Swamped

You're suddenly seized by doubt.

Do you really want to go on with this? You barely know what's going on here, but you at least have a chance of moving up through the hierarchy. They might not think of you as one of their own, but you did help them out and Azel implied they appreciated that.

On the other hand, whoever left you that note seems to think something's going to go wrong, and fast. That the gods aren't happy with this Master, and there's a very narrow window of time before they do something about it. If that's true, you doubt this city will still be standing. And they implied they could somehow punish you for not cooperating.

Of course, it could all be a ruse, just someone trying to get you to sign on to their agenda. Or even the temple testing your loyalty - though they picked a very strange way to do that.

And you don't even know what you're waiting for them to do... wait, why did the sky get very dark all of a sudden? And why do you hear... crows?

You look up more carefully and see that the sky is filled with crows, enough to block out the sun. They start descending on the crowd, giving you the strange sight of hundreds of people trying to fight off crows without saying a word.

The priests seem taken aback, too. But the crows don't seem to care about you at all.

This must be the diversion. Which means it's time to make your choice. Do you go for the statue, or not?