Interrogation of Mnemon Marbado

Abstract: Having captured the leader of the opposition alive, the circle will likely interrogate him.

Dramatic Purpose: Moral issues for the circle, plot-exposition.

Metagaming Purpose: Foreshadowing of Imperial issues

Setting: Somewhere in the Glass City

Specifics: Marbado still has spells running, giving him a metal body and making him hard to look at. Jorias might dispel his sorcery, but will mostly be on guard for new spells. Jorias might also need to heal him to get him conscious. He might, instead, remind Gutts of his armor's capabilities. If Gutts activates the armor, the spell affecting the circle's minds (giving them -4 successes to hit Marbado) gets canceled, but the metal body spell does not. The effect will shatter any spell that targets the circle, but won't stop others (like Flight of Separation, for example).

Regret will most likely use Excellent Inquisitor Attitude, backed by Unsurpassed Interrogation Method. This will cause Marbado lost of pain any time he lies or remains silent.

Marbado will mock and taunt the circle at first, willing to take the pain until he passes out. When (or if) it is pretty clear that the circle will keep re-healing him, he will get more talkative as his will wears down.

What he reveals will depend a lot on what he is asked. Here is what he knows:

He is working directly for Mnemon. He is her grandson.
He was sent to the glass city in a big hurry, as terrestrial exalted all felt its pull on the first day.
Mnemon assigned him a talon of soldiers and some of her sorcery apprentices. They summoned some demons and the big worm. Marbado took an almost mundane airship (a blimp basically), then used sorcery to summon an azure chariot to pull it there quickly.
Mnemon quickly realized that the beam appeared at roughly the last known location of the Eye of Autochthon. She tasked Marbado with investigating, and bringing back the Eye if he found it.
Mnemon was the one who sent Marbado to Chiaroscuro, in order to find the Broken-Winged Crane.
He succeeded getting the book, by trading for with Grandmother Bright.
Grandmother Bright exchanged the book after Marbado arranged to have a different Immaculate monk spend the night in utter servitude to her for twenty-five nights in a row. The monks had to be 13 women and 12 men, with exactly five of each aspect. Marbado has no idea what she did with them, but they seemed fine afterword.
Why Mnemon wants the book is "a long story". About 50 years ago, a consort of the Empress disappeared. When such things happen, no one asks questions unless the Empress says so. She didn't, but Mnemon wanted to know about it anyway, and sent Marbado to investigate. He didn't turn up much, but had a strong suspicion that a particular one of her advisors was involved. (Maybe a memory crystal drives someone insane? The adviser goes wiggy when the Empress vanishes? Maybe he was "dealt with" and found to me more than he appeared? Describes a sidereal, but really an akuma.)

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