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Ulwe
Ulwe
Posts: 1659
(11/10/05 5:05 am)
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Re: 1+1+1 = EVIL!
Previously, as the group trudged down the stairs, Ulwe added to the debate of the stone door...
"Draxim, if a guardian of this place, hostile to Chaos has set the trap and locked the door, then we must gain entry therein. Whatever the guardian wanted to keep from our foes would surely help us. If it was set by our enemies, then surely we want to get in that door to get at whatever they were afraid we would get at. In short: we need to get in that door."
Later, as Draxim stops the party...
Ulwe, who trusts Madragar and is not even picking up on Draxim's vibe, agrees . "Fisherman's Son, invoke the protections within your fine leather coat. We will need all the help we can get."
[Just to be sure everyone should be protected from Chaos... ]
[Not sure how detect Chaos works these days, but Ulwe will try to check out the vibe of the dias and its room. ]
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Jubilex
Faceless Lord of Chaos
Posts: 4784
(11/10/05 7:44 am)
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Re: 1+1+1 = EVIL!
[The light isn't all that much like that which was in the Cairnhollow.
Sense Chaos is just a sense. Ulwe doesn't need to concentrate on it for it to work. However, the whole place stinks of Chaos so there's no way to discern one bad thing from another. It's all corrupted.]
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squarefodder
Khelzhad
Posts: 830
(11/10/05 7:55 am)
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Re: 1+1+1 = EVIL!
Khelzhad creeps forward to the dais room entrance and pauses to listen and look.
[Is there any noise coming from the swirling lights, or is it completely silent?]
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Jubilex
Faceless Lord of Chaos
Posts: 4785
(11/10/05 8:19 am)
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Re: 1+1+1 = EVIL!
Khelzhad hears nothing from the odd pool of light until he gets within a few feet of it when a faint but constant whooshing can be heard. It sounds like rushing air.
At the edge of the pool Khelzhad looks in and gets a nausiating sense of vertigo. The inside of the pool, beyond the surface of shimmering, undulating light, is a vast abyss of swirling multi-colored mist and floating islands of jagged rock. It is as if he were looking down on an alien landscape from ten thousand feet in the air. What little Khelzhad knows of the Arcane arts tells him that he is gazing into another world.
Suddenly the disk of light seems to respond to his presence and for a moment breaks free from the stone dais, reaching out an amber appendage in Khelzhad's direction. The bard quickly backs away.
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squarefodder
Khelzhad
Posts: 831
(11/10/05 8:56 am)
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Re: 1+1+1 = EVIL!
"By the Light!" exclaims the bard and he swallows hard to keep his stomach in its place. Then he takes a deep breath and explains what he saw.
"It was as if I were an eagle, or how I imagine it would be. But I could not imagine such a vast height - I doubt any dwarf could."
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doggius
Pogar
Posts: 1361
(11/10/05 12:34 pm)
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Re: 1+1+1 = EVIL!
As the Amber appendage moves towards Khelzhad, Pogar rushes out to swing at the thing, but Khelzhad moves out of the way quickly and is unscathed. Once Pogar see's this, he will let his sword down.
Looking to the group, Pogar says "Ok, what'r we ta do now? Some o' ye'r say'n ta get through the door. Me thinks this here be a bad thing" he says while using his sword to point at the pool. "Might'n be some entry point o some baddy" Pogar concludes, questioningly (is that even a word?)
"Any 'o ye know what be that thing?" He says, again using the sword to point at the light that tried to attack Khelzhad.
Might'n me fly'n axe take it out Pogar thinks to himself, only to have images of the axe streaming, end over end, towards the light. As the axe penetrates the orb, blackness comes about and evil flows forth from the pool. Pogar decides agains throwing his axe at it, for now.
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Kenner
Draxim
Posts: 1472
(11/10/05 12:41 pm)
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Re: 1+1+1 = EVIL!
Draxim is still waiting for everyone to activate their Chaos protection. Assuming everyone does that, he will ask Tsai what he thinks the light field is.
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mikedobbs
Janes
Posts: 438
(11/10/05 1:52 pm)
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Re: 1+1+1 = EVIL!
Janes, looking faintly nauseated moves away from the pool and brushes his hand over his armor [ activating protection from chaos ] before readying his crossbow.
