"Well, I can confirm that Liscor does have a Mage's Guild but did not in fact know about the Message services."

"It is why I suggested you may ask for directions to the Mage's Guild, earlier; I apologize for not clarifying. I expected you might wish to contact any associates in Liscor to inform them of your circumstances, but if you do not have a specific account to address to, it may be more difficult. Not insurmountable; our Guild will have more information."

"I've... spoken to a few people there but if they have common names would not be able to otherwise narrow them down further than their occupation and location and race."

"It may not be entirely applicable to your case, but an approach would be to add a notable, titled relative of the person as a secondary recipient if the details are insufficiently distinguishing, or the professional guild if the person is a member of one, in the hopes that it will be correctly forwarded. The Guild may advise you more, but it is of course your choice.

"I would note, so you are aware, that the Mage's Guilds' messaging services are not commonly considered secure, especially with the multiple relays that would be required in this case, so sensitive information is not advised to be conducted through it without additional precautions."

"That makes sense. 'Titled' here means...?"

"In the general sense of holding a public position, such as being the headmaster of a specific academy, or being the owner of a specific enterprise, where one would expect the position to be indexed in the registry such that messages addressed to the position without specifying the current incumbent make it to the recipient."

Probably 'cleric of Desna' is not such a title, though it might be worth asking. He can probably remember the name of the Magister he spoke to that one time. He doesn't know if Xrn has any titles.

"That is all I wished to discuss, if you have no additional queries."

"Thank you for handling so gracefully the behavior of your sometime ally."

"And my apologies again for what she has committed against you. I hope that you fare well on your return."

"Thank you," Blai says again, and he gets up and heads back to the room they've assigned him. Coming off a two week fast is exhausting.

They will let him have his rest.

In the morning he prepares spells suitable for an overland trip with an escort and spending money, which are pretty different from the spells appropriate for a trip without those things, and collects his armor and stolen notes and goes to meet his escort to head for the message office.

The escort is two human fellows, one Garundi-looking, one Taldan-looking. What is Blai planning to go around in? They'll match him if Blai doesn't want to go around looking like he has an armed escort.

They also got him a mace that's enchanted with striking weight and true-aim. It's not exactly the same as a +1, but improves on similar dimensions... it's probably better than his old mace. He can keep it.

They're also giving him his apology money in a low-grade Bag of Holding because otherwise 500 gold pieces is a bit ridiculous to carry around loose. He can't, like, shove his armor in it, but it'll additionally hold his notes and rations and other material that would fit in a small travel pack just fine. He can also keep that.

All of the above is provided in apology and not in expectation of goodwill above and beyond, et cetera.

Blai wears the armor because it doesn't slow him down any less if it's carried (and it wouldn't fit in the bag of holding). He thanks the people who give him the stuff and hooks the mace to his belt and is wearing his new travel clothes and whatnot. Where he's from it would not be unusual for an adventuring party (which is not exactly what they are but it's close) to contain a mix of skills such that some of them would not be armed or carrying visible weapons but if the signaling is different here they can choose how to present themselves to match.

They don't need to match him exactly, but if Blai wanted to go around looking like a non-adventurer traveler they'd have gone for chainmail under plainclothes. His equipment looks nonstandard enough that they can't pull off cheap mercenaries or soldiers, so adventurers it is. One of them's going to play swordsman and the other is going with a bow.

The escort is familiar with the city and can take him to the Mage's Guild, which looks quite different architecturally, but has the same symbol. It's pretty empty, and there's no one in the [Message] queue, so at least they're not going to get pressured for holding up the line.

"Message to send, or here to pick up?" asks the clerk.

"To send, but I'm from another plane of existence and haven't been on this one for even two months, so this is my first time and I don't know very much about how it works, and also don't know which of the people I might want to send the message to will have addresses lodged in the system; can you help me with that?"

...Yeah, this guy isn't paid enough to care about people being from another plane of existence.

"Yes, what city are you sending to?"

"Liscor."

He takes a book out from under the desk and starts flipping through it.

"I don't know that one offhand. What nation is that in?"

"It's an independent city, but it's on the continent of Izril."

"That makes it ten silver instead of two, just so you know... okay, I've got Liscor here, but only a partial merchant registry, last updated six months ago, looks like. You can send to people not on the registry, it just means you want to provide more detail to help identify the person and optionally provide fallback recipients. If they fail to identify a recipient you get a... partial refund of two silver."

"Is a Xrn listed? - I don't know if she normally lives there, but she was there two weeks ago."

He scans the page.

"No. I'm just going to list all of them, there's not that many."

It's seventeen names, all of them different merchant companies or businesses, none of them familiar.

"Is there a way I can pay extra, with that extra passed on to a recipient who might not otherwise be interested in hearing from me, to ask for their help in getting the message to the people who I want to reach?"