"What can you tell me about what you have learned so far ? Hmmm a Logrus user. Someday !" She smiled to herself.

"Not a lot that, ah, our mutual friend wouldn't have already told you." Squig looks around. "Look, maybe we should talk somewhere else, eh? We've been standing here so long, I'm starting to get a little worried about eavesdroppers... What if I suggested that you meet me in the market tomorrow, by the tent that sells magical items?"

Allura nods thinking that is a good idea and not wanting to say more.

She will then head off to the city looking for a place to stay the night. A nice inn or the like.

(Hmm... Insightful roll, please... (No more extra penalties (until further notice, anyway)))

14:06, Today: Allura Caryx rolled 9 using 2d6.  Insightfull.

Allura does indeed find an inn for traveling Chaosites... And they take the crystals that Chaosites use for money, yay.

...A night's stay apparently costs almost half of what she's got on her, though.

(Stay anyway, or look for somewhere cheaper?)

Look for someplace a bit cheaper.

(New Insightful roll, please...)

I wish we were playing the normal Amber rules.

14:42, Today: Allura Caryx rolled 7 using 2d6.  Insightful.
The die mechanics of this system never rested well with me.

(The usual Amber Diceless? Sorry, never learned them. It's why all the "buying powers/abilities" stuff just blows right past me...)



Allura finds another inn that takes all kinds, even demons or humans. The demon at the front desk when she checks in stares at her a bit, though... like he's being careful to remember her...

...Morning, after a decent night's rest, comes in the form of a twice-as-bright-as-the-previous-green-one orange orb that floats into the sky... (Not that the green one was very bright, but still...)

Everyone on the street finds this mildly remarkable, saying things like "my my, an orange one today" like people in another Shadow might say "my my, what a beautiful day..."

Bantu as she is going by will head out and try and find her way into town just to look around and window shop. See what this world has to offer and keep her ears open to any gossip she hears.

She will also see if there are any map dealers and ask where the magic item dealer is.

(Insightful roll again please...)

14:57, Today: Allura Caryx rolled 7 using 2d6.  Insightful.

--Gossip: Allura hears only one rumor that jumps out at her-- that Karak of Sawall and Maraki of House Amblerash are having some sort of feud about something. She wasn't able to overhear any details without making the speakers suspicious.

--Map dealers: There's a bookstore that's said to carry maps... She is apprised of its location.

--Magic item dealer: It appears-- from what Allura is told-- that the tent to which Squig referred is a sort of herringbone-striped tent in the market plaza... "You can't miss it."

Heads off to the book store first to look for maps especially any shadow path maps.

"What sections of Shadow are you most interested in, milady?" the shopdemon asks. "Where the Black Road goes-- as far as we currently know? The Black Zone itself? Just Yeelan...?"

"Yeleen and the black zone please my good demon." She said cheerily.

"That's two different maps, but yes, I have those..." he (she? it?) says...

The Yeleen map doesn't tell her a lot, except that the settlement with the cathedral is labeled Yelen and the one across the lake is labeled Barric.

The Black Zone map also doesn't tell Allura a ton she doesn't already know, but it's certainly artistically-drawn. All the important Black Zone Shadows are there, from the caverns of Raciri to the jungles of Alob to the four-towered waste of Taichen to the the necropolis of Adaji, yep, it's all there all right...

"Hmmm much of this I know." She sighs, "I suppose I was hoping for newly discovered paths and things in the area, do you have anything like that ?"

"In The Black Zone? No, milady. I do have a recently-updated map of Shadows that the Black Road touches..."

"Could, I take a look at that." She smiled thinking that might be what she is looking for in relation to the paths leading to her families fire angel training grounds.

"Certainly, milady."

The map shows The Black Road as a long and winding road that runs from the right to the left, passing through many, many Shadows along the way. It also has minor branches here and there through and to Shadows and then stops, as if the way was blocked and the... flow had to go elsewhere.

Allura has never heard of most of the Shadows, although of course a few she has, particularly the ones closest to the Courts.

"The Shadows most recently discovered in the last few years are underlined and italicized, you see," the shopdemon points out. There are several of these... but since Allura doesn't, herself, know where the Fire Angel training Shadow is, the information doesn't do much for her so far...

Takes note of those places recording it all to her memory.

"Thank you for your help. I might want to go exploring some of these new places." She smiled.

Then she made her way to the magic item shop.

The shopdemon grimaces slightly. "Well, I look forward to seeing you again... when you're ready to buy..."




In the square, Allura finds the tent selling magical items easily enough... there's no sign of Squig so far, though...

She gets herself something to eat and just waits for him to show.