Not Today, Death!

Salvia shares the goodies with folks. I assume the oddities are just that, and don’t possess further properties?

Salvia offers the eye to anyone who wants it and asks the group, "Here is some coin and this eye will help in battle. I'd like this fashionable cap, unless someone else does. But it seems like we have found the stolen items. Let us return to our employer, shall we?" She heads out and Arne falls in behind her.

Hermann grimaces but can’t help but be pleased that the nefarious book had actually been a boon against those with bad intent. Perhaps one of his order had penned the thing. It was something worth considering, if the higher ups could stomach trickery like that.

"Yes. We did well here. Though it seems we had an ally here in this book. Does our employer know its secret, I wonder?" he muses. He slips his rapier back into its place and departs. The corpses would have to take care of themselves…

"It’s is concluded. Though… one of the items is beyond repair; at least by means that we possess. We did punish those that caused the damage!" Hermann reports, a little stiff. The man was thoroughly tired, though he wouldn’t let that show just yet!

Salvia steps forth with the golden book. She says, "Indeed, here is the book. I should warn you, however, that this book is a fraud. The ritual contained herein that purports to produce a philosopher's stone in fact transforms the user into an ooze blob. I would not recommend it. Who knows what other traps it contains? Keep it as a curiosity if you must, but I would not use it if I were you. And the statuette broke due to one of the fool thieves, releasing a demon, which we dispatched. Returning these items of power, from individuals not lacking in power themselves, in a matter of hours is, I think, a truly exemplary performance, don't you agree, Goverbandy?"

"And this." Hermann says, after something of an internal pause. The knife was beyond useful. Of the three artifacts, this was the one with the greatest promise.

Still, there was nothing to be done. And so he hands it over with some ceremony.

"It won’t cut the skin. An immensely useful thing, truth be told. In the right hands, that is…"

"Much appreciated," Kade says and gives Goverbandy a nod.