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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Nephtys" data-source="post: 3413235" data-attributes="member: 31780">Ijazim pays no heed to the guard, but simply drifts trough the gate sitting crosslegged on his carpet. With his plate armour glamered and the elven girl hidden away in the portable hole he looks a bit exotic but not too out of place. After passing the portal he looks back and nods to his allies, knowing that he can easily find them at need he's content to leave them to their own devices for the moment. Let them investigate their leads, he had other means of obtaining information. Finding an inn, any inn, he rents a room for the day and heads upstairs. Upon opening the Portable Hole he finds that his elven companion is now a lifeless corpse and Miranel (his Ghostly Cohort) flies out and hovers before him with an annoyed expression. "I liked that body and her quivering little soul, tormenting her was the most fun I've had in years. And now you've broken her, suffocated her, and she's not very likely to want to come back. You could return her as an undead," she smiles and presses her substanceless body against him, "I could keep her under my control while taking another body. It could be... entertaining.""Enough!" Ijazim cuts her off, then smiles at her again, "You will need your mobility now, and she was beginning to bore me anyway. You will find other husks, I will require you to take quite a lot of them in fact. There is some information I want you to find..."He sends the Ghost downstairs, hiding herself in the walls and the floor and using Detect Thoughts to pick up the thoughts of the people passing by. Once she senses a lone person, preferably a serving maid, she will move out and take posession of her. Having taken posession of the person she rummages trough their terrified mind to find any information she thinks is relevant to the situation (information about the whereabouts of the Seven or the Bard, or the local ViPs in particular). Then she goes about her work, the work of the person she's taken posession of, performing the tasks of service while chatting with the customers and other staff about the resent upheavals and those Ancient Heroes, while the Detect thoughts remains active. "...The Dragonrider, The Wanderer, and whatabout that old Bard? Is he one of them, too? I heard he once..."If someone seems to know a lot, either revealing or seeming to withold much, they are then marked for later posession. Once she's spoken to everyone, gossiping about as barmaids do, she remains in the common room, but if someone of those who knew too much leaves the room she follows them. When they are alone she draws a knife and slits her own throat and then takes posession of the next victim and goes trough his mind for information.  Meanwhile Ijazim takes a look at the town, holding the sensor of his Mirror of Mental Prowess a thousand feet above the inn he begins moving it around in an ever widening circle until he's got a good mental map of the little city. Once that's done he takes a closer look at any locations of interest (palaces, temples, military barracks, mage-towers, world famous inns and so on), zooming in on important-looking people and using the Detect Thoughts function of the Mirror to read their minds.ooc: Ghost skills:Bluff (Cha):....................27 (15+12)Disguise (cha):...............19 (7,5+12)</blockquote>

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