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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Plane Sailing" data-source="post: 1454" data-attributes="member: 114">Just before they reach the temple Crail ducks into a side alley and doubles back around a couple of side streets to find himself behind the follower. It is a man, clearly a foreigner with straight, jet-black hair, sharply featured nose and cheekbones and a tunic made of some kind of fur. He seems to be studying sweetmeats at a stall, but when he sees Lysander striding back up the street in his direction he turns to leave - and is tripped by Crail, or very nearly. He stops himself from falling and first attempts to bluff out of the situation, but as Crail waves Lysander over, he changes his tune.“Why were you following us?” Crail demands. “I’d prefer not to talk about it in such a public place” the man retorts. “Could we step into an alleyway? You choose one”. Crail agrees, and Lysander senses no overt evil from the man so the three of them step out of the immediate vicinity of the festival.His name is K’tan, and he is one of the mages of Cadlan, a mountaintop city far to the North of Knightsbridge. Apparently the mages are concerned - “Crystals deep under the mountain have started moaning” and as a result representatives have been sent across the known world to track down any evidence of attempts to waken “the dreamer”, a mysterious prophetic figure. K’tan had been following up rumours of strange activities in West Hill, and observed their combat with the Wyste, an alienist creature summoned by servants of the dreamer. “You are in great danger”, he warns them. “We all are”. “The cabal of sorcerers working out of the bookstall have much magical power - I would be willing to aid you in any assault on the place should you so desire”. Lysander sends Crail a little further away in the alley to confirm some of his suspicions about the nature of the dreamer - (which Crail lip reads, the sneaky beggar) and then agrees that K’tan's help would be valuable. They will meet with him in the Silver Hill amphitheatre late that afternoon, and proceed to the bookshop.Having arranged that, they return to the temple to meet up with Azrin and Ynnsfeardh once more. They are let in by *yet another* new acolyte from Singh who leads them round to the meeting room where the others are waiting. How many new guys are there in the temple anyway? As the acolyte leaves them, Lysander concentrates and receives the familiar sensation on the back of his neck - he’s pretty sure that the guy is deeply associated with evil! He looks across at Azrin - is it normal for a church to be subtly overtaken and placed in other hands...? He finds himself in a dilemma - it is well known that Asura has evil as well as good worshippers - but both are concerned with the rule of law and the promotion of the worship of Asura, even though they may have different, uh, methods of going about it. It seems that this alienist plot that they have uncovered at the bookshop is a greater and more insidious evil, stretching back to an ancient horror... this temple politics is probably safe to leave alone for a short while. Isn't it?</blockquote>

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