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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Cerebral Paladin" data-source="post: 3091356" data-attributes="member: 3448">“Never mind that,” said Ilsbet.  “Where are the books?  We’ve searched her whole desk.  They must be here somewhere.”  She began looking around the rest of the room, tapping on walls, checking floor boards, and the like.  She finally cast a detect magic spell, and looked around.  “Huh.  The coins are enchanted.”  She looked around a little more, while Jacques tried mostly successfully to be subtle about dropping the coins he had taken back onto the pile.  “There!  There’s something magical hanging from the ceiling, directly above the desk.  Abjuration and enchantment magic, plus there must be an illusion to keep it invisible.  Her books must be in there.”  She had ignored the coins completely, but the greed in Ilsbet’s voice as she spoke of books disturbed Dame Brionna.  Still, they did need to find out if there were more records…A rap at the door disturbed them.  The old guard sergeant entered and informed them that Lady Deborah was safely in the palace dungeons.“I hate to ask you to endanger yourself again…”“If I may perform a few last services to the Archduchy before I enter the Light, please, command me.”“There is something invisible suspended from the ceiling.  We believe that it has a magical trap on it.”The sergeant almost smiled as he clambored onto the desk and gestured for the trio to stand well clear.  He reached out, grasped something, and then his eyes widened.  He muttered a little, reached for his sword, and then shook his head.  “It was difficult to think clearly for a moment there, but I think I resisted it.”Dame Brionna glanced at Ilsbet, who looked him over for magical effects.  “He’s clean, and the spell is gone.  It must have failed.”The sergeant reached in, and brought out a hissing, scabrous rat, with bloodshot eyes, patchy fur, and sores on its body and oozing black gums.  He quickly slammed Lady Deborah’s familiar into the ceiling several times before tossing its broken and still body into the corner of the room.  “Best no one else touch that.  Lord Glor’diadel protects me from disease, but I wouldn’t want anyone else taking a chance on it.”  He rummaged around some more and brought two heavy tomes and one slim journal out of the invisible satchel.After Dame Brionna verified that none of the books were intrinsically evil, she picked up the slim volume while Ilsbet sat in the desk chair and began intently studying the two volumes of magic.  One was primarily a spell book, while the other was mainly a book of magical theory.  Both were heavily devoted to chaos magic.  Ilsbet simply began reading them at the beginning, planning on mastering all within their pages.</blockquote>

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