Raven came and went according to the regent. Took off on a fast horse two days ago, I think.

Now is Platime going to suddenly wonder whether his new client actually made it to her bath chamber? Let's see.

I'm struggling somewhat to think of what else to discuss without Her Majesty present and a more thorough accounting of budgetary allowances.

There's a lot of projects I'd like to bring up such as road improvements, large scale farming ventures, sanitation, production and delivery of goods and services, business ventures...

Arkady is more immediately interested in the potential of having to go destroy Azash's statue, heading off into the hinterlands to look at the magic lab, what kind of fun they'll have if a Terran is actually advising the Zemoch (because it occurs to him that a being that can create essentially unlimited quantities of gold may also be able to create essentially unlimited quantities of plutonium), and such like details. He could use a drink.

The Queen is off aggressively flirting with her Champion. She'll likely be back in an hour or so. (Odds are good that the Champion is quietly appreciating how good life was when she was trapped in crystal).

Getting the Queen up to speed with her kingdom's budget and any treaties that happened will probably take a little longer.

On one hand I don't want to kick the nest of trying to kill Azash when his armies aren't already marching for us. On the other hand it would probably be better to do exactly that before he starts marching his armies for us.

Just as a note, Felix is referring to the atomic mass of uranium and plutonium using the atomic mass of gold as a reference point.

Apparently there was something in the bath water.

Do we have to rest AT the ship to get our fate points back? If not, lets sleep and start out for the magic cave/lab.

We got our points back waiting for the false Pandions once, so we don't need to be back at the ship. There does need to be some downtime, though.

Edit: thinking about that chopper scene from Chernobyl, I find myself wondering how many points a burning nuclear power plant with glowing smoke is worth to an intimidate roll. Two seems a bit low under the circumstances.

Sorry for being away for a bit.

(a) A good night's rest in the Palace would be good. Platime will have people looking out for trouble, and by the time you wake up the Castle will have had every last person who might be reasonably persuaded to turn against the Queen either removed or, in a few cases, bribed to work for the Queen instead.

(b) Yes, there was something in the bathwater. However, she was not able to persuade her Knight to join her.