Well, another mystery is partially revealed. Keep up the tormenting!

For killing the emperor!? Woah.. Serious stuff. Sorry I neglected to read again but I promise that I will always catch up. Not that my arm needs to be twisted. Keep up the good work and don't keep your fans waiting too long for another update!

sorry if you thought this was going to be an update just wanted to read coments as a 5 minute break between studying for tommorrows final. I was wondering: what that new avatar is taillus?

as far as trying to kill the emperor; someone mentioned, I think it was jack, that hajima showed very high ability to fight back in seyda neen. After being in prison and having skills deminish, that means he was really sweet before right? so he deserves a sweet past like that.

oh..another one I haven´t commented in a long time! Soory Jail-chamber..but I do read and enjoy you know! It´s just that my time doesn´t always allow me to comment!

part- whatever the heck I am up to

"why would I try to kill the Emperor?"

"You were hired to by a hooded group that paid up fromt, so they are probably pretty mad with you too."

"Who are they? Why would they want the Emperor dead?"

"You know what is funny is that you wouldn't ask them why when they hired you but you are asking now....very interesting."

"Stop not answering my questions"

"I told you already, you can't get some rush of memories and if I tell you who they were you probably will get a flood of them. Neither of us know for sure who they were though, just a hunch. Why they wanted the man dead didn't matter to you then and wasn't discussed."

"So what was I then an assasin? Should I get myself re-registered at the census offices?"

"You were more than an assasin, and the census offices would rather have thier information wrong than have to talk to people more than they have to."

"More than an assasin? So I was a famous assasin?"

"That is an understatement, you were a member of a group that doesn't kill for money because they believe that killing is for honor, self defense, and social and politcal change. I am going to write the name of the group on a piece of parchment and I don't want you to open it until at least a week from now, although I would suggest two."

"So I was a member of super killers then?"

"Don't you think that you were a bit over-skilled at combating guards for a common theif?"

"Yea, I guess a part of me knew I must have been something like that before coming here."

"Ok now.....here you go," He handed me a piece of paper folded in half. "I am serious don't open that letter for at least a week or you will regret it." I didn't doubt the guy's experience but the more I thought about it the more I wanted to know right now, besides... I could handle it. I had done fairly well so far, but I would wait for a while until I was out of Najimano's sight.

"I want to leave this land and never go see that woman. I need to be getting back to Balmora and I don't intend to be locked up in case your mind mojo doesn't work."

"Well, I don't know if you can concentrate well enough with this new stuff to think about to fool her anyway, so maybe it's for the best."

"Ok so how am I leaving...and don't say boat"

"I know you hate boats but the only other choice is a mage and I don't think the one that got you here is willing to send you back."

"Isn't there anyone else?"

"Well there is a traveler in the local inn that might know something of traveling spells."

"Where is that?"

"It's that way" He pointed in a direction that was straight through a wall. "I think it is about three hundred feet away, if you run you might not be seen, I want you to have something."

"Wow, really?"

"Yea, I have dabbled in enchanting and I have a nice ring that I use all the time, it lets you skip forward five minutes every few seconds, it can shorten travel by a good bit or if you are in combat it could come in handy dodging every few seconds. I am sure you will think of how to use it better than I have." The ring was a black gem that had a subliminal glow in its depths that flashed ever few seconds, it might show my location in the dark but if I wore it backwards with my hand closed that wouldn't be an issue...

"I really don't know what to say, but thanks a lot. I have a feeling this thing is going to save my life a FEW times." We grinned at each other for a minute and I put it on.

I walked up to a wall at the point he had pionted out, turned to him one last time and said, "Well, one day maybe I can repay you, I really will remember this as long as I don't get another memory jogging, heh. I will see you later." He just smiled in reply as I jumped out across the wall and started jogging to the inn that he had been pointing at.

When I got to the building I walked in the door and asked the guy at the front desk where the room was that the adventurer had rented last night. "Well, stranger, I could tell ya but I don't think it would be much use to ya."

"Really? Why would that be?"

