<div class="floatleft">(https://elliquiy.com/elluiki/images/d/db/Mind_flayer_by_deligaris-d4a3jqv.jpg)</div><strong>Zyrxicorian</strong>and<strong>Number Six</strong><br/><strong>Location</strong>: Matron's Throne Room<br/><div class="spoiler_container"><div class="spoiler_header" onclick="hideSecond (this);" role="button">Zyrxicorian stats</div><div class="spoiler_body"><strong>HP</strong> 114/114<br/><strong>PP</strong> 196/219<br/><strong>AC</strong> 32 (+5 Dex, +8 Monk, +1 natural armor, +8 <em>inertial armor</em>), touch 23(31 vs incorporeal), flat-footed 27<br/><strong>Additional Bonuses</strong> +10 Circumstance to Bluff vs Sense Motive checks, +4 to saves vs any power or spell used to read mind, detects direction of active aggression within 30 ft, cannot be surprised or caught flat-footed by creatures susceptible to mind-affecting, can make Sense Motive checks as a free action against anyone within 30 ft<br/><br/><strong>Active Buffs</strong> Extended <em>conceal thoughts</em>(24 hours), Extended <em>detect hostile intent</em>(220 minutes), Extended <em>inertial armor</em>(24 hours), <em>Rary's telepathic bond</em>(110 minutes)<br/></div></div><div class="spoiler_container"><div class="spoiler_header" onclick="hideSecond (this);" role="button">Number Six stats</div><div class="spoiler_body"><strong>HP</strong> 66/66<br/><strong>PP</strong> 73/96<br/><strong>AC</strong> 21 (+2 Dex, +1 natural armor, +8 <em>inertial armor</em>), touch 12(20 vs incorporeal), flat-footed 19<br/><strong>Additional Bonuses</strong> detects direction of active aggression within 30 ft, cannot be surprised or caught flat-footed by creatures susceptible to mind-affecting, can make Sense Motive checks as a free action against anyone within 30 ft, darkvision 60 ft, half damage from all attacks that deal hitpoint damage is dealt to psicrystal instead<br/><br/><strong>Active Buffs</strong> Constant <em>detect hostile intent</em> from amulet, Extended <em>inertial armor</em>(22 hours), Extended <em>psionic darkvision</em>(22 hours), Extended <em>share pain</em>(with psicrystal, 22 hours)<br/></div></div><br/><strong>Active Aura</strong>: Perception, 20 ft (+3 Listen, Spot and Initiative to all allies)<br/><br/><hr/>Upon retiring to his quarters, Zyrxicorian began his divinations immediately, seating himself upon a soft mat that was made for meditation so that he could concentrate.  Weaving mental energies together took time, as did plumbing the depths of the astral plane for echoes of the knowledge he sought.  The first and most immediate goal he had was to find out the identities of the next victims, the next people within the city who would die to the techniques of a professional assassin, then be immediately reanimated afterwards as undead.  His powers of foresight could only stretch out to cover the next week, but they were a potent information gathering tool within that timeframe, and he was fairly certain that they would provide some sort of useful information to the investigation.<br/><br/>Ten minutes of time had passed by the time his initial<em>psionic divination</em>was complete, and as his eyes reopened, burning for a few seconds with silvery astral fire, he was left with some quite useful information indeed.<br/><br/><em>"Lady Ilivarrra, Miss T'sos, my divinations have revealed that the next murder will take place today."</em>That spell that Avalae had cast to allow them all to keep in contact with one another for a few hours was paying off already, it seemed.  Not that he hadn't been disappointed in the arcanist's apparent lack of trust in his own ability to form a similar telepathic link, one that would have lasted twice as long, but the Illithid also understood just how hard it was to trust a Mindflayer to poke around inside one's mind.  Plus, the fact that it had clearly been on the advice of her slave that she had made the decision was intriguing in its own right...<em>"The victim will be a middle-class Drow woman by the name of Sorshia Donia, a merchant who married a wealthy retired adventurer, then made use of his fortune after his demise to invest in a number of businesses throughout the city, which she now controls.  I have not met her personally, but know of her by reputation; her home is in the Ghetto of Foreigners, but her businesses are spread all throughout the city, and given the time of day, she is most likely seeing to one business or another, somewhere in the city.<br/><br/>"The next murder after her will take place in two days; in fact, the killer is killing on a regular schedule, once every two days.  I was also able to discover that he uses an element of random chance in the selection of his victims.  As such, I would recommend that we attempt to find Ms. Donia before she becomes the next victim.  Should we fail, we will still have more time to continue our investigation, but Ms. Donia is a more... time-sensitive matter."</em>