Akemi pages, "Okay, you wanted the Travis man for somethig, Phil?" to
you and The_Prof.

You page, "Well, it'd seem to require either Gabrielle to be around to
have him react to, or to have Lian around so we can call Ruka and get
added info on his naval needs." to Akemi and The_Prof.

Akemi pages, "Ahh :)" to you and The_Prof.

You page, "Other than that... it's either fast-time relaxation on Jade,
building a gunship navy like Lian/Beowulf was thinking (more something
four our conjerors/artifacers to do, though Kanna has all the
Jade-contacts for shipbuilders, etc)... and some research of stuff from
annadil's Library." to Akemi.

Akemi pages, "Whatcha planning to research?" to you.

The_Prof pages, "Heh. :) Well, one thing Bey could do is a) analyze the
data from the Bebop, and b) do a temporal scry on the copy of the
network monitor board that he kept and see if he can pull anything
useful about the south fleet's defeat." to you and Akemi.

You page, "Research Subjects: Merehallow in specific, our general suite
of Patternblades in the general (to see if he's got info the library in
Amber didn't have)... wether or not Greyswandir/Werewindle were
-specifically- needed for the Gate of Revolution, or if any two
patternblades would have done...  curiosity examination to see if he has
anything on Eternity's Rose or Hummingbird... more information on the
Phoenix's Egg (like... how to ACTIVATE the darn thing, etc, and how many
folks it can carry, etc)... Checking research for his contacts with
"Eowyn", wether it was -just- for the gunpowder issue, ofr if he knew
earlier about her involvement in Serpent's Horn, or even further back to
her creation.  Oh, and what his other plans were for those of the House
of Harad.  After all, he had a hand in Hiko's birth during the First
Alan War... time to get some old questions settled on Annadil's
involvement with that mess." to Akemi and The_Prof.

You page, "Oh, the vacation also gives good justification for any recet
statboosts for the various characterss.  If Bey needs strength training,
or Kanna needs warfare training, now's the time. :)" to Akemi and
The_Prof.

Akemi pages, "Heh." to you.

In a page-pose to you and The_Prof, Akemi writes up answers to your
research questions.

You page, "Cool.  This may, of course, spawn -more- questions, but
hey... :)" to Akemi and The_Prof.

Akemi pages, "Merehallow has the power to detect and facilitate shadow
travel. Annadil tried to get it, got mauled by Daffyl, and decided not
to mess with it.  He knew its location, but the defenses baffled him. 
In general, Annadil mostly only knew what the library of Amber knew; he
was unable to locate the Sword of Wood.  He believed any of the five
Patternblades would do for the Gate of Revolution..he just went for the
two he could get.   No info on P-blades of other universes" to you and
The_Prof.

Akemi pages, "Annadil never bothered particularly with the Phoenix, who
he found irrelevant.  The legends you can find in his library indicate
that Phoenix eggs hatch when they feel like it, usually when the Phoenix
is most needed.  A full grown Phoenix can carry a small army.  The one
Miki saw, on the other hand, was practically only the size of an eagle."
to you and The_Prof.

Akemi pages, "Annadil left nothing behind to indicate what all he knew
about Eowyn.  There's enough information to gather that he certainly had
the skills to do it, though.  Hiko, on the other hand, was part of a
very deliberate breeding project.  The Alans were brought in by Sakura
as part of her plan to destroy the House of Harad; Annadil infiltrated
and took over Ludovicus for a time, sometimes taking his place to get
Juri pregnant.  One such time was during the tent peg incident." to you
and The_Prof.

You page, "*nod* No other mentions of Annadil's manipulations or
potential manipulations of those of House Harad, save baby-Hiko's
kidnapping?  Hrm... not sure if this has been answered already.. but
what info did he have on Rei the Elemental Priestess?  Did he know of
where she'd come from, what mental state she was in when he hooked up
with her, etc?" to Akemi and The_Prof.

Akemi pages, "Annadil seems to have kept his plots in his head and not
left such things to be found; his library is full of lore and
information on how he made things, but his plots either weren't commited
to paper or someone largely destroyed them." to you and The_Prof.

Akemi pages, "Possibly, the Priestesses may have destroyed all such
evidence, as you know they were there after Annadil fell." to you and
The_Prof. 

You page, "That's true." to Akemi and The_Prof.

The_Prof pages, "Yah... Was hoping to work on that some with Kodachi,
but looks like it's going to be a pretty long process." to you and
Akemi.

Akemi pages, "Getting people to talk about things which could result in
their horrible death is sort of hard to do, yes. :)" to you and
The_Prof.

You page, "Hm.  Any books of Prophesy(tm) that haven't been really
plumbed by folks for nuggets of Useful Info in there?  AS Kanna's read
the Prophesies of the Unicorn, Pyricorn, Serpent in her general 'trying
to understand the crisis' phases, and of course her Yig Prophesy...
she's gone over the Black Heart copy she got from Lian... I don't think
she's had a real chance to look over the Red Book of Malin, but I don't
know IC if Annadil had a copy, etc." to Akemi and The_Prof.

Akemi pages, "The Red Book of Malin is in there.  There's lots of books 
of prophecy to pore over." to you and The_Prof.

You page, "Cool.  Watch as Kanna goes "glrp" at that nice section
discussing the Wind's Master being himself mastered... will prolly need
to go over with folks in a group over the books for anything else really
of immediate relevance that Bey hadn't already mentioned (the parts
about cross-d travel and Hel, fer.ex.)" to Akemi and The_Prof.

Akemi pages, "Anything else ya wanna look up?" to you and The_Prof.

You page, "Nothing I can think of immediately right at the moment.  I'm 
sure to have more (perhaps) before we depart vacation, but I need to mull 
on these matters a bit." to Akemi and The_Prof.

You page, "I believe Bey himself had Battleship Plans/Bebop Data 
analysis, and the temporal scry on his own databord thingie to try and 
get extra info on the Galician's, tho." to Akemi and The_Prof.

The_Prof pages, "Yah, that's on the agenda." to you and Akemi.