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Webcomic Rogues of Clwyd-Rhan: Ritualisation [[Sanderon narrates.]] No... as I said, she was small - lanky, mind, but small. And she had big faerie ears, wings, fangs... and she was purple. Not all that human-like. But she may have changed her shape later. / Caption: "She completed the Rite? After you caught her?" asked Kel. / Caption: "Rite?" asked Jodoque. / Caption: "Rite of Serfdom. A year of voluntary slavery..." Kel briefly fell silent. / Caption: "That was a big crime, you know. Many of us would have killed you for that."
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Webcomic Rogues of Clwyd-Rhan: Negotiation Caption: "I know," said Sanderon. / [[Sanderon narrates.]] We went down that path one small step at a time. In fact, Corvinus... but I'm getting ahead of myself. We calmed her down, insisting that we meant her no harm... and that we had more interesting things for a faerie Servant to do than wash dishes. ... and she was all ears!
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Webcomic Rogues of Clwyd-Rhan: Observation [[Ottar listens in from outside the tent.]] / [[Ottar puts two and two together.]] / Narration: Outside the tent, something else was all ears. Ottar, who had been sent to keep an eye on the unpredictable Raven Corby, had been shocked at the breach of ritual that Sanderon had confessed to, and intrigued by Kel's barely-expressed suspicion that Bess' fay servant might have been the same person as his mentor. / [[Sanderon narrates. Scene of Wythllew's run-in with the Keepers of the Shrine.]] / Narration: Sanderon continued. / Sanderon: She was from an old clan of woodland faeries and had expected to serve her Rite at the shrine instead of out in the sticks. But she'd got on some Shriner's bad side.
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Webcomic Rogues of Clwyd-Rhan: [[Wythllew in the past, discussing the more distant past. Fire Elves show as part of her mental picture.]] / [[The distant past: Dhouards, covered from head to toe, crack the whip over naked Fire Elf Slaves carrying goods.]] / [[Wythllew's mental image of contemporary Fire Elf guards at the shrine being frightened by the sight of a Dhouard costume.]] / [[The present: Sanderon talking] / Sanderon: And guess what? She just loved the idea of robbing the shrine! She even had a good idea how to do it! / [[Sanderon quotes Wythllew's argument from 50 years earlier]] / Wythllew: Some of the watchfolk are Fire Elves. For many an age they were for slavedom bred by the Douards. And the Douards... changed them. Wrought a curse on them that passed from father unto son. The Douards are now outdied, or nearlike so. But the Fire Elves when they see Douard-garb, will be unpowersome not to heed its commands.
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Webcomic Rogues of Clwyd-Rhan: Documentation [[Sanderon narrates.]] The faerie added: I am somewhat of a chronicler. With your leave, I can fetch my book the which I am penning. It has a fulsome drawdown of Douard-garb. / We let her out of the circle. She fluttered off at once, saying "Hold on. I shall be rightsome to-back." / "And that's probably the last we'll see of her," I recall Bess saying.
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Webcomic Rogues of Clwyd-Rhan: Captivation [[Sanderon narrates]]. But a few hours later, after I'd gone home, she knocked on Bess' bedroom door, brandishing a book. It must have been riveting bedside reading! The next morning, both Bess and Atra looked like dead women walking. / [[Wythllew stands in Bess's doorway with a large book in her arms.]] / [[Bess reads the book in bed, while Wythllew watches over her.]] / Sanderon: I read it myself a few days later. Interesting stuff. But it didn't revitalise me like it did with Bess and Atra. Little did I know that Bess was also taking an interest in some other things the faerie had mentioned: The multi-generational curse, and mind control.
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Webcomic Rogues of Clwyd-Rhan: Argumentation. [[Sanderon narrates.Younger-Sanderon and Corvinus are shown arguing.]] / Sanderon: A week or so later, I was on my way to Bess, to bring back the book, when I was stopped in my tracks by Corvinus! / Sanderon: He had changed. In a way, at least. He'd gone off the mad alchemist look, but was as theatrical as ever. / Sanderon: "Sanderon!", he said. "How much further are you willing to go? To the elves, what you're doing now is blasphemy." / Sanderon: And, "Don't trust your new accomplice! She's a bad influence on you. Especially on Atra." / Sanderon: "How do you know about her? Have you been spying on us?"
