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A speech over the bellows with the voting period begun.

Hark! You hear the voice of Faith Kruehtzer, Candidate for the League of Purple in this election. As the voting period has now begun, I shall speak some final words of my vision of the Well's future.

Our path to glory in the future Caliphate to come was started long ago by the many predecessors who sat in the Legate's seat before me. I am humbled that I have been given the privilege to sit in the same seat so that I may contribute to the Well's progress along that path.

I see great things ahead.I see a completed district protected by tall walls and full of lively streets. I see more housing where people may grow their families. I see more industrial properties where local craftspeople--tinkers, tailors, smiths, what have you--can expand and continue their work.

For those of you whom seek stability and progress, I offer continuity and persistence. Legate Lhyrian and I do not have a perfect relationship--our Prelates, Mother bless them, can attest to that--but we have both found ways to work with one another to get badly needed things done.

Many of us have put our blood, sweat, and tears into this place--our home. For many of us, it and the people we hold dear are all we have left in the cruel desert. So, let us come together and build. Only the first few bricks have been laid. We have many more to place. Thank you.

Soldier,

Forward a report of what details are known among yourself and your fellow Janissaries.

-LFK

Ruital ibn-Kharim,

Seek me should I retain my seat.

-LFK

Soldier Ibrahim al-Dawla,

Thank you for the status update.

Please refer to my earlier correspondence regarding evidence provided by the Consulate. Also, then-Scribe Amani ibn-Ibrahim has written a transcript of the events from the perspective of the surface. We will continue to seek a response from the Lieutenancy.

Furthermore, because of the unique nature of this trial, please note the following changes to the Procedure of Law under consideration by Legate Lhyrian and myself. These have not yet been finalized.

• To account for scheduling/availability, the trial shall hopefully occur with all six accused present, if this does not happen, subsequent trials will occur until all six have been trialed
• After the Opening Oration of the State and Advocate, the accused shall be given a chance to plead guilty or not guilty
• If they all plead guilty, we skip to Closing Orations
• If any plead not guilty, we proceed as per standard procedure focused on those who plead not guilty
• Prior to the Verdict, we invite the accused a chance to speak any words of contrition
• Both Legates shall sit as judges

Once you near ready to perform the prosecution, let us know and we will begin coordinate the time and date for the trial.

We Hold What Is Poured,
Legate Faith Kruehtzer

Palatial Advocate Edmund Lothere,

As a courtesy and so that you are given every possible tool and chance to ensure this upcoming trial uncovers the truth, you are being provided with the information below. I hope you return the courtesy and not dispense this information more than needed.

The six to-be-accused are:

• Armin Albertos
• Eva Keter
• Hanson Gilbracht
• Jamileh Attar
• Shum Sheroy
• Zol Nur

It is expected they will be charged with, at minimum, with capital charges of Descent into Al-Nasr (specifically the version placed upon the Stele on the date of Illul 19th, IY 7789, see attached below).

No official report has yet been published by any authority. Then-Scribe Amani ibn-Ibrahim provided me with a transcript of bellow records that summarizes events from the perspective of those on the surface. To get a full accounting of things, you would need to interview a great number of people, including the to-be-accused.

We are aware Janissaries prosecuting other Janissaries may be a conflict of interest, we have asked the Lieutenancy of the Legion to make what administrative changes they deem necessary to resolve it.

Furthermore, considering the many unique aspects of this trial, the following changes to the procedures of law are under consideration. Please note Legate Lhyrian and myself have yet to finalize our decisions on these changes and the below is an incomplete list.

• To account for scheduling/availability, the trial shall hopefully occur with all six accused present, if this does not happen, subsequent trials will occur until all six have been trialed
• After the Opening Oration of the State and Advocate, the accused shall be given a chance to plead guilty or not guilty
• If they all plead guilty, we skip to Closing Orations
• If any plead not guilty, we proceed as per standard procedure focused on those who plead not guilty
• Prior to the Verdict, we invite the accused a chance to speak any words of contrition
• Both Legates shall sit as judges

We Hold What Is Poured,
Legate Faith Kruehtzer

Descent into Al-Nasr
A person entering or facilitating the entrance of others into Al-Nasr or the depths below it without proper authorization has committed Descent into Al-Nasr. Such authorizations must be signed by a reigning legate and may be revoked at any time.

