Everybody Hates Cyrene

*Hired by*: Azurax the Arcane, Cobalt Lord of the Raging Skies

*Mission Request*: Retrieve map of Pinioned Tomb from Navigant Verne

*Rewards/Loot*: (Pending)

*Discovered Places*: Gleamfall (Shimmerflow district), Jagged Heights (Pristmatine district)

*Caravan Allies*: Gromlo (antiquarian), Caliban (cook), "Bob" (alarm gnome)

*Monsters Encountered*: N/A

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## Summary

Finally entering the City of Mirrors, the party passed through a reflective tunnel where strange things happened between their persons and their reflections. Upon seeing their reflections, Aster and Arco found a shard of the mirror break from the wall. The shard was imbued with a divine power, which granted them the ability for scrying within the next 24 hours. Beebo was able to ask his reflection 5 questions, which he used up by asking his reflections if the questions counted toward his 5 questions. Burke's reflection attacked him and Eira's [fill in info]. Their remaining walk into the strange folding and gravity-defying city was uneventful. Aster was able to collect some Silvervine, a silver ivy that readily grew along the buildings in the city. They made their way to Scipio's home in Gleamfall, a Shimmerflow district. His family was ever grateful to the party, offering them free lodgings for saving Scipio's life. Scipio introduced his family the Felnois (feh-lone-ees): his mother Ninette, his tall sister Tova, shorter sister Salma, and wheelchair-bound sister Rin. After some prodding from the group, Scipio explained after Rin was born, their father immediately left them. He was part of Shimmerflow's spie organization, Flux Masquerade, and felt her degenerative disorder was a stain upon his elite reputation and wanted to distance himself from his flawed family. Rin was born with a disorder that atrophied her muscles over time; in addition, she lost her sight at a young age. Scipio admitted that he was willing to be the party's city guide in hopes that they might be able to help is ailing sister. Eira learned heal and greater restoration only temporarily help her illness. Aster shared a dustulent and Zephyra with Rin while she tested her blood for any cure or evil interference. For better or worse, the illness seemed to be purely natural and not borne of ill-intent.

Aleria and C2 stayed with the family while the rest of the party followed Scipio to meet his contact Cyrene in Jagged Height, a Prismatine district. He warned Cyrene was not a friendly person, but he loved gossip. Cyrene is a mirai with dull polished stone skin and a fractured chunk out of his head. Aster was immediately suspicious he might be related to the Cabal, but found nothing to connect him to the group. Burke used Scab to collect a canister of unknown substance from the backroom, while Arco unintentionally distracted Cyrene with a lot of knowledge about his religion. After learning of Arco's religion Cyrene warmed up to the group and was willing to direct the party to his university archives contact, Polonia.

Polonia also felt Cyrene was kind of a dick but nonetheless was willing to help for the proper payment. For 10 opals, she gathered the more restricted books from the university archives. Aster learned some people in Silvercross developed silver collars to control normal lycanthropy but did not learn anything more about her own black moon lycanthropy or about Thorn, the leader of the Jasper Order. Eira and Burke learned Rin's disease was caused from a recessive trait that emerged from the crossbreeding of mirai and mirage elves. It can be treated by magic as Eira already learned but a cure is unknown. Only one entity, Syra the Blade Sphinx, has appeared to do any research regarding this rare disease. Eira also received the beginning of a strange 3D map of the fractal city. More importantly, upon inquiry, Polonia admited to having helped Navigant Verne a few weeks ago. Her operation goes against the university's employee-only rule for the archives so in order to share information about her clients, she requested the party retrieve a stolen book from one of her other clients. Morlan, an argent mirai with veins of copper in his skin and member of the paladin group Steel Vigil, stole Horvendile's Diabolicon from Polonia. They agreed to the deal, and while the trio finished their research, Arco and Beebo ventured to one of the magic shops back in Shimmerflow to prepare the group.