Nov 30, 2017 2:02 pm
Uriel shakes his head sadly and picks up Marie to set her back on the floor where they can head to read this book.
Chapter 1 (Arc A): Investigation in the Library
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Dec 1, 2017 12:06 am
Marie-Louise happily follows the woman, thinking to her. How much of the books here did you actually read? And how much of the books in the restricted section? I think I would spend hours there if I could! There must be so much interesting stuff down there! Now I need to find some information, so I can't just read everything, but I might come back soon, I'm starting to run out of interesting books at home...
Dec 4, 2017 2:57 pm
As she walks away, you see the woman fiddle with a ring on her finger. Marie-Louise, she doesn't seem to react at all to anything you've said into her mind since you left the desk.
You make your way to the heavy gates near the back of the library. She fishes a large key out of her robes and fits it to the lock. Soft arcane words pass over her lips as her other hand waves over the door. You hear a multitude of locks give way and the door swings open silently. You all pass through the gates and down the large marble spiral stairs, deep into the earth.
It takes you nearly five minutes to walk all the way down to another heavily gated area. Another key and another mystic word and you proceed into a space dimly lit by a series of floating balls in the sky. She leads you down the rows and rows of books, until she finds the shelf she's looking for. Scanning the shelf, she exclaims softly. Ah, here we are! Her hand waves and the book floats out of the shelf, and into her hands. Over to the table over there you lot. Here's your book, I'll be right over there if you need anything. Please return the tome to me when you are finished and I will re-shelve it.
You make your way to the heavy gates near the back of the library. She fishes a large key out of her robes and fits it to the lock. Soft arcane words pass over her lips as her other hand waves over the door. You hear a multitude of locks give way and the door swings open silently. You all pass through the gates and down the large marble spiral stairs, deep into the earth.
It takes you nearly five minutes to walk all the way down to another heavily gated area. Another key and another mystic word and you proceed into a space dimly lit by a series of floating balls in the sky. She leads you down the rows and rows of books, until she finds the shelf she's looking for. Scanning the shelf, she exclaims softly. Ah, here we are! Her hand waves and the book floats out of the shelf, and into her hands. Over to the table over there you lot. Here's your book, I'll be right over there if you need anything. Please return the tome to me when you are finished and I will re-shelve it.
Dec 4, 2017 11:07 pm
At first Marie-Louise is very annoyed her questions aren't answered, but the further they move down, the more excited she gets. When they're pointed to the table she jumps onto a seat and reaches towards the time with both hands, indicating she is the one to have it. Once it's in her hands she lets her fingers run over the cover, eyes sparkling with wonder. She opens the book and starts reading, only skipping parts that she is really sure are not interesting (which, in this tome, can't be that much...). She is completely absorbed by the book, for her time stands still and the others could be anywhere, talking or not, and she won't notice them.
OOC:
now let's hope it's written in one of the 6 languages she speaks or this will get very weird very quickly;-)Rolls
Investigation - (1d20+1)
(7) + 1 = 8
Dec 6, 2017 3:00 pm
Marie-Louise, as you crack the book open and read the first words, inside your mind a piercing scream rips through your skull, causing an immense amount of pain, akin to fork tines scratching across a plate, amplified hundreds of times. DC15 CON save or take 2 psychic damage.
After the shriek subsides, you can easily see that the book is written in Infernal.
Most of the document details horrific practices of savage races from before the Mage Wars. The biggest interesting part that you can find is this:
In the matter of summoning a Great One, they require feeding. Souls are preferred as it grants them immense power and provides them with the conduits necessary to work their glorious purpose upon the land. Each such entity, as do we mortals, have preferences. It would not serve a summoner well to offer the favored of one to the another. Below are the known favored souls:
Perse prefers those tormented by chaos in life.
C'thalet prefers those souls taken in chaos.
Pfa'gra'thala prefers innocent souls.
Szci-krath prefers chaste souls.
Drak'ana prefers noble souls.
After the shriek subsides, you can easily see that the book is written in Infernal.
Most of the document details horrific practices of savage races from before the Mage Wars. The biggest interesting part that you can find is this:
[ +- ] Infernal
In the matter of summoning a Great One, they require feeding. Souls are preferred as it grants them immense power and provides them with the conduits necessary to work their glorious purpose upon the land. Each such entity, as do we mortals, have preferences. It would not serve a summoner well to offer the favored of one to the another. Below are the known favored souls:
Perse prefers those tormented by chaos in life.
C'thalet prefers those souls taken in chaos.
Pfa'gra'thala prefers innocent souls.
Szci-krath prefers chaste souls.
Drak'ana prefers noble souls.
Dec 6, 2017 7:40 pm
When starting with reading a small shriek escapes her lips as she drops it, grabbing her head. She takes a few slow breaths to calm down.
When she reads the piece about the summoning of the great ones she retrieves her parchment, pen and ink, copying the info, in infernal. When she finishes the book she slams it closed, taking Antoinette from her pocket.
I don't know Antoinette! Are we helping him? She sighs, not seeming all to happy with what she read. She gets up from the chair and walks the tome back to the woman, not thinking or saying a word to her.
8/10 HP | 11 AC | Inspiration 0 | Awakened Mind
When she reads the piece about the summoning of the great ones she retrieves her parchment, pen and ink, copying the info, in infernal. When she finishes the book she slams it closed, taking Antoinette from her pocket.
I don't know Antoinette! Are we helping him? She sighs, not seeming all to happy with what she read. She gets up from the chair and walks the tome back to the woman, not thinking or saying a word to her.
