(A/N: This is Khaj's record of watching them, not terribly exciting.)
Day 1: Loredas: Sun's Dawn 13.
Entered the city at 8 in the morning. At exactly 8:42, left the hotel room, telling Heron to enjoy herself and do as she wished.
9:13, found the gathering area of the shield creators. The room is a perfect square, 100 meters by 100 meters. Each way perfectly facing North, South, East, West. There is a large fountain at the west entrance, a large semi-circle that takes up 50 square meters. There is currently 117 mages they all mutter their incantations at their own pace. Will watch for pattern and update.
12:59 43 new mages enter the gathering, they dunk their heads in the fountain at the entrance.
13:00 precisely, the 43 new arrivals join in with their incantations. I have noted a single new incantation that is not a repeat of the others.
13:05 precisely, a mage that has been here all day has changed their incantation to something new, the new arrival at the same time changed his incantation to something matching the previous incantations.
13:10 precisely 37 mages stopped chanting, got up and rushed over to the fountain, dunking their heads in. The one who had changed their incantation was among them.
13:24, I am now able to note three distinct incantations, note their beginnings and their ends. With this and the other two, I think I can see the pattern.
17:00-17:10, same pattern as before, 80 walk out, 56 walk in.
18:34 went to walk home with the "wife."
19:12 returned, no visible changes.
21:00-21:10 43 leave, 53 come in. They always go for the water, entering and leaving.
1:00-1:10 56 leave 47 walk in.
5:00-5:10 53 leave, 94 walk in.
9:00-9:10 47 leave, 74 walk in.
9:13 I go home to walk out with "wife"
Khaj notes the next two weeks as they pass, coming to no pattern or conclusion he focused on the only weakpoint he knows of. The Fountain. He pulled water, taking it home and testing it with various poisons, he concluded that it had no ability to cure poison.
On Sundas, the 20th of First Seed at 13:00, he got his chance. 213 mages rotated in. After the next rotation he put the poison in the fountain. There were 37 who were there who wouldn't get poisoned. He went to get Heron. She was in that small shop when he found her. She came out as he was walking up, looking very flustered.
"It's time" he said.
She nodded, they each took their own potions of Chamelion and went back to the mages generating the shield. They waited. 74 rotated in as the 213 rotated out. 2 more hours and the poison would take effect. 62 dropped dead while the remainder who had been poisoned became violently sick. 12 of the remaining 37 stood. 3 for 3 throwing knives. 9 stayed standing, holding up their own shields around the remainder who were sitting. The shield had been significantly weakened down to its minimum.
Khaj walked over to the dying mages and began cutting into them, making sure to look the standing mages in the eyes to think he was doing this for them.
He pulled out the scroll and smeared the mage's blood on it. He set down the scroll and Albert appeared on top of it. He screamed.