As Yolande is eager and fast to leave, Kabuno halted her departure briefly by holding her shoulder and said; "So your going to field? Then you should take one these and test it out for us." Kabuno then shows a pair of magical pendants (http://moziru.com/images/drawn-jewelry-anime-4.jpg) and says; "We did prototype for amulet you requested; one ward from the mind affecting powers from monsters and evil. They were made different so students have choice on appearance, each one however holds school symbol in arcane mark in their backs so they can be easily tracked or found if lost in field. Or if student disappears we can locate them. They can hold additional enchantments as rewards for more skilled or advanced students but for now these pendants hold most basic enchantment. It can be easily dispelled though but magical dispelling is rare from monsters usually."<br/><br/>Kabuno of course does not mention that each pendant besides providing basic<em>protection from evil</em>spell and be easy to track also hold secret cursed effect on the wearer. It makes person more appealing to monsters and when facing said monsters said person will suffer curse which reduces their chances to resist monster advances....and elusive charm which makes monsters ignore pendant and not remove it even when they would remove everything else.<br/><br/>Once choosing which one to pick Kabuno more than enough ease arranges horse for Yolande for departure on road, less than day's journey to Bilgewater village (https://www.blogcdn.com/massively.joystiq.com/media/2012/08/d1.jpg), already Yolande can see something is wrong; nobody was outside the houses and all doors and windows were barred and locked up. No animals, no children nor adults were in street. Village was defenseless as it had no walls around it. There was huge lake down path from the village, lake was flanked all other sides with deep forest which crept towards mountains for miles.<br/><br/><div class="spoiler_container"><div class="spoiler_header" onclick="hideSecond (this);" role="button">Curse of the Pendant</div><div class="spoiler_body">While wearing pendant, monsters need roll will save DC 14 or fall under charm person vs wearer and it's twisted into a eager carnal interest. Wearer suffers 50% chance to automatically fail resist or harm such monster. Amulet however provides +2 deflection bonus to AC, saves and protection from mind-affecting effects from monsters and 50% fail does not apply monsters automatically hitting your AC. But if they use spells which are not mind-affecting there is 50% you fail automatically the save.</div></div>