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Subject: ANTIR5 Top Secret Report #1 to Duchess Jacanthya.
Date: 10 May 1995 1495
Your Excellency, I hath serious matters of state to report to you. I will try to report weakly, but if I am deeply undercover, I may not always be able to report regularly, but I am still taking the tablets.
I hath been collecting copies of secret papers for some time now, and had them all spread out on my writing table to make my report. My papers were unfortunately disturbed by a gust of wind, but never fear, I hath sorted them all out now.
It appeareth that there may be a traitor plotting in our midst,
Viz:
}A great war fought and won
}By the two-legged beast,
}Whose only cause be my release.
They also seem to have a strong hidden ally somewhere,
Viz:
}No self-respecting knight,
}Without me would choose to fight.
}I am the link between man and beast,
}I travel to the West and East.
}No matter the challenge, no matter the cause,
}With disregard to decrees and laws.
}I can be summoned to serve thee well,
}At the gates of Heaven or in the bowels of Hell.
They must also, I fear, have some arcane beast fighting on their side,
Viz:
}I take on forms that can never be seen,
}Yet I am both fair and foul to behold.
}Feared by the wise traveller this beast can kill,
}Thy scream of death unheard no matter how shrill.
}Without fur or feather, still thee cannot ignore,
}This awesome beasts timeless roar.
}Thee cannot escape it by day or by night,
}It is always seething to our endless delight.
}Consider it the mountain thee cannot ascend,
}An enemy whose rushing power is without end.
I hath found out some useful things about their leader, which may help us to track him down, although I fear I have not yet stumbled upon the occult meanings behind some of these coded phrases,
Viz:
}Long ago I ruled alone,
}The eldest of all my brethren.
}Captured I travel under wings painted
}By the one with the empty well.
}Upon my stone, kingdoms are raised,
}And armies fight madly upon my fields.
}Thieves find great treasures with my aid,
}Though gold may be kept safe under my shield.
}But never ever can there be,
}Victory without the likes of me.
}Indeed, it is my life-long quest,
}To keep it all in my loving nest.
I also seem to be having a little trouble working my code book, so I will forward the following for your Senschal to have decoded using the superior facilities within your household, as I am working in the field with limited resources. (If you could see your way clear to increase my expenses, I may be able to overcome these difficulties.)
Viz:
}A burden and porter I stood,
}My skeleton =91tis the mighty wood.
}A trusty companion I am it=92s true,
}I can even hold your boot or shoe.
}behind the door by the Lady=92s seal
They doth appear to be disguising the plot under the ruse of a Public "Contest" culminating in a wild orgy. There be also some codes I cannot work out here,
Viz:
}The contest =3D solving a set of 3 riddles
}The rules =3D respond by *email*.
}The prize =3D 1 bottle of mead
}And if a virgin to me you be,
}Your gait will suffer,
}Whence you leave my tree.
I be very suspicious of the following people. There seemeth to be some form of rating system amongst those who would work against our cause. One of the pieces of paper that became detached from others, (so unfortunately I know not whence it came,) doth say the following:
CURRENT STANDINGS:
Rodrigo Ramirez de Valencia +13
Leonard Erickson +13
Fiacha +12
Wendy +10
Guy of Alderney +10
Chimene +7
Ruadhan Suilghlas +7
Guillermo Da Sierra Patace +5
The Easter Bunny +5
Cyrus +1
Reanna Wheatenfield -5
Susan -7
Obviously these traitors should be closely watched. I know a troupe of good people who pose as Fools who I could employ on your behalf to surrepti.. ahh unobtusei.. quietly foolow these suspects. They hath the populace duped that they are stupid, but I have talked with them over a few ales and I have found them to be of an intellect at least equal to my own!
Duchess Jacanthya's Secret Spy - ANTIR5 - Magna Cum Laude from
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