"Finally!" Ann exclaims, leaping off the parapet onto the rooftop below and dashes over to pummel the prone spellcaster.
"Hey. Sorry I'm late to the party. What'd I miss?" She casually asks.
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Ann lands and runs towards the cleric
Sien strikes Red, who shrieks in pain
Ketsu responds to that attack and strikes down assassin.
The last two people standing, the cleric and the other assassin.
With brutal effectivness, and little mercy, the last two enemies are dealt with, the assassin was way over their head, while the cleric gave up a fight but was not real treat to you at any point. Surgically made strikes let the two bodies on the ground.
When you search Sister Maeri’s (the cleric name) body, uncover a folded letter in one of her pockets. This letter is from no one else but Mantis Keeper and notes that the writer of the letter will send word if they or their “watchful eyes” spot you entering the city by land. Well you met Mantis Keeper so it all fall into pieces.
Beyond the letter from Mantis Keeper youfind the slender tome bound in red leather and embossed in gold with the title Sisters in Serenity. This folio, written in Common, lays out the tenets of the Sisterhood she runs. A casual inspection of the book makes it seem like the Sisterhood of Serenity is a benevolent organization of healers, but for Moonlight who is an expert on religions it is clear that the entire organization is a front for Achaekek’s worshippers to keep an eye on Ilizmagorti’s citizens.
You note unusual indentations in the book’s margins.
A critical success suggests these indentations are in fact faint marks left behind by a quill used to scribe additional glosses to the text in alchemically invisible ink
Ketsu-kiba picks up the book and quickly thumbs through it. "Something weird has pressed the margains here, but I'm not sure what it was..."
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"Only a fool dies with unspent capacity"
Moonlight gives another lookover of the book.
You work at a pace born from longevity that enhances your thoroughness. You can voluntarily spend twice as much time as normal on a Perception check or skill check that takes 1 action or longer. If you do, you gain a +2 circumstance bonus to the check and don't automatically reduce your degree of success on a natural 1 (you get a critical failure only if your result is 10 lower than the DC). For example, you could get these benefits if you spent 2 actions to Seek, which normally takes 1 action. You can get these benefits during exploration by taking twice as long exploring as normal, or in downtime by spending twice as much downtime.
The GM might determine a situation doesn't grant you a benefit if a delay would be directly counterproductive to your success, such as a tense negotiation with an impatient creature.
Do his elven eyes spy what his colleagues cannot?
"Huh. Indentations, you say? Can I see that?"
"Huh..."
Ann believes that the note was written before you met Mantis Keeper.
"Alchemy. Not poisonous, though."
Sien is dying to see what someone wanted to hide.
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Sien creates the solvent and makes the ink revealed, he reads the margins and learns about Sister Maeri’s extensive plans to gain power in the city and notes that a secret patron has promised her she’ll be awarded the role of high priestess of Ilizmagorti’s Pagoda of the Mantis once “Jakalyn’s time is up,” with the defeat of the “traitors” (that would be you ;)) being one of the “final steps” in to complete their plans
You also find an almost casually written “to-do” list on a slip of paper tucked into Maeri’s copy of Sisters in Serenity that enumerates changes to leadership and policy at the Pagoda of the Mantis once High Priest Saviya is able to vacate the role and step into the position of blood mistress.
"Ah, how helpful. Thanks, Sister Maeri," Ann smirks. "So, looks like we'll have to pay her a visit soon."
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Stirring in the dark, Hammid removes his mask. He contemplates his journey so far, climbing the ranks of the organization, all the meanwhile re-securing his broken networks that have taken half of his elvish lifetime to consolidate. With the clergy of the sisterhood wiped out entirely, he makes plots and scemes to deploy his own subordinates to assemble into the power void left behind, and clench his iron gauntlet into the web of information that the fallen priestesshood used to occupy from the shadows. Each strand in planned, until he emerges the next morning refreshed, and prepared to vindicate his name once more.
The following spells prepared into Slots:
Vernai in Training
Cantrips (□□) @ Figment, Shield
Rank One (□□) @ Sure Strike x2
Rank Two (□□) @ Invisibility x2
Rank Three (□□) @ Clairaudience, Illusory Disguise
Rank Four (□□) @ Translocate x2
Rank Five (□) @ Darkvision (daily)
Rank Six (□) @ Mislead
☠☠☠ ☠☠☠ ☠☠☠
☀️ (□□□) @ Scholarly Recollection, Achaekek's Grasp, Know the Enemy
☠☠☠ ☠☠☠ ☠☠☠
The following spells prepared into a Collection:
The Gauntlet (2 blasting spells)
Cantrips @ Divine Lance, Void Warp
Rank Four (□) @ Divine Wrath [4+]
Rank Five (□) @ Divine Immolation [5+]
Mysterious Mercy (5 healing spells)
Rank Two (□□□□) @ Cleanse Affliction [2/3/4], Clear Mind [2/4/6/8], Sound Body [2/4/8], Sure Footing [2/4/6/8]
Rank Seven (□) @ Regenerate [7/9]
Divine Font (□□□□□□) @ Heal
Strange Insight (2 knowledge spells)
Cantrips (□□□□□) @ Detect Magic, Know the Way, Read Aura
Rank Two (□) @ See the Unseen [2/5]
Rank Three (□) @ Organsight [3+]
Cursed Fortune (5 hexing spells)
Rank One (□□) @ Command [1/5], Malediction
Rank Three (□) @ Vampiric Feast [3+]
Rank Six (□) @ Dominate [6+]
Rank Seven (□) @ Tempest of Shades
Obscured Travel (2 stealth spells)
Rank One (□) @ Vanishing Tracks [1/2/4]
Rank Two (□) @ Invisibility [2/4]
= Collection of 16 Spells