::"This is imperative We have to find who made the Crystals and stop them. They link the forces beyond time. Stop them and find out who else has crystals"::
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She seems relived. ::"Thank you and welcome. Now to the point. The crystals where made and shipped, who made them? I only have a Signature on one small shard. But what I did find on the spiders cave was this.":: She slides over a chit of paper. ::"Its a signed reseat from a merchant band who pass this way twice a year. They came to the city. close to half a year ago. And will be here again in 2 days. I feel that if we could find which trader in the tribe Caravan signed this chit. Then we will have an idea of where the Crystals came from. I suggest you hid under a gise with in this band. They take travlers as well as goods, They hire Guards. I say this so you can be carful. It may be a bad idea to let any one know your looking into this.:: She hands over a small bag. In which is 6000 gold. ::"Coin to pay your way. And a think you from me for your help so far."::
::"The history is long but the simple form is this."[/b] In your mind you'er see the world. ::[i]"At the very start of time and at the every end, there are things that are only hunger. They wish to brake into our time devour all. If they ever got in, then we would not be anything, not even void. There would never have been this world. Every , Devil or Demon, Angel and god. undone with not even nothing to show they where ever there. Nothing to remake or rule, nothing at all.":: The world image in your mind seem to run backward. Unmaking itself until there not even nothing. All is gone as if it ever was.. ::"But, this world like so many others, is protected. Powerful beings stand in the way of those that hunger. Pushing them back with force of will and mind.":: You see gods, demons, Angels, Devils, Demons and other, Standing in your minds eye. ::"All who cherish existence stand and fight the hunger.":: Again the world. ::"But the things at the start and end of time are cunning, testing, probing, seeking always to slip into out world by sly doors. Tempting those with weak hearts and minds. What we faced in that cave was one such fool. Unknowingly used as a tool. We stopped her and so this small part of a much bigger and longer war. Has been won, and the world carres on.": The world starts to spin. ::"Gods and Demons can't catch every time the things out of time seek to brake in. So we cam into being. At a secret council of the gods. So ling ago. And from that day we agents have kept watch.n Every Vigilant" The image zooms in to the worlds surface down until your looking at the tops of your own heads, Then the world is gone. ::"We have no ranks or leaders. No bases or councils. You are as I am. This is so that we aa a group can not be corrupted, Each acts knowing what I have just told you. If you choose to work as a group then that is what you are. If one of us dies then all that has fallen is a single agent. We all fight to keep existing nothing more unless you wish it to be. :::
She seems relived that the group as elected to join. "I am sorry this was so secretive but once and agent knows what I am about to tell you. Then you will realise why we do things this way." She places her hand on the Badge she has on. ::"Can you hear me, the Badges you have allow use to communicate telepathically. The range is short and you can only talk to fellow agents. But its 100% securor. As the Badge blocks all forms of mind reading and control to reveal anything about your work as an agent. If you lose you Badge, that part of your mind that knows about us will forget it all until you get your badge back. If someone seeks to read your mind they will find no hint of this block. Try it now, think some words to me and your fellows. Try and lie knowingly tell me an untruth you know to be unture."::
She holds up her hands. "I give you my word, we only remove that which could harm others. Members come form all walks of life, some darker than other. But we have one goal and one goal only. To protect the world from destruction, All the world not just one part of if. Ktinos was once an agent. He was with another agent looking into the maker of the Crystals. I was at a meeting he and the other was at. I did not say much other than my name. I was new. He seemed some what experienced. The shock of meeting him here. It took me some time but I worked out he had not had his memory changed the way we do it. Some one or things has done with bluntly. But I know the name of the agent you where with Ktinos. If you want her name."
Kitnos: As you pick up the items you get a flashing image of a jungle temple. A Ziggurat covered in Vines and odd righting in black and grey stone. You and others they are behind you, as you cut you way through the undergroth towards it. It is just you in your head there are no others. Then a flash of pain, darkness, screams and shouts, a flash of a mask evil and made to resemble a griffin. Falling a feeling of falling from a great hight into dark cold water. A glow and a red pained hand held up. A whisper [i]Save them[i] A rush as if wind blasting you, no beats of wings and a deep red orb flowing in a darksness, Bones of the dead all around and a ring of crystals. The orb seems to pull you in, you feel your life being pulled away from you, pain such pain and then... Then your back in the moment, there in lady Z's garden.
`Seems saddened and nods. She pushes over the a belt, 4 belts, one the garments and a small bage. To Ktinos. "And understand you can leave at any time, just state I wish to leave the organisation of agents. Those items will be come inert and your memories of your time working with us will be erased.This is the only time with will action on your mind and only when your are willing." She stands and pulled back her coat. The same bage sits in her breast, the belt on where wast. "So I do not wish to hurry you but you others?."
