As soon as we finish our investigation we head over to the palace to inform the Lady Abigail of what we found out about the police. We also ask her if we should involve the Consilium. We think it wise since this involved high level magic and they would have the resources to investigate further. She agrees and puts out the word for the mage council to convene tomorrow. It's been a long night time for some sleep.
As night falls we figure we should continue our investigation, see if we can gather anything else for tomorrow's council meeting. We head on out the police academy, we are assuming this is ground zero. As we start entering the grounds Ohm's supernal vision is picking up what could only be described as magical radiation. It was everywhere. He started trying to find a source or concentration of the radiation. As we neared the gym the radiation was stronger. We narrowed it down to the roof. Some powerful magic went off up here and it had the same aura signature as the spell on the cops. Danno turned into a bat and flew around looking for any other clues. He caught sight of something moving oddly on another roof a few hundred yards away and he went to investigate. He saw some shadowy figure clad in black who he was sure looked a lot like Samiel (or Stanus for those keeping track of his many names). When Samiel realized he was being watched he disappeared, most likely into the shadow as he likes to do. I teleported on over and peered across the gauntlet and there was Samiel hanging off a flag pole watching us. I waved. Samiel quickly realized he wasn't as hidden from our eyes as he thought so he crossed back over to say hi. The others showed up soon and we asked him what the hell he was doing here. He claims he was interested in the situation with the cops himself. My guess is that is only half the truth, the other half is because he was watching us. Either way he might have some useful information so him and the Padre shake hands and do some changeling pact and agree to a truce for the night. So far Samiel has noticed 2 roof tops that stink of magic. The one we are on has the same signature as the gym. It doesn't take long to figure out the spots are laid out in a pentacle. The barracks roof has the smell of several people but the other roofs don't seem to have any traces. In the center of the pentacle is where the podium is for the graduation speech, that has to be the focal point and where the spell itself effects the recruits. The other spots are where the ritual casting is done. So it looks like we have 5 mages involved as I was starting to suspect. At this point we headed over to the administration building to investigate the Commandant's office. We were still thinking he was at least involved with this if not the leader. Samiel gets ready to sneak his way past the cameras and through the doors but we go in our way. Ohm disables the cameras as we go and I convince any lock in our way it should open. When we get to the office we go into our standard investigating mode. Danno goes in alone to sweep the scene. I look through the computer from the door where Ohm is scanning the room for magical residue. Soon as Danno gives us the all clear we move in to get closer looks at things. Not much in the computer, just a note from last year about a package. Danno finds a safe that I open. Inside is a several thousand in cash and a ledger. Ledger shows several "donations" from Howard Feldman, the old rich dude who we investigated some time ago before he came to an untimely death. Ohm finds a medal on the wall that appears to be augmented magically. The medal is for nothing we recognize but Ohm determines it is made out of Thaumium. It appears to be the focus for five other pieces that allow the caster to complete a ritual casting by themselves. Well that explains the five points and explains how this spell was so powerful. We head back to each point of the pentacle and I look back in time to when we figured the spell went off . I was able to see the other five pieces, they were all the same. They looked like flames made out of crystal that hovered ever so slightly above their bases. I couldn't get a fix on where they were but I was sure they weren't around here. With that we bid Samiel goodbye and return to the warehouse. We had a lot more information then we had earlier and more to present to the mage council later on tonight.
Cygin