Patrick Frye!pR.BaFF/uk 19 Oct 2015 2:50:25 PM No.41117747>>41117865
>>41117714 >Yeah, that's right. Hero of the people, Patrick Frye! It was probably best not to mention that said lack of fatalities wasn't really due to any particularly high moral standards but the fact that he had a tendency to run away. The more mystery, the better! As long as it didn't get blurted out later.
Ha, ha, haaa... yeah...
>A very awkward chuckle at the damages comment, given that he hadn't even a coin to his name. Okay, that was a bit of an embellishment, he had three coins, specifically, the sum of which could probably by him some egg on toast and an orange juice. It's not as if he had to plan ahead or anything.
Right, anyway, you were saying something about system processing and what-not.
>Perhaps he'd gotten a little bit too comfortable with this situation. For being what was essentially a moderate-value prisoner, Patrick was starting to feel, and behave, like he was simply hanging out, albeit with added chains.
Victoria Neige!aLEJudith. 19 Oct 2015 4:05:08 PM No.41117865>>41117879
>>41117747 Indeed.
>She takes out a note book and starts to write down what facts she already knew about the mage.
You'll 'interviewed' as it's called here, your personal information and crimes recorded, filed away for future encounters with law enforcement, from there...
>Scribble scribble.
Well either I or the court will be deciding what to do with you. Probably not death, likely some form of labour to pay off damages to that out post.
>She pauses as she finishes her notes and looks up at Patrick.
Plus any other insistences of damage that may have occurred between then and now.
>She then shuts her book and prompts the driver to get going. Which they do and the two of them head off to another part of the city.
Patrick Frye!pR.BaFF/uk 19 Oct 2015 4:14:43 PM No.41117879>>41118065
>>41117865 >Well, there was that cold attitude again. So much for thinking he'd gotten lucky this time around. Plus, 'probably' not death wasn't exactly the most encouraging announcement, and sticking to manual labour wasn't exactly in his plans for the near future.
>There was only a limited amount of time left before things got into the 'no way out' zone, and it wasn't as if he'd learned anything useful from being in the city. With the way things were going, Patrick figured he might as well surrender himself to his usual methods - go along with it and hope there's something worth all the trouble at the end.
Victoria Neige!aLEJudith. 19 Oct 2015 6:29:42 PM No.41118065>>41118317
>>41117879 >It was a quick drive from the church to the southern garrison where the next part of Patrick's ordeal would take place.
It's the thought that counts.
>Taking him along through the facility's front entrance rather then where prisoners were normally taken, they past a training field, a cafeteria, and an armoury before Patrick's processing begins. He's taking to a plain looking room with only a camera and a white backdrop behind it.
First, mugshots. Stand in front of the camera and follow the photographer's instructions.
Patrick Frye!pR.BaFF/uk 19 Oct 2015 9:20:51 PM No.41118317>>41119468
>>41118065 >It was all a bit of a nuisance, really. Ordinarily, if he'd been captured in the past, it wasn't particularly difficult to escape. He'd melt through the handcuffs and just leave with what he'd taken, hiding it away in his home away from home. This time it was different, and he'd actually been taken all the way to Empyrean to get official mugshots, documents, the works. And here he thought he'd be able to keep escaping forever.
>Credit to General Neige, of course. Were it anyone else, he'd have run a long time ago, but her ice magic was a threat on its own. She'd taken him in a one-on-one, and to have someone like that guarding him at all times whilst in the middle of what could be considered 'enemy' territory meant trying to force his way out would be suicide.
>So, he subjected himself to processing. Photographs, fingerprints, records. Naturally, he lied through his teeth about his birthplace and background - nothing he did was going to risk his home and family, Patrick made damn sure of that. Besides, it's not like anyone knew people from the island around these parts, all cooped up in their magic academies and hiding everything away from the world.
>So he became Patrick Frye from the village of Dunmar, Astrolia. Not like people were going to actually check whether there was a village called that, or so he hoped. Besides, this was just paperwork, the questions wouldn't probe too deep and were simply for filing's sake to begin with.
>No, the part he was worried about would come after that. The how's, the why's, and being interrogated was very different to filling out forms and answering the basics.