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Webcomic Rogues of Clwyd-Rhan: Sanderon's narration, continued [[Sanderon narrates.]] / Sanderon: "Does it matter?" asked Corvinus. "I wish to-" / Sanderon: "Your wishes are irrelevant! You're out of our group! The rest of us have decided to go on!" / Sanderon: "Really? Are you sure Atra wants to go on? Talk to her alone, when Bess and that faerie aren't around!" / Sanderon: "Sure! If you say so!" / Sanderon: I went on my way. I was so angry, my hands were shaking as I handed back the Wythllewe Boke to Bess... what?
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Webcomic Rogues of Clwyd-Rhan: Arbitration Narration: "Wythllew?" chorused Kel and Raven. Something outside the tent stirred. A small green figure appeared in the entrance. / Narration: "Do on-go," said Ottar. "All of me is ears." / Narration: "Ottar!" yelled Raven. But before she could utter another word, Ragna, quick-thinking as always, silenced her. / Narration: Ottar was likewise possessed of a great presence of mind. "Unlucksomely, I cannot for-tell an ye would order me for to get ye out hereof. As ye hark this elderman's tale, would ye have me fetch your clothings?"
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Webcomic Rogues of Clwyd-Rhan: Disarticulation [[Ragnarok takes her hand off Raven's mouth.]] / Narration: The pleading look in Ottar's eyes was too much for Raven. / Narration: "Mfl rfghf," she said. In the interest of promoting good articulation, Ragna took her hand off the redhead's mouth. / [[Ottar dashes off to fetch Raven's clothes. Sanderon talks to Kel and raven simultaneously.]] / Narration: "All right. I shan't order Ottar to bail me out of here. Ottar, fetch me my clothes, and maybe a drink would be a good idea." / Narration: "Okay," said Sanderon. "You both know Wythllew?" / Narration: "She's bad news," said Kel. / Narration: "Friend of Leroukh's - my brother's. Gave us Ottar last Yule." said Raven. / [[Sanderon interrogates Raven.]] / Sanderon: That Ottar seems to be a bright sort of chap. You're fond of him? / Raven: ...'ess.
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Webcomic Rogues of Clwyd-Rhan: Provocation [[Raven puts on her clothes, while talking.]] / Sanderon: Tell me about your family. That Leroukh - is he scary? Swarthy? / Raven: A little. He spends most of his time in- / Sanderon: - his crow form? / Raven: Yes. He's intense. But.... we stick together. / Sanderon: He's your brother... you're Corvinus' grandchildren? / Raven: ...'ess. / Sanderon: Is he mean to you? Your brother, I mean, not poor old Corvinus. / Raven: No!
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Webcomic Rogues of Clwyd-Rhan: Sanderon digresses briefly into the subject of whether faeries are all they're cracked up to be, but he picks up soon enough. Sanderon: Sounds like Corvinus. Hard on the outside, soft on the inside. I should have listened to him..." / Sanderon: Well, anyway. We spend many months putting together the Dokkalvar costume. It had to have a dozen different characteristics that would trigger the Obedience Hex that the Dokkalvar had put on the Fire Elves, or else it wouldn't be any use at all. We weren't helped by Bess' insistence on doing everything ourselves, in complete secrecy, or by the fact that none of us could spin worth a damn. Lemme tell you, faeries aren't all they're cracked up to be. Couldn't do shoes either, come to think of it. Where was I? / Narration: Sanderon was lost in thought for a moment, then picked up again. / Sanderon: Strangely, whenever I left the cottage, I would start to feel that the idea of playing dress-up for the Shrinekeeper was silly and wouldn't work. And that Atra did look a bit nervous. But I'd come back the next day feeling really committed to the project anyway.
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Webcomic Rogues of Clwyd-Rhan: Dissimulation [[Sanderon narrates. Younger-Sanderon is at the door of Bess's cottage, talking to Younger-Atra.]] / Sanderon: One morning, Atra stopped me at the door. / [[Close-up of a nervous Younger-Atra.]] / Sanderon: "Bess is sick today," she said, sweating and avoiding my eyes. "Come back tomorrow." / [[Sanderon narrates. Younger-Sanderon at his writing desk.]] / Sanderon: But as it was, Bess was sick for a week, and by the end of that week, I no longer had any intention ever to set foot in that cottage again. I wrote to Corvinus, asking him to get in touch, but I heard nothing.
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Webcomic Rogues of Clwyd-Rhan: Apprehension [[Sanderon narrates. Younger-Sanderon bumps into Younger-Atra.]] / Sanderon: One market day, I bumped into Atra who was buying some unspun wool for the disguise. She didn't look too good - worn out, methought. I asked her how she was doing, and she said "not too bad." / Sanderon: "Not too bad?" / [[Close-up Younger-Atra.]] / Sanderon: "I'm scared, Sanderon! We're getting closer, but... she wants to send me to the Shrine!"
