Sapphire:Sessions:20160924

Of the eight people that attacked our group, the purple-clad woman, two of the fighters, and a crossbowman are left alive. Sung recognizes the male mage, though she doesn't know his name; he wore a signet ring from the Mallow Bay mage guild.

Chalker resets the woman's jaw. She gives her name, Sybonne. She is originally from Siliban, a small market city on the Isle of Myretrus, though she has not been there in some fifteen years. In Mallow Bay she is the Proctor at a school for the "gifted" (mages). She specializes in Divination. "It takes effort to search the future." No one hired her; she simply wants the artifacts. "Viewing them triggered visions for me... They are a window to information... potential anchor points."

Chalker: "Tell you what -- I don't kill you now, and you owe each of us a favor." Invoking Solash, Sybonne swears a binding oath to that effect. She knows that there are thirteen artifacts, one of them destroyed. She has had visions of a man searching for them. Chalker checks her aura: Greedy; intense; "brushes" with dark forces and with Roo; not a good person.

Ahn-Lee suggests to Chalker to have Sybonne tell them more about his artifact, the green sword. She says it is "a doorway to a world where things are dumped," a power focus, and that "with the right ritual one could draw power to travel to different worlds."

Chalker has Ahn-Lee put Sybonne to sleep with a drugged needle. Sung carries Sybonne through the portal back to the Dolyenan Embassy. Chalker instructs Jeeves to keep Sybonne under guard.

One of the two remaining idols is known to be in Ordon. Shawna sends a message via courier to Lady Thire to inquire about the situation there. The Grand Duke of Ordon is touring the other duchies; some Dark Elf activity is being investigated by elves; a delegation from a tribe of Winged Folk are negotiating a treaty with the empire.

At Shawna's suggestion, Chalker visits the Temple of Solash. Immediately he is met by a priest, who Chalker asks about "an old servant of yours," a two-faced being. The priest claims to be "a voice of Solash" and says the being is called Janus and oversees travelers and "doorways to otherwhere and otherwhen." Janus is being drawn back into the world by the activation of Venettian portals and other doorways. Solash does not think it wise to draw the attention of the other First Chosen to Janus' presence.

The person sought in Ordon is a woman in her early 30s with light red hair and a pleasant face, wearing worker's garb and a well-worn cloak. The yellow scarecrow icon is sewn into a pocket of her blouse.