Editing Adventures are Everywhere (section)

=A Stabbing Averted=
[[Gale]] goes boldly to the house!
She tries to knock the door down.
“Who is it?”
“No stabbing!”
“Why not?”
“That would be bad!”
“But knives are for stabbing.”
Oh dear.
Gale opens the door on the second attempt, and eventually lures the woman outside.
Stefan: “Is this lady bothering you, Violetta?”
“Knives are for stabbing!”
“Um…”
“I think the knife is cursed.”

Gale wilds up a “closest person is now blown up into the air out of melee range.”
2 successes 2 awryage means the woman is floating up and spinning her around.

Gale warns that she’s going to try to get the knife, and if she starts acting stabby, bystanders should go to [[Stella]]’s temple and get her friends.  “Okay…”

Gale succeeds in knocking the knife out of the woman’s hand, which makes her decidedly less stabby.  Gale asks where she got the knife– Baran (her husband) bought it for her?  Probably from [[Kristof]].  Gale stands guard over the knife and says go get her friends anyway.

== Back at the Ritual ==
The party brings Vidan up to speed.  The party is kind of a mess.
Stella is out of DI, so can’t do much.
Vidan has DI, but Sanctify probably isn’t helpful for fixing all the effects that are on Diomarch, Scout, and Nesh... wait where did Nesh go?  Oh he must have phased out.

Vidan: I apparently have missed a lot.

Dispel Yellow might work on the Yellow effects.  

Vidan tries to dispel the blindness on Managaratha, 6 successes is probably only halfway there.

A guy shows up “The pirate lady says you all should come help with the cursed dagger?”

Vidan thinks the knife isn't important but it's part of an important thing.  Scout spends some DI, and conveys through charades that it's a Dagger of Destruction and very powerful.  

Gale picks up tongs from Violetta's house, and wakes up her husband Baran.  

Vidan talks to the Bureaucrat that shows up saying that the Minister of War wants him to come back and report.  He says he’d be happy to after he deals with this nonsense.  Vidan tells the party that the Minister is probably a powerful Purple mage that could deal with all the Yellow things.  He’d need to write a report…

Diomarch starts to get big again. 

Vidan says he can report tomorrow, but he’d need there to be a Beacon.  He files the Tarn Evidence Packet as a Supplemental Filing to his previous report.

We go looking for Kristof!  Diomarch is big enough that alleys could be a problem.
In the store, Kristof is persuaded to go and look at his records after being told that it caused someone to want to stab people.   
Stella thinks the style of the dagger is from House Fandal.  They’re probably allied with Cassandra Livoca.
x4 damage, will go away after 6 months, made by Lisidor of House Fandal.

Kristof looks at his other records.  He sold another knife about a week ago also made by Lisidor.  He won’t tell them who he sold it to, but tells us where Lisador’s shop is.

We get to the shop, to discover it burned down.  Two days ago, apparently.
Stella notes that it was limited to the building, which implies it was a magical fire.  

Stella ponders whether Lisidor had any rivals.
 
Scout scouts.  It’s definitely a workshop not a house; a workshop for more than one person.  Lisidor may have been a journeyman, but had a few people working for her.  The fire seems to have happened Everywhere All at Once.  That means it was probably bigger than a random Orange effect.  Which means someone was probably doing Orange.  Whoever was in the building when it happened probably didn’t survive, but others may have…

Leonardo brings us to a Yellow mage, in a reasonably well-appointed row house.  The door is answered by a man in servant-y/butlery clothes.  “Hello, I’m Leonardo from the Church of Al’an, I was hoping Karina was available.”

Karina comes down to the sitting room.  “I was hoping to impose on you to find the woman I asked you about the other week.”  He pays her something.
“She’s a good distance; North, probably into Red.  I’d want to look at a map, but I think Darstan.”
They are taken into a library, well-appointed, where there are lots of maps.

Karina is fascinated by the Yellow effects, like the Unreal Eyes (Managaratha has taken one of Scout’s eyes.)  “Yes, capital of Darstan, definitely.”

Karina looks at the eyes without charging, which she thinks will go away at dawn.  The “What should I say” is an illusion that’s converting Scout’s words into “What should I say?”  Managaratha tries casting “Sotto Voce”, which Scout tries to say.  He’s definitely targeted by the spell.

Karina takes a stab at dispelling the Growth effect.  (She does charge for that.)  She’s unsuccessful; it’s about 10 successes, which is harder than she rates to get in any reasonable amount of time.

Gale asks if she has any Analyze Magic Item, or See What Happens.
Gale takes out the dagger with the tongs that she seems to have pirated.
It’s a well-made dagger, it cuts well.  It’s kind of trying to replicate a Forge effect with Creation?  It’s somewhere in the middle of the two.

The song on Diomarch will probably disappear at sunset.

Karina offers to do the post-cog, but once she realizes it’s a Guild place, she wants some Authorization to Meddle before poking into the Guild business.

We return to Stella’s church!  Only a few hours later than expected.  Meraldi is there, and has taken the “Out to Lunch” sign down.

Stella talks to Meraldi about the fire; she confirms that it was Lisidor who died in the blaze.  The word is that she was working late and something went awry and the place burned down.  Lisidor was an Orange mage, after all.

Meraldi goes to check out the workshop fire, assuming that Stella will make sure we get ready for the party.  (There is a note of skepticism in her voice…)