<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> 203/219<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>(230 minutes), Extended <em>inertial armor</em>(24 hours)<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/><em>"Number Six and my contacts within the city can be counted on to handle the more... mundane fact-finding aspects of our task,"</em>Zyrxicorian commented, after Ilivarrra had laid out her plans for the investigation.<em>"At the same time, if our goal is purely to catch the killer, such mundane methods are likely completely unnecessary.  I possess some ability as a diviner, myself, and with Sir Erevan having identified the killer's methods as those of a professional assassin during the earlier meeting, circumventing his protections against divinations will be quite simple.  Rather than finding the killer, we would need only to find the identities of everyone within the next week who will be killed by the techniques of a professional assassin and then reanimated as an undead, as well as the times, places, and specific methods of death.  An easy task, with more than one diviner on our team.  We could then use one of these times and places to observe our killer at work, and formulate a plan to capture him from there.<br/><br/>"Rather than focusing all of our energies purely upon investigation of the murder scenes, therefore, I believe our effort would be more productively spent looking into the bigger picture surrounding these murders.  Whose bidding the killer carries out, the purpose behind killing the citizens of this city and then reanimating them as undead, and, if the answers implicate another great noble house in these murders, what the potential fallout could be for House Auvyrahel if we publicly reveal the scheme.  In fact, I suspect that the honored Matron's reason for delegating this task to her daughters in the first place was to have it serve as a test of either your or Lady Abduxuel's judgement and wisdom when confronted with matters such as these."</em><br/><br/>This was slightly dicey ground, questioning the second daughter's orders after she had already given them out.  At the same time, Zyrxicorian knew that Ilivarrra was not as prone to taking slight at such things as the daughters of Drow noble houses often could be.  The Illithid was fairly confident that she would see that his goal was not to challenge her authority, and that he was instead simply making a recommendation while drawing her attention towards possibilities he believed she had not yet considered.