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Hello-hello! Following up on the House of Manouk event —

RECAP: There are three necromancers exiled in the secret dimension, stuck on different levels of the House: Manouk on the terrace, Lisanther in the Grounds and young Deckarius, jailed in the dungeons. They seem hostile towards each other. Lisanther at once point interacted with the visiting Dawn's Reach Trade Company, trading for scrolls to break his chains and exit the House. At some point, the Dawn's Reach Trade Company decided to cruelly honour its commitment to Lisanther by ripping apart the chain-breaking scrolls and hiding them.

What we know or has been shared so far:

■ Literature found in the House speaks of a necromancer of Taravast, who was found guilty after killing hundreds in a bid to gain immortality for his master.

■ Wrath confirmed the viciousness of Taravast's necromancers.

■ Stephen Strange suspects Manouk, Lisanther and Deckarius might be the same person at different points in time.

■ Licyn shares Deckarius plans to kill the other necromancers.

■ Lisanther was trading on rather perverse terms with the Dawn's Reach Trade Company...

■ ...who found out something bad enough about the House of Manouk that even it cut tiees.

A couple more clues were doles out — please share them, ideally in your own posts, or in the posts already made ♥

The event is set to draw to a close by 12 August, but in practice you have until around 17 August to wrap up before — courtesy of the waypoint tokens that have been found! — the party is transported back to Akhuras.

■ Characters who have obtained a chain-breaking scroll piece can have a final check-in if they want to give their parchment pieces to Lisanther and free him. (Decision deadline: 23:59 BST, 11 August)

■ Lockwood would industriously like to set fire to the necromancers on the way out, to avenge the spirits stuck in the House of Manouk. Chip in help or thoughts (Decision deadline: 23:59 BST, 11 August)

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Why Lockwood is on team arson ...

Canonically speaking Lockwood has a bad history with necromancers. In his reality they are cruel and unnatural not only to the living, but also the dead. While he appreciates that some of the group have necromantic magic and are not like Bickerstaff, between Strange's post, Clara's post and his own experiences in this dimension, he's pretty sure the three here need to be nuked from orbit.

While he's not as pro ghost rights as say Lucy, his experiences through her with Annabelle, Skull and the Bone Glass are such that he doesn't believe in keeping them around to torment and exploit them. This all boils down to he is on team burn this place to the ground, salt the ashes and call it a day. Expectation being; no more necromancers and the spirits get to move on. And while this may not be the ultimate fate, he'll take the consolation prizes as a win.

I am absolutely open to him being talked down from his desire to find all the salt shakers in the house and a book of matches. Otherwise ... anybody got a light?

ETA: Plans for Lockwood if Operation Arson moves forward

Though he was initially on the most apathetic side, Lockwood is now looking hard at the environment for ways he knows to free the ghosts. These ways include; fire, salt, iron but mainly fire.

I can offer him as tribute for putting up a network post to the effect; "These spirits deserve to be released and allowed to rest in peace. This is what I'm going to try to do to achieve that goal. Oh, and necromancers are bad and should not be released."

In canon, Lockwood would be searching out Sources to set fire to as a way to try to release the spirits. Since he can't find Sources here, his fall back position -and he's speculating here, he doesn't have proof this will work- is to set fire in the areas where the necromancers appear to center their power. So the Maze, the shuttered hall room in the Grounds, the bare stone room in the Dungeons.

Any documents discussing 'Others talk of using spells, the elements and even mass sacrifice to achieve immortality' are going to be his first layer of kindling, with additional scrolls added to the pile. Note: Lockwood is in burn it all mode, but OOCly please feel free to remove any documents that more level headed characters might see and think could be useful in the future.

I'm sure there are things I'm not thinking of here, so an open bullet point for discussions!

Edited 2023-08-09 19:24 (UTC)

Heya! Arson rally here! Since this has to be done before Aug. 17, please be available to comment/tag by then, if you still plan to participate.