The Clandestine Casters

After exploring most of the mansion, we ran into an illusion of Otrix telling us to go away. I greatly enjoyed making Roaslie laugh while imitating the grumpy old man. The rest of the party was more worried than entertained. Something about Recklessness. I feel like mister Zig is going to be sermonising me a lot about that in the coming weeks.
While poking fun at it we all failed to notice that the entire mansion was being surrounded by Boros guard. This was almost problematic when the magical setup of the room opened the window to make itself known. Rosalie and Esther, both close behind me, vanished instantly. It was quite impressive. I was caught completely unaware but luckily the guards.... didn't see me. By all accounts I had turned invisible, which was frightening but also, strangely, exciting? Thrilling? Anyway it caused me to panic a little bit. I hadn't felt so acutely anxious since the morning I woke up in the gutter a few months back.
Collectively deciding that Boros might have some info on where to find this elusive thief, I decided to reveal to my new friends the existence of Tom Blackmore, and hint that I had an in with him. That being said, I was in no mood to see Tom. Who knows if the Penlyras had eyes inside that damn station. It could get me killed! Again!
Anyway mister Zig and I headed to the station but I let him go in there alone with some of my notes as an in with Tom, while I headed to a nearby tavern to join everyone. I don't know the details of how that went but by the look on mister Zig's face he found out more than I had hoped about me. Mother always said you needed to break eggs to make an omelette.
Anyway after I bothered miss Esther about her cool gear and weapons, it was decided that we should head to Brye Street! Where crazy Bob lives! Mister Zig said something about getting info from thugs there and mister Al recalled a shady tavern there for us to dig info from.
While wondering the streets I figured I could use my silver tongue to get extra info. I confronted these guys telling them I wanted to buy stolen Circle goods, pretending to be rich. That sent the wrong signal. They tried to kidnap me, which was unpleasant. Luckily miss Esther and mister Zig pulled me out of there really quickly. Also Mister Al doubled in size while we were running away? I couldn't tell because I was half conscious after a few bat hits to the head and some crossbow bolts. By the way, I survived a bat to the head and crossbow bolts! That's absolutely insane! That assault would've been enough to knock out Tom.... probably. Anyway we ran out of there and retreated to my inn outside of town. Mister Al got a big old serious look on his face and asked where all of our magic came from.
After all of them except for mister Zig explained the source of their powers, I took my shirt off and showed everyone the weird crystal that the Penlyras implanted in my chest. I told them all the rough edges of what I know about the Pennlyra's illegal dealings and about how Tom and I were investigating them together.
I don't quite recall the rest of that discussion because I was getting drowsy. I retired to my room and mister Al sent his cat with me. Oh! By the way, mister Al has a magic cat. It's very cute.
Last night I had the dream again where I am in the eye of the storm and the strange eyes talk to me. Then I had a dream about being a lightning bolt and woke up in a cold sweat as lightning crashed right outside my door! This crystal definitely holds some sort of weird magical lightning in it or something. I looked down at my hand and arcs of electricity were jumping between my fingers. I don't know what it all means, but it's the morning now and the rest of my new friends are arguing about what to do next. Whatever we decide to do, I'm both eager and scared to find out just what in Tasha's laugh this crystal is and what it can do