19 March 2010
I offer a healing potion to heal the Regent Mother and the guards allow it. I give her the potion.
I do detect magic and see magic under the desktop (the magic button) and more at the door. I also detect a magic necklace on the regent mother and a magic area of the book case. I look more closely and narrow it down to 3 books. I remove the books on either side and reveal a button on the wall. We wait until the regent mother starts to come around so she can be removed from the wall. Ghoral pushes the button and nothing seems to happen. I try to move the books from side to side and they only move a little but I can pull them straight out which I do. I find that they are a solid “box” with two arms coming out the back that have rings on them. I figure that the rings held the books in place and Ghoral released them by pushing the button. I place it on the desk and find it has a lid that I open.
I see four little boxes corresponding to the glowing magic items that I saw with magesight in the books. I pull out one box and it is hinged and I open it. I see a small earpiece and a very small dot that looks like the transmitter we saw on the window sill of our room at the inn. I open the other boxes and find they hold the same things. The guard says he has to hold them for the regent mother.
Julienne arrives and I fill her in on what happened, including how we met the smoke creature and how it ties into the evil religion. Jarlyn asks if she can find out where the glyph sent the Lord Marshall. She says she will have to get a mage here to find out. As we are getting ready to leave a mage walks in and says that he heard there was a magical creature attack and she says that it is over and things are well in hand and he is not needed. She says the only magic was the summoning of the creature and the creature itself. They will have it examined by a mage and a priest and runners have been sent off to get them. You are welcome to go talk to them about it. I will be here for several hours cataloging everything in this room.
Julienne tells us that the regent mother will probably be able to see us in about two days. We leave, accompanied by a guard who buys us a drink then leaves.
We discuss how to take care of the listening device and decide to bury it. We go up and Ghoral begins to remove it then Jarlyn and I both think to look out the window. Jarlyn looks and sees someone doing with his ear over on the porch where we saw the old guy before. Jarlyn and Glaive and I go down and walk outside while Ghoral and Kross stay in the room and have a conversation to appear normal. We see the guy who has started to cross the street and look up at the window; he sees us and starts to walk away quickly. We chase him down and Kross knocks him out with blunt arrows. We drag him to the alley, Kross jumps up on the roof and looks across and sees a shadow in the upstairs window and he tells me. Ghoral and I go to the door and I knock. I hear the lady we saw knitting ask someone to answer the door. A man answers and asks if he can help us. I say the man sitting outside walked over there and hurt himself. If you want to come with me I’ll take you to him. The man said, just tell the city guard. I asked if man was with the city guard and he said yes. I say, he’s not with you? He says no. I say what about the person upstairs? He says it’s his son and looks concerned. I apologize and say that I just thought if it was another guard that person could help. We thank him and leave.
Ghoral, Glaive and I stay in the alley and bind and gag the prisoner while Kross and Jarlyn go to the palace to get Julienne. While we wait I see someone watching us from across the road. I just stay wary of him. Eventually everyone returns with a wagon to take away the prisoner. We find out the guy across the street was one of Julienne’s people. They take the prisoner away. We go back to the inn and sleep through the night.
+1 HP