Fiona scratches her head vigorously for a minute or two. (ooc - for some reason I'm imagining Duncan as being twelve years into his apprenticeship, with three years before he was to be Gauntleted, but I have no idea where I'm getting that from. Does that sound about right?)
[color=blue]"So. We know that, at some point, Duncan replaced Faileas. We don't know why, unless it had something to do with his Infernal pact. We don't know yet what actually became of our beloved Princeps. Nor do know what he's been doing for the past twelve years, aside from teaching Duncan.
"I suspect, from what Duncan said before he left, that he had only recently disposed of Faileas because he felt that his master had nothing more to teach him. I'm not certain...wait...son of a bitch! Parma Magica!" Fiona slams her stack of notes on the table and feels for a moment like she really needs to smash something to vent her anger and frustration at being duped.
[color=blue]"Just before he Leapt out...he had me trapped, at his mercy, once he finished his circle. But once I re-established my Parma Magica, I felt a spell stopped by it. Then he thanked me, and said that he would call me 'mater' because I had completed his education. He had gotten everything that he could from Faileas, except for the final secret of the Parma Magica." Fiona says this last slowly, for emphasis. [color=blue]"By watching as I established mine, I unwittingly gave him the final piece that he needed to be able to raise his own Parma. I was wondering what he meant by that."
Fiona clenches her fists. [color=blue]"I should rip his throat out," she snarls.
Drystan offers a conjecture, "Could he have instigated the attack that brought you here? Duncan as Faileas was out of the covenant just before that time, claimed to be collecting information about a possible Vis source."
[color=blue]"It's possible. I don't know why, though. I mean, why me in particular? For him to attack my clan, he would have had to known that I would come here to aid them, but why did he have to have me give him that final clue, unless he felt that you were too powerful for him to manipulate like that?"
Fiona's mind is reeling at the realization of what she seems to have done, and she is worried that what she's done could be construed as a High Crime in the Hermetic Code and fears that she runs a very real risk of being Cast Out for what she did.
Unfortunately, the only Quaesitor in Loch Leglean (afaik) is Whitburh Firthowebba, who is the Head Quaesitor for the Tribunal. She may have met one or two magi scholae Guernici at the Tribunal, but the only one she spent any time with was Laetitia, and Fiona doesn't know if she's an Advocate. There are probably Quaesitores in Stonehenge, which would be nearer and may have a better understanding of how Loch Leglean works, but again, they would have no reason to help aside from Justice.
With, really, no other option that I can see atm, she will probably have to shoot off a letter to Laetitia, something along the lines of "um...the Princeps of our covenant seems to have been killed and replaced by his diabolist apprentice...who I think I may have accidentally given the secret of Parma to. Can you come help us pretty please?" Except more flowerty.
(Just out of curiosity, when is Loch Leglean's next Tribunal? I'm really hoping that they had theirs a couple of days ago, so that she has seven years to sweat this, unless they decide to call a Special Tribunal for some silly reason).
If Fiona didn't send an Arcane Connection, Laetitia will ask whichever Redcap delivered the letter whether they might have one with them for Insula Canaria, "or close enough to it as makes for less than a day's ride." She'll travel there as soon as possible. If she can't get to IC directly, she'll bamf to wherever she can get, and have Glaukopis fly ahead and bring her back a claw full of dirt, then bamf there.
Time is of the essence, as her version of Restore the Faded Threads isn't very high level.
Sure, but I think of it referring still air, as in air inside a building, within the medieval paradigm no one considered the concept of air exchange. Air out in the countryside being blown about by the wind, not so much. So, by extension, the dirt has to be special or distinctive from any other dirt. Even still, the duration of a vial of dirt would've expired by the time the letter reaches her. I'll leave it up to Peregrine as to whether or not Fiona included an AC. She can even die roll it to see if it is reasonable for her to know that Quaesitors should know Leap of Homecoming.
Barring no AC, the closest Laetitia could expect to arrive is Edinburgh, via the Mercere Portal from Harco to Edinburgh. It is still 8 to 9 days of hard travel from Edinburgh.
Flight is probably 5 days each way (being generous here), working it out, you can turn it around in 7 days if you send her familiar ahead and also walk to meet him or 10 days, if you wait for a round trip from him.
I went with a die roll: Int 1 + Order of Hermes Lore 2 + die roll 0 (botch check was a 6) = 3. I was thinking Ease Factor of probably 9, or maybe 6, so it probably doesn't occur to her that Quaesitores tend to know Leap of Homecoming.
Too bad Laetitia burned the letter...wouldn't that count as an Arcane Connection to the writer lasting, maybe, Days? (I seem to remember reading that somewhere, not sure where off the top of my head.)
