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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Jfdlsjfd" data-source="post: 9588710" data-attributes="member: 42856">We spend some time relaxing on cushions while puffing on a certainly tobacco-free hookah while we discuss with Psyche. She's a delightful host and as soon as we explain our quest, she mentions that she's an authority on divination magic and scrying and can help us locate the blade of the Blood Sword.So , if I understand correctly, we are now just spilling the beans to every random NPC about our secret quest. Because, outside of providing hospitality, she didn't prove exactly trustworthy so far... She tries some divining, but somehow fails as she isn't connected to the item we're looking for, but she has an idea: she could put the holder of the scabbard and hilt of the Bloodsword into a trance with a potion to use as a conduit.We have been very specific about our quest if she knows what parts of the sword we hold... Are we ok to drink an unknown potion from a stranger?Put it this way, it makes the choice quite obvious... Let's be a jerk and refuse her help.She momentarily twists her mouth in a scowl and her beautiful face looks frightening for a moment. Then she shrugs and says she understand our lack of trust, since it's often met with malice these days... Still, she only wanted to help.She then summons her Mungodan slave, Buko, to show us to our rooms on the other side of the courtyard and bid us good night.We settle in the lavish suites, and our cast of intrepid, if socially inept, heroes start to think something is off.We do have an Enchanter in the group, and we're offered the opportunity to cast severall spells, among which is Prediction and Detect Magic. Let's not pass an opportunity to get free loot, especially magical loot.Unfortunately, Detect Magic doesn't work like in D&D. We do get the feeling that a potent spell is being cast on the other side of the courtyard, though. And in the future, we see ourselves gored by a demon during the night.Trixie, thinking something is off after this vision was shared, decides to ninja out of her room to the courtyard. She notices that there is light coming from Psyche's bedroom. We won't pass the opportunity to look through the shutters.We'll, she used ot be stalked, but this seem a tad problematic put this way. Trixie spy on Psyche chanting and dancing around a pentagram, and while our Rogue don't understand the lilting song, it is undoubtedly a summoning spell being cast .Well, I misinterpreted the inteiton of the looking through the shutter into the pretty girl's window. I guess I read the section in a way no pure-minded 15 years old boy reading the book at the time would have. Armed with our knowledge of a summoning spell being cast, what will we do?Well, nothing of course. We'll gladly go to sleep, until we're awaken in the stifling heat by the sound of jackals in the nearby orange grove (Exoticism!) and we decide to wait doing nothing about the  current situation, since the alternative choice is to get out of our room while Psyche is asleep to snoop -- and we know she isn't asleep.A few moments later, the door explodes, a two-headed demon with antlers, mostly made of shadows, charges in while we hear Psyche's voice telling him to be careful not to ruin the room as it's expensive.The lady has servants for housekeeping, though, so she probably won't care about our blood covering the carpet... but she's nonetheless very careful about her assets. BTW, Salvia used the last three sections to heal Winny for 18 HP (6, 1, 4, 1, 6).On the plus side, we got an interim section between knowing we'd get attacked and the actual fight section, so we have a chance to revisit Esmeralda's spell list.Honestly, we do have an item that would be very useful in this case, the Crucifix of St Ashanax, but we failed in the last book to discover its power (outside of pointing the way if we're lost). [ATTACH=full]396623[/ATTACH]Tough fight to come!</blockquote>

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