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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Morrow" data-source="post: 789941" data-attributes="member: 301">Krikara directs the party’s attention to one of the books they retrieved from Gariarch’s lair.Ilvana would be capable of keeping a creature at the verge of death almost indefinitely.  The missing step to providing the appropriate components may not be a magical effect, but the unprecedented skill of the depraved Erinyes inquisitor.    The party thinks over the possibility and admits that it could be the answer.  Ilvana seems unlikely to be the Evil Genius herself, but would be just the kind of help that the Evil Genius would recruit.  Moreover, Atarax remembers hearing that Ilvana has a particular talent with poisons.  What if she is Zane’s mysterious client? Auntie Annie is clearly troubled.  Under pressure from the party she reveals that she does know two people who would be capable of using the process that the party has worked out- a pair of green hags, powerful members of the order to which Aunie Annie and Auntie Em belong.  One of the hags specializes in charms and transmutation and the other is obsessed with secrecy and protection.  “Well,” observes Foleful, “Take charms and transmutation and add secrecy and protection and you get the Evil Genius.”Auntie Annie leaves the party to retrieve something from the back of her shop.   She returns with an envelope.  “Give this to Auntie Em.  It contains a lock of hair from each of the hags.”The party presses Auntie Annie for their names.  “Auntie Ola and Auntie Entity,” she replies.“This isn’t going to turn out to be a family thing, after all?” Asks Thar.  Auntie Annie stares him down and changes the subject.The party leaves the shop discussing their next move.  Zane mentioned that he would be meeting with agents of the client soon, and would set a time when they could expect the venom sacks.  What is to stop the party from waylaying the agents of the Evil Genius when they leave Zane’s shop?</blockquote>

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