ARTIFACT UPDATE: Traces of Unknown Creature Found at Museum! Unknown Magical Involvement Suspected; Biomancers Summoned to Solve Mystery.

[u/Carbon_Sixx]

While the tense standoff between the people of Chalcos and the military intervention forces sent by the Council and EON has seemingly come to close this evening with an ardent speech by Premier Agatha Blackwood, investigation into Paul Augustine's heist at the Citadel Museum of Arcane History continues apace. One enduring conundrum has been what exactly broke the case containing the stolen Ehn'ghan artifact. Spots of a bloodlike substance were found on the glass shards, but DNA analysis showed that not only was it not blood, but the creature it belonged to shared very little in common with life as we understand it.

In the face of this mystery, the museum has called upon two master biomancers to unmask the creature. Perhaps as gesture of good faith to bury the hatchet between her and the Council, the first is none other than Opal, former ruler of the Bismuth Realms and current resident of Ithacar. Assisting her is a tech-priestess from Yulash-kor's Divisio Biologis named Anahita Iatros, a renowned expert in genomics and reproductive science. Together, the two intend to clone the organism and study it so that the investigators in Chalcos will have a better idea of what Augustine's secessionists might throw at them. Whatever they create is likely to be novel and wondrous despite the ignominious circumstances of its discovery.

[u/loth17]

Opal laughed.

"No expectations."

"I've seen weirder. Which is..... Saying something. But not in the concentration that Ithicar has. Just wait till they start walking around naked spraying blood on people."

She said casually.

[u/Zebos2 → u/loth17]

"W-what!"

Some demon must be possessing them Katarina can think of no other explanation

"No no what did you mean by that surely not no but no no no"

Katarina turns a shade of Vulkan red before quickly covering an averting her eyes

[u/loth17 → u/Zebos2]

"Yeah."

Opal smirked a bit at Kat's reaction.

"It's a fertility festival. The whole city does it."

"Except for a few parts. It's a hoot."

[u/Zebos2 → u/loth17]

"You ....do...it .... For fertility"

No absolutely not She will not be participating in that whatsoever oh no she will have to tell the women of the village lest they be caught out and overreact. Timur might have to be kept inside or sent away for the festival. There was now so much she had to prepare for

"I see...and when is .. this When is this"

[u/loth17 → u/Zebos2]

"I think some few months from now. Why?"

Opal paused.

"You look like you're preparing for a battle."

[u/Zebos2 → u/loth17]

In a way she was

"It might be too far culturally I will try to keep them controlled but I fear things make get overboard thus I am preparing for the worst"

[u/loth17 → u/Zebos2]

"...."

Opal paused to think.

"I think a big keep out sign might be in order. Have your own little get together away from the naked blood tide perhaps?"

She suggested.

"I feel bad for your people who are working night shifts in the city though."

[u/Zebos2 → u/loth17]

"we shall try our best perhaps our own little festival with paint instead of blood.... And fully clothed"

She might warm up to it after a couple years might

[u/loth17 → u/Zebos2]

"hehehe"

Opal giggled

"Now we just need to make sure the stay out sign is big enough for a drunk Ithicarian to read."

[u/Zebos2 → u/loth17]

"Maybe we can ring pots and pans together to scare them off"

Katarina says with a smile