Introduction: Dr. Maki Engazi is a somewhat disheveled 鈥榩ortist - a magican who specialises in teleporting objects or people on commission. One such commission, for a shadier element of the city of Bal茅, leads him into breaking into the office of his friend, and eccentric genius, Professor Chiot茅 Hounsol. It鈥檚 there that he discovers she has been murdered. Assassinations and conspiracies and ancient secret societies, greed, magic and the apotheosis of the human race. All Maki wants is to get away with his drunken procrastination without ending up in a shallow grave. And just maybe, Doing the Right Thing....