Sigil: City of Doors

//The following thread will contain sexually suggestive scenes and scenes of a violent nature. It should be treated as PG13 and reader discretion is advised.

In the top floor of a house in The Hive Ward candles flicker and a woman sits at a writing desk reading. The houses decor is either new or carefully restored, the freshly renovated interior very different from what its outward appearance would suggest. The woman rests her feet on the crumpled form of a man beneath the desk. His muscular frame and the scars on his body suggest at some point he was some kind of warrior, the brand burned into his skin would suggest that more recently he was a slave, the open unhealed bite wound on his neck and his pallid complexion would suggest that due to blood loss his suffering may soon be over.

Emila flicks through the pages of the book she took from the Succbus Jina paying little heed to the sounds of protest coming from beneath the desk. What she had uncovered puzzled her and she did not enjoy being puzzled she had resolved to get to the bottom of it. With a black fetched quill she jotted a diagram down on a scrap of paper.

wrote:
                                        Haren (Eladrin fallen no Phlatchery)


          Baatezu Necromancer               Shade from Hades            Jina
                   (Phlatchery)                          (Phlatchery)         (Phlatchery) 

Next to her she had a vial of the adapted poison she took from the temple of the abyss. She had already discovered it would be used in the ritual the four of them planned. She uncorked it and inhaled the scent and poured a small droplet onto her finger tip. She had seen how it worked on its intended target but would be interested to know how it effected something that wasn't an outsider. Reaching down beneath the table she pressed the droplet of poison to the lips of the man there and waited for him to lick the droplet up. As she waited for it to take effect she turned her mind back to the book she had. She so far had uncovered a ritual to allow three outsiders, one from each of principal lower planes of law chaos and neutrality to transform themselves into something like a lich. This confused her greatly, whilst she has a dustman could see the advantages of undeath she doubted Demons Devils and what she presumed was a Yugloth would see the advantage their arrogance seemed to blind them to such things, even more interestingly the one she suspected to be the leader of the group, a fallen Eldarin of all things seemed to have a different role to the others. She read through the book she took from Jina, and the one she recovered from Haren. She was looking for anything they gleaned from there that would allow them to enact such a ritual in the hope she could guess what they were doing, and why Haren's part was different to the others.[/i]

Studying the books takes time and Emila reads a lot about planar theories and also the nature of undeath.

Both books are ancient and have been written by hand, the languages often changing as the author uses the one who fits a described concept best.
While of different authors written in different times there are still a few concepts this books share and if Emila tries she might be finding links and similarities in topics that should not have much in common.

She feels something jerk under her feet, hears the slave's rasping last breath. He died silently, seemed to have suffered no additional pain and Emila's senses feel the warmth of life slowly leaving his body.

Returning her attention to the books Emila realizes that the ritual they ae planning is a variant of the usual Rituals of lichdom, allowing the fiends to attune themselves to their own plane of existance- perhaps being able to draw power from that planes?

What the fallen Eladrin plans is less clear- especially his lack of a phylactery makes no sense. However reading through the books recovered from him and his consort, comparing certain passages Emila gets the feeling he either planned to use more than one phylactery, use an 'unusual one' (living being? undead? construct?) or perhaps even both?

((I suggest to do this in game soon if this is ok for you. ))

//Whatever is easiest for you, I am free today.