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Really enjoying this tale Jess.
So Sibbi think's he can off Rathe? Certainly not by his own hand, but maybe he could hire someone...But who could be up for such a task??
Brilliant work tying this together with your previous "book" with the destruction of the Rose and dear Sister.
This is fantastic!!!! Can't wait to see what happens.
That whiny, rich, spoiled little milquetoast playboy wanna-be tough-guy Sibbi wants to impress Mommy-Dearest by wasting the Listener, right after he heard Mommy say something about getting Rathe to "fall from the Night Mother's grace and protection".
SO: more than likely he'd be simply the latest of a bunch of people bolloxing his very own Mom's plans....Oh yeah....THAT ought to really "impress" her all right.
What a dumb-@ss!
Maven's disgust at her useless excuse of a son is VERY well-justified....She may be a ruthless, evil woman, but she's definitely NOT stupid like her little prison-boy whelp is.
I liked how you created a "near-future" Tamriel with some interesting politics behind it all, and how those politics just cut a common, power-mad, control-freak gangster like Maven Blackbriar out of the "halls of power", to her massive, purple-faced, choking apoplexy! ^^
Endorsed.
Many thanks and cheers, dear!
Many, many thanks for your comments and I'm glad you're back into Rathe's tale again!
The politics you got into was a great idea and sounded very solid to me. Like that you picked a Redguard to represent the new government and how that all resolved. Peace in a way although in a very different approach than how Dannee did it. In some ways your approach may be more stable as it is held together by a joint effort (no matter how fragile) versus a fear of a single person.
Clearly Maven is not pleased with recent events in both the Senate and Madam ZuZu. Interesting that for all Sibbi's hate towards her he still wants to impress and please her. But then from the game I never saw him as a very strong person. More of a loafer interested in his own pleasures.
I personally suspect he has taken on more than he can handle with his desire to eliminate Rathe though. Enjoying your great plot lines and writing style - long enough to get good details across but succinct enough that it doesn't get in the way of the story itself.
In this case it was the two bonus shots I enjoyed the most - they look great. The other shots did their job though - they properly showed what was going on in the story and added some nice visuals to the events taking place.
Sibbi is an interesting one. He has all the hallmarks of being a bufoon and a failure, but by his very bloodlines he has ambition, greed and lust enough to make him dangerous. While I too suspect he hasn't thought too deeply about HOW he's going to take down someone as powerful as the Listener of the DB, simply by being a Black-Briar I wouldn't write him off yet.
It was the 'unsaid' in this chapter that was most important. The third person who wasn't fleshed out, who wasn't introduced, who merely was implied, that was the real plot point here.... more to come about that soon....
I too loved the bonus shots the most. Quin, when he does that creepy side-glance from out under his hood freaks me out in game, and Rathe... well, I can't post a Rathe chapter WITHOUT Broody in it can I?
The Maven and Sibbi shots drove me UP THE WALL!!! They wouldn't behave, I couldn't make them followers to MAKE them behave, in the end it was a lot of patience, a lot of re-loading saves and a lot of swearing at my screen!!
I admit I don't know Sibbi very well .. or at all for that matter. I never dealt with him in the game. I think he has a quest? I found him despicable so never did his quest if he has one. So I could have easily misjudged him.
Is the third person is the lady in the bedroom then? I was assuming she was meant as a prop to show Sibbi's personality with. Very interesting if she is the master manipulator here. Or maybe it was one of the other people mentioned in the story? Something to look forward to as I try to figure out where you might be headed ... never easy with your intricate plot lines. I think you may be a priestess of Mephala
On Maven and Sibbi - did you try a place at me command with them and then AFT command to take them over (or another follower mod with that ability, not sure which, if any, follower mod you use)? That sometimes works a little easier. Can still have some glitches and really complex characters often get screwed up. Not something to save in a permanent game of course!
Sibbi and Maven seem cut from the same cloth; both dangerous with their tongues and lustful for power... but he should not underestimate the matriarch of the family. She got to where she is by being ruthless as well as with her wits... and you're right, I don't think blood-ties would necessarily stop her from sticking a knife in someone's back should the need arise.
It all comes to one thing for Rathe; trouble.
Having recently very interested in Riften I must admit that I really appreciate the story. I also thought that Sibbi is a very interesting although I chose to leave it completely in the shade and a little vague following the narrative of the game. Sibbi in my reading is a reflection of his father, that whoremonger, and definitely less clever in the affairs of his wife, but prone to vices and so on. Sibbi, on this path seems out of jail, having learned the lesson only in part, but also on the way to get in big trouble, trying to please his mother.
Great job.
I didn't know all that much about Sibbi before writing this but I can see in him the potential to be a threat if he can temper the madness he seems to allow to swallow him up at times. He's bumbling, ineffectual and feeble... but at the same time lustful, greedy and ambitious. A dangerous combination I think.
Thanks for your comments my friend. I always appreciate them!
I like your idea of Tamriel possible future after the death of the emperor. would be very sad to see all humans destroyed or turned into Thalmor slaves but of course Thalmor must have their own plans and I will never believe they will be content with Senate ting, especially since Alinor senator has ties with Elenwen. Maven Black-Briar, who had ties both with Thalmor and Dark Brotherhood is not happy either... given her grand plans of getting power. However her hands are tied with Rathe... it was interesting to hear her emotional outburst about whole Momma Zuzu situation, since seeing Maven losing her nerves like that is not something everyone could see often.
And Sibbi... of all Maven's children Riften citizens considered him t be the worst and most instable one. He was tossed in jail for murder and also because, as it was told, Maven wanted to teach him a lesson... which he apparently took to heart but seemed to come up with wrong conclusion of how to return to her good graces. Sibbi seems to be overly emotional, given his crime that threw him in jail and reason of it and now he wants to dispose of Rathe... somehow I doubt Sibbi will prove to very fearsome enemy, but I guess we will have to wait and see...
Thank you very much for sharing your awesome work and I will look forward for continuation!
Anyway, it suited my purpose (mainly as a way to royally piss off Maven
Ah Sibbi. Yes, I needed a new villain who could fumble and stumble around and be seen as a fool and a failure, but at the same time, maybe capable enough of being a threat. I can certainly play enough with his character to make him into what I need.
The real point of this chapter was to introduce the THIRD player in this little drama, the unseen listener who was so very interested in Maven and Sibbi's conversation....... more to come on THAT soon...