She nods "I know it can seem unsettling and may far to many say no at this point. If you do you can go back to your lives and have no relocation of this conversation. Which is a pitty but understandable. Think of this as a leap of faith. If yousay no then your will forever not know what is really going on in the world. But if you agree and join us they you will learn things beyind your imagination"
She looked down as if taking her time to thing of how to phrase what she said next. "We have meet before Ktinos, Long ago far from here. We meet before the events that lead to your current... condition. You where working with another agent of ours. I wish I could tell you more but until you agree to join us I can't say. I am bound by a ward unable to. I am sorry but it is our way."
Lady Z seem happy your all here at last and nods to her staff. Who all leave you in the small walled garden. Once the doors are close into the house she start to speak. "My friends, as Quercus, has said seeking to find out who is behind this issue of the spider witch. More to the point who was aiding here. But before I say any more I have to confess something to you. I am a member of organisation. One that works at the highest levels of power and with the highest levels of discretion. Our members are form all levels of society, walks of life, cultures and races. I single goal is to protect the existence of our world from any who would seek to end it. Be they godly dreamers seeking of craft Heaven on earth at any cost or mad Despot seeking to burn it all down." She lifted onto the desk a small chest. "We work to protect those who do not have the power to protect themselves. The ordinary being just trying to live their lives." She places a hand on the chest. "I was once an evil being, doing that which made me rich and gained me power. Not for a moment did I care or even things about those I used or crushed to get what I wanted. But then one day I did a thing so vail or reprehensible that even I was shocked. It shuck me to my very core and in that moment someone came to me and offered me a means to atone for what I had done. In that moment I choose to dedicate myself to the Agency . My wealth body and soul." She opened the chest. And pulled out a number of items. 4 belts, 4 garments of odd shape, 4 small bages. "So then what dose this mean to you. Well I would like to offer you place in the agency. Each of you. So that you can make a new team, to replace my old one. I was like you in a small group, and I had a cell leader. Now they are all gone and I am the only one left. So it has fallen to me find and inducted 4 new Agents." She closed the Chest. "There is no contracts or Signatures, you need only say I agree to be an agent Thats it. Once you have said this then I will tell you more. If not then I has been nice to have you here. Its that simple, once you have agreed I can carry on. She then sat and waited for your responce. Detect magic roll: All the items of mage, But your not 100% on what school, they seem to be all.
Ethana touches down in the courtyard not long after Ktinos arrives, having avoided most of the bustle of the city by wind-hopping between rooftops. When she arrives, she doesn't have her spear with her, merely her (clearly recently-repaired) shield slung across her back, with a white and brown-spotted owl perched on the rim. "I got your invite. You think you have a lead?" she asks, not one to mince many words. "Thank you Ethana for coming, Your help I know will be needed with this hunt, now just wanting on Quercus. Who I think has just arrived. If your hungry there is food. When you have eaten please join me at the table."She walks over to a table that has been set up and sits down behind it, she starts making notes and looking over papers. An elf her scribe stands next to her taking notes and handing over paper.
She smiles as he walks up. "Yes, because who ever made them, will be helping to harm others just as they did here."
Lady Z was looking at the shards from the evil witches cave. They where laid out around her, clustered into piles related to where they had been in the cave. She was not in the cave no, having had them moved to her town houses curt yard.
Lady Z, Secretary came up to her, an old elf he bowed once and then said in an crips voice. Showing just a smig of pomp. "The innovations where sent at 1st light my Lady, and the carriages have no left to pick up those that will come. I hope the meal being set up is to your satisfaction." This was more of a statement than a question, Zal had known Kimily from when he had 1st come to the city as a gifted scribe. Hiring him was one of the better dictions of her life. "Good Kim. Well let's see who will answer the call to find the evil that made these." Kim rised and eye brow. "Made, they look natural to me my lady." In responce she held up a single shard of crystal, on it where runes,. "The evil artist who made them was vain, they signed their work, Thing is whose signature is this, I am needed here, So" "Arr you will be sending other to find its owner" "That is my hope" Lady Z said placing the shard back on a pile.
She is happy they have agreed. "There is no need to want for a home Kitnos. I am a 'Lady' because because of something I did a long time ago. The title is not just a word, with it came land and a good sized town house. There is room there. We needs to see the priestess and report what has happened."
Going as well to the good temple Lady Zal hands over the books, icons and alchemistical stuff they had found.
Lasy Zal seems to be for the 1st time angry as she looks around, Some thing deep and strong has effected her. She makes notes of the signs of summoning and pact magic, then takes the potions and the battered spellbook bound in black leather, Evil Icons and some of the crystal, placing them in her lesser bag of holding. Then when done she address the others. "The tools have value but no intrinsic evil. Have them if you wish." She then looks down and back up. "The Books and icons need to be destroyed by safe hands back at a good temple." Then she takes a shard of Crystal. "I believe that this Crystal was not grown here but planted, which means this thing got it from somewhere pre primed to hold bound evil." There is a new tone in her voice, was that concern. "That worry's me. In isolation we can take her acts and being that of someone fallen into evil. I know to well can that can happen." And there seems to be pain in her voice, but then she refocuses. "The lour of power, easy and fast" She shakes her head, as if shaking off memory's. "I do what I do to make amends and I hope one day redemption. So you may think me paranoid, But if she had outside aid, we have a conspiracy. Other acting with her. And this may be only the 1st move in a much bigger game." She looks at each of you, "What I ask you now you need not do, but we need to report back. But after, would you aid me into looking into this more?" She asks.
