As the last echoes of Neil’s saxophone faded away, I couldn’t think of anything to say so I just held out the bottle to Orantour again.

The mage only stared at it. And sitting there at his desk something seemed to go out in the man. He let his head sag slowly down and it hit the desk in front of him with a little defeated thump. He eventually told us a tale of some despair. For 6 days he’d been keeping himself awake with a vile wakefulness tincture of his own making. Listening to him talk, he was clearly beyond useless in any kind of a fight. Worse, the Tower of Mysteries is NOT also the Mages Tower within which Klajdu might have so triumphantly used the bathroom. He offers the goliath the use of his bathroom in the back of the custom house as a consolation prize, I suspect a decision which will later for him mark the Bottom of this entire experience. He does give us a second control amulet and he says they may be helfpul to control the Bronze Warders.
He also promises us all of the gold in the 7 pillar hall vault.

Retooled, refueled and even rinsed off a bit in the stream, we make our way to the spot Splug saw in his vision.