Victoria Neige!aLEJudith. 20 Oct 2015 4:01:20 PM No.41119468>>41119593
>>41118317 >The room the General and Patrick were in was built to contain and not for décor. Grey solid stone walls, a thick heavy iron door, and a metal table with two chairs. The both of them sat opposite of each other and no one else was in there with them. Just her and him once again.
>The next dreaded phase of the processing. Called in 'interview' by the royal guard, but there was no avoiding the fact that it was an interrogation. Though, with Victoria's own input, interrogations had moved from forcing the criminal to admit something to admit the truth. She knew all too well that when under pressure weaker people will do whatever it takes to make it stop. Lie, blame others, admit to things they never even did. To the General, that made for weakness in the system as a whole, it was suppose to prosecute the guilty and let the innocent go free, not blindly beat a confession out of whoever they could grab.
>That meant incentive to cooperate rather then intimidation. So to begin that incentive, Victoria had something arranged for him. The door swings open and the smell of freshly roasted meat spreads throughout the room. A solider had brought in a large platter and sets it down on the table. Rested upon it was a meal that Patrick would recognize; roasted wyvern tail, with a tinge of venom for extra tang.
You've been well behaved, and I appreciate that. Not often that processing goes this smoothly.
Patrick Frye!pR.BaFF/uk 20 Oct 2015 5:21:58 PM No.41119593>>41119630
>>41119468 I'm in the middle of a city I barely know, full of mages that I suspect are just as powerful as you or I, if not better. Where am I gonna run? What's being a hassle going to get me?
>Though he was a fool in certain aspects, such as social manners and the ability to keep his pride down, it seemed the man knew when he was outmatched. Or, perhaps it was his cowardly nature showing through, the instinct to run or co-operate.
On the other hand, I settle down, I get free food. Not that it makes the chains any better to deal with, but I like to make the best of where I'm at.
>For the moment, Patrick simply dug in. No hesitation, no weird 'guilty party refusing generosity because they know they've sinned' craziness, just a hungry guy with a plate of his favourite food, and boy did that go down quick. Still, the fact that he was talking so loosely already revealed how little he knew about Empyrean, and how little he recognised his own strength. Assuming mages of their level was a commonplace thing? Clearly he hadn't encountered many.
Victoria Neige!aLEJudith. 20 Oct 2015 5:56:46 PM No.41119630>>41119664
>>41119593 >As she watches him eat she learns a few more things about him. The fact that he thought people like him and her were common here... probably meant Astrolia wasn't where he was from. But that detail can be dealt with later.
Actually, strength like ours is very rare Mister Frye. I'd say that we both outmatch the common mage in Termina. Perhaps not the ones in the Church's possession, but strong all the same.
>And while he made a slip up here and there at least he had sense enough to know when to cooperate. Some people didn't and that made for some very long and annoying interviews. The more she knew about the more she could work her way into knowing what she wanted.
Speaking of church possessions, how many relics have you... liberated from them so far?
Patrick Frye!pR.BaFF/uk 20 Oct 2015 6:31:23 PM No.41119664>>41119758
>>41119630 Huh? Really? Well, you'd know better than me, I guess, but isn't this place supposed to contain the best mages on the continent?
>Maybe he'd overestimated them. Had his chances at getting out of here gone up? Even if they were weaker than he thought, there was still a numbers advantage, surely. That, and it was possible she was lying to him to try and see how he'd react.
>In either case, her second question was a bit more to the point, and was also rather interesting.
Wait, they don't keep track of that? I would've thought if these things meant so much to them, everyone'd know just how many are gone. I've just been taking them as I go.
Victoria Neige!aLEJudith. 20 Oct 2015 7:29:03 PM No.41119758>>41119789
>>41119664 It does, but I believe they have yet to touch upon aspects of the elements that we both have. Flames that burn so easily, ice that dominates what it touches...
Others would be hard pressed to pull something like that off.
>His response to her other question was expected, so she explained her reasoning.
We have, but you'd be surprised at how many people will either try and claim another's work as their own. Or blame their crimes on the innocent.
Sorting it out is a process in itself, but I find it's better then letting an injustice be done.
>She hums in thought as she thinks about the reports.
