Myr's Sword (Surraruthru)

[Anastasia]

So you're after Myr's Sword, Surraruthru. Refresh me on what you know so far and your plans.

[Iron Dragoon]

I know it acted sort of like the Sword of the Moon. It appears, falls into the hands of the intended wielder, who does whatever it is they needed to, and then disappears again, usually after their death. It shows up on its own. It was originally used by a prophesied savior against daemons, and deals in revealing truths and banishing illusions and darkness. It was lost in Hades, when the savior supposedly succeeded, but they never returned. It's been hard to divine on since it's protected heavily.

I'm not entirely sure how to go about it, but I guess I'll do some research on it's appearances and see if there's a pattern that I can follow and/or see if we can't get some divining done on it.

[Anastasia]

Okay. Aurora's library, I presume?

[Iron Dragoon]

As good a place as any.

[Anastasia]

Make an K:P check with the +15 library bonus.

[Iron Dragoon]

> roll 1d20+34+15 K:P
<Serith> Iddy roll for Serith < 57 > [d20=8]

[Anastasia]

You don't really discern much of a pattern. Reports vary but it seems to be more about need or some other unknown criteria. It could be a general pattern with exceptions or the occasional one out of pattern to confound, too. You can't rule that out. The one thing it does confirm is that there is some sort of intelligence behind it, rather than pure randomness. It's too consistent to be random.

As you take a break, perched on a chair top and closing your eyes to rest them? THUMP. The seat of the chair you're on shakes as something lands there.

[Iron Dragoon]

Surraruthru opens his eyes and looks at the thing that landed, idly wondering if he could divine the criteria or need for the sword instead of its location.

[Anastasia]

It's 27. He looks up with unblinking eyes at you and utters, "It's not a reason, it's avoiding one particular thing." The slaad then hops off and starts to wander off, like nothing was unusual about that at all.

[Iron Dragoon]

Surraruthru blinks at that.

"I still don't know anything about that... thing. But it seems like... Hmm... if the sword is intelligent and it's avoiding something..."

Surraruthru decides to try and re-read some of the books he's used for research to try and figure out what an intelligent sword might be running from.

[Anastasia]

Int check.

[Iron Dragoon]

> roll 1d20+8 Int Check
<Serith> Iddy roll for Serith < 26 > [d20=18]

[Anastasia]

Hmm. You notice a pattern now. A subtle one, but not a single case is about someone running from fiends. Encountering evil, facing it, managing it, even losing to it. But never running.

[Iron Dragoon]

"Interesting... So the focus is to fight against fiends... Perhaps Kascha or Balyss have some ideas..."

So saying, Surraruthru heads off to converse with Kascha first.

[Anastasia]

roll 1d100
<Serith> Kotono roll for Serith < 63 > [d100=63]

Kascha's found in your hoard. She's lying on one of the couches that were brought in, a book open in front of her. Her ioun stones all rest atop her shoulders and side as she snoozes, quill resting at an angle against her book.