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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Ruined" data-source="post: 48979" data-attributes="member: 113">[ Hecatomb 9th – Day 23 ]When the group returns to Sigil, it is business as usual. After speaking with their employers, Killian visits his one-room apartment to drop off his travelling gear. He notes something is amiss when he enters, small things that he’s left ‘in the way’ that have been moved. Nothing looks stolen, but things have been disturbed. On his bed, he finds a note written with exceptional penmanship. “ Come to the Wheel to speak of business. Signed, The King.” Killian knows that this is from Shemeska the Marauder, and he cannot decide which is worse – that someone has successfully broken into his apartment, or that the King of the Cross-Trade has taken an interest in him.The group goes to Tivvum’s Antiquities to visit Alluvius Ruskin. On their last visit, they had made a quick agreements about plants they could acquire for her gate keys. They make a quick sale and move onto other topics of conversation. While they talk, they inquire about someone who could assist them in identifying magical items. She knows of a professor who works out of the Rowan Academy. His name is Serrateno D’Arquestine, and she directs them to visit with him. Everyone is still fatigued from travelling through the Outlands, so they decide they will do this on the morrow.Killian makes his way by Fortune’s Wheel, with intentions of speaking with Shemeska and hoping to see Estrella. Unfortunately for him, Estrella is not working this night, and Shemeska is present. He sits at her table, and after a short amount of time she acknowledges him. Killian mentions that he doesn’t take kindly to others breaking into his home. She quips that perhaps he should move into a more secure house. She segues into a conversation about an item she would have use for, a item called a Planar Compass. She understands that there is one in a shop, the Hands of Time, but it belongs to another. Shemeska says she’s sure that there are more out there, and if Killian were to come into possession, she’d be glad to purchase it. The mission understood, Killian agrees, stating that it may be a while before he is able to ‘locate’ one.[ Hecatomb 10th – Day 24 ]The next day, they walk to the Hall of Records and to the neighboring Rowan Academy where this wizard apparently works. Speaking to a desk clerk they go up a few floors (paying a small fee for entering within the Fated controlled building) and wait outside a classroom as this man lectures on some confusing part of magical theory. When the class dismisses an hour later they speak with him about some work. Of course, he’s happy to do this for money, and so they come to an agreement with him holding onto most of the weapons. Serrateno is a gregarious sort, talking loud with an equivalent of a Jamaican accent.For the rest of the day, the characters go back to the Exchange and train in their respective arts. The rest of that day is spent free of problems and adversity.[ Hecatomb 11th – Day 25 ]Early the next morn while traversing Sigil, Tira is approached by a robed human who knows of her. He introduces himself as Teller Madir, a priest of Dionysus. She is unfamiliar with the god, but the man’s breath smells faintly of alcohol, so she is curious. He speaks of their mutual friend, Orem, the man who had trained her with the spear. Teller says that Orem is dead, murdered by an unknown party. Tira is saddened for a moment, and thanks him for the information. He has more concerns though. He believes that Orem’s spirit has been displaced, sent to the wrong realm because it ‘was not his time to pass’. He asks for their assistance (knowing also of her party). She wants more information, but decides that should present his information to the entire group.Later that evening, the trio meets with Madir and gets more details to this odd situation. Over drinks, he tells them that Orem’s soul has been mislocated into the realm of Hades, which lies in the Grey Waste. It seems that the power there, Hades and his wife Persephone, have been known to bargain with mortals for lives of their friends. He thinks it is worth a shot, and both he and Tira agree that it would be worth it to retrieve their lost friend. Killian and Quinn mull over this mission, but when it is apparent that Tira is going to go to Hades regardless of their choice, they both agree to accompany her. With this, Teller makes an odd statement that ‘the blood of the living will work to save the dead’.</blockquote>

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