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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Cerebral Paladin" data-source="post: 3107051" data-attributes="member: 3448">The Archbishop of the Sun entered, wearing a relatively simple set of robes.  Alistair bowed respectfully, although careful to not show too much deference to the representative of the church.  Dame Brionna knelt and kissed the Archbishop’s ring, while Kit simply bowed awkwardly and received a blessing.  Mahler hung further back, not seeking a blessing at all.“I am glad you called for me, Your Grace, for I have matters we should discuss as well.”“Indeed?”  replied Alistair.  “We thank you for coming, Your Eminence.  We hope to call on the church’s aid in dealing with a new threat that has arisen within the City.  Some of our enemies, we believe in league with the Horned Rat, have been distributing vials of plague, trying to get unknowing commoners to break them during the coronation.”“Plague?”  The Archbishop made the sign of the sun disc.“Yes.  Can you call on Glor’diadel to prevent it?  My understanding was that plague violated the Compact.”“It does, but the Horned Rat was not a signatory to the Compact; he came to our area in the multiverse after it was signed.  So he can break it, at least temporarily, and we cannot call down the full power of Glor’diadel to stop it as we could if he were a signatory.  Still, the guards that the Lord of Light has placed against plague will control its spread and allow a quick response.  How many vials of plague have they distributed?”Dame Brionna answered, “We do not know for certain, Your Eminence, but we have recovered about 300 vials so far.”“300 vials?” the Archbishop echoed, increduously.  “It was their intention to wipe out the entire city, then.”“I think so, Your Eminence.  We also know that they employed twenty assassins from Enclaves to run the distribution.”“My news is now much less pressing.  I had thought it odd enough that it was worth consulting with you, but nothing like a threat to the entire city.”“We would still be curious to hear your news,” said Alistair.The Archbishop made a short nod.  “Yes.  There was a strike against the Merchants’ Temple, last night at Evensong.  A single figure attacked, and the Knights of Valor present as guards responded with deadly force.  In the opinion of the priest who was present, and who I should note is of a fairly high status in the magical arts, the young man who attacked was in the possession of a dibbuk.  They drove it out of the young man, but it escaped and the young man collapsed.”“Couldn’t the priest bind it?” asked Dame Brionna.“With preparation, yes.  But taken by surprise as he was, he could only drive the demon out of its host, not bind it into a narrow area.  And confronted with a priest who could wield great power, the creature fled into the sewers.  Truth be told, we suspect that it first possessed the young man in the sewers-- he was of the lowest possible class.”Kit scowled in anger but held her tongue.Mahler asked the Archbishop,  “Who did the fellow attack?”“That was perhaps the oddest thing.   A young boy, Alonzo, a servant of Lord Davion Aufaugauthala’rim.”Dame Brionna thought for a moment.  “If it had succeeded, could the dibbuk have switched hosts and possessed Alonzo?”“Yes, it could have.  And indeed, if there were a less experienced priest on duty that night, no one would have been any the wiser.”“Then it may have been an attempt to infiltrate Lord Davion’s household, or even to attack him.”Alistair rose and called in a page.  “Go directly to Lord Davion Aufaugauthala’rim’s residence.  Tell him that we believe that a dibbuk attempted to possess his servant, Alonzo, and that he should be on his guard for attacks on either himself or his household, or for efforts to place spies around him.”</blockquote>

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