>>6346939Realizing that you can't open those lockboxes without exerting some magic, you ask Liv to open them in your stead.
"Um, Liv? Can you open those boxes?"
"Sure thing! Which ones?"
Quickly, you point towards the strange-mana'd boxes.
"That, that, that, ...aaand that."
"Alright, I'll open them in a jiff!"
She surprised you by launching herself into one of the boxes you pointed at, and then punching the door out like it was Tuesday. Then she jumps toward the second box, and the cycle repeats until all four boxes are open.
"There, kiddo! Let's see what we've got, eh?"
"Why didn't you use that to escape from Drago's hold on you?"
"He got
Your spoils amount to a datacube filled with what seems to be someone's engram (at least that's what Scholar says), a sealed spirit bottle the Dead Numbers used to keep souls and ghosts to do their bidding, a bone dagger with a menacing aura that gives you chills just by looking at it, and a stack of magitek patch cards - which in itself is a mundane magic item - but its signature is anything but. All has strange mana signature. All goes into your inventory.
"Oh yeah! I just remembered, there's some of Drago's possee downstairs. Saw them holding some kids for hostage while I got carried to the rooftop. You wanna deal them or nah?"
On one hand, you're only good for 3 spells, but on the other hand, aren't saving those in distress is very much an adventurer thing to do? Hmm, decisions, decisions...
>CHOOSE ONE>□ Make a flashy entrance and beat them up with magic!>□ Let's try to sneak past them>□ Let's try to sneak and rescue those kids>□ Bypass them by going out a window and use magic to float down>□ Other (fill in) 