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==== Voyager67 - Aramil's Trial ====

//The story that Perdel tells [[Aramil]]//:

You look so familiar that I was sure we met before.  However, ever since I
met you yesterday, I've been scouring my memory for the details.  Finally,
this afternoon, when we returning to my cottage after killing those dread
monsters in the forest, it came to me in a flash!

Do you know a man named Areno?

//As [[Aramil]] has not heard this name, he responds in the negative.//

You bear such an amazing likeness to this man, that you must be his brother
or cousin.  He ran a farm in the hinterlands of House Mercedes, which is now
fouled by goblins.  Last December, when the goblins invaded from the hills,
Areno, his wife Nysriss, and their two young sons were killed.

While it is easy to blame the goblins for this atrocity, it is also important
to note that Baron Conrad Mercedes fled the hinterlands as soon as the size
of the goblin army was realized.  He made no effort to defend his serfs, nor
did he help them escape the assault - in which hundreds died!  Someday,
someone should see that the Baron pays for this cowardice!

//[[Aramil]] has heard of House Mercedes as that is [[Vincent]]'s family. ([[Vincent]]
uses his surname whenever he wants to impress people - although [[Aramil]] has
never been impressed by such pomp).  He knows little about the Baron other
than what [[Vincent]] has told him since it was a long day's ride away from where
Aramil was raised and he never had good reason to visit.//

After this conversation, he wipes the psychic mark from your forehead and
says, "As you learn from the Beast -- don't lose the Man".

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