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For a long time Inky Page was a bit of a mystery to the players of our pen and paper role play game group. They had heard of her long before they first met her but what they knew didn't tell them what exactly to make of her. She is an earthpony originially from Trottingham but left the town on the Griffish Isles because of her extreme thirst for knowledge (which could not be satisfied in the Trottingham of our game setting (a bit of a medieval frontiertown with rather limited means of education). She belonged to the organization of our antagonists and is the mother of Little Mane with Backfire as the father. As mentioned before, Backfire deserted the organization, but Inky Page not only stayed but also rose to high rank. Moreover, in spite of having never met her directly the group had had to deal with her before. She had been on a spying mission in Canterlot while our group had been there and stolen a book that constituted an important piece of evidence. At the same time however our group had received a number of messages in a secret, hoofprint based script and throughout the course of the Cloudsdale part of the adventure it turned out that it had been her sending those messages and that she was a double agent. At the same time she had to keep up the pretence of working for our antagonists.
Unable to get up to Cloudsdale at first (because of the events in Canterlot the guards would look for her and risk would have been high to be recognized and arrested), she was waiting in the forests below where she managed to meet members of the group. There also was the zebra Ota Densi (whose crucial role would take half a fanfiction to describe) and together the two could pass on the information to the group that Leafhelm was alive and in a tower on an island of the shore of Trottingham, where the next chapter of our RPG took place.
The Cloudsdale chapter had one more climactic moment with the largest brawl we've had in the game involving no less than 31 one named characters (though admittedly the 11 griffon mercenaries Grill, Grim, Greed, Goldy, Garrulus, Grumple, Griff, Gratton, Guido, Gmorg and Golrog had a rather limited degree of time in the game and therefore limited personality). The most important part about that brawl was that it gave Inky Page and Backfire the chance to stage quite a dramatic performance of the former apparently knocking the later from a cloud to his final fall, thereby earning Inky Page a reputation of absolute loyalty and zeal in the group of our antagonists (where she can continue to try to bring down that organization from inside out) while Backfire is now presumed dead by that organization and will therefore no longer be hunted for. The story arc for Inky Page is to this day not concluded, but it may well be in a future game.

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Posted previously at: 2018-02-22T21:58:56 | Posted previously by: malte279