Break of Dawn [Manzanita judging] COMPLETED

[NakuruSai]

The guardian nods slightly at quarion and then adresses you all "If your employer already has the other half in his posession he will not rest until he also accquires this half. This is very distrubing news you bring me.

The only way to make sure he will not reunite the two pieces is to retrieve the half he already has and put a stop to him. Permanently. The fact that he already accquired one half shows that he has great power and influence. He will simply order others to come here and try to steal this half. It would be noble of you to divert from your mission and return to your employer empty handed but I fear that this will only be a temporarily solution.

He will keep trying untill he either has this half or cannot try anymore. So i beg of you, in the name of Elyssium and for the sake of your world: retrieve the other half and put a stop to the vile man."

Mordik thinks to himself as he scratches his beard and listens to the back-and-forth with the guardian, I don't know who to trust. The employer or the guardian? If we don't come back with the amulet, then the mission has failed. I don't want a bad reputation with employers. Mordik looks at each member of the group in turn, But I can't go against my party. If the employer dies or is outed though, then there's no problem...

Mordik cracks a slight smile and says, I'll fight alongside me allies. If the plan's to fight for a piece of the amulet, I'll do it.

 

[jkason]

Eanos, human monk

(OOC: Okay, I remembered things differently, so I went back and checked earlier in the thread, and I think I'm right: Graven never said one way or the other whether he had the other half. He said he only needed us to get one half, but that's not the same thing. Does someone have something that points to our having confirmed he has the other half, or is this an assumption the other characters are making? Just want to make sure I didn't miss anything.)

Eanos frowns. "Fact is, I'm not sure who to trust. Does seem safer to leave things as is instead of risk ripping a hole in the world. But I'm don't want to return with the other half without proof Graven's a villain.

"What about a replica, then?" he offers up, glancing to the creature in the air. "Surely it's in your ancient power to provide a respectable duplicate of the amulet? If Graven has the other half but only wants it for display, it won't matter to him; hells, he won't even realize it.

"But if he combines the halves, we get a solid reaction for judging his motives, plus a clear shot at the other half of the amulet."

 

[Rystil Arden]

"Recognising a fake would probably be easy for him, though, unfortunately. Just the same orison I'm using right now to detect magic would be enough."

 

[jkason]

Eanos, human monk

"Recognising a fake would probably be easy for him, though, unfortunately. Just the same orison I'm using right now to detect magic would be enough."

Eanos' brow furrows. "I don't know much about magic, but those I've travelled with only seemed able to tell the general type of spell on an item without an expesive spell. Couldn't we place benign spells of a similar type on our fake?

"For that matter, checking the amulet for magic would tell us he's after more than displaying it, too. Which could be useful if we're judging his motives."

 

[Rystil Arden]

"You also get strength. The real amulet would have a major or overwhelming aura, and it's hard to get that on a fake."

 

[jkason]

Eanos, human monk

"You also get strength. The real amulet would have a major or overwhelming aura, and it's hard to get that on a fake."

The monk shrugs. "It's broken in half. Who knows how that might effect its spells? Graven gave us nothing but conjecture about where it even was, and said nothing of how to know we had the real thing. I'm more interested in how he reacts to whatever we give him, anyway."

Taking on a more determined look, he continues: "Right now we have an otherworldly beast and a noble on either side of us, and we know little about either one other than what they themselves tell us. Given the possible stakes, I'm not bringing the other half back here without more to go on than a conjecture on how this scenario would play out in a standard bard's tale of an adventure."

 

[Rystil Arden]

"Well, I'm not opposed to your plan. I'm curious, though--let's say he buys it, hook, line, and sinker, and he pays us all our promised rate for a total fake. Are you okay with that? I am, but I didn't think you would be."

 

[B4cchus]

The guardian chips on on the discussion about the fake amulet "I do not now your employer but i believe that if he has the power to acquire the first half, he will not be so easily fooled that you can satisfy him with a powerless duplicate. Also, i do not have the ability to pruduce this duplicate amulet. "

"If your employer indeed has the amulet, your world is in terrible danger already. Even without this half he already sways a degree of power over lesser demons and devils. You must understand the importance of securing the first half from your employer."

 

[Rystil Arden]

"I like you, Guardian. You talk sense. Well, I guess your name isn't Guardian. My name is Ally. What's your name? Is there any way we can help you? How can we make it so you can go home after all this time? It must be lonely to stay here forever."

 

[jkason]

Eanos, human monk

Eanos sighs, falling silent in hopes that the young priest's questions will provide him with some kind of satisfaction as to whom he should trust.