Serious: Participating in a concealed expedition

Capital: Causing great harm through an expedition

To Ruital ibn-Kharim,

I do not know how I can answer this and choose your path for you. While we have shared lengthy conversations as times, that you have so easily and swiftly shifted from one focus and goal to another leaves me with the impression I do not know you as well as you think I do.

Does the League of Purple need more participants to endorse and promote our agenda? Yes. Should those people be dedicated, patient, and capable of focusing on a goal months and years in the future? Also yes.

Does the Legion need more Soldiers to puzzle mysteries and solve crime? Yes. But climbing the ranks of the Legion is a slow and arduous process requiring a great investment of one's time and focus.

It seems to me the questions you should be asking should go deeper than merely what to do.

We Hold What Is Poured,
Legate Faith Kruehtzer

Another letter...

Janissaries of the Fourth Legion,

Please confirm if Scribe Simon Tallen provided a report about possible Tormented in the Gutters prior (approximately six hours) to the six delving below on Illul 22nd.

We Hold What Is Poured,
Legate Faith Kruehtzer

[Those who participate in the Tlonsiyya Labour Exchange Programme shall receive: stipends for relocation, housing and board, access to safety and work equipment, and salvage permits for those skilled in such work.]

Are you a physically fit adult, strong of back, will, and dedication?

Tlonsiyya has vacancy for up to five hundred people to work in its city.

Those who participate in the Tlonsiyya Labour Exchange Programme shall receive: stipends for relocation, housing and board, access to safety and work equipment, and salvage permits for those skilled in such work.

Apply now while opportunities are available, submit applications to the Office of the Scribes of the Sublime Garden, Palatial Pyramid, Floor 3.

A further letter addressed specifically to Soldier Ibrahim al-Dawla.

Soldier Ibrahim al-Dawla,

I have confirmed with Legate Lhyrian that we both want you to handle the prosecution. Please proceed accordingly.

We Hold What Is Poured,
Legate Faith Kruehtzer

P.S. Beware of any other attempts of interference. Should any of your fellow Soldiers be available to do so, perhaps consider investigating what interference has occurred thus far to determine if they have crossed any legal lines.

A copy of the original letter is forwarded to Soldier Ibrahim al-Dawla.

A speech over the bellows. Legate Faith Kruehtzer discusses her views on the League of White.

Live and drink. I wish to speak some words about the League of White. I recognize that most members are good people. Their candidate this election, Buster Grimes is a down-to-earth man whom is humble in nature and modest in spirit, as are most of the League of White.

However, for whatever reason, the League of White attracts the eccentric idealists and the drug-addled madmen. The radical firebrands, the Themises, the Ghalishes, who would upend the closest thing we have to order simply because chaos is freeing.

Then there are the drug-addled Farsongs who, one can only guess, wish to abolish laws so they can snort pounds of drugs. When White Legate sits, these madmen come out of the woodwork to cry out for the things which, I imagine, convinced Legate Guivarch to go where the worms are.

Thankfully, the majority of you of the League of White are driven by kindness and empathy, this fills the heart of the Mother with warmth. And my heart. And so, I would ask you kind and also sensible people of the White to consider me an alternative.

Look upon the works I have facilitated. Laws to protect the common worker and labourer. The beginning of a new district that will house thousands once completed. The purchase of ash turbines so that those building that district need not work under the biting ash.

I said something in the past election which I shall say again for it remains unchanged: "Of you Whites, I cannot deny that your care and dedication to all good people is a key foundation, a basis of civilization, a tenet of the Merciful Mother. I believe in this same principle.

Basic decency demands I help the unfortunate. My honour compels me to protect the weak. My faith inspires me to raise the poor. I am not of your league but I share the most important principles that ensures wrongs committed against the people are undone." Thank you.

