:Katri’s joining you: Enara adds. :She was nearby by chance, she’s thirty seconds away: 

- that might actually be helpful. Maybe? :All right.: 

:Unlock his door: Enara prompts her. :And grab your goddamned cloak. Where’s your common sense, girl?: 

EYEROLL reasonable, she will unlock the door. 

And then Dara is sprinting through the door, and offering Need to her, hilt-first. 

:Haven’t got the faintest idea what bloody disaster we’re about to walk into: Need snaps at her. 

Fair enough. Jisa doesn't know either! 

She takes Need by the hilt, and steps across the threshold. 

- extend her Othersenses -? 

:.....Oh: 

:Fascinating: 

....and there is apparently a woman in need and so Need is extending her own Thoughtsensing to its furthest extent. 

There's a woman in...not distress, really, but moderate irritation! She is tramping through the forest periodically snapping Telepathically at the local magical beasts that she is sorry for the intrusion and leaving as soon as possible.

Honestly that's very relatable! 

:Hey: Need sends, privately (not including Jisa, who is busy.) :What's going on? - we're here because the place we tried to Gate to is either blocked by an evil archmage or else something weirder just happened.: 

: - say more about the evil archmage?:

:...He's complicated. Immortal, two thousand years old, wants to conquer our kingdom to build an empire big enough that he can murder ten million people for blood-power to - well, what he claims is that he wants it to build a better god than our local ones. Sounds ridiculous, right, but -: a pause, :- but it's complicated. Questions?:

: - quite a few of them. Uh, I'm from very far away, I arrived here in what seemed like a magical accident of some kind, I spoke to the humans living in a - beautiful garden-village in this wilderness, and then after just a few minutes of conversation the village and everything around it was destroyed in an awful magical explosion. This was - approximately a day ago.:

:Right. Thank you:

This seems - messy - and like it might involve diplomacy. Need is really not advantaged at that sort of thing. 

:- Jisa? Apparently there was an enormous magical explosion.: 

Um. 

:....Where? - was it - k'Treva - ?: 

:She didn't clarify but she's from far away, apparently - she just said a "beautiful garden-village in this wilderness" and that's either k'Treva or another Vale hundreds of miles away, right?: 

This is weird and baffling and Jisa is very tired and– not thinking about the things she has feelings about because she really does not have time for it right now. 

:Need. Please.: 

:I also have a lot of questions!

....I - think she needs our help, though.: 

That did NOT CLARIFY ANYTHING, and now Brightstar is staring into the distance in a deeply concerning way and Katri is hovering behind her looking like she would really like clarification that Jisa cannot at all provide and, just, in general, Jisa has unanswered questions here. 

:Who is she, exactly?: 

:One moment, let me ask her.: 

And to Iomedae, 

:What's your name and where are you from?: 

:My name is Iomedae. I am a paladin of Aroden and the Knight-Commander of the Shining Crusade. I am from - very far away, I think. The man I spoke to before his village was destroyed had never heard our names for the continents and - were I merely on a distant continent I'd expect Aroden to have granted me my spells this morning, which He did not.:

To Jisa, :- she says her name is Iomedae and she works for a crusade of some kind and - she worships a god called 'Aroden' that I've never heard of, have you?: 

She hasn't heard of 'Aroden', no. 

- concerned glance at Brightstar?