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This should have started.
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Athmel was puzzled when he realized that his treasured spellbook, which was in his arms this entire time, was gone. Ever since he was 16, he never lost it once, and it contained every spell he has learned since then.
"Heavens! Where could it have gone? I just closed it mere moments ago..."
Athmel tries to leave the room, but the door is locked. He tries to cast a spell on the door, but a magic boon, in part with his lack of experience with the lockpicking spell, halts his efforts. Flustered, he sits back down, when he remembers one of his most important spells, one for locating magical items. He tries to sense the location of his spellbook, but a strange force in the mansion meddles with the spell. Eyes closed, he does eventually locate the book... about 50 feet away and coming towards him. He opens his eyes, but all he sees is a group of servers approaching with silver platters. As the plates are set down, he realizes that something is... very much off.
"Erm... Syr Grym, was it? What is the meaning of this?"
Syr Grym doesn't respond. Athmel looks down and notices the spellbook... Cooked and cut into pieces...
"How did they break the enchantment? And... why? Is this supposed to be some kind of tomfoolish prank?"
He checks the book, and everything checks out. The book is certainly his very own spellbook. He tries to take a moment to pull the book apart and read the pages, but he is interrupted by a guard. He is demanded to eat it.
"You... want me... to eat it?"
The guard didn't ask nicely. His weapon was aimed at Athmel's neck.
"Why? This is lunacy! Lunacy I tell y-"
As Athmel stands to storm out of the room, he is surrounded.
"This... is the strangest thing I've seen. And I've seen a lot."
Against his will, Athmel sits back down and attempts to ingest the book, gagging the entire time on the scorched silk pages and the knawy leather case. He uses a spell to make it taste like strawberries, but even that doesn't help much. Secretly, he is preparing to planeswalk away, but he has no confidence he'll be able to ready the spell before things get a lot worse...
Sitting in the dark all evening last night helped a lot, so I'm hoping when I do the same tonight that I'll be okay tomorrow.
And now I vanish into the night
(Warning: I was pretty sure there wasn't much "Piece of a book on a plate" art, so I cobbled the art together in Photoshop. It doesn't look pretty, but it gets the point across)
As you can see, Niyan is highly suspicious of Syr Grym, regardless of if he actually has sinister intentions or not. You can be sure that your resident detective will be investigating further.