When we last ventured to the Great Basin…
It was the morning of Whitermire 8th, the day of the Herske Election. While Meru and Wil headed over to the Forum to monitor the results of the election, Oisin, Redfern and Zorro went to visit Ferdinand Banciu, a prominent collector who recently had his son disappear along with the Pendant of Izuka, one of the few known Herald artifacts.
Ferdinand tole you his account of the night his son and the pendant disappeared, about a cruise on the Serene Squall since it was his wedding anniversary and then coming home to find a pool of blood in the drawing room. He also detailed his security system, which was impressive.
- All of the doors and windows have masterwork locks with Arcane Lock cast on them.
- The whole house is under a constant Invisibility Purge.
- Several glass statues in the house are actually Glass Golems who activate if any of the display pieces are touched without speaking a password first.
- Living paintings, which constantly monitor the room the pendant was displayed in.
- If any of the other systems are triggered, Guards and Wards is automatically cast on the house.
- All collection items are marked with Arcane Mark.
And yet even with all of this security, somebody was able to gain entry to the house and take the pendant without leaving any trace of themselves. Oisin took one of Samuel Banciu’s hairs to potential scry on him or disguise himself as Sam.
Meanwhile, the election results are it! Of the four candidates running, nobody received a majority of the votes so a run-off election will be held in two day’s time between the top two candidates, Barno Henchor from the Eichen Kingdom and Vessimur Yutros from the Principality of Vi. The rest of the elections results are below.
These members ran in the election:
- Barno Henchor (nominated by Murtagh)
- Janus Brutus (nominated by Silvius Albina)
- Vessimur Yutros (nominated by Andrew Cantort)
- Videla Parre (nominated by Lilka Moonriver)
And the results were as such:
- Henchor: 6
- Barno Henchor
- Marchi Elenek
- Murtagh
- Jacob Nowak
- Akabashi Osa
- Erik Petr
- Brutus: 4
- Janus Brutus
- Silvius Albina
- Vild Klinga
- Freya
- Yutros: 5
- Vessimur Yutros
- Pavel Fiser
- Ikoma Sakome
- Andrew Cantort
- Elizabeth Cantort
- Parre: 4
- Videla Parre
- Peric Abell
- Lilka Moonriver
- Hjärtat av Sången
After that eventful morning, you decided to ask your daily allotment of questions to the stars and determined that the primary thief of the Sword of Divinity is in Sino, a medium-sized city in Trobreryn which is home to the Mages’ Guild headquarters. Looking to get there fast, before the thief has a chance to leave town, you decided to sky-dive off of Kerkrad that night, relaying on Meru to be the beacon on the ground and Oisin to cast Feather Fall to safely deliver everybody to the ground. Fortunately, everything goes as planned and you land 3 miles from Ravencross, a small town in the Trobreryn country-side. Resting here for the night, you get set off in the morning to get to Sino using a combination of Overland Flight and Teleport to get everybody there by dinner time on Whitermire 9th.
You check into The Gray Owlbear Hotel and Meru gets to work talking to the numerous people in the lobby. They learn that there is a yearly submit of mages and administrators taking place in Sino right now. The most contentious issue seems to be about how student mages are allocated to the academies and towers within Trobreryn. The Tower of Torrents, arguably the most prestigious mage school in the Basin is claiming that they should have guaranteed access to students in Trobreryn since they are technically within Trobreryn. However, they don’t have the capacity to meet the requirement of all of the other Trobreryn academies since they also accept numerous applicants from outside of Trobreryn, effectiving trying to drain the top talent out of the Trobreryn Arcane Academy and it’s affiliated campuses.
We now resume late on the night of the 9th as you all gather around the star chart to ask the daily questions…