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Webcomic Rogues of Clwyd-Rhan: Proposition? Sanderon: It was clear to me that Atra was being controlled. I got her to admit something I'd been suspecting for a while. / [[Sanderon narrates. Atra, Wythllew and Bess at Bess's house. Atra looks tired; Bess is in bed, resting.]] / Sanderon: Bess' "sickness" hed been the result of a fight, in which Atra had knocked her down. That weakened Bess' control somewhat. But not enough. I said... / [[Younger-Sanderon pleads with Atra to come with him.]] / Sanderon: Come to me with my house. I can help you.
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Webcomic Rogues of Clwyd-Rhan: Disinclination [[Sanderon narrates.]] / [[Younger-Atra turns down Younger-Sanderon's proposal.]] / [[Younger-Atra runs off.]] / [[Corvinus and his son Craigg show up on Younger-Sanderon's doorstep.]] / Narration: "What?" she said, "and stop now?" And then she turned on her heels and left! I wrote to Corvinus again, and a week later, he showed up, bringing his son Craigg with him.
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Webcomic Rogues of Clwyd-Rhan: Admonition [[Sanderon narrates. Younger-Sanderon brings in ale for Corvinus and Craigg.]] / Narration: "I'm sorry I couldn't make it earlier," said Corvinus. "My other son was sick." He said it in a tone that told me not to ask. I knew that they had just buried the child. / [[Sanderon narrates. Younger-Sanderon is at the dinner table with Corvinus and Craigg.]] / Sanderon: I brought Corvinus up to date, apologising for not taking him seriously earlier. He was very concerned about it all. / Sanderon: "The three of you have let yourselves get used to one crime after another." / Sanderon: I had to agree. / [[Sanderon narrates. Bess and Wythllew look at Younger-Atra dressed as a Douard.]] / Sanderon: "Now, with the mind control in place, Bess will find it easy to push Atra towards... that other crime. Let's hope that Atra takes her time bringing back the Ancestor's Bone."
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Webcomic Rogues of Clwyd-Rhan: Sanderon's reconstruction of what happened with Bess, Atra and Wythllew in his absense. [[Sanderon sighed.]] / Sanderon: But in fact, as I would find out only a short while later, Atra had been to the Shrine and back that same evening, using an illegal Transportation spell and wearing the disguise. It had worked, too. Looking and sounding for all the world like a Dark Elf, she could order the Fire Elf guards to do anything no matter how vile. They had gone as far as to chase away all the other guards and hand Atra the box of bones, from which she took two. / [[On Panel, the Fire Elf Guards kneel in front of the disguised Atra, and present her with the box of Ancestor's Bones.]]
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Webcomic Rogues of Clwyd-Rhan: Exhumation [[Sanderon narrates. Younger-Atra and Wythllew are digging up a grave, with Bess keeping watch.]] / Sanderon: And later that night, which was the evening before Beltane, Bess, Atra and Wythllew were out on the graveyard, picking the freshest grave. / Sanderon: And that was the night the cottage went up in flames. I wasn't there, but I think it happened like this.
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Webcomic Rogues of Clwyd-Rhan: Incineration [[Sanderon narrates. Corvinus and Craig at the graveyard.]] / [[Bess and younger Atra brewing the potion.]] / [[The fire at Bess's cottage. Bess is dying.]] / Sanderon: Corvinus must have gone back to his youngest son's grave with Craig. He must have found it empty and drawn the obvious conclusion.... / Sanderon: The two of them dash to Bess' cottage, where they find Bess finishing the potion. Corvinus, or his son, come to blows with Vess. In the scuffle, the kitchen catches fire... and the potion is spilled over the Coraxes. Bess then uses the multi-generation Curse on them, that she learned from Wythllew.
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Webcomic Rogues of Clwyd-Rhan: Malediction Sanderon: The curse sticks to all Corvinus' offspring. Perhaps he touched his other children before washing off the potion? He had... at least one more daughter, right? / [[Kel speaks off-panel.]] / Raven: Aunt Revena. And another son after he remarried - the first person born with the curse. / Kel: Excuse me? / Kel: How did we get from that terrible story to your lot poisoning me? / Jodoque: Yeah!
