Brightwing Magician's Guild
"I can read it." She added finally. "I bought the ability a long time ago to help a friend."
She glanced at the cherry wood sign above. "'Knowledge is the eye of desire and can become the pilot of the soul.'" Her eyes shifted to the small print listed below it. "Magician's Guild... Brightwing Main Branch."
"We're in the right place at least. The library they maintain here could help us find out what happened."
Having someone with a translation device would be very helpful and would save them a lot of time and effort. Depending on how long they had to stay they might have to actually try and learn the language one day but for now there were much more pressing matters such as fingering out just where
here actually was.
They went inside and made their way to the front desk. The receptionist was a rather fashionable young lady with a red bare shoulders dress and a ruby set necklace. She was fresh faced and had no doubt been hired as more of the greeting face of the place than someone who actually understood the arcane arts. Standing off to the side was a more, wizardly gentleman who would step in if the guests asked about more magical details.
The woman flashed them a bright smile yet, one could tell she felt inadequate in comparison to the outrageous beauties that were approaching her, she also took more than a few glances at Danielle's servant who thankfully now was more properly attired in a formal suit, but his dark skin certainly made him stand out. "Welcome to the one and only Brightwing Magician's Guild! How may I help you today?"
Danielle flashed her pearly whites as she slid up to the front desk. More than a few interesting glances went their way despite the fact that fit in better, but they were in avatar bodies so their appearances still made them stand out quite a bit. At least the gawking at been curbed quite a bit since their clothing run.
"Why yes you can most certainly help us. A magician's guild has to have a library or an archive correct? I was hoping we could take a look at the historical section in particular and perhaps some maps as well? As you can no doubt tell I am a foreigner to these parts and would quite enjoy the opportunity to learn as much as I can about the land and its rich history." Danielle decided to just go ahead and admit she was a
foreigner, it would help explain her unique currency as well as her skin color which did not seem to be very common among the general population.
"But of course madam. You may access the public archives near the back; however the majority of the archives is reserved for members only as they contain magical tombs and information for mages eyes only. We wouldn't want anyone unknowningly putting themselves in danger after all."
Danielle somewhat doubted there would be all that much danger to them, but it was a different world so who knew what could happen? Danielle convinced them to have a staff member show them the way to the desired section and soon they were off. Danielle had to admit though that like Himitsu, she was getting a bit peckish and for some reason some of the people in the area were looking quite tasty.
Danielle shuddered a bit inside as she realized this was probably going to be normal now that she was technically a monster though, even one that could pretend to be human pretty easily. The urge to sink her fangs into their necks and pump them full of venom was actually quite strong, she was also getting the urge to release her monsterous form for some reason so she could stretch out her tail/body.
The aide pointed them to a set of book shelves labeled, presumably, history, pointed to a section with some maps, and then left them to their own devices.
"Well the books ain't gonna read themselves, however I can't read them without a translation device..." Danielle thought about borrowing December's item but then her servant spoke up.
"My Mistress, if you would allow me to read them for you, you can just tell me what to look for and I will find what you seek.""Oh! Well I completely forgot that as a servant character I gave you quite a bit of useful academic type abilities. Funny that it would come in handy like this." Her servant didn't seem to understand what she meant by character, but soon he was sorting through the books trying to find relevant material to their situation.
In a row next to their's was a somewhat tense looking man who appeared to be desperately searching for some specific information. The section he was looking at dealt with the city's underground, in particular the sewer system and history involved. He did not seem to have found what he was searching for yet. "Ugh, if I don't find something useful soon they'll be done for. There must be something here that will give me a clue and prove useful to them."
Already a sizable pile of books were at this feet, which had proven to be fruitless so far. Time was running out and he didn't have much time left.
Captain Uni
Nightwing95