And going back a while, do we know for sure that Lasrane hasn't been playing us?

I seem to remember something trying to confirm his story before.

He'd have to be quite good at faking memories. And we checked out some of his information that seems to have checked out, if I remember right.
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Okay.

Mike, correct me if I was wrong.

Also, I just noticed, this thread is OCC, while the others were OOC?  "Original Character Conversations"?

You down with OCC?

Funny :) Good catch!

Right, I think I may have been thinking of Rifts or something. Can't change the name of a thread so we'll just roll with OCC for this one.

Yeah, you're correct Jan in regards to Lasrane. What he showed in his memories seems to corroborate what he said. It would be very difficult to fake those memories intentionally. There's the possibility that he's had memories implanted that aren't real, but that's both highly improbable and also very difficult.

OK, so just to recap, and to make sure I interpret things correctly.
- Lasrane's story seems to be true, even if his story may be missing important parts that he decided to omit
- The most likely way that the Order knew about the meeting spot would be by having captured Lasrane
- if he was captured, the Order was likely informed somehow from the hospital or someone there (?)
- The agents that were 'waiting' were from the Order, which means that they now know more or less that Zelpuz was waiting there
- The question is, they must have known about this when Zelpuz was there earlier that day, but seemingly not who to look for, or wanted to see what Zelpuz would do. I guess he should be more careful about going back there.

Yep, that about sums it all up.

Upper right corner under private messages is 'edit thread' - you can change the title there if you want.

So if he has been captured, as being suggested, it's quite possible Lasrane is being held in a cell currently?

Assuming he's alive and assuming he's captured by the local Order of Ashes chapter that's certainly logical. If either of those assumptions don't hold true then that's much less likely.

I assume he could also be captured by someone else (who knows what people accuse him of), but the Order was involved in questioning. Many options. And yes, possibly not alive. Let's see if we can find out more. We could for example see if the strange secret meeting place where the Captain went once is still active, follow up on military information, ... and?

Also remember that technically speaking you don't know if Lasrane ever saw the note you left him saying when and where to meet. You left him unconscious on the steps of a hospital with a letter on him. So there's even a chance he knows nothing of the note and someone got it ahead of time and is investigating who wrote it.

Opaque times these are...

Argh, should have just implanted a memory in his brain ... but not sure if I can even do that. Oh well.

That would be a cool trick. Just rewrite someone's entire history of memories... very ghost in the shell, minus the wires.

Tar the goblin turned elven mind mage could do it in Palladium Fantasy. ;)

Yeah, it can be done, but you'd need some higher level psionic powers that what any of you guys possess. There's a reason why so many people persecuted the Mespah way back.

So just a quick recap of what you know and your current situation, and from there tell me what the PCs are going to strive for next:

1) Yuu's parents are under house arrest. They seem well. The exact reason of their forced isolation is unknown, but the perpetrating party is likely members of the Reforger faction within the Ossylian government. This is the more militant-minded, hawkish of the three factions. Given the Jin family history within the military it's slightly odd that they would take actions against them.

2) Ossylia is still under martial law, with curfews and blockades with ID checks in certain areas. Immigration control is heightened still following the brief period of isolation. The exact reason for all the enhanced security is unknown, but could be related to the Chlornetherium explosion the PCs are well aware of.

3) Yuu's friend and former classmate, Saya, is a Lieutenant in the Ossylian forces and is currently assigned to border protection within the capital, read Immigration control. She's volunteered to inquire after any reports of missing chlornetherium shipments, or any expected large incoming shipments, pursuant #2 above.

4) The status of Lasrane is unknown, but it is likely he is either captured by the local Chapter of the Order of Ashes, or dead. In any case the local Chapter is aware that someone was involved in Lasrane in some capacity and had been monitoring the meeting point the PCs designated when they handed him to a hospital before fleeing the capital. After an attempt to meet Lasrane the PCs spied upon Order agents who were staking out the place through a third party. It is likely the local Chapter is aware that Zelpuz had encountered or become involved with Lasrane in some capacity, making his status in the city uncertain at best and dangerous at worst.

5) Outside of Ossylia Myria went on to Arghos to report directly to the Order HQ from there. Yuu's family in Hasheli, a local governor, is fine and has largely been kept in the dark as to any political machinations in the capital; whatever is happening has been largely contained within the city is seems.

Thanks for the recap. I am kind of unsure where to go next. A few things we may consider:
- check out the hospital where we dropped of Lasrane to find out what happened.
- check out the secret meeting point from the Blood Runners (long time ago), just to see, I expect someone will show up there.
- follow up on Yuu's family
- try to find out more about the chlornetherium
- leave the city before Zelpuz gets captured and the city gets hit by astroids.

Just to get a bit ahead of things, in regards to the hospital it would be safe to assume it operates similar to what we have today. Thus you will not be able to just walk in and ask after records on some random patient. So best to have some sort of game plan on how you want to investigate the hospital.

Also for Yuu's library investigations please let me know what areas he's researching.

Yes, I was sort of thinking of trying to find their check in books of the ER or so. Not sure if they have that. Or we could pretend to be Lasrane's docs from another hospital, although I am not sure we can pull that off believably.

Can anyone forge documents?

Not Vanyra.