- The next morning they are walking to the Beard and Barrel to figure out what kind of poison is in the beer.
- While they are walking, Tiff casts Sending to Calvin to confirm that he is not actually poisoning the beer at the B&B. Calvin is irate at the mere suggestion that he would ruin beer.
- They talk to Tallian the cook and order four meat-cakes on bread and then he goes to do that and also get Gerald.
- While they are waiting, Tiff gets a sudden bought of inspiration to ask Gerrard about dragons since he might be one and all.
- She Sends, "Hello, sir. My name is Theophania. You knew my great-aunt Thessalie in Mistverge. Possible black dragon under Mistverge. Can you share information about them? Thanks!"
- He Sends back, "Happy to do what I can to help. Unfortunately, this isn't my area of expertise. I will send someone who might be able to help."
- Gerald shows up, but they already flushed all the bad beer, so they ask to investigate the drain in the workshop instead.
- Osiris casts Detect Poison and Disease and both the sample of the new beer and the pitcher of non-beer drink Tallian brought with the meat-cakes on bread is poison, and so is the water in the mop bucket, and everything containing water in the back room, and so is the well from which all this water was pulled. (It is a natural form of poison, but she doesn't know its name.) She warns Gerald that his well is poison, and then runs from the river and recasts. The fog on the river is not poisonous and neither is the river's water.
- The well here is only used by the brewery, but the nearby Docks Market well is also poisonous.
- Osiris Sends to, "Marta, multiple wells in the city are poisoned. The river's fine. Pull all the water from the river. We're working on it."
- From Marta, "Is EVERY well in the city compromised?!"
- Osiris Sends again, "Beard and Barrel's well is poisoned, so is the Docks Market well. Checking every well in the city would take a week."
- "Okay, we'll have to get the city guard to shut everything down. This could be a catastrophe. Check as many wells as you can."
- Osiris and Tiff work out a system where Tiff will cart Osiris around on the broom checking wells while she concentrates on the detection spell. Tiff mixes up some dye for her sprayer and she'll quickly mark any contaminated wells so they can move on to the next one. The first time they have to stop to ritually cast the detection spell again, Tiff Sends to Marta, "Osiris and I checking wells around the city. I will put a reddish-brown mark on all the wells with poison. Let the city guard know."
- "Understood. Thank you for letting me know. You do the best work."
- They spend the rest of the day checking every well in the city. The wells at the Temple are clean. The wells north of the Temple are clean. The docks area and the poor area south of the Docks district is not great. The middle-class area south of the Hall of Justice is infected. The farther east, the less poison. The neighborhood just across the river on the south part of town is also infected, but the rest of the samples were okay.
- Raiàn, Lyrielle, and Rusty know the plan and head out to let more of the local city guard stations know about the contaminated wells and the marks on them. The plan is to meet back at the Curlywit boarding house that evening.
- Magnus has been trying to transmute water into wine, and they test his experiments and they are not poisonous. The wine tastes stale and oxidized and somehow like garlic. Tiff Purifies his waste bucket before they leave.
- Raiàn and Lyrielle stay at the boarding house to rest / sleep while Osiris, Rusty, and Tiff head back to the Temple to talk to a robot.
- The robot can be submerged in water, but it cannot swim, it just sinks.
- The next morning, the group meets up at the well at the Docks Market and bring the Robot Friend who they tie to a Rope of Climbing and lower into the well, and then it skitters back up. The well is just a hole in the ground with a 25' (ish) bulb of space at the bottom.
- As a test, they send Osiris (Water Breathing and Protection from Poison cast on her) and she casts Locate Creature (dragon) and finds nothing. They do another test on the eastern most edge of the poisoned area and also find nothing. They also test a well on the western most edge of the poisoned area and also nothing.
- While they are standing around ruminating on what to do next, Tiff Sends to Gerrard, "Not your expertise, but could black dragon poison ground water? Also who is your expert and when will they be here? Hope to see you soon."
- She receives, "Black dragon could absolutely poison water. The expert is a dragon historian of sorts. Should be there in the morning. I'll try to visit soon."
- The next morning Tiff has a visitor who is a young-looking woman who blonde hair cut short on the sides, but longer bit on the top has a blue-streak. She introduces herself as Jinora.
- 3,000 XP ea for 82,000 XP total ea.
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