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Webcomic Rogues of Clwyd-Rhan: Undomestication Sanderon: That's a good question: What made you go after Kel? / Raven: Gods... / [[Raven narrates. Craigg Corby and Ethelfried are shown being drawn by a portrait artist.]] / Raven: My father, Nutcracker Corby.... Craig, as you knew him, became a master armorer and siege engineer, married a Saxon Adventurer woman and died a wealthy man. He would sometimes change into a bird, but my mother had seen stranger things in her life. They could cope. / [[Close-up of Ethelfried.]]
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Webcomic Rogues of Clwyd-Rhan: Third Generation Raven: Those of us who were born with the curse had a tougher time. We couldn't fit in. We hid in the forests. / [[Raven narrates. Mags Corby spies on Kel and Ragnarok as they are approached by the hooded conspirators.]] / Raven: But some of us could and did find work. My sister Carrie and my cousins Mags and Jay work as spies for... someone at the court. A year ago, they came across... her. And the old witch. / [[Raven narrates. Kel notices being spied on.]] / Raven: We figureed the old one must have been one of those who caused .... you know. But the younger one saw things that the old one didn't.
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Webcomic Rogues of Clwyd-Rhan: Entry reconstructed on November 27, 2010. [[Raven Corby narrates.]] / Raven: And then all of a sudden, you show up on our doorstep! Asking for help, no less! Just a bedraggled traveller seeking succour. But if it was suckers you were looking for, it wasn't going to be us. We decided to keep an eye on you! We listened to you talking on that ball thing, and then when you stopped talking, you had fallen asleep. And suddenly, when we checked up on you again, you were gone! / Raven: So we weren't fooled. You had spotted us, tracked us down to our cottage and whatever else you had in mind, it couldn't be good.
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Webcomic Rogues of Clwyd-Rhan: Towards Annihilation [[Raven narrates. Mags and Carry look at Kel kissing Jodoque.]] / Raven: You were a threat! So we worked to learn as much about you as we could. And we started working to get you out of our lives! / [[Mags, in human form, looks at Jodoque, Kel, Ragnarok and Tamlin heading for Leppiainen's bath house complex.]] / [[Ethelfried spies on Kel, Jodoque and Ragnarok in the bath house.]] / [[Ethelfried is comforted by Hoodie.]] / Raven: We persuaded my mother to go to the bath house to spy on you. When she came back, she was very upset, but she had somehow managed to drive the fat man and the tall woman away from one another- / Narration: Ragna bristled.
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Webcomic Rogues of Clwyd-Rhan: Demonisation Ragnarok: That worn-out mattress is your mother? / Kel: That's another thing that runs in the family! / Jodoque: Hey! / Raven: Rrrr... / [[Raven practically lunges at Kel.]] / Raven: I don't have to take this, you know? Ottar, we're leaving! / Kel: Yie!
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Webcomic Rogues of Clwyd-Rhan: Running for it [[Raven walks out of the tent with Ottar. Jodoque, Kel, Sanderon, and Ragnarok eye her.]] / Raven: Razzafrazzin' / [[Kel sits up in bed, pondering. Sanderon pinches the bridge of his nose.]] / Kel: Hmmmm... / [[Kel jumps out of her bed and runs after Raven. Sanderon and Jodoque are puzzled.]] / Kel: Wait!
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Webcomic Rogues of Clwyd-Rhan: Coercion [[Kel has pinned down Raven Corby. Ragna runs out of the tent after both. Ottar snarls at Raven outside, having assumed a fearsome appearance.]] / Raven: Let me go, witch! Ottar, get her to- / Kel: Shut up! / Kel: Sorry. Just... listen, OK? I can rid you of the curse.
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Webcomic Rogues of Clwyd-Rhan: Excorcism Raven: Talk. / Kel: There isn't that much to tell, really. Sanderon did most of the work. / Kel: After the birth of my daughter, I was confined to the birth room for five days... / [[Jodoque hands Kel her dress.]] / Kel: But Mrs. Leppiainnen - thanks love... / Raven: Ahem. Do you really need to sit on me?
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Webcomic Rogues of Clwyd-Rhan: Recuperation [[Kel in the birth sauna with newborn Fay and Mrs. Leppiäinnen.]] / Mrs. Leppiäinnen: If you know the origin, the birth of something... you control it. / [[Raven is in tears with joy.]] / Kel: You, me and Sanderon know how the curse was born. We all want it to be over. So- guess what? It's over. / [[Kel narrates.]] / Kel: ... Mrs. Leppiäinnen the midwife sat up with me one day and told me about the magic of her homeland - a subject she knew intimately because of how it affected her position.
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