<strong>Location:</strong>Anjushri's Temple<br/><strong>Tags:</strong>Chorgath<br/><br/>With Essence-Dissecting Stare active, Chorgath can more easily perceive the situation.<br/><div class="spoiler_container"><div class="spoiler_header" onclick="hideSecond (this);" role="button">Quick note for AESS-alikes:</div><div class="spoiler_body">Any guesswork previously is confirmed/disproven: the Essence animating this place is Adorjan-aspected.  Before now, it was subtle, merely animating and brushing by; now, though, there's no hint of play.  This place is a manse in present danger of Power Failure.</div></div><br/>"We cannot dally for long," Sondok answers her ward as she falls in behind him, her customary gravelly voice marked with an uncharacteristic note of fear as the not-wind stirs her garb.  "I've felt this kind of power once before.  We do not want to be here when this gets worse."<br/><br/>Following his instincts, Chorgath's directed wandering takes him eventually into what appears to be a storeroom within the living quarters.  The room's chief identifying feature are the rows and stacks of crates.  Some are still intact, but most have been opened; at a glance Chorgath can see unopened jugs of alcoholic spirits, wrapped loaves of bread and other foodstuffs, as well as a mostly-empty bag of manna locusts.<br/><br/>Something smells off, though all the food smells make it hard to determine precisely what that off-ness is.  His sense for the origin of the Blasphemy, though, tells him that it is directly down from here.<br/><br/>((Perception+Investigation, difficulty 3!  More successes, as always, is better.))<br/><br/><hr/><br/><strong>Location:</strong>Hallways to Antechamber - Anjushri's Temple<br/><strong>Tags:</strong>Void<br/><br/>"MAKE HER STOP DOING THE WINDY THING."<br/><br/>Howls Skyward's voice is just distant (and dim) enough that Void Face Lover's inherent revulsion with such things doesn't trigger, but it's on her way.  The antechamber of the manse-temple is a room of some notable size: not as open as the feasting hall, but still large enough to fit many, many people-- such as the gathering within it.<br/><br/>Located more or less centrally in the antechamber's open space is a large gathering of Anjushri's attendants.  Most look as though they've just run here out of bed, hair mussed or out of place or robes in disarray, but all of them are the kind of awake that a person gets when they've been roused out of bed because of an impending fire.<br/><br/>Howls Skyward is among the crowd, currently hoisting one poor youth a yard above the ground by the robes and shaking him like a rag-doll.  "Make her stop the windy thing!" he commands the boy again; the boy responds by continuing to be stunned and dizzy from all the shaking, and the other attendants are now giving him as much berth as they can.<br/><br/>Also among the crowd is Quiet Samaro, who is trying, ineffectually, to suggest to the big Lunar that maybe shaking them until they talk is probably not the best way to get answers.<br/><br/>Ruby is standing on a table on one side of the room, head and shoulders above the crowd, and is visibly doing a headcount.  She is at close to Maximum Fret, and when Void makes her entrance she looks almost hopeful for a moment, though that hope fades quickly into redoubled fretting...