Summary:  We learn that the wizards are using arcane marks in the form of an X to scry to eachother.  We get Patches healed, and Miles talks us into retrieving his something from Kundal's home.  (Sarah gets badly poisoned due to that.)  Karris has left, and is trying to find sympathetic wizards to fight Garlan.

Sarah's Telling:
Karris is awake before us, and he is frantically packing everything on the tables down here in his basement.  The wizard we captured is up, glaring at us from behind the bars when I look at him.  I look to Patches for cues, and he tries intimidating the wizard.  He simply glares angrily at Patches.  I try offering him water and healing, and telling him how important the manuscript is, but to no avail. 

The ropes hadn't been holding him, and even though he tries to hide what he's doing, I see that he has cast an invisible arcane mark in the shape of an X.  I recognise the script as Zettaran, and make a mental note to study it more thoroughly later.  After the spell is cast, he passes back out.

The boys don't seem to see what the wizard has done, so I tell them about the X, and Kariss suggests running, and fast.  Karris explains that it is probably the focal point for a scrying spell.  We loosely disguise ourselves as travelling merchants (and I get out of my clerical robes) and we head toward the Temple of Lemara to get Patches healed of his disease.

On the way, we are ambushed by 3 wizards.  The battle is complicated, as one of them becomes invisible, and another casts obsuring mist.  During the battle, one of the wizards manages to mark me with the X on my forehead.

Karris runs off to get me something for the arcane mark problem I have acquired, and we continue on toward the Temple without him for a while.  He meets back up with us before we reach the Temple, and we explain our situation.  Unfortunately Sanria is not there, but they are very willing to heal Patches for us. 

We spend the night at the temple, and I ask them to please send word to the Library about what has happened.  Karris leaves to find other wizards against Garlan.

Patches seems to believe that we owe Miles assistance in getting back his precious something-or-other in Kundol's home.  I really think this is a bad idea, but we decide to go to the wizard's old home, and get his bit of precious.

I inform Miles that he is dumb.

We see two men outside of Kundol's home.  They are dressed identically.  Miles disguises himself to look like them, but fails to trick them when he doesn't speak their language.  Hmm... Infernal?  I make another mental note to study planar beings.  There is another tricky fight; Patches is suggested into "subduing" us, very fortuante wording of that command.  I get poisoned in the fight, and am feeling quite clumsy at the moment, thank-you-for-asking. 

Patches, being the only one awake, gets us into an alley until we wake, and I heal myself back up, but still feel very clumsy... in fact, it gets worse.

I inform Miles that he, in fact, still is dumb.

In Kundol's house, I notice his poor kitty scratching at the door to the lab, and try to befriend him with food.