• Arlie_B goes and talks to Perival, if he can find him.

Dionysus You are lead to Perival's study.

Dionysus "Duke Battisto, please, come in."

Arlie_B "Sir, thank you for seeing me so soon."

Dionysus "Damon has said you get almost top priority, & I trust him. What can I do for you?"

Arlie_B "Someone with the sword of Apocolypse is going to destroy this continent in a month, unless he gets a pair of eyes."

Arlie_B "Citivello took them from one of my friends."

Arlie_B "We have his location, but we don't have a way to preserve the eyes in the meantime. We've managed to scrounge up the spell Citivello used to steal the eyes in the first place."

Arlie_B "And we were wondering if it's a spell you were capable of performing."

Dionysus "Tell me about the spell?"

• Arlie_B hands over the spell.

Dionysus He looks it over, then whistles low. "Give me a day or two to study it, & then I think I could handle this. It's a nasty spell, you know."

Arlie_B "How so?"

Dionysus "Envy magic. The more powerful it is, the nastier it is."

Arlie_B "What happens to the person's old eyes after the spell is used?"

Dionysus "They cease to be."

• Arlie_B pauses. "They just cease to exist? Erased?"

Dionysus "Overwritten? Replaced?"

Dionysus "Yes."

Arlie_B "Ok. We have an airship. If you'd travel with us, it'd be greatly appreciated, Sir. We can leave whenever you are ready."

Dionysus "I'm afraid I can't leave right now. I have duties to attend to."

Arlie_B "This is the fate of the continent we're talking about here! Sir!"

Arlie_B "Sorry. If you can't do it, we need to preserve the eyes and bring them back."

Dionysus "You have more immediate need of me than I expected." He pauses. "Can you get to my citadel in Cwaerona?"

Arlie_B "Yes, the airship can travel there in hours."

Dionysus He thinks, "You need to preserve eyes, remove them safely, & anything else?"

Arlie_B "Possibly re-attach them. You should also know that these are faerie eyes."

Arlie_B "Preserving them and removing them safely would be ideal, Damon suggested that the only way to preserve them would be to reattach them."

Arlie_B "If you had better ideas, I'd love to hear them, Sir."

Dionysus He arches his eyebrows. "I have a liquid that will preserve a body part if it is coated in it, but it is enchanged via undeath. I used it to create zombies from multiple bodies. It's safe for the user & the object, but not necessarily the soul. I also have a knife that can remove body parts safely & wholly, but it is enchanted with dark magic, & it's not safe for the user's soul."

Dionysus "As for reattaching them, I have several objects that might do that, but I don't know if they'll work on faeries."

Arlie_B "This spell does work on faeries, or worked once upon a time. This undeath coating, who's soul does it place in jeopardy?"

Dionysus "I'm not sure. My soul was purified a few years ago, & I haven't used it since, & the ones who had the liquid coated on them were dead already, so their souls theoretically weren't touched, but I can't say for sure. I never checked."

• Arlie_B sits back in his chair.

Dionysus "And I meant the objects I have that would reattach eyes, I don't know if they work on faeries. This envy spell could work on just about anything short of a god."

• Arlie_B rubs his eyes. "We'll go to plan B then. Bring the bastard back here, and carve him up when the date arrives."

Dionysus "That I can also help with. How do you keep a mage from using his magic?"

Arlie_B "Me? I create a blue zone while beating him unconscious."

Arlie_B "I also know an athak. Do you have a way to keep him unconcious?"

Dionysus He laughs, "I was just going to say the last part, but yours has its charm. When you get done with this mission, remind me to show you some of my artifacts. Some of the more pleasant ones might be of interest to you."

Dionysus "Hit him again? Or use dream magic, though that seems less reliable lately."

Dionysus "I don't think I have any sleeping draughts or... What am I saying? Ask the mages upstairs for a sleeping potion or powder."

• Arlie_B laughs at Perival's laugh. "You're a mage, you'd might like to take a look at this. A Simon gave it to me."

Arlie_B he shows him the talisman.

Dionysus He looks it over, then mutters a strong detect/examine magic spell.

Dionysus His eyes glow blue as he looks it ove.r

Dionysus Finally, he says, "Well crafted."

Arlie_B "Let's me target blue zones."

Dionysus He nods. "If you weren't about to go where this would be useful, I'd ask to borrow it to improve it."

Arlie_B "Improve how?"

Dionysus "Given a year or two, I could make it target one place for a good surge & one place for a bad one."

Arlie_B "Ha, I'll never be able to stay out of trouble for a month, let alone a year."

• Arlie_B grins, then stands.

Arlie_B "Thank you for meeting with me, Sire. I need to finalize our preparations."

Dionysus Perival stands & says, "I always make time for a fellow mage. We should talk again sometime when we're both more at leisure."

Dionysus You go get sleeping draught from the mages?

Arlie_B "My band and I probably have a gig tonight at <location>. Subaquim, the composor, has a strange void machine that can nullify sound, its a rush to hear. You should see us play, if not tonight then the next time we are in town."

Arlie_B yes.

Dionysus He agrees he'll see you play some night soon.

Arlie_B he says his goodbyes and goes to the mages.

Arlie_B then catches a train back to the inn.