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Chapter 5

Dark Suspicions
Added Tue Aug 15 00:09:34 2023 at level 36:

Adventurers came. Dockworkers, urchins, panhandlers, and even commoners died.
Sailors as well. But adventurers died also. They were immune to the laws of
the city when they killed on the docks, but not immune when they took rest
outside the Voralian City gates.

But the voralian shopkeepers began to grow suspicious. Victareia began to
feel that the looks and glances coming her way were no longer imaginary. She
did not belong in this city. She would move to Galadon.

Victareia wanted to be good, but Galadon was not a good city. And sometimes
her dolls were bad, very bad. She entered Galadon determined to be a good
person like her mother and start a vocational life of making dolls. Perhaps
she would make them her mother's way with simple wood and horse hair.
However, Galadon was expensive. She could not afford to build a shop here.

She stared at the tribunal recruiting office. One poster showed a paladin
standing in the market square, protecting the city. Sort of boring. Yet wait,
another showed Tribunals executing an outlander savage. In her mind, memories
of a frost giant burning her mothers doll shop came flooding back and she
paused. She thought. Maybe she could influence the laws that ignored her
childhood community on the docks. Maybe she could learn to execute savages.
Maybe she could eventually afford her own dolls shop in Galadon. Whatever the
components.

They would never accept a vigilante nor doll maker. She stared at her
scrolls and talismans. She would apply as a scribe and librarian. Put her
instruments to use. Perhaps they would accept and trainer her on that alone.
And they did.

And so Victareia Black spent day by day training in the Spire. Part of
her sought to work up the ranks of leadership and change the laws to make ALL
violence in the city illegal, even that against the less sentient and
helpless. Yet she quickly learned she was fascinated with the Vindicator's
work and methods of killing and hunting.

Killing and hunting. She would definitely need more practice. She could use
more doll ingredients as well. And so her work began.