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[h2][color=00aeef][i][b]Baronfjørd "Blackberry" Chedgusah[/b][/i][/color][/h2][i][b][color=00aeef]Dragon Born, Monk (Astral self), Level 05[/color][/b][/i]
[color=00aeef][i][b]HP:[/b][/i][/color] 40 / 40    [color=00aeef][i][b]Armor Class:[/b][/i][/color] 16  [color=00aeef][i][b]Conditions:[/b][/i][/color] N/A
[color=00aeef][i][b]Location:[/b][/i][/color] Secret Study
[color=00aeef][i][b]Action:[/b][/i][/color] Investigation (20)
[color=00aeef][i][b]Bonus Action:[/b][/i][/color] N/A
[color=00aeef][i][b]Reaction:[/b][/i][/color] N/A
[color=00aeef][i][b]Ki:[/b][/i][/color] 3/5


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[color=00aeef]"Here here, well said, and all that."[/color] BlackBerry nodded in affirmation to the others own replies to Lizbeths offer. [color=00aeef]"As I have said before, Young Lizbeth; providing us hearth and home for the winter months is more than enough payment and we would simply be remiss not to lend some aid however we may."[/color]

Victorias explanation as to where she had vanished top earlier made his eyes go wide with shock and horror for the moment, but he held his tongue. That was until she began laying out her own thoughts on Arnaud L'Rose's learnings and what they had seen thus far. BlackBerry held his chin and tiled his head as if rolling a thought around his skull. He let out a frustrated sigh when nothing came to him.

[color=00aeef]"No, no I will defer to your judgement on the matter Victoria. I am simply trying to understand the terms of the contract which may I remind everyone we have been tasked to fulfil and an as of yet indeterminate amount of time to do so."[/color] His headache was not treating him well from the strain of trying to read in dim lighting, and everyone's voices bouncing off the walls in the enclosed space. Blackberry pinched the bridge of his snout in an effort to relieve the pain. [color=00aeef]"Perhaps the room, or the runes together may hold some answer Lady Kathryn. Or maybe even the Guest in the cell?"[/color]

He followed Victoria's instruction then and took to searching the desk. Initially he couldn't find the draw until his knelt down and ran his hand along its front, under the overhang of its top, which shifted slightly under his touch; a drawer! He pulled it open to find a long oblong parcel with a note tied to it.

[color=00aeef]"Untested. Unidentified."[/color] BlackBerry read allowed the note. [color=00aeef]"It would appear Monsieur L'Rose took quite the interest in Wands. Do you suppose this would answer the many types of magic you sensed?"[/color]

Even BlackBerry, self confessed 'uneducated in matters of the arcane', when he had gently unravelled the oilcloth atop the desk could tell that the revealed items were Wands. The were four of them each wildly different in appearance but still roughly the same shape and in surprisingly good condition. BlackBerry held up each of them in turn both to get a better view of them and to show the others; the first decorated in mouths and ended with vicious fangs he hoped were just stylised wood,  the wood of the second appeared braided and was wrapped in metal twisting through colours of bronze to steel before ending with a cluster of multicoloured gems at the tip,. The other two were comparatively plainer; one being of white would with a single cut orange and purple jewel, and the second had small amber spheres running along its length. Blackberry held the last one up longer squinting at one of the amber jewels and tried turning it towards the light.

[color=00aeef]"I do believe there may be a bug in this one. Well anyway. If no one would object I would like to take these and some of the literature upstairs."[/color] His gaze turned towards the occupied cell and then towards the centre one. [color=00aeef]"It would not do to lose anything that may contain answers should the...unexpected happen."[/color]