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Jubilex
Faceless Lord of Chaos
Posts: 4786
(11/10/05 1:56 pm)
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Re: 1+1+1 = EVIL!
"What light field?" Tsai asks.
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doggius
Pogar
Posts: 1362
(11/10/05 2:38 pm)
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Re: 1+1+1 = EVIL!
When Tsai asks the question, Pogar turns to him and says "There'd be a light wit different colors, red, brown, yeller, green n stuff. When me cousin got close ta it, the light seem'd ta grow arms an reach out ta 'im. Ye know what it'd be?"
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Kenner
Draxim
Posts: 1473
(11/10/05 2:41 pm)
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Re: 1+1+1 = EVIL!
[ "By the Light!" exclaims the bard and he swallows hard to keep his stomach in its place. Then he takes a deep breath and explains what he saw.
That light field]
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Jubilex
Faceless Lord of Chaos
Posts: 4787
(11/10/05 2:47 pm)
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Re: 1+1+1 = EVIL!
[Perhaps he's implying that Khelzhad's, and now Pogar's, explanations aren't enough to give him an accurate picture of what the light might be. Or, maybe he's just being a jerk.]
"A scrying pool? A gateway to the Spirit World? A cunning illusion?" Tsai offers several explanations, and punctuates his list with a shrug.
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yucatanyeti
Sangraal
Posts: 1687
(11/10/05 4:50 pm)
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Re: 1+1+1 = EVIL!
Sangraal keeps away from the strange pool.
"Tsai is there any other way known to you on how to approuch where ever we are going?"
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Ulwe
Ulwe
Posts: 1660
(11/10/05 5:31 pm)
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Re: 1+1+1 = EVIL!
[Assuming Madragar has no reason NOT to activate his Protection from Chaos he does... in the interest of moving on. If he does not, then that will be a role-playing turning point for Draxim at least. So can we safely assume he activates it? ]
At Tsai's truculence Ulwe speaks in a loud voice "Remember our bargain. You will help us 'to the best of your abilities.' "
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Atan
Atan
Posts: 1084
(11/10/05 7:36 pm)
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Re: 1+1+1 = EVIL!
Atan hisses, "The portal to the world of Salhaug."
Edited by: Atan at: 11/10/05 7:41 pm
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Atan
Atan
Posts: 1085
(11/10/05 7:45 pm)
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Re: 1+1+1 = EVIL!
[Protection from Chaos way up!]
"Is this where the shadow spawn must come to release Salhuagh upon the world?" he asks aloud. "And that disk, could that the last disk we seek?"
[OOC: Does it look like the right size as the grey disks?]
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Kenner
Draxim
Posts: 1474
(11/10/05 9:09 pm)
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Re: 1+1+1 = EVIL!
"Well, let's not go in there!" proclaims Draxim.
[ And maybe I was being a jerk? Sorry. ]
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mikedobbs
Janes
Posts: 439
(11/10/05 9:38 pm)
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Re: 1+1+1 = EVIL!
Janes pays close attention to Tsai's response [ Sense Motive +7 ] to see if he's trying to hide what he knows.
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Jubilex
Faceless Lord of Chaos
Posts: 4788
(11/11/05 8:31 am)
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Re: 1+1+1 = EVIL!
Tsai pauses, and seems to choose his words carefully.
"Through the veil of the Gorgon's domination I have seen this place, but my memory is imperfect," he begins, his lipless mouth wrapping painfully around the name of his tormentor. "The upper levels lead to a large cavern in which rests a fortress sheathed in steel and lead. That is where the machines were kept safe by the dragonewts and where I am sure they remain."
Tsai Zhuun wipes a bit of spittle from his chin, his breathing labored.
"The fortress is the heart of Rylzhalor, and it is south of the Haven, where you found me. South and west. More accurate directions I cannot give."
"That pool yonder could be many things," he continues. "I guess it is an open wound in the Walls of the World. I suggest we get as far away from it as possible for a creature from the other side may be drawn to it, and use the pool to cross from its world into ours."
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Kenner
Draxim
Posts: 1475
(11/11/05 10:55 am)
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Re: 1+1+1 = EVIL!
"Well that sounds like good advice to me."
[ Scott, at this point since Scott is sick, can we just say he activates his chaos protection? Or not...? ]
Assuming everyone has Utama's handiwork humming, Draxim will head out and begin to investigate the western passage. Hopefully with everyone in tow.
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