TAKE X (6-5-17: The End)

> Duximas: Talk to the thief.



"Shadan Hamidi," Travler says, "now that you're here, I'll elaborate more on what we're hiring you for. You'll be stealing the stone orbs."

Shadan frowns. "Again? I just got done stealing them the first time."

"Long story short, the One Goddess managed to take possession of them," Travler says.

"Wait." She crosses her arms, watching you all carefully. "You're telling me that my job is to steal from the goddess herself?"

"Is that gonna be a problem?" you ask.

A smile spreads across Hamidi's face. If you had to describe it, the words 'avaricious' and 'vainglorious' would leap readily to mind. Well, not readily, but you'd definitely get to them eventually. "Not in the slightest," she says. "When I pull this off, I'll go down in history as the best thief ever."



"Is it really gonna be that easy, though?" Breza asks. "Where's Travler even keeping those orbs? S'not like she's got a lotta pockets on her person or anything."

"She probably stashed 'em in her inventory," you say.

"Her what?"



"Y'know, her inventory." You flash your inventory open to demonstrate. "Ya tellin' me ya don't know what that is?"



Breza stands there for a moment, opening and closing her inventory and gawking in amazement. "Wild! Hey, look! There's all sorts of stuff in here... My stuffed ammon! I thought I lost that!"

Travler snaps her fingers a few times. "Not that this isn't fascinating, but aren't we sort of in the middle of something?"

"Oh. Right." Breza clears her throat. "What if Travler isn't keeping the orbs in her inventory? What if she handed 'em off to someone else - or even left 'em at the Centrality?"

"We'd have to find another way in, I suppose," Krytikas says. "The only other option would be to somehow get her to bring us to the Centrality herself. But how likely is it that she left someone else in charge of the orbs?" She glances to Sienna. "You're the closest one here to her. What do you think?"

> Sienna: Weigh in.



You think about that for a moment, but the answer is obvious. "She wouldn't trust anyone else with those orbs, not since she seems to know how important they are now. She's got them on her. I'm certain."

After all, it's what you would do.

"Very well." Krytikas limps to the center of the group. "Then let's recap. The plan we have so far is this. I'll lure the Goddess to us by repeatedly dropping and using my void cloak. Once she's near, Shadan will steal the orbs from her. At that point, we will use them to go to the Centrality. Does anyone have any extra ideas? Or should we begin splitting up the party?"