"Well I had him here last night and I haven't seen him come down and leave, but the cleaning maid swears his room was empty, if he hadn't paid upfront I would have been enfuriated and thought that he had tried to slip the bill. So I think you would be best served to ask around town."

I wasn't convinced that this was true or that the maid had looked enough so I pressed him some more, "Well, would it be too much trouble to let me take a look around his room?"

"That's no problem at all, stranger. It'll be 10 gold for the night."

"I am not staying the night, I am just going to check the room real fast then if I don't find anything I will ask around town like you siad."

"Ok, well it'll be ten gold for advisory functions."

"Heh, ok look I don't have any money, but I will do something worth ten gold for you later if you are that worried about it." I didn't intend to be in town once I found the guy I was looking for and this guy wouldn't ever see me again so I figured I would tell him something he would like.

"Look I was born at night but I wasn't born last night, you aren't coming back once you find that guy...but if you are broke I am not worried about it. Just get up there and get out soon, if I don't see you back down here in half an hour I am going to come up there and I won't be alone."

"I only intend to be up there about tem minutes or so." So he pointed/described the way to the room and I got there. When I opened the door a man was sitting on the edge of the bed, he had obviously magically traveled in and out of the place when he left since the guy up front didn't see him leave, which meant he was just what I wanted.

"What do you want?" the man on the bed said to me, staring blankly.

"Well I need a lift to balmora by magic."

A nice update and it makes me even more curious to just who our little fellow was before he got bonked on the head. I'll be waiting for the next update.

the overly long chapter with a name that makes no sense b/c the character isn't making roots anywhere b/c he just keeps getting bounced around the map and the part where He gets back to blamora

"Well, I need some kind of payment for the transportation, what do you have of value? that ring looks really nice, that would do."

"This ring was a gift that I cannot give away so easily, how much do you need as payment?"

"Oh I suppose a hundred gold would do, do you have some with you or some that you could give me once we get to Balmora?"

"I am sure that Balmora will hold some money adventures for me, I will pay you as soon as I have the money."

"This is sounding like more of a chore than I am willing to put up with, I think I will let you use a boat."

"Look I had money but I was mugged and moved here against my will, I have some information that might be worth a hundred gold."

"Oh, really? Well lets hear it and I will let you know how much I think it's worth."

"The local wizard has a very nice enchanted weapon in a spare room that is unguarded, you could probably get it and it must be worth more than a few hundred dollars."

"I'll be back in a moment." He went alit with the most brilliant blue glow I had seem in my life, it became so bright I had to look away and when it dimmed he was gone. Less than a minute later there was a white flash and I blinked and when my eyes re-opened he was standing in front of me with a small green blade that had a faint glow in it. "This will do, it should be worth about a thousand gold to me."

"Great so you willmove me to Balmora?"

"Well with something this valueable I will do even better" I sure had been fortunate that the old man wizard had an item, but then again it was a pretty safe guess that he would.

"So how can you do better then?"

"I am going to teach you how to do a basic crude transportation spell, that is if you are willing to learn." I nodded my head and we spent the next few hours going over magic as a principle and how that had the ability to move things and how I might move myself without the use of my ring.

When we were done he had me warp around a bit, using several potions to allow me to continue, and I couldn't get very far but it was better than the ring, so I had something to start with. We said our fairwells and he sent me to Balmora.

As I arrived in the area near the stilt strider I remembered the first time I had been here and decided to go straight to caius's place as soon as I knew where that was.


this seems like a good place to cut off this chapter and start a new thread, I will post a link as soon as I post an update on the story. Feel free to continue to post comments about this section here b/c I will always read the comments on this thread as they appear, as long as I am still a member of this forum, and as long as we don't break the 200 post rule...doesn't seem likely...

thanks for reading.

Nice update and a really good way of ending the chapter. Can't wait for the new thread and great work as always.

Good update and the longest title ever. loved it.

just to let you know I haven't quit working on this story but I AM taking a break due to over work at school I am spending about 100 hours a week on campus or studying. sorry to leave ya hanging but I am just to fj-ing busy.