WAR!

[*kitteninablender]

(( Altered ))

[*Mr_Otyugh]

Jhaenus Korreth, a middle-aged and slightly overweight man stands up from his desk and gestures him to take a seat, two Notaries remains in the room near the door, though quiet and rather non-reactive while these two discuss.

Rith would be taken to the Office of Jhaenus Korreth, he would respectfully take a seat.

"Mover, I bear you nor your faction ill will. I've no hatred for you, or for what you stand for. Most people, they assume I'm just some idiot. Some lecherous, perverted wastrel who sees fit to cause havoc wherever I go. This is true, to an extent. But yes, yes I have worked for the Cartel. However, I was never truly a member. I was an employee, a hired grunt, a man paid to do various odd jobs. I was a smuggler, an information gatherer, and a quartermaster. I was paid to retrieve magic items to sell and arm his men. He even asked me to keep an eye on his little Judge Owen. More than once, he asked me to kill. That is where I drew the line. I'm no murderer. I'm not an Assassin. Life is precious, and I shall not put a price upon it.

Jhaenus Korreth scribes down to the parchment more and remains quiet for now, gestures him to go on as he seems to have more to say.

That is precisely why I turn myself in to you now. That's precisely why I gave Notary Kour the map, leading past the traps in Undersigil and to several supply caches that I had put together during the time of Hildmor's war with the Cult of Tharizdun. I did that because I knew that in their search for Hildmor the Harmonium was going to do what they do best: invade. The people of Undersigil have nothing, less than those in the Hive. I knew that if the Harmonium started busting into people's homes, looking for Hildmor, not unlike what they have done in the past looking for this "Phoenix" bloke in the Anarchists....innocent people would die.

I look you in the eyes and I tell you this truly: I am a criminal. I have been a smuggler and a thief all my life. I have stolen people's property, and more than a few women's hearts. But I am no killer. I have never, and will never, been directly responsible for the death of an innocent. I will not start now. I worked for Hildmor because he paid me good money, money that I needed after I came into Sigil with nothing but the clothes on my back and a heart heavy with fear and sorrow. There was a time I saw Hildmor D'Kridis as unto a brother. But it is for this reason that I must end this madness before he hurts anybody else, or before anybody else is killed or hurt in the crossfire of this incessant war.

Jhaenus Korreth "That is quite the bold claim to admit your criminality." he'd scribe down and let him continue.

Call me what you will: Charlatan, Thief, criminal scum...but the one thing you can never call me, nor will ever have the right to call me..is "Murderer." This madness must stop. This insanity must be brought to an end. Everyday that this war continues the Cartel grows more aggressive, and the Harmonium must grow more aggressive in kind. Every day it persists innocent people will suffer because of it. I. Will. Not. Allow. That. Not if I can help it, in any way.

I can see the Skepticism on your face. "Why would this Changeling miscreant care about the lives of innocent people. Does he think himself so noble?"

No. No I don't. I'm not noble. I'm a prankster. I care more about a good practical joke than about all of the self-righteousness in the world. But you must know something Sarin: I am an Orphan. An Orphan of a war, a terrible war, that Ravaged my country of Khorvaire. I lost my mother...the only person who has ever truly given a damn about me in the whole cosmos.

Jhaenus Korreth "To be fair, I was more wondering why you are telling of all these crimes, I can understand the difference between respect of life and the lack of it. The separation between morals and ethics, you care little of ethics and perhaps not that much about morals either, but at least you're not entirely morally bankrubt... I get it."

I don't want to see any more Orphans. Not if I can help it. I don't want to see women lose their husbands, or children lose their fathers over this war that was caused because one man thought of himself as unto a God: Untouchable.

I'm prepared to give you everything I have. I'm prepared to tell you everything I know about his operations: Smuggling routes, suppliers. I'm even prepared to testify against him if I must. All that I'm asking in exchange is that I be forgiven for the minor crimes I've been accused of, and that I be allowed to walk as a lawful citizen of Sigil. Surely, that's not too much to ask.

Jhaenus Korreth "We're certainly open for this offer, though I have some concerns with such records behind you... what are really the odds that you're going to remain as law-abiding citizen?"

I leave it to your judgement. But please...look me in the eyes and see that I am not a man who brings death upon Sigil. See that I'm not a man with a black heart, or who thinks himself above judgement. Thank you."

At that point, Rith would go quiet, awaiting judgement.

Jhaenus Korreth scribes down further notes, seems to ponder for while "You're currently a lesser criminal, and I doubt you're going to do anything rash for some time, for your compliance, I am willing to write documentation of amnesty, though understand this'll only clear your current record so any subsequent crimes from this date are subject to the standard laws of Sigil."

He'd take a while to fill in a mostly pre-filled document, then sign it and turn it around for him to oversee it. It'd depict brief lists of crimes, some bureaucratic detailing of standard contact information, ranks, station yada yada, and then explain "Freed of charges and crimes until date <current>", before he'd let him sign it however.

"But first, the help then you can sign it and keep it, we'll of course make copy for our own documentation."

Assuming he'd comply and give more information, he'd then be given the document to sign and let out the same day.

[*kitteninablender]

Rith looks at the document with a smirk, as he grabs a pen to sign it.

"Should I sign this in blood? Or shall ink suffice?"

[*Mr_Otyugh]

Jhaenus Korreth looks at him blandly "We are not fiends, ink will suffice."

