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[h2][color=darkorchid][i][b]Victoria Belmont[/b][/i][/color][/h2][i][b][color=9932cc]Half-Elf, Bard, Level 5[/color][/b][/i]
[color=9932cc][i][b]HP:[/b][/i][/color] 33 / 33	[color=9932cc][i][b]Armor Class:[/b][/i][/color] 16	[color=9932cc][i][b]Conditions:[/b][/i][/color] N/A
[color=9932cc][i][b]Location:[/b][/i][/color] Coach House
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	Victoria was thankful for the help with the fire, coming from Lizbeth. It was a trifling matter, but necessary if they didn't want to spend the rest of their night in shivering discomfort. And she was a lady who enjoyed her creature comforts. There was already enough in the way of embers to get a pot of tea going with reliability, so that became her next priority. There was a brief pause to buckle on her sword; one may call it paranoia, but after the little emergency they all just had (especially Baronfjord), this did not seem like an evening to take additional chances when it wasn't necessary. There was a brief moment while she rearranged her daggers to best accommodate her long blade, but things were settled when she moved her latest acquisition of sharpened, multilayered steel to the back of her belt in a more or less horizontal position. 

	Taking to Lizbeth's advice to handle the issue with Toombes, Victoria nodded her head in acknowledgement and returned to her animated swine. The brilliantly constructed leather knapsack with her ritual materials therein. Many of these were recovered from Constable Cavendish, or taken as payment from their previous job, and luckily she has everything that she needed for a longer casting of [i]Gentle Repose[/i]. [color=9932cc]"An interesting portion of magic, this one - preserves the fallen from the ravages of decay temporarily, but has the additional effect of protecting them from reanimation as an undead minion. Also, this allows one a greater amount of time to apply resurrection magics, barring other factors."[/color] She consulted her books about the ceremony moving forward. [color=9932cc]"I should only require two coins... but even this may be replaced with the application of an arcane focus. Yes, this is straightforward. I can help Toombes when he arrives."[/color] 

	But it looked like, while the wait for the corpse continued, Lizbeth needed some tending to, herself. Hard to answer questions concerning the nature of her preferred school of magic. [color=9932cc]"BB is correct,"[/color] she began, intentionally using her associate's less formal name in a attempt to make the conversation a bit more relaxed. [color=9932cc]"It is simply a school of arcane practice, like any other. No better, no worse. [i]But[/i],"[/color] she emphasized, [color=9932cc]"it can attract certain sorts of people to it. Moreover, it contains very powerful magics, the sway of which concerns matters of life, entropy, healing and harming, both. Such powers can corrupt the unwary. However, Miss L'Rose: Necromancy, in and of itself, is not evil. [i]Most[/i] Necromancy. It does skirt the line sometimes. Such is the nature of power. Intent matters a lot. So does execution. It is a reason why I try to walk a path of ethical neutrality, especially as far as my magic is concerned."[/color]

	Now fully equipped and possessing her ritual books, Victoria was ready to see to the remains of the once-acquainted man to the L'Roses. [color=9932cc]"Let us see what may be done about your friend. His remains deserve a proper eternal rest."[/color]