Though given the details and following the common patterns in each one I'd say that number is... Twenty-two? Is that about right?
Patrick Frye!pR.BaFF/uk 20 Oct 2015 7:47:22 PM No.41119789>>41119829
>>41119758 Would've been 23 if you'd not opted to stop me, and given your apparent disdain for the church, it makes me wonder why you did.
>Whose interrogation was this again? Perhaps he was just trying to make a point to dissuade the growing notion in his mind that she knew a lot more than she was letting on. Either that, or she'd already done her homework, and that was worrying.
Aya Brea!aLEJudith. 20 Oct 2015 8:15:57 PM No.41119829>>41120342
>>41119789 When you swear loyalty to a kingdom, you have to serve it as a whole. Not bits and pieces.
>Though if she had the choice, she'd never associate with them at all.
My personal views and theirs clash, that's the gist of my animosity and theirs for me.
>She probably didn't need to remind him about how upset the High Priest was with her when she didn't hand Patrick over to her like an obedient slave.
Plus if you had waited until the relic was down the road a bit, I would have left it to the Church to deal with. Buuuut... Paladins are less inclined to take prisoners if they're not mages. And those are are forced to work for the Church. Having to bend to their beliefs and follow ever command to the letter.
"Or face divine retribution" so they say. Though the divine must think that beatings, brainwashing, torture, and experimentation are suitable forms of punishment.
>Sure a good whipping or few hours in ice always seemed to get those that didn't wanna follow orders to listen, but there was a point where it did more damage then good.
I personally think they do shoddy work, but they haven't taken any of my pointers yet. The giant cauldrons of boiling water they put people into for example runs far too hot. A cooler temperature would have them suffer longer without running the risk of killing them..
>She pauses a bit
too quickly.
>Weather this was her morbid sense of humour or her actual thoughts on the matter was up in the air, but she doesn't linger on it very long before prodding Patrick with another question.
What's your motivation for stealing those relics?
>She couldn't assume it was purely for profit. He didn't seem the type for that.
Patrick Frye/(Baff no trip) 21 Oct 2015 5:57:48 AM No.41120342>>41120724
>>41119829 ...
>Well, that took a dark turn. Sure, he wasn't a particularly big fan of the Church given what they were trying to hide, but to think their lust for control went to that kind of extent. On the one hand it made things all the more risky, but it also made the endeavour more worthwhile.
Lucky on the one hand, unlucky on the other.
>Lucky that he got caught by the right person, but the fact he got caught at all was the problem, particularly given her most recent chatter. The next question snapped him out of those thoughts and on to new ones, wondering just how to describe that sort of thing without giving too much away. It's not like he planned on spilling everything and walking away, there was too much at stake to give the details to the Kingdom who would simply hide them away.
Curiosity.
>A simple statement, but one that was at least partially true. There certainly was more to it, but someone like himself wouldn't have taken up the challenge if he weren't personally interested in the results.
They're a set of interesting items. The books are a good read and the others tell a lot simply from the way they're designed. It's a big, wide puzzle, and you guys are hiding away all the important pieces.
Victoria Neige!aLEJudith. 21 Oct 2015 2:11:58 PM No.41120724
>>41120342 >Ah so he was that type of man hmmm.
That's a lot of ire to draw to oneself for just curiosity.
>There had to be more to it then that... Maybe a bit more prodding will get the full truth out of him.
There has to be enough goal in mind for all this? I mean even if you figure out something new, it doesn't mean anything if you don't make something of it.
Patrick Frye!pR.BaFF/uk 21 Oct 2015 3:24:45 PM No.41120926>>41120991
>Not a good enough answer, huh? Well, it was a pretty general one, and this Pretty General was too clever for that. Still tucking in to his food, Patrick took a good swallow before continuing, using the chewing time to think of how to approach the conversation.
That depends on what you find, doesn't it? Sometimes you find a puzzle piece, and you can't help but want to see the finished picture if only to see what it is. As each piece starts to become a whole, maybe the picture itself becomes intriguing.
>Again, all the truth, but without the crucial details, such as the how, the why, then when and the what. Funny how a person could waffle out the truth on a relevant subject without actually saying anything.