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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Isida Kep'Tukari" data-source="post: 3158068" data-attributes="member: 4441">"Our progress grows well.  One moment please" the woman says, and lays her left hand on a small mirror panel on the counter.  She picks it up and tosses it to you, and you catch it reflexively.  It looks like a mirror from one angle, but from another it's clear, showing a letter of some kind, written in odd pictographs.  "But a true time elemental would have been immune to quintessence.  There are too many illusions, too many shapechangers, and too many lies to give out information to anyone who shows up and wants information.  You may leave, unless this was a grand joke," she says evenly.    Sho'brakka takes a thinking posture, his hand stroking his moustache, as he considers your request.  Finally, he leans over again and circles the symbols Lupaz had made.  Here he draws a smile, and nods with confidence.  Then he circles the smiling face in the Court, and draws a confused face.  He tentatively draws a sign of fire, then points to the smiling face.  When you both shakes your heads, he draws a sign of water.  At further head shaking, he starts to draw a sign of air...~~~  Behind the counter stands a tall and pale humanoid man, with not a hair on him, his skin tattooed all over with delicate runes so that he looks like a living parchment.  The man's eyes are milky white and blind, but he turns to your direction and gives a small bow.  "How may we be of service?  Name your service required," he says politely, pushing over a small piece of paper with the Secret's services and prices printed on it.  "Shooki!alui the Sea-Devil Slayer, I am called.  There are others here of my little clan, my brothers and sisters in blood.  There were sea devils, bloody sahaugin, seeking the death of a brace of ships.  I was seeking the same devils, I and my little clan, as we slew the creatures as they attempted to board and loot and slaughter.  For this we were paid in gold, rare woods, and fine cloth.  We have been bartering with the mage-smiths for enhancements to our weapons," the other says, keeping his head a bit lower than yours, in the characteristic deference in the presence of a holy man.</blockquote>

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