Yep, happy to
Looks around
Lady Zal stands well back, and looks around, seeing a bolder in the cave she hold up her hand, green flame licks the hand and the bolder.
The bolder flies across the room and smashes into the Crystal
Comes down to the ground, Green psionic power flames licking over her body which then stiff out. Her eyes are still however blazing. As she looks at the dead body of the spider witch then at the crystal.
Her eyes blaze again and she locks her mind down so as not to be effected by shattering..
"I think you all, I could not have taken on this evil alone. She wanted to controls the minds of others which will not do."
Her psionic voice boomed out to those who had minds to hear. :::: And there is a mental shockwave out from Lady Zal as she shows her full psionic force. Her Elan body made from raw psionic force itself blazed green with psionic power, as she lashes out a mind blast so strong it can be felt by those around her, but her target is the spider witch now blazing from her last hit of psionic fire. Lady Zal was not just attacking the evils flesh but also its very ego.
Now she knows where the queen spider is she its her hard.
A jet of fire shoots out at the mind controlling this attack
Now she knew the area, it was time.
"She is over there." She says pointing
As she goes in, armor mind force screen up, then Defy gravity to lift of the ground and up to the roof of the space as she comes in. "You know, you and I should talk"
Cristal blades come into her hand, made by her mind,
She looked at the pail woman. ::"I set you free, your task is done. But know this, I am in your mind now. Change your path for the good, no longer do evil in thoughts or deeds. Now go, be free and do good":: She watched as the woman flow away. Then she looked back to the cave.
She took a crystal from her belt and held it up, it took to the air. hovering next to her. ::"Go ahead and scout, keep away from the webs":: ::"As you wish ma'am":: And it moved ahead.
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Gets ready and follows the others.
"You are mine, and will do my bidding, Tell me your full name then, Get your things and follow me." she says to the woman.
Lady Z now seems lost in thought. "I have control over her, she is willing now as I can keep the darkness away. So we take her with us. She may know more yet of use. And.. I will not let you kill her out of hind. That is not my way." She adds not really needing to, as she knows they would not. But she need to help this woman know she is safe with her.
"Show me" she says to the woman.
Lady Zal shakes her head. "I Have seen it, what she has done and how she was made to do it. Basic terrer and a magical guse in the form of a toxin. She was compelled. The HER is one peace of work, even by my standards. She then discribes to them what she saw in the pale woman's Memories. "I can take away what she has done to you, if you mind like with me woman, do you agree?"
You can see the strain on Lady Zal's face, beads of sweet roll down it. What ever she is doing its taking all of her will and concentration.
LAdy Zal looks at her now,
"I will need to see" She closes her eyes once more. read-thoughts:
http://www.d20pfsrd.com/alternative-rule-systems/psionics-unleashed/psionic -powers/r/read-thoughts Save is DC20 will "Show me" She says as she enters the woman's mind.
Lady Zal opens her eyes and looks at the others. "I have her now, her mind is mine, if she brakes free I can crush it in a moment. So what you have seen here you I ask that your never speak to others about. Should it be known I am a mind mage, others would not be so open with me, some... may wish to use me or even do me harm. Now, I suggest you bind her " She looks back at the woman. "Stay still"
"Change back onto your true from."
When it gets to here she says ::"Stop, if you can change back onto your true from.":: "Stop, if you can change back onto your true from."
She takes a deep breath. "I will try" She then closes her eyes and then she seems to glow for a moment. Mind Control:
If its a humanoid that has changed shape she is fine. Just has to have the mind of one. Range is fine, 200' it gets a DC22 Will save. ::"Come here":: is her command.
Zal helps by telling them. Info: This might very well be the person who fled from the spiders, having used a polymorph magic to transform into this wasp.
Arr I see, just read his back ground. Cool lIf its an internal conversation then its not really Telepathy, So it dose not count GM :)
She joins in the telepathy conversation So she just follows him back to the fight
Stands back from the angry cat.
"Fights that way" And stats that way her self in a brisk walk.
She gives Ktinos a good lap to see if that wakes him.
Lady Z runs to Ktinos and when her hand touches him they wink out of being. What happened: She will use Fold Space, teleporting them both 400' away, so she can check him for toxins
Lady Z winks out the power that was crushing the woods. Then she walks over to the nearest dead spider and pulling her combat bade, nees down and cuts into its flesh to get a sample of its Toxins. Pulling out her alchemy kit she sets to work. "I will run some tests and see if it is" She says.
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