Long Live the Queen

The Queen of the Shadowed Court has lost her spymaster. One of her longest and most loyal allies she is desperate for his safe return.
Ordinarily she would send out some of her soldiers or his lesser spies but something else draws their attention and makes it unsafe for them to travel.
your goal:
locate and safely return the spymaster. the queen requests that those responsible be punished whether he is alive or dead.

The agents Nyx the Witchfinder and Kotev the Aspiring Reaper ported into the main castle-tree of the Shadowed Court and were greeted by the steward. After a brief conversation, they were shown to the spymaster's room. Kotev broke open all the locked drawers in the furniture which led to the two finding a hidden envelope with instructions to meet at a certain stone amongst the spymaster's papers. Nyx casually stole his dirty reading material before they left the room. After finding out from the steward there were 3 stones that are special to their people, they quickly ruled out the one underground since it's guarded and the missing spymaster would have been spotted if he had gone there. They both agreed to go check the other stones to the north and west. Heading through the forest, they realized they were being followed. So, Nyx activated her Cloud of Suspicion Perk "The Night is Dark and Full of Terrors" to hide them in the dark mist so they could get the jump on their unwanted stalkers. With the people following them distracted by the fearsome silhouettes and firing arrows at them, Kotev tracked down the one in the tree and terrified them into revealing a little information, ultimately letting them live. Meanwhile, Nyx got the drop on her target, and with a more...... intensive interrogation with her Bane Blade, Nyx found out they were ordered to stop anyone leaving the castle by their Mistress Solveig. Nyx ultimately let her target live, after knocking them out and hog-tying him with his own pants.

After meeting back up with each other and sharing what they learned, including that the Shadowed Court were vampires and they had some vineyards to make wine to avoid drinking blood, they continued to the north. Finding a broken stone, Kotev lit one of her Senko to speak to the spirits there. One of them confirmed the spymaster, Oxum went with a woman to the west, so the two headed to the mountains. After some slight chaos, including Nyx confusing one of the guards by flirting with him, they negotiated with the guards to let them cross the ice bridge to wait to meet with the lady of the mountain's "friend with benefits". Kotev neutralized their escort with her death mask transferring her illness to him, and they eventually confronted what happened to be Solveig and Oxum. After some conversation, Nyx and Kotev agreed to bring Oxum back to Queen Aeilanna and aid in overthrowing her due to her many flaws. Solveig would become queen of both queendoms in the aftermath Kotev got a ruby from Solveig to serve as a "gift" for the queen and planned to carve a sacred symbol into it while activating Hexagram to bind the queen once they arrived back at the castle.

Upon their return, Queen Aeilanna accepted the gift from Oxum and Hexagram activated to bind her in place while Oxum cut her head off with his blade. After her cries alerted a couple of guards that Kotev and Nyx swiftly dispatched, Nyx removed the crown from Aeilanna's severed head and handed it to Oxum while remarking "The Queen is dead. Long live the Queen." Kotev blocked the main door with a symbol to prevent anyone else from coming in. With Oxum's gratitude and assurances they'd be alright in the aftermath, both agents pinged out.

Mission Success

• Nyx Zyriane

• Kotev unregistered