Among the Mages

- First fully remote game of the pandemic! Thank you Covid-19 for depriving us of each other's company. - The time is late morning - the party is on the way to the library from the city hall when a forest falcon falls from the sky and hits Sariel on the shoulder and bounces off - When she picks it up, it speaks to her in an ethereal voice that she almost recognizes, "Where have you gone Sariel Naïlo? Your clan suffers; your forest dies. Act swiftly before the decay is absolute." - She is very thoughtful until they arrive at the library when Neil asks if her people could help with Barkridge since they are closer than the party at the moment, but they are artisans not warriors - The library is an old stone building, two stories high, tucked into an out of the way corner of the city near the wall on the opposite side of the city from the barracks - When they enter the library, it smells of old books, is dimly lit by magic wall sconces, has shelves everywhere with a sta...

- The American healthcare system sucks. - Doing taxes sucks. - Adulting sucks. - Last-minute pre-breakfast planning about their talk with the council - Breakfast! - A messenger comes to get them to take them to city hall for their meeting - The peon has no information about the mine or the telepathic screaming - Zaril lets everyone else get on the elevator then she gets on it and says, "Go to hell." The elevator goes down and she stops it right before it goes through a red circular portal and goes back to city hall. - The Council Offices floor has a nice rotunda for the elevator, and the messenger peon takes them to the correct door and then buggers off. - A very tall, well-proportioned man with jet black hair and bronzed skin in very fine clothes is in a very fine and large office. - He is Alejandro Essock, head of the council. - Acta says he is very magically, but he doesn't register for Sariel's Detect Evil and Good. - Acta is somehow convi...