PM secures the rewards in Jax’s pack, scurrying fully inside and tossing and shoving and moving things around until they are all perfectly placed just so.  A dragon does like their hoard properly arranged.  While doing so he finds a moment to poke his head out the flap and next to Jax’s ear.  “…we’re supposed to help him,” Pieste Mor reminds him in a whisper.  “…we’re happy to help however we can!”

Stitch accepts the item from Drego and compares it to the shiny rocks he got earlier from the nice elves they met at the inn the other day. 

"I hope it can be achieved before your departure," Malevanor says seriously. "Since you revealed the existence of the Order within the Monastery, our chief security officer, Garash, has been investigating, and we believe there to be three more groups of Order operatives within the Monastery. As you have already proved yourselves quite adept at it, I would like to enlist your help in eliminating them. I can use my magic to gain clues regarding the identities and locations of the operatives, and you can use those clues to find and eliminate them. I am, of course, willing to offer further recompense for this further assistance."

OOC: Timeline update, it's currently midafternoon. Your train leaves tomorrow evening.

Jax accepts the vial, and nods at PM's comment. "I was going to be bored waiting for the train. I will do it." He looks at the rest of the group.

"Very well." Robin says with a nod. She glances to the others of their group. "I don't see why not, we have nothing else to do for the next 24 hours or so..."

Case speak up, "Please name the compensation you offer for our additional services so that we may make an informed decision."

     "...just to be clear...  assuming you can work out the monetary recompense with our resident Tin Man...  you are looking to hire us to eliminate the people you point out and say are Emerald Claw..." Pieste Mor says, in order to clarify things.  "...murder for hire isn't normally our day job but Jax trusts you so what could go wrong?"

"If you assist me, I will give you each a hundred galifars, as well as my seal, which will garner you assistance from Seekers should you need it. I would recommend showing it to government officials at this particular juncture in time, though, as the Blood of Vol is not the most popular with the Karrnathi crown at the moment. I will also enchant a single minor magic item of your choice for you, free of charge. Finally, I understand from messages I received from Elder Vorik in Kessyk that the message you are delivering revolves around a mysterious note you know little of. I will leverage my most powerful divinations to try and learn more about this note and the plot it concerns," Malevanor lists off clinically. "As for your concern, my divinations as to the identity of the Order agents will be clues, but not names. You will need to do a little investigation, and should that investigation not convince you of their allegiances, I would not ask you to do anything against your own morals. If it makes you feel better, Order agents are working towards general mayhem and mass death for their Queen, so it's rather more in long-term self-defense than cold-blooded murder."

     “…no offense intended, just because it’s not our usual doesn’t mean we’re not willing…” PM reassures.  “…we are happy to help as we can…  do we expect these targets to be within these walls or will we need to go out into the city and risk conflict with the authorities?”

'Investigations are well within the range of our expertise, and tracking folks down in cities....well that's my bread and butter.  Happy to help in the time we have available to us.'

"Within Atur, the Blood of Vol is the authority, the Monastery is the one who runs the Aturan guards," Malevanor says wryly. "However, this particular endeavor is to root out Order members within the Monastery specifically, so you need not leave these walls."

Drego snorts 'Even better, saves us some walking.'

Case nods, "I believe we agree to your compensation and request. We have time constraints, as mentioned, so are ready to begin whenever you provide us the initial clues."

Malevanor inclines his head and begins his divinations.

OOC: Alright, here's how this is gonna work. I will give you all 3 divination clues now, and you can do them in whatever order you want. You have the remainder of the afternoon and all of tomorrow before your train leaves to investigate the clues and deal with them, which means you can have one LR, placed pretty much wherever you want. Let's get started!

Clues:

• The knight of bones hides among soldiers. The skeletal ranks silently rage at his corruption of their horned brothers.
• The hungry ghost lurks among tomes, but beware the brotherly flames that wait behind its cold.
• A Seeker loses his divinity drop by drop to two sanguine stalkers.
  

While Malevanor is divining, Jax leans over to Derin. "Do you know Vorik?" he says, out of the side of his mouth.

     “… is there a barracks for skeletal soldiers?  and it seems we may need to investigate your library as well…” PM says off if first hearing of the clues.  “…and a seeker beset by vampires?  but that could be any seeker within range of your divinations, hard to pinpoint….”

Jax turns to PM. "Is that like the skeletons we saw in that first house, with the creepy guy who exploded in a red mist and yelled about some queen?" He scratches his head. "I might not be remembering that right."

'Or is there a crypt perhaps?  In fact, is there a map of the monastery we could look over?'

During the divinations: "I'm generally familiar with him due to Kessyk's proximity to Atur, but I haven't ever personally met him," Derin replies to Jax.

Now: "Derin can answer any questions you have or guide you anywhere you need to go, though he is not a combatant, so please do endeavor to keep him away from battle," Malevanor tells you at the barrage of questions. "I wish you luck, but I also have quite a few other things to attend to as High Abactor."

Derin leads you out of the sanctum and begins answering your questions briskly. "The Monastery has several levels of vaults storing undead soldiers--much of Karrnath's undead army was placed here after the Treaty signing. We also have quite a few libraries--I can bring you a map, but we will likely need to do some additional investigation to pinpoint any specific locations."

"Well if it was easy you guys would have already done it, right?" Robin says with a smirk. She waves their guide onward. "Let's see this map and we can go from there."