Bloo lost their corpse, so it’s just a mage hand holding a blob
Nim attempts to explain Ruin to Seliph
Ruin is one of the most dangerous of N’s vows, Thetis said Ruin wouldn’t be at full power while in our vow, meant they only recently awoke and entered our world
Tabitha seems to be working with Ruin cause Tabitha works with Gabriel and Gabriel works with Ruin
Sarah tells the waiter that she died
The waiter gives her a lobster on the house
Hear a well dressed man talking in a condescending tone, “all those damn people from Wolfram who keep flooding our streets, they’ll bring down the GDP of this place”
The people he’s talking to agree with him, negative tone regarding the other people in this establishment
Waiter brings a steamed lobster
Overhear another convo, “my brother was just cooking me breakfast and then poof he disappeared”, “maybe it has smth to do with the quakes?”
The other guy: “I have the worst headache ever”
They were talking about some sort of quake, but this must’ve happened before we arrived
Nim can tell someone in the room was trying to read your mind, there’s too many patrons though
Nim notices a couple wealthy patrons, not the ones that were zenophobic, but a couple very well-dressed individuals, one of them is a rather tall woman, dark skin, glasses, long hair, and a couple of shorter people, they appear to be dwarves and they appear to be discussing something on the table, a device you’ve never seen, it’s made of metal
Nim flings Bloo onto the ceiling, who scuttles over to the table
The device, the individuals are very well-dressed
Hear, “Ah yes, tomorrow will be the keynote presentation, did you hear that Wilfred will be here? That’s why i had done this in advance, I spent all night creating this, this will definitely caatch his attention and he’ll fund your lab”
The other person pulled out a small looking metal sphere, “this is gonna catch his attention, and this will be the winner of the competition, I look forward to the competition”
Tall woman: pulled out a metallic sphere, see some sparks being controlled around it
As for the device on the table, it looks like a triangular prism shape, but you can’t tell what it is because it looks mundane to the naked eye
Hear one other thing, that stands out, “hey, yeah? did you get the information? No, it didn’t work” the person I’m looking at is a dwarf man who was apparently the one trying to get information from Nim
All at one table: one tall human lady, very confident, two dwarves, one confident one unconfident
Tall human lady has the orb, confident dwarf has the pyramid thing, unconfident dwarf has the orb with the high frequency sound
I cast detect thoughts on him, something about Wilfred is a little suspicious, he’s been stuck in his lab a lot, he’s prohibiting ppl from entering when ppl usually could, competition is inventor’s competition, the dwarf is not confident about winning the competition, was trying to scout the competition, “shit no, damn it, we can’t, we need to pin it on her” hear him say “ask me other things please”
Bloo drops from the ceiling into the bag, zhwoop
The bag is rather warm, the metal is warm, hear a weird high frequency sound
There is parchment paper in the bag, it’s sort of folded up, make out two words, “Nim’s Bounty, 5000GP”
The dwarves are from the richer district, from Half Moon Bay
Sarah walks up to their table, asks for an autograph from the dwarf, “I’m a fan of yours”
Annual competition held by Mr. Dongle, the metalwork keyholder
Listen here maam, how can you claim to be a fan of my work is if you don’t know who Mr. Dongle is
“He is only the current keyholder, and the only thing preventing me from becoming the keyholder, is a recommendation, which I plan to get after he retires”
Bloo manages to swipe up the paper and pull it out, see a bit more detail
“Wanted, Dead or Alive, for the crime of interfering with illegal artifacts and spreading lies about the history of Falterra
At the bottom, see the seal of the council of archmages
Sarah: can i have your name, I just want to verify you’re actually the person I’m a fan of, since you seem like you’re actually incompetent
human: “get out of my face, and leave, I am beyond disgusted, gather your bags we are leaving”
Sarah fails to wrestle the plate from her, the dwarf licks the plate, then puts it back down
Then, Sarah yanks the purse back, licks it, and then puts it on the table
You notice by the taste of the purse that it’s not real leather
“I didn’t know you were that offended”, takes the orb, “I will remember this”, storms out and leaves
Sarah looks thru the purse, finds 300GP
The 3 people leave, and Nim decides to trail me
Sarah wants to finish her food first
Yul stays with Sarah
Sarah goes to check the bathroom
It’s a one-person bathroom
Sarah: “Are you alive in there Seliiph”
The person inside the bathroom is knocking in a particular pattern but you can’t discern the pattern
Sarah: “Seliph wtf is wrong with you”
Sarah slashes the door to the bathroom
Inside see Seliph, looks like he’s talking to someone but there’s nobody there, he can tell his eyes and mouth are glowing, he is magically communicating with somebody
Can see his lips moving but not hear what he’s saying
Recognize that the way he is knocking mimics the cadence of one of the scripture readings of the tenants of Claurus, the god of the sun
Nim exists, the two dwarves are speedwalking towards the lighthouse, and the smug woman is going in a different way
We end up at the front of the lighthouse, they don’t see Nim but it’s out in the open
They are going around the back of the lighthouse, see them knock on the door, their mouths are moving
Bloo hears that they knock in a weird specific pattern, bloo only hears random jargon, Nim recognizes thieves cant
“Who is the most conniving?”
“Wilfred” but said in a very reverent way
“Who is the scourge of the city?”
“Agnes Stonefire”
Bloo is now in the lighthouse, Nim is outside
Nim walks in
“Hello there, a new face” the voice is coming from all around, “please, name and position?”
Nim: “Sophia, and midrange”
Hear metal being taken out of a sheath, “right right, midrange she says, well that’s a first that I’ve heard of that”
“Tell me, who sent you, who do you report to”
It feels as if they knew you were trailing them, because this whole setup, you seem to be put on the spot
Opal Gressenheller is the wizard in the tower with bad fashion
Voice: “How did you manage to convince her to let you be her apprentice”
Nim: “It’s all about manipulation”
Voice: “We’re all here for your ascension, so why don’t you step in the light”
Bloo is in magical darkness
Nim attempts to minor illusion her hand into the spotlight, as not her real hand
Voice: “Why don’t you grab my hand”
Nim: puts her mage hand where her illusory hand is
Voice: “Now here, for your promotion”, inside your mage hand, you can feel a piece of metal, “would you like me to do the honors”
The face is the shopkeeper that you sold the gauntlet to, but his eyes are white, no irises, and he has all his fingers
Nim can’t help but notice that those eyes don’t seem natural, recognize that certain shape-shifting races have pale white eyes, including changelings
Yul at the table, “there’s a table over there that ordered a lobster but they left, would you like it?”
Yul: “sure!”
When the waiter turns around, Yul shoves it into a bubble into her bag