will be the richer for your presence.  Now, let me see here..."

As she speaks she puts on reading glasses, the pair appearing in her hand as if from nowhere. She takes a puff from her cigarette as she lifts a piece of paper from her desk and begins to read, blowing the smoke out slowly.

"...Hmm. I find it quite surprising, Master Markel, that knowing what you do about the powers whose favor you have begged, you continue to tap beyond the veil and take what spirits you do.  If my reports are to be believedand I have no reason to doubt them---your number of Magic Implements reaches now into the hundreds, rapidly approaching the thousands."