A speech over the bellows in response to some leaflets, making clear the League of Purple Candidate's thoughts on crisis, war, and conflict.

Live and drink. I have words to speak upon a topic that has garnered some attention from a certain pamphlet writer: crisis and war. Anyone whom claims we of the Well are seeking out conflict is simply delusional--or drug-addled--and refuses to acknowledge the realities of our world.

Just recently we have struck a deal with Tlonsiyya to further and better the friendship and alliance we have shared since before we joined forces against the hordes of Iakmes. The Well benefits when we invite friends who wish to cooperate and work together.

We did not, however, invite the Qa'immi machines to paint our roads in red lights and flames. We did not invite the Tormented to climb out of their tombs. Especially in regards to the Tormented, the simple fact is, by sheer coincidence of physical proximity--

The monsters of the depths already see and treat us as their enemy. We have all heard the bellows from the Wellfolk beneath us. They are being hounded and hunted by the Tormented. But the Tormented, monstrous as they are, are not mindless beasts.

They know we are the closest help the Wellfolk can and have reached out to. The monsters have the numbers to assail us, to render us unable to aid, while more of their kind partake in their bloody hunt below. Their recent resurgence is not the first and nor will it be the last.

We are beset by monsters and villains and, frankly, I am flabbergasted that one attempting to weasel-word their way out of the reality that demands they defend their home bears a cloak of the Rose and the colours of the Balladeers. Their colleagues deserve better.

This writer claims you people pawns and me a conqueror. They are wrong on both counts. You are not pawns, but people whom want to live unhounded by monsters. And me? The only thing I want conquered are the monsters who already take our loved ones from us. Thank you.

A number of flyers are plastered and distributed within the Well, particularly in areas frequented by the common refugees and labourers, by Scribes of the Sublime Garden after instruction to do so by Legate Faith Kruehtzer.

Food, water, room & board! Education in machinery! A lifetime opportunity to learn a craft through work and be paid for it. Enter Ephia's Well with a head held high, a pocket full of coin and knowledge to build your future with!

Apply now, while positions still exist!

Submit applications to the Office of the Scribes of the Sublime Garden, Palatial Pyramid, Floor 3.

The future shall not come if we do not build it. A partnership of Ephia's Well and Tlonsiyya, now manifesting. Earn for yourself, build the future.

Act now while opportunities are available, submit applications to the Office of the Scribes of the Sublime Garden, Palatial Pyramid, Floor 3.

In war and in peace, we stand hand-in-hand. Tlonsiyya has need and offers opportunity, Ephia's Well seeks volunteers to fulfill a contract that pays dinari, food, water and shelter.

All hands build the future.

Apply now while opportunities are available, submit applications to the Office of the Scribes of the Sublime Garden, Palatial Pyramid, Floor 3.

To Amani ibn-Ibrahim,

Apologies for making a request of scribal nature while you are currently on leave during the election campaign. I should have made this request sooner but you know well the many draws upon our attention and the little time to see to it all.

Mentioned in your notice of temporary leave of absence were transcripts related to the Illul 21st delve, does this include transcripts of the six delvers debriefing Legate Lhyrian upon their return to the surface? If so, I would appreciate a copy of the transcripts (specifically of the debrief but everything related you have may also be of use).

We Hold What Is Poured,
Legate Faith Kruehtzer

To:
The Fourth Legion of the Sultan's Janissaries
The Banda Rossa

I am writing to report that on Illul 27th, IY 7789, I walked into the Krak des Roses and found a pouch of shimmerdust and two vials of the Mother's water on the red carpet of the main thoroughfare. I picked up all three items and disposed of them in the nearby trash barrel. Out of an abundance of caution, I presumed the water may have been tainted by the shimmerdust.

When I asked some nearby patrons who placed these items, one of them--and elf named Osrick Petarus--answered that they fell out of the bag of a halfling--dark skin and wearing a circular hat. I trust that should this halfling be seen, they will be given appropriate scrutiny.

We Hold What Is Poured,
Legate Faith Kruehtzer