The assault on Salty Pier

[Anastasia]

So going on over to Xiranthador?

[Nephrite]

You betcha! Intent is to just... go there, since that's how it ends up working usually if you're meant to be there.

[Anastasia]

Through water and caves, to the deep palace of Xiranthador.

Even here, the waters glow with the light of Chronias, radiant with refracted light.

Ball is in your court here, go ahead.

[Nephrite]

Moore takes a breath and just picks a direction and starts going down it.

His goal is to look for books that contain anathemic knowledge. His hope is that by being exposed to more and more of it, he might be able to figure out some secret to overcoming it.

He also has no idea where books like that actually are, and rather than ask anyone (which would just defeat the whole point!) he's just going to go along with the flow.

[Anastasia]

Cool. Roll and post 1d100.

[Nephrite]

[blockquote]Rolled 1d100 : 11, total 11[/blockquote]

[Anastasia]

You wander a time. The long paths below the water, the book-lined shelves. The smell of time, books and reading, of a library maintained, are all around you.

As you walk, "Say Moore, you spend some time here after Aurora's Crusade?" Jetina pipes up.

[Nephrite]

"I did." Moore agrees. "I learned a lot while I was here."

[Anastasia]

"Really, what did you learn?" Jetina asks.

Feel free to elaborate a bit as you see fit, this is mostly a chance to fill in some flavor.

[Nephrite]

"Hmm..." He taps his chin as a hand goes up to trace along the spines of some of the books.

"The most important thing I think I discovered is that I'm unique. I know that's... kind of strange to say, we're all unique, right? But what I do... the way I bring people together, the way I inspire people, it's me. No one else does it the same way." He looks out to a window briefly.

"All the more reason that I need to be more careful and not take my life for granted and do foolish things with it." He takes in a breath. "I've thankfully been able to come back from several scenarios where I probably should've died... that's the sort of life experience you can't really find in a library, admittedly. ...You know, I wonder if there are any books on Medi here..." He trails off as he gently taps the spine of a random book.

[Anastasia]

"That's a thought," Jetina says, humming to herself. "Even with the stories Elena told, we don't know much about him."

[Nephrite]

"I'm sure someone like him had some ideas on anathemic knowledge." Moore says with a nod. "Maybe that's the key. You know, I never bothered to actually learn how these books are organized. I'm a really terrible library patron."

[Anastasia]

"Well, let's try then and..."

Going to keep wandering or search for something in particular now?

[Nephrite]

Intent is now anathemic knowledge but also Medi, either or or both.

[Anastasia]

Okay, roll 1d100.