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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Dr Simon" data-source="post: 5191269" data-attributes="member: 21938">The Vashti gives Mystal a small smile."I'll be honest with you, Mystal, I'm not sure what my great aunt had in mind, or what criteria she used to chose the original, um, beneficiaries. I'm still working my way through the journals she left to me. I think she had some grand task in mind, and her little games seem to have been a way of forging a group capable of tackling it. In that respect, I don't think it matters who is in the group, as long as there is one. As to this current problem," she shifts her seating position. "What we have is a group of criminals using magic to evil ends. Technically, the authorities should be alerted, and I have spoken to Magister Ten about this. However, the common response in such matters is to deputise any jiunsami in the area to deal with the magical threat." She holds out her hands, palms up and smiles. "And this happens to be you lot. So... we're really just cutting the bureaucracy. I do have one requirement, though. Bring the living gangsters back alive, if you can. I'll leave the undead ones to your discretion."OOC: Jiunsami are magicians who are registered with the local authorities, as opposed to tabusami who are unregistered, and thus considered criminals. Colloquially, tabusami also refers to types of magic considered illegal - raising evil spirits, unprovoked attack with magic and use of mind-controlling magic, although not all unregistered magicians necessarily perform such things, some simply fall between the bureaucratic cracks (cough Annika cough).</blockquote>

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