An adventurers Insight.

Kuh-jai set at his table eating quietly, and occasionally taking out a long reed-pipe to take a few puffs in between a sip of some low quality wine. After waiting close to an hour, and watching the darkness set in to the landscape of Alborine, a familiar man set across from him, took a prepared cup of ale and took a long drink of it. It was the quiet man that spoke first. "What did you think, your curiousity finally sated?" Kuh-Jai gently scratched at the base of one of his tall ears, a smile creased over his fox like face. "It was better than expected. They seem to be skilled. I also wanted to verify that the thing on her belt was in fact, the Gate Stone. It was."  The other man nodded and took another sip of his ale. "Shizagi gonna be mad for not getting the stone?"  Kuh-Jai shook his head and took a puff of his long-pipe. "No, though it makes our task a bit harder. The item needs to be un attuned, and im pretty sure the thing master is making will destroy it, so we need to look for another vile one. The Chalice's are off limits, `cause we dont have mantles, so finding them would be all but impossible." The quieter man listend to the fox speak, took another drink and looked at him. "So what do we do, we cant go back empty handed." Kuh-Jai nodded and smiled broadly. "Dont worry! the little bug had a whole bunch of information in those books of his. I got a few leads, though we'll need to travel a bit. I dont want to cross paths with this Crimson Circle."  The quieter man looked to his friend. "They powerful?" Kuh-Jai shrugged. "I guess so. But more importantly they have the sin brands that master does. That makes them predictably unpredictable." The quiet man took a drink, motioning for a refill. "How far are they into there sin?" Kuh-Jai took a long, slow puff of his pipe and regarded his friend. "Not to the level that Master has sunk. But its only a matter of time, they will gain power, and that power will be stained by there sin. I dont believe they realize what they've gotten themselves into. Though, that being said, some of that sin will blossom into incredible power." The smaller man waited for his drink, and regarded his friend again. "What do you think will happen to them? you could see there sin right, like with master." Kuh-Jai nodded and tapped his forehead. "Yeah. i could see, thanks to the Mirror-Mask. And what will happen to them, hard to tell. Hopefully they get what they want before the sin takes over. I think they assume that they are gods of there sin, when in actuality, they have god like sin. But it isnt something they control. Its from them. It will become amplified over time. Overwhelmingly so. Like master" He paused, pondered his thoughts, took a puff from his pipe and spoke again. "Once lust is in its final stage I doubt Kaliora's thoughts will be able to hold on to her dreams. She'll be consumed with fulfilling her own Lust, and spread that lust to others she is with. Maybe a specialized brothel?" Kuh-Jai shrugged at his own thought and continued. "Pride will cause its owner to become more careless, he will think himself immortal, undefeatable, and in its final stage the bearer of that sin will think himself above his comrades. This will lead to his downfall." He took another long pull from his pipe and continued. "Greed and Envy follow the same path. They lead to sloppy, traitorous behavior. Greed would do anything for money, betray, kill, plot, steal. In its final stages the amount wont even matter, just that overwhelming need for more. Envy will follow a similar path." He sighed and looked out of the tavern window, then back to his friend. "Wrath, thats an easy one. Being consumed with wrath means falling to it, becoming filled with it constantly. This might work for Indeera, but her goals would need to be in place before the sin got to its final stage." Kuh-Jai quirked a smile at his friend. "And we've seen the final stage of god like Sloth for ourselves. So theres no question as to its outcome. Basically one gets so lazy that he has to have his subordinates do EVERYTHING. still, its a sin in which he has access to his own thoughts. So he got lucky I guess." Kuh-Jai pulled out a small, black leather bound book and looked to his friend. "They do however, have Fayn on there side. He perpetuates these common sins more than most, and so they might be able to harness them better than master did. Also, I doubt they would want to give up the power these sins bring, even if they did know of there potential danger. Finally, they seek out artifacts I think, faynish ones. Im assuming thats why the bug is looking into them. If they have powerful enough artifacts, those relics will affect there paths far more than sin would." Kuh-Jai shrugged again. "But really, they are evil. What they desire will ultimately destroy them, they're only saving grace here is that they probably have the approval of there god. But there not safe, thats for certain, and dealing with them again would be problematic. Im not exactly sure what Kaliora is, but I have a feeling it might actually benefit from this sin somehow, or evolve differently. My Mirror Mask saw a great power around her. But it wasnt coming from her. Somehow, I dont think she actually has any power at all. Even the mantle seemed to be worn loose on her, like her soul can barely hold its weight. But, in the same way, I think she wields much more power than I want to contend with, and I know she would bring it to bare against us should we get in her way. Still, I shouldnt be suprised with new arcanist types in alborine. It is the city of dreams after all." Kuh-Jai looked at the smaller man. "Well enough chit chat. We need to find Len-Shai. Its been a few weeks, so he should pop up in one of the smaller villages soon. Ill scry for him here in a day or two, but for now we'll head to out of the gates, after we get him we'll go get us an artifact for Shizagi's masterpiece." The smaller man nodded. "Ill get our ward and meet you at the gate." The smaller man stood up, shouldered his katana, and headed to the door. Kuh-Jai followed the man with his eyes, then looked out the window again, taking one final puff of his long-pipe. "Samurai and Ninja working together." the old fox smirked. "Ward, indeed." Alot was riding on this contraption of Shizagi's. Enough to cause more than a few rich lords to put there resources behind a known demonologist and wu-jen. "The future looks amusing master. I simply, cant, wait." and with those final words the old fox's form slipped into invisibility. His tab unpaid.