(ToB) Safety Deposit

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Murder weapons, Abysally tainted, maybe even soul stealing tools. That's what the Tass knives were. Of course, they had always spooked the Mystagogue; Tass knife shows up with a dismembered body in your order HQ and that's not supposed to scare you?

Bullshit

But Orpheus had thought that he would be able to handle them. That he could find out what they were for and safely dispose of them with the help of Mimir's Well. After seeing what they'd been a part in though,

Now he felt like he knew all he wanted to know and more about the knives' and now he was alone. The best course of action was to lock them away, somewhere that nobody could get hurt by them, and maybe someday someone wiser than himself could take a look at them.

As it was, just getting the knives to the museum from his personal sanctum was a challenge in itself.

He'd given Gina a quick call, to let her know he was coming and that he was carrying potentially (if that hasn't already been proven) dangerous material. Now, while the rest of the circle group was doing their thing, the Mystagogue was just coming inside the doors, Tass knives sitting in the same scroll containers they'd always been carried in.

Honestly, he wasn't sure how safe that was anymore.

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Orpheus nodded solemnly, falling into step with the sleepwalker. "No more trouble than usual." The Obrimos momentarily placed a hand over his ear. "And yeah, uh..." He was rather reluctant to bring it up, but... "I'm sure you remember O'Falley?" He shook his head, nobody deserved to see that. Already he regretted bringing it up.

"Thanks for hanging around so late Gina." He quickly tried to shift topic. She'd always been around, Gina. Someone he always noticed but in all his time here he'd never really spoken to her before, it was... Weird, really.

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Orpheus was quiet as he realized Gina had stopped and had to catch up, in fact he winced slightly. He didn't know what else to say though, was there anything you could say?

Then the Curator bid the two in.

There was something about the Curator that had simply frightened him. Now the Obrimos was beginning to get a sense of what it was, or at least he was finding something to fool himself into thinking. It was probably just him, but it always felt like you were on the verge of failing her expectations, and for some indescribable reason, Orpheus really didn't want to fail her expectations.

He took a quick breath to calm his nerves. "I'd like to submit these materials to the Athenaeum for safekeeping." He declared. Holding the container ever so tighter he added "These are the Tass Knives found with the bodies of older consilium officials."

"As it is, I believe that Left-Handed were using these knives to... Steal souls." Not just sleeper, but Awakened souls. He'd remembered the explanation, the souls of Mages were much harder to remove than those of Sleepers. Orpheus figured that the knowledge to achieve something of that degree was equally hard to learn and use.

Among the Left-Handed they were chasing, at least one of them has to have that kind of understanding, surely. He tried to imagine what it must be like, to have your own soul ripped from you. The attempt was unpleasant, to say the least.

Orpheus shifted uneasily, the gist of his explanation given.

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Orpheus nodded solemnly, and followed dutifully. The silence threatened to take all the temperature from the room, and Orpheus felt like he'd felt his temperature drop a few degrees.

Inside the Athenaeum, and at the Curator's request, he started "These knives-" he motioned "were found alongside the bodies of former consilium officials, including our own O'Falley. The others include Mike Tamwood, Rosh, Qadesh, and most recently, Triquetra."

Tyria probably knew more about them then Orpheus did, at least more of O'Falley. She'd also know how badly of a state they were left in.

After all, she'd left a letter next to O'Falley's corpse.

"The knives themselves are Tass, and carry an Abyssal resonance that reacts violently in the presence of high speech in conjunction to active Willworking. The reactions include, well, this sort of deafening scream and severe seasickness is the best way I can describe it. Each knife seems to have a different reaction, but I've never seen the others triggered." He explains. "Furthermore, direct or prolonged contact with the knives cause them to... Leech the mana stored in our patterns." that he could attest to.

Lastly, the part that messed with him the most. "At the Circle, Animus used Death to display the final moments of Triquetra, and a body double that was found. That's when we saw... Her Soul was taken from her..." He said finally. "and stored in a jar." Orpheus stopped himself a moment, feeling the need to clear his throat.

"I've no idea if the theft of the soul was a function of the knife, or the Left-Handed we saw." for obvious reasons, he wasn't about to check. It only made sense from a logistical sense though, they were working as a group. That lead the Mystagogue to possibility that not all of them had the knowledge to steal awakened souls.

If they did, though, they were truly fearsome mages.

"Regardless, that's everything I know of them." he finished.

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Orpheus listened to the Curator's input wholeheartedly. Curses, then. The Obrimos would remember the qualities. The point about the hallow also caught his attention, Hallows could be traced, although Orpheus had never done personal work with Ley Lines. He'd have to bring it up with the group next he saw them.

The mention of Auto. Orpheus nodded and replied "Done."

Think we're good to go!