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Post by Sir Roland Desprez on Jun 2, 2021 0:53:09 GMT
"I will speak with him soon. So was it your oracular abilities that led you to learning about the dopplegangers?"
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Post by Diocles on Jun 2, 2021 0:56:07 GMT
"No. Some of my profession were talking about the changelings in Arinport. It's just that my spilt beer told me you were responsible!"
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Post by Sir Roland Desprez on Jun 2, 2021 1:00:27 GMT
"Ah, I see." My mood takes a downward turn at being seen as 'responsible' for this. Although I can't help but think I made the right decision. Although perhaps I just waited too long to make that decision. "So how long have you been traveling with caravans?" I say, trying to change the subject.
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Post by Diocles on Jun 2, 2021 1:01:49 GMT
"Ten years, but I was an apprentice in the wilds five years before that! How long have you been a priest?"
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Post by Sir Roland Desprez on Jun 2, 2021 1:09:04 GMT
"Three years. But I also trained for about five years before that. Seems an age though."
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Post by Diocles on Jun 2, 2021 1:10:49 GMT
"Using the simple arithmetic I've been taught, I gauge I am older than you!" I laugh and slap the table, spilling my drink. I look at the spilled drink and express sudden shock, then look up and stare at Kestal. Then my face breaks into a grin. "Just joking."
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Post by Sir Roland Desprez on Jun 2, 2021 1:19:09 GMT
I tense up and then relax and chuckle. "Well played Jund. I see you have a sense of humor." I turn serious. "Do you have any idea how we might be able to ensure that each of us is 'us' and not one of them? I am absolutely paranoid now knowing that anyone might be a doppleganger."
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Post by Diocles on Jun 2, 2021 1:22:11 GMT
"Well, for you, it's obvious. A doppelganger would not be able to wield the power of a priest. I mean a true priest such as you. I know most priests are just warm bodies filling the roles." I turn to Anak. "Not sure about Anak, though! I said it before, and I'll say it again: I doubt even a doppelganger with all its skill could copy a beauty as perfect as Anak's!" I raise my cup in silent toast to his beauty, truly an Ideal form made flesh. "And that leaves me..." I cock a bushy eyebrow.
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Post by Sir Roland Desprez on Jun 2, 2021 1:34:15 GMT
"I would imagine you have qualities that would be hard to mimic. Can you share at least a bit of one?"
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Post by Diocles on Jun 2, 2021 1:35:14 GMT
"A bit of what?"
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Post by Sir Roland Desprez on Jun 2, 2021 1:46:31 GMT
"I mean let us know something you can do that a changeling likely could not that we could ask you to do to verify your identity."
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Post by Diocles on Jun 2, 2021 1:49:13 GMT
I shrug. "There is nothing I can do that a doppelganger could not, especially if the creatures adopt our memories as well, as is suspected! I am a simple Sentinel, not touched by the gods as you are in religion, or as Anak is in beauty!"
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Post by Diocles on Jun 2, 2021 3:27:58 GMT
I slap the table once more and lean in. "But you two must understand this point: we tell no one about the existence of doppelgangers. No one. We three here, the Sentinels of the world, and King Judal are the only ones who know. Of course we Sentinels keep such secrets out of occupational habit if nothing else, so I know none of us will mention shapeshifters. I trust the King. He is a species of statue anyway. But I need agreement from you two right now! Never to speak of this to the ignorant."
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Post by Sir Roland Desprez on Jun 2, 2021 11:48:10 GMT
"Why so Jund? Shouldn't we warn those close to us?"
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Post by Diocles on Jun 2, 2021 12:04:24 GMT
"No. Think about it. What happens if rumor of doppelgangers spreads? 'No, you honor. I didn't commit that crime. It was a doppelganger.' 'Yes, your honor, I killed him because he was a doppelganger' to get away with murder."
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