Board Thread:Roleplaying/@comment-3293219-20150710203213/@comment-3293219-20150715123620

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Talin stepped out on the deck in front of the sewer grate, which stretched out twenty feet in front of them, possibly to serve as a port for a boat or maybe a place to fish but the place was completely abandoned.

He gently lowered Shakti to the ground, not even bothering to look as the shift gate formed behind him, a blue diamond tear in the fabric of reality that lead the way ahead, though Talin was expecting it to form and he had much bigger things on his mind.

He glanced up to his companions, each one had recieved a good beating from the escape, some worse than others...

He then looked over to Diana and the suddenly appeared Levi, quickly realising that he'd be saying this to new company as well as old.

"Looks like we've finally made it..." He said before looking up, realising that he and the shift gate had everyone's attention.

"Okay... I have something to say and...

Some of you may know but I don't want to assume that everyone does, so there are some things that I need to explain.

My name is Talin Warhaft the second, my Father is a General in the Imperial Legion and serves as the Emperor's bodyguard.

About a week ago, both he and the Emperor himself were cast into Oblivion, the Emperor has been betrayed by his most trusted advisor, Jagar Tharn." He paused for a moment, taking a deep breath to compose himself a little more, he wished that he could have slept first before making this speech but there just wasn't time.

"Tharn had me thrown in prison, because I'm one of four people on Nirn, who knows about his plan and I'm the only one in the position to do anything about it. His apprentice, Ria, also knew but was consiquently murdered soon after by his hand and I was thrown in the dungeon so that nobody else would find out.

Chances are, once he knows that I escaped with you, he'll probably want to remove you all from the picture as well, the less who know, the less danger there is to his rule." He paused for a moment to let that sink in, part of him wanted to emphesise this, to strike fear into them to make them help him but somehow he couldn't really bring himself to do that. He needed to give them a choice and just hope that they made the right one...

"Ria... Came to me in a dream, she gave me the key to my cell, so that I could free you all and get you here and she's still present, holding off death for as long as possible until Tharn's work is undone.

She said that Tharn used the Staff of Chaos to banish the Emperor and destroy her, a powerful weapon, that's the one thing that Tharn truly believes is a threat to his him. He was so afraid of it, that he had it destroyed, the pieces were scattered around Tamriel, burried in the most perrilous of places imaginable." Talin paused as he realised that there was just so much to explain but he couldn't keep their attentoin forever, it was time to cut to the chase.

"I know where one of the pieces is and I'm going after it but I can't expect anybody else to follow me. I'm not telling you to come with me, I'm not even asking you, because it is entirely up to you.

I can't promise that I'll succeed or that I'll be able to protect you, at all times, along the way. This is not going to be easy and there's no guarrantee of success but as a group, we are stronger than we ever could be on our own and considering that Tharn has eyes and ears everywhere, constantly hunting for us? I think that that's an advantage but it's entirely up to you...

Remember, no matter what you decide form here on out, you know his plan and he will hunt you down and kill you if he gets the chance. If you leave, you'll have to lay low and hide and I know that some of you may think that you could find a cave or a good alias to live under but for how long?

I believe that we have a chance, we have goal and people willing to help us achieve that goal. The result of achieving it will be clearing our names and saving ourselves from Tharn's tyranny. That is something, something that we can hold on to, something to keep us alive.

But, as I said... It isn't up to me, it's up to you... You don't owe me anything, if you believe that you have a place to stay or people that you can go to, then I understand completely, I have to do this, I have a personal stake in it but you don't...

It's now entirely up to you..."