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[brokencrescendo]

[Dragon Mail: Ezra Amos]
I spoke to the Asha.

Whatever research he tried to do didn't sit well with him. He seems convinced he's going to die.

He refused protection.

[Dragon Mail: Reilanin]
I met with the Asha.

I'm sorry. I wasn't able to find out anything more about your connection to him.

[Dragon Mail: Jordan Hayes]
Got to see the Asha last night.

You know how they say mages can lose their minds...?

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[coolmonsoon]

....why don't I like the way you phrased that?

[brokencrescendo]

I'm not sure there's a nicer way to say the Asha's lost it.

[coolmonsoon]

...I shouldn't be surprised. Are you sure it's a recent thing?

So he's just asking for it, then?... whatever he's seen makes him pretty sure? I don't think I need to tell you I don't like that, but... I don't like that.

[brokencrescendo]

I'd think that'd have been a big deal in lore.
But admittedly no. Never met him before this.

He still had research to do, he just... seems to think it's going to happen. I don't think he means the greycloaks.

[coolmonsoon]

You're probably right. It seems like something someone would have discovered by now.

So... so what do we do with a crazy mage as a colleague? What is he like? I've never really paid much attention to mages...

Not the greycloaks?

[brokencrescendo]

More vulnerable than dangerous, which worries me. It's like he never quite understood me, and he can't seem to hold a thought. He's frightened, I think. Not comforting.

He insisted whatever it was, I couldn't protect him from it. Greycloaks may have a good record, but they're still human, you know?

[coolmonsoon]

.... a scared, crazy mage. Do you think he could be ... I don't know, volatile?

I wonder if the Vahishta's spoken to him since... I wonder if he knows? But minds... that's not really something a cleric can deal with. [if that were the case, he'd gladly do what he could to turn him to Ravindra, but since it's not...]

Well, I hope they are. We've never met one.

[brokencrescendo]

I have a few burn welts, but I don't think he meant it. It might be a control thing...
But there it's not like he set his lab on fire. Best we can do is hope he doesn't reach that point.

I have.
They're human.

[coolmonsoon]

1. Burn welts? How the fuck did he do that?

2. What the hell do you mean you have.

You got some 'splainin' to do.

[winterwhite]

I see.

[...]

Nothing at all?...

[brokencrescendo]

He isn't [...] well.
I don't think he understood what I was asking.

[winterwhite]

He's mad, you mean.

[brokencrescendo]

Yes.

[winterwhite]

I do not remember him that way.

Why?

[brokencrescendo]

Last I heard, he was doing research on why these things are happening.

Maybe he didn't like what he saw.

[winterwhite]

He could do that?

[why is she surprised? she's been able to examine things that should be impossible, and yet she's treated them as natural

but her mind keeps going back to that journal and what it might mean...]

Yes... it isn't simply myth, what they say of mages. The greatest of them are also the most far removed from reality. It is questionable if they can even tell the difference anymore. Luckily, they are few and far between.

[it shouldn't upset her as much as it does, either. surely, upas can find something, but she'd been hoping on Rhys for something...

what if she went herself?...]

I wonder how many others there are...

[brokencrescendo]

He's still trying. If what you say is true, maybe he'll find something.

And maybe there are still answers, if he knew how to express them.
I'm sorry I couldn't get them for you.

Other what?

[cloverstone]

[ so just call him broken, it's not that hard ]

Do you know what was he doing to have lost his mind now instead of earlier?

[brokencrescendo]

[Yes it is. You don't just go around saying people are broken!]

Last I heard, he planned to research this merge thing. It started with Bastan going missing, but I don't know if he was looking into how, why, or if he could summon Bastan back.

[cloverstone]

[ reilanin can force a player off of their character... ]

Maybe the Asha was able to see what's happening, or have enough of the parts to be able to string the whole picture together. I can't imagine it was what he saw that drove him mad, though. He's the Asha. He would have seen so much already.

[brokencrescendo]

That's what worries me. He's not new to this. He must have seen worse than any other mage.

If we could imagine it, we'd probably go as mad as he did.

[cloverstone]

[ but was his insanity from what he saw or what he deduced?

... ]

How's Ezra?

[brokencrescendo]

He's doing well, considering. Bastan's not the easiest place to be partially in charge of right now.

[cloverstone]

[ about an hour, hour and a half later

her phone.

call history is deleted, all alt contacts are deleted. ]

Pictures of Bastantown.

Return it, of course.

[brokencrescendo]

[Several minutes of looking through pictures. He doesn't even think to check contacts or phone history who do you take him for.]

[Return'd phone.]

Thanks.

It's good to see it safe. For the most part.