From tears to dust

Today was an eventful day, as per my last entry I went to speak to Esi, to try and say that all she does, as she is very active in the school, much more than our little troupe is recognized and I am sure appreciated by those she helps and interacts with. I am unsure how much the talk that had her in tears may really have helped her, but I hope it did, and thankfully was not nearly as awkward as my attempt to have a conversation with Anchor Root before, I am beginning to think it might be best to leave any kind of attempted serious conversation to his highness..
 
But to the task at end, we were given a new task to look into, some powder additive that was deemed as potentially suspicious because of how incredibly low price it was being sold for despite very impressive claims on what it can do. After some careful examination with the tools at end and some of my own in the store I was able to track down the powder had been magically altered, and while it would provide an increase to the quality of what it was used to make, improving the color, or taste of the food, etc.. it also introduces a relatively low, ~10-15% chance instability that something it was made with, particularly if used for something magical in nature such as a potion, to have something go wrong, and such magical alterations while it has a chance it could be accidental, it is very unlikely so.
 
And so we sallied forth to find Bamidele who had been selling said powder at incredibly low prices, who after explaining what was discovered about the powder, seemed to not have known about it, and the they themselves had gotten it from someone else who has not been seen or heard from in a few weeks since selling them the powder (to which I was able to confirm the powder they had in stock still, had the same magical alterations as that from that tested earlier)
 
The plan is to spread the rumor that Bamidele is out of the powder, so hopefully it will spread out and reach the ears of that who sold it to them and they would come back to attempt to sell them more where we can then ask some questions of our own.
 
Bamidele said it might be about a day though, and said to go ahead and do our own thing and they would get word to us, so now to figure out what to do for a while, although likely to soon to see if Xochitl may still in town.