Research

After leaving the cultist hideout, I began to spend the next couple of days researching various topics like General E and the cultists that took Sylvie. I learned a couple of new things about our stone-faced friend such as the fact that he may be a construct, which would mean someone else is commanding him. Great. I've hired a spy (who I'll be calling "One") to keep tabs on the guards and to meet me in the town square if he finds anything. Talking about new allies, a woman named Kit Blackmold who is a mage found my interest in General E... interesting. She asked me why I was trying to learn more about him and even gave me some information about his powers. Now that I'm thinking about it, how does she know about stone-face's power? Why is she afraid of him? Why is her tongue black? Too many questions in my opinion.
 
I also started my investigation on where Sylvie was taken to, asking the help of Josephine who came back to me with a strange potion and a vision of an apocalyptic Oasis forty years ago. Joey, Ham, and I split up to investigate any temples that may have taken Sylvie or knows about the position. When we reconvened, I told the others my theory on the Scripture. If someone rewrites something in there, they change the history of the desert, and I believe that something already changed, and whatever lived in that apocalyptic Oasis wants to return home. I have little evidence of this exact theory but it's something. The three of us split up, Ham going to a library to research any major religious events that happened in the year five-hundred, Joey going to talk to the cultists that we helped clear the names of for more information on cults, and I will be staying behind to keep an eye on little buddy, just to make sure no one is after him from his misadventures which caused him to be covered in blood (that didn't belong to him). I should keep a closer eye on him...