The Calamity

Green talks to apprentice: You need to relax young man. Based on amount of damage I don't believe it was your mistake. It was rather a sabotage. Done on purpose.
Do you know where did Theo get the Heart of Scrallimenaxian from? Who had an access to it?


Silvanus share what he has learned with Avaris and telepathically only to Avaris: "I did not tell him Theo may be gone forever. Not yet."

"Peregrine, It seems you survived for a reason, from what I've heard anyone in the tower shouldn't have survived without powerful magic, it seems in the end Peregrine Theo chose to save you over the his own life, however you said he has a clone, where might we find this clone, for it is possible that the clone is still alive." he pats Peregrine on the shoulder, "My boy if Theo saw something special in you I believe you will one day become something very special, he always seemed to expect I'll from people and well I'll admit it might have saved our lives it wasn't the sort of thing that made a person likely to save someone else's life over their own. which means either he survived or he saw something very special in you."

Avaris holds back all the question about Theo that keep pounding into his mind, How had he changed? Did he look older now? What was the purpose of his experiments?

He looks at Silvanus with a newfound joy, he can still reconnect with the others he won't make the same mistake twice.

Very well said, my old friend. Now Peregrine you are absolutely right, we are here because something went wrong with rebirth.
Now why don't you tell us everything from the moment ritual begun till you saw body disintegrate?
But wait... you a wizard he points at Peregrine who saw it with his own ayes can't tell what happened, who are we to tell....
He rise and says over shoulder Avaris, try to get some sense out of young man, I'll check the the rest of the ruins and he goes searching for more survivors or any items that could have survived

"Very well Lord Mayor, you have my assurance that we will get to the bottom of this. You may dedicate your efforts to disaster relief. I recommend you set up your chirurgic centres here and here, and draft your temple clerics to man them. The clerks from town hall ought to bring their census documents to begin accounting for the populace who used to reside here. Send for the labourers, but have them on standby, we'll need their muscle once we start working through the ruins.

I understand the problem to originate from the tower, than from an external threat. All the same, put the city watch on alert. I will send for one detachment of my soldiers, but they will take a day to arrive. Now if you will permit me, I shall want to look over what is left of the tower myself." Crivelln spoke with the confidence of one who was used to adminstering an entire city itself as he described what immediately needed to be done. With a written note handed over to Estralus, he urged his pegasus to the skies to deliver a message back to Hommlet to have Sir Regil deployed with a squad of his garrion hospitallers. That done, he turned and headed towards the tower.

His approach was swift, purposeful but deliberate, intended to take in the full view of the environs towards the tower. As he neared, instead of heading straight towards the ruins, he made a circle around the radius of the explosion, attuning his senses to his surroundings to see if he could detect anything untoward that either might have caused the explosion, been the result of the explosion, or inadvertently caught in its wake. If there was something that was out of the ordinary, Crivelln wanted to pick it up. He continued circling in smaller circles until he reached where Avaris and Silvanus were.

Criv! the boys blind make your way this way!" Avaris says as he runs towards Crivlen carrying Peregrine.

Crivelln kept his composure in the face of the devastation wrought by the explosion. A crater in the heart of the city was no small matter. He saw a figure floating in the air, as if in a bubble. That figure fell, but he could see Silvanus already present to intercept it, followed by Avaris' arriving. He picked his way across the circle of rubble and ruin to see if he there were others fallen, injured, or worse, dead, but he found no one in his path. As her neared he found Avaris heading towards him with the fallen man in his arms. It was time to call upon the most important power he had at his disposal: not the ones that caused injury and death, but the one that healed and saved lives.

Instinctively he reached for the figure, needing no further explanation. His true sense immediately knew what was needed, and with his massive strength he cradled the man while with his other hand he channeled healing.

"How are you feeling? Are there others with you hurt? Is Theobald ... ?" He looked at the other two, their expressions confirming his conclusions. "Have you swept the place yet? Any clues? Evidence to investigate?

"There, Now are you able to lead me to the place where Theo kept the Clone?"

Telepathically Avaris relays what ye was told by both Silvanus and Peregrine.

Avaris only nods as Peregrine speaks of how Impossible this is knowing that comparably he was easy to kill all someone needed to do was make there way into the Astral plane find him and cut that cord... or any being even one from the Astral plane itself.

"Yes we're aware this shouldn't happen some would say couldn't but not to long ago I remember when they called what Theo himself could do Impossible, so I have given up on the Idea of the Impossible, however as Silvanus told you this was certainly not an accident, come let us see if Theo's Clone lives."

He looks at the boy in a new light, why hadn't Theo told the boy that not to long ago his own magic was considered Impossible, some of what all of them did was considered Impossible, until they did it, but that aside maybe Theo was a poor teacher, after all what had he ever learned from Theo, except to fear his life, Theo had taught him the fear of death like nobody else could.

"Peregrine is correct. This should not have happened." Crivelln considered how to proceed. If Theobald had a clone as contingency, it would be the obvious thing to have the clone recount whatever had happened in order to have caused the accident. But only when they were done here. "Answer Silvanus' question. You were assisting Theobald in his experiments? What exactly was he doing? Who else was present? What did you last see before the explosion occurred? Understand these questions are directed at you because you are possibly the only witness. "

"Silvanus, do you have divinations to perform here?"

"Yes Perengrine anything you can tell us is appreciated." he shoots Crivlan a look that comes with a message, 'Criv I'm trying to make the boy feel safe not feel like he's in an interrogation room!'

Silvanus returns after fruitless ruin search and explains that he do not find in necessary to use any spells right now.
Then he excuse himself to find his druids (he would tell them to return home to there is no immediate threat to the world balance, but they may need to continue without Silvanus presented. He have immediate matters right now).
He will be back to join the team visiting Sanctuary.

"That must have been horrible, Peregrine, i'd like to make it clear that if you don't want to join us heading to the sanctuary you need not, however that is where we wish to head so I would ask that you at least point us in the right direction."

And for all we know the apprentice might be the cause of it, intentionally or inadvertently. Crivelln replied to Avaris. If Theobald had judged Peregrine worthy enough to be an apprentice, then Peregrine ought to possess sufficient moral fiber for cross-questioning, if he truly cared for his master as he ought.

"Regil of my Hospitallers will arrive shortly to help organise the city's repair efforts and secure the zone from further contamination, and also to prevent others from snooping around a wizard's ruined tower. I believe we can now investigate the sanctuary, assuming that that place has not yet been adversely affected. Theobald suspected foul play, so there's no reason to assume everything is what it seems until we examine and verify all we look into." Crivelln stepped into the circle, intending to be first to arrive.

Silvanus follow silently. He keep his worries to himself

"Then Why did he get saved in the force cage?" Avaris responds Immediately realizing it came of much harsher than intended, but Crivelln is gone so he doesn't get a chance to change what he meant, Oh why does telepathy have to reveal so much of your emotions? Avaris wonders the realizes perhaps it's only my method of Telepathy that reveals such perhaps other methods are more like speaking.

Slowly Avaris takes a step forwards and into the circle.