The Magistrate
Enough. You have your record, and your humiliation. I go before this becomes a spectacle for the guards as well.
He snaps the edge of his toga straight, but the gesture cannot hide the stain on his pride. The Clerk keeps writing, head lowered, while the High Priestess does not move from the door.
The Magistrate
If I stay, they will make me lose more than face. If I leave now, I may yet turn this elsewhere.
The Magistrate strides for the heavy oak doors, forcing his shoulders square. Aurelia watches him go in tight silence, her hands still poised as if she might stop him by a word alone.
The door opens with a low groan, and he passes through without looking back. The archives seem to breathe again, all the more dangerous for the absence he leaves behind.
The High Priestess
Seal it in the record. Let him carry the shame out into the daylight.
✓ Quest Accepted
Keep the magistrate from taking any evidence
“Valeria closes the door behind him and latches it. "Whew! This morning, I was waiting to enter the arena, but after all this, the arena would be a pleasant little workout. What are we to do with this evidence? He will destroy it all at the first opportunity."”
SUCCESS (Superb Agility, rolled +1)
Valeria moves at once, crossing to the oak doors and drawing them shut on the last edge of the Magistrate's retreat.
The latch bites into place with a hard click. The archive chamber feels smaller, but safer.
Valeria Asiaticus
Whew. I was ready for the arena this morning, and now that place sounds like a pleasant workout. What do we do with this evidence? He will destroy it at the first chance.
The High Priestess
Then we do not give him that chance. Keep the tablets where all can see them, and let the record outlive his temper.
The Clerk
I have it entered already, mistress. Door sealed, magistrate gone, accusation recorded.
Aurelia lets out one thin breath, eyes fixed on the shut doors, while the broken tablet and the copied notes sit side by side on the table like matched testimony.
Keep the archive evidence in public record
Quest Complete
Keep the magistrate from taking any evidence