>>5167310‘What of the ongoing invessstigation?’ you think at him.
“We’ve found some evidence of a number of looting throughout the wreckage of the third floor—the demonological laboratories.” Felman pauses. “And of some chimeras having been ‘stolen’ by some means, rather than slain outright. We knew they didn’t escape through anywhere visible from above, and so the underground stream sued to dispose of waste became a probable means of exit. We investigated it at the Archmage and Head Inquisitor’s instructions, over protests of the Tower Guardian, and found evidence of a missing owlbear having passed through there and…”
‘And?’ you press
“…And something larger, which I now increasingly suspect I could identify, were I capable of talking about it.”
You feel a chill go up your spine, and ask ‘Does anyone else know what escaped that facility?’
“The Archmage, surely,” Inquisitor Felman reasons. “He is behaving strangely, speaking with great reluctance and without fully revealing his suspicions. He watches us all with some uneasiness—even the Inquisition—and the Paladins have been locked out entirely, so that much at least is good. Still, it’s as if he suspects we are not what we appear to be…”
Do you give Felman (or your other thralls) any further instructions?
>Just keep a low profile and continue to observe>Take action against the Archmage [Assassination? Kidnapping? Undermining his authority?]>Spread further misinformation>Leak a warped version of the investigation to The Grey Press and let yellow journalism soil their reputation and sensationalize the story>Have them all ‘self-destruct’ to cover your trail before they are found out>Write-in 