8/10 HP | 11 AC | Inspiration 0 | Awakened Mind
Last edited December 6, 2017 8:22 pm
Rolls
Anti hoofdpijn schreeuw rolletje - (1d20+2)
(7) + 2 = 9
Dec 7, 2017 8:45 pm
The avian jerks a step forward at the sound of distress but stops because the little lady seemed to have a handle on things. He is mildly disturbed when he heard the word 'him' but pays it no mind as she follows the girl to the lady.
Dec 8, 2017 8:20 pm
The woman takes the tome from you and replaces it on the shelf.
I hope you found something useful. Now, up the stairs if you please. she says, ushering you all back up the stairs. Your group heads up with the woman behind you. Another five minutes on the stairs, winding around and around, and you find yourselves back in the main body of the library, now much emptier than it was almost two hours ago when you entered!
As you make your way towards the exits, you see a familiar face walking into the building. Vlur! However, his previous compatriot, the goliath Shannout, is nowhere to be seen.
I hope you found something useful. Now, up the stairs if you please. she says, ushering you all back up the stairs. Your group heads up with the woman behind you. Another five minutes on the stairs, winding around and around, and you find yourselves back in the main body of the library, now much emptier than it was almost two hours ago when you entered!
As you make your way towards the exits, you see a familiar face walking into the building. Vlur! However, his previous compatriot, the goliath Shannout, is nowhere to be seen.
Dec 8, 2017 8:45 pm
Hello! Were you able to find anything? I have a group of scholars who are willing to show us some magic created by this C'thalet fellow.
They said to meet them at Sturnk Hall. Their Professor's name is Maladrin. We are to meet them at fourteen bells
He walks up to them eager to see what they have found.
They said to meet them at Sturnk Hall. Their Professor's name is Maladrin. We are to meet them at fourteen bells
He walks up to them eager to see what they have found.
Dec 8, 2017 10:06 pm
The feathered man stumbles up quite dissuaded by the light and the minuteness of the place they came from. Upon reaching the great hall, his spirits goes up and down. First from the familiar face that greets them, and lastly, from the pit in his stomach that forms because he could not rack an answer. "This does not bode well." he thinks to himself.
"Hail! Uh- We have learned that the one who leads the pack is named Abe Looney The Cargo... or something to that effect. He has a grudge against the Mage Lords, and he has begged a demon to help him in his vengeance. We have reason to believe the cult is collecting ingredients. What the means is still a mystery. The little lady did most of the pulling in our excursion. Perhaps she should meet these scholars you speak of?"
"Hail! Uh- We have learned that the one who leads the pack is named Abe Looney The Cargo... or something to that effect. He has a grudge against the Mage Lords, and he has begged a demon to help him in his vengeance. We have reason to believe the cult is collecting ingredients. What the means is still a mystery. The little lady did most of the pulling in our excursion. Perhaps she should meet these scholars you speak of?"
Last edited December 8, 2017 10:09 pm
Dec 10, 2017 2:52 pm
Marie-Louise shakes her head at Ci, then looks at Vlur and the obvious lack of his wrestling friend. She frowns Where is your friend? Nevermind, just stand over here so I can speak to all of you at once She points towards Ci and Uriel and turns so she can look at the three of them togheter. When Vlur has entered her view she starts thinkspeaking to the three of them. When we first got here we read in the journal of Abbalonian Descargo. He described a ritual that I think is meant to summon C'thalet. With a little detour to professor Galadreel we also found a book telling us C'thalet is a Great One, who, to be summoned, wants souls taken in chaos. And that confused me, because before we started to attack, when they killed that first man, there was no chaos. And noble souls are preferred by Drak'ana. So they were feeding the wrong Great One. I don't know what to think of all of this. Let's go visit that professor Maladrin tomorrow, perhaps they can make things clearer and at least getting to see them some magic linked to C'thalet could help us understand the threat better. Just when she stops talking you hear a loud grumble coming from her stomach. She pouts, looking towards the door before turning back to the others. I want to go home, I'm hungry and it's late. I think you all should come and sleep at my home so we can talk about what to do next in the morning. Lurchette doesn't mind, she keeps telling me I should make friends. She is a pretty decent cook and I think she is smart too. Will you come with me?
Dec 12, 2017 1:49 am
He looks quizzically as the girl shakes her head. He ponders for a bit before the lecture fills him in. "Grub and quarters sound great. Thank you, dear." he says as he nods to the offer.
Dec 12, 2017 2:54 am
Marie-Louise leads you all towards the adamantine rail station north campus. In short order, you manage to get onboard with no hassle and are shown seats in the cramped quarters of free passage. About an hour and a half later, you debark the train south of the Greenfall Woods. Marie-Louise takes the lead again and fifteen minutes later, you all find yourselves looking up at the edifice of an old home, clearly part of the lesser nobility.
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Marie-Louise can provide more description of the home. :)Dec 12, 2017 6:33 pm
You stand in front of a low wrought iron gate, opening up to a small path of grey stones leading through an overgrown front yard, up to a white stone building, a dark door with a heavy metal knocker in the middle, big bay windows on both sides besides it. On the upper two levels​ a small tower protrudes from the right corner, the sun glinting of the blade of a small guillotine standing on a windowsill.
Marie-Louise opens the gate, walking up the path, looking for her key in her front pocket, but not really trying to find it because she expects Lurchette to open the front door in about 3... 2.... 1....
Marie-Louise opens the gate, walking up the path, looking for her key in her front pocket, but not really trying to find it because she expects Lurchette to open the front door in about 3... 2.... 1....