I thank thee, goodman Talis! Please, ply thy trade to spare these youth a most dreadful fate - we must mend the wound upon this family and bring this tale to a close!

I look forward to thy efforts bearing fruit!

Good gentles, I bring to thee news most troubling. Dost thou remember the fair mother and father Lorna and Ashe? T'was they who arrived on the 2nd day of the gathering, whilst the sun rose to the sky's zenith, bearing a tale of blackguardry! Forsooth - some Wrathac bore their children, merely 2 and ...

Most Noble and Lively Beacon, To the end that we shalt bring the grave nemeses of the DeTura and Sardanio families to a peaceful joining, I shalt be holding auditions for my soon to be writ play! If thou wouldst delivery both thy voice and thy passions to an audience most eager, come findeth me this...

Sarah Crawford wrote:.........would any one actually call the Coven like, psychic police, maybe?

Spooky 'Mantha!

T'is odd questions indeed!

I dare not answer for....I know not what a Police Most Psychic would be!

Ah!

Then I have forgotten her name! Tragedy upon tragedy!

Thou who didst see the most fashionable woman upon the 2nd evening - mayhaps you could provide her name?

There is a maiden fair that is but a victim to her circumstances! T'is from her that the clothes ambulatory spawned - n'er a story more strange hast been told - for these vestments were enchanted so by a party most foul! Using their newly found legs, the clothes were entranced to leave the environs ...

Then mayhaps this be a moment to catch them in the act! After all, if their ill magicks be focused upon me, then they keen mind and sharp eyes shall unveil their true motives!

Wouldst thou use thy detective skills to thwart their evil, if evil they be? Mayhaps at the next gathering.

Knaves, thieves, and rapscallions all! To bear our good man Deirtrich upon their backs as if he be a mere contrivance upon their belts! Thou must pardon my bravado, Goodwoman, but I cannot stand for even the thought of short-lived alliance with such a coterie of miscreants, honor already long bled d...

Goodwoman Gloria, T'is a most dreadful tale thou hast regaled to us! This tale doth use a palette I am most fond of! The Red and Gold art the colors of mine family, 'struth I dare say, is this Carnival borne of grave portent and wicked deed? Most troubling if so.....for I did arrange myself in their...

Per the rules, Academics can be used to Research 'almost anything'. Is there any example you could provide in which it would not be applicable? And would this type of situation be so rare that it is usually safe to do a Research downtime with Academics, even if another skill is more immediately appl...