12 Unndilar 835

So we’ve arrived at Tiamat where we have a lead on one of the dragon cult members. We can’t just go into the city and search because we have found wanted posters with our description on it and it’s all because we sentenced the murderer Samir to death. We where in our rights to do so, he did leave Khajit for dead so even in his own mind he was a killer. However the authorities apparently have a different perspective hence the posters. So we devised a plan to enter the city disguised and left the other Riders of the storm and Leora out of the city. We now headed in with some disguise self spells a shiny armor for Drok and me in a bag of holding.
Sitting in the bag of holding for a while gave me some ideas on how I could speed up the process of permanently infusing magic into an item.

!DON’T FORGET THIS!
Assumptions:

• Casting a spell in the vicinity of an object is not what holds the magic into it.
• Casting it on or at an object would apply the effect to the object not merge it with the object.
• We add catalysts to an object to allow the magic to merge instead of applying the effect. (The reversed effect of a silvered weapon)

My conjecture:
All infusions related to the same catalyst (and potentially the same family of catalysts) can be grouped and applied at the same time.

Although it’s common practice to apply a catalyst to every stage of the creation and infusion process I don’t think that has to be the way, if I’m right that would both speed up the creation and lower the amount of materials needed to create a magic item. I do think this would lower the margin of error during the infusion process and may well be the reason it’s not common practice.

In case Davinara, Khajit or Drok reads this, this was the only peace of paper I had access to and I know you get bored with technical details. My apologies.
!STILL DON’T FORGET THIS!

We, well actually not me because I was still in the bag, talked to the barkeep and inquired about where we could find some high level spell-caster to cast a spell for us, knowing that the cult member is a high level spell-caster, the barkeep very nicely told us there are three such persons in the city and gave us directions to all three of them. We went back to our room and talked about what to do next, that’s when Davinara received an urgent message from the Floshem family that the book we left there was translated/researched and we needed to go to Uthodorn to be informed about the results. We had a short discussion on whether we should go immediately or if we should go find the spell-caster first we decided that if the Floshem family says it’s urgent it may be wise to go there first. We’re now on our way to Faramir Floshem he should be able to teleport us to the Floshem family house in Uthodorn.

It’s nice to be back here.
We just exchanged pleasantries and got an update from Uthemar’s father and we’re now heading to the university to learn what secrets the book contained. We knew it was one book of three but that the whole trilogy could have been the downfall of Molaesmyr is not what I guessed. Davinara was clever enough to also verify if our quest to obtain the dragon claw may be linked to the books and it appears it may be so. We’re going back to Tiamat and decided that for now the black dragon is still an evil entity and the world is better off without it. Also if we kill it and we do get the claw it may well be the best way to prevent Darko Trebain from obtaining it, unless we supply it to him ourselves, we did make a deal.
I almost forgot, we still had a silver ring made by my blacksmith friend. It was very nice to see him again and catch up for a bit, but it turned out the owner of the ring was on the same mission as us to retrieve a black dragon claw and he didn’t have any relatives here so we’re going to keep the ring. My friend did tell me he crafted the ring with very specific instructions and it was intended to be infused with some kind of magic. Well for now get back to Tiamat first all the answers seem to be there.

So we’re back in Tiamat and on our way to the house of the first wizard. Drok seems impresses this is a proper wizard accomodation, tower check, magical speaking door check and a very peculiar man. We asked him a few questions and allowed him an accidental glance at the cultist rings we acquired. No sign he recognized it. So Davinara and I don’t think this is the infamous cultist leader. So on to the second house, I have to admin this one is less impressive wizard house but the owner welcomed us in and shared some drink with us. We don’t think this is the one either, so this one agreed to help us find the right person if we do a small errand for him at the third wizard house, we have to retrieve a book about teaspoons, reluctantly we agreed. On our way to the third house. If this isn’t the cultist, then we have to rely on the divination skills of the wizard that we just left, well we’ll see. Finally at the third house again same trick with an accidental glance and nothing, he did seem annoyed when we mentioned that we are here to retrieve the teaspoon book. He gave us the books and send us on our way. So our last lead is our payment for retrieving the book. After some short pleasantries and the wizard’s was very pleased with himself when he heard the other wizard was annoyed when he had to hand over the book, he went on to look for the location of the wizard that we are looking for. He put some herbs and stuff I didn’t recognize into a fiery pot and smoke appeared, the smoke contained an image of a wizard looking into a ball, IT WAS THE FIRST GUY. We ran over there kicked in the door and ran upstairs, he was expecting us and attacked hard. The crafty basterd was flying and invisble, we quickly beat him and he fell to his death. So we searched the room and found round object covered by a piece of cloth and Drok ripped it off. It was a Palentir with a big yellowish eye in it looking strait at us.