It is pretty remarkable how advanced ticker communication is with the OCEA devices nowadays. No ticker paper required. It's all electronic.
I sent an OCEA message to both Tyler and Paul, both of whom I found over the OCEA platform. Paul never responded but Tyler did. Peter Quora told me about how disgusted Paul was with the outcome of events at Cabotton University. And I don't blame him. The University used to have a fair Headmaster named Karl Reich. But then when everything happened with 1309, all the conservatives at Cabotton, of which there are surprisingly many, united in fear. While the provinces of Gymia and Pimdan voted themselves out of the Republic, the province of Ereautea did not. Nonetheless, the anti-Finzi camp here at the University was strong enough, that later that year, Karl Reich lost University elections to Patrick Henry as the Headmaster.
And no one better get me started on the policies that Headmaster Henry has been enforcing.
In any case, Tyler responded to my message. And we agreed to meet in a secluded place at the Standler in Ebony Valley. There, Tyler confirmed with me how he and Paul were aware of Tom Kearney and his intentions before he even arrived at the University.
Tyler and Paul, well-aware of Tom Kearney and his intentions, agreed to have Paul posing as the figure easier for Tom to approach. And so Tyler explained to me his observations of Tom; Tyler and Paul, by the way, were communicating with each other the entire time. And so from Paul, Tyler learned that the darkfire scroll in question was being placed in the Arturian Realm, in a cupboard in the lower part of the Great Tavern Inn of the Dead in Antemaersa.
Things played out accordingly. And after Tom's botched arrest attempt and escape, Tyler and Paul attempted to relocate that scroll only to find it disappeared. After a few probing questions, Tyler, unfortunately, was still unable to provide possible contextual clues on what happened afterward. He says that Paul may know more about the scroll or Tom Kearney than he does but is not sure. He says that he and Paul have not been in touch for several years.
All he knows about Paul that helps me is that he knows that Jeo Brock, my own partner, knows Paul's cousin, Pherra Mirkwynn, very well.