[*kitteninablender]

Rith would sign the document, including his signature stylized Tophat that sits upon the "R" in his name.

"Could have fooled me, Mover."

[*Captain Vanguard]

Notary Kour delivers a message to her local measure, the measure in turn delivers it to the mover which in turn arrives to the head of Cartel-Harmonium operations:

"We have Rith in custody by his own willingness hes turned himself in. He is willing to cooperate on the solemn condition that Factol Sarin himself gives his word he will be given amnesty for hard evidence against Hildmor D'Kridis.

I cannot stress that I did not ask for my witness to be brought in against his will, however I will not complain to superiour authoroty regarding its methods.

Furthermore, I believe it is only fair we give those willing to testify true fairness in court given their willingness and cooperation.

I promise you that we are close to finishing this puzzle but please, show this man some respect. It took alot of bravery for him to turn himself in and when I ask someone to do that, I rarley expect them to cooperate willingly.

Surley, the Factol can oblige this one request."

[*Mr_Otyugh]

Mover Four Jhaenus Korreth "Why is it that every person offering slightest bit of compliance believes they can make demands? I'm currently in charge of the operations so if my word won't be enough for his "highness" then for all we care he can linger in the cell. Also we want more than just 'hard evidence' we need to ensure that he will not just get his amnesty and turn against us the next day since we're no longer hunting him.

As per our archives this Rith has been wanted before, even been in our holding cell before not to mention has worked for the Cartel. And you say we should trust or respect this kind of person? His motivations are still unknown so for all we can assume it is calculated actions rather than bravery, unless you have missed the beginning point of this war is in-fact that we will no longer negotiate with them.

We respect them as people and give them a chance, but that in no way means that we will comply with every demand they come up with. Take Rith to office so we can get over this."

[*Mr_Otyugh]

Cartel caravans, things and people captured outside Sigil

For the first couple of days of the war, it would appear pretty easy. Later, it is obvious that the Cartel has caught on to what is happening. Picking out Cartel shipments and members amids all other merchants now takes quite a lot of effort. They develop false indentities, mix in with other caravans, wear colours and insignias of other existent and nonexistent merchant groups or merkhant lords, et cetera. Most the Cartel 'members' already captured are just hired workers and guards. Those of the people leading said caravans met Hildmor but never were involved with other branches of the Cartel and they know only bits and pieces about other routes. On the day three, one of the shipments actually turned out to be a decoy and an ambush, the Harmonium's smaller force(a part of one of those 5 Taskforces sent to work in outlands and other planes) had to retreat. By the time reinforcements arrived, no bodies or sentient living beings except perhaps marauders were found on the site of the battle. The ambushers retreated, abandoning the faux shipment carts. Whether any of the Harmonium fallen were taken as prisoners or just killed(and bodies taken) remains unclear at this point.

Ofcourse, the typical underworld oath of silence is still in place on the caravan leaders but some of them crack. It appears that Cartel employs a safety system similar to that of Shadow Thieves of Amn or the Revolutionary League, one caravan leader knows no more than three others.

Caravan assault operations is halted soon after the tactics of cartel adjusts to it and altered strictly to spying the departures and entrances to Cartel warehouses to make notes of the Caravans and send the details to Harmonium HQ.

With the prolonged spying operations having been conducted and the information is sent to Harmonium HQ it doesn't take much longer for new strategies being conducted. The towns where the warehouses lie are informed of all the court records from Sigil and request for operational aid to arrest the members of Cartel in those warehouses.

Those that approve then put in order and co-operated with their city guard to then put the warehouses out of order and all of the substances within confiscated for the towns purposes, though under Harmonium supervision to ensure there's no attempts of double crossing.

Those that do not approve instead causes Harmonium to create road blocks. Using their prolonged spying of the caravans leaving the warehouses causes them to block all that are suspected. All of the supplies that are confiscated are destroyed.

[*Reptiller]

Perhaps, it was the effect the Cartel leaders were going for. After a small planar town initiates a cleaning, most members are considered dead after all. Generally, it would give anyone the impression that the Cartel is desperate and its members are panicking...

On the other hand, there are not so many members among the dead Cartel members. Fake business ledgers and other objects can be found on some of the dead members, pointing to alleged leadership. In the warehouses, as they're burnt irresponsibly, most of the actual valuables have gone missing.

[*Mr_Otyugh]

As it is impossible to simply have containers vanish, those that have been seen to leave the town, then Harmonium starts following the leads of the carts, if cart marks are seen to move out of road, that's the ones they first follow. Obviously the investigation continues and townsfolks are being asked that have strictly acted against Cartel for additional information in person for directions as well as the sources of trade.

Family members of Cartel are being contacted for additional details, and the Cartel abandoning members are now offered new juicy rewards for revealing additional information, of course they're not exactly let go with the rewards either.

Next are contacted the training partners of Cartel, and informed of the brutality these have created. However instead of telling them to cease the trading, they are actually encouraged to continue since they're being used for tracking the locations of Cartel via methods of discerning locations of the valuables and/or jink. Once new locations are found, they are quickly raided by Harmonium task forces with or without the said towns guards, whom would be well informed of the brutalities once more.

Cartel members are now only given one chance to surrender, those that survive the possible fights may or may not see another day. Far less regulating is kept on that behalf. Lethal force is used primarily as means of putting them out.

They also expand their observation to monitor newly found businesses on the side.