The Spiram of the Seer

The group of you has left the clearing by the overlook and come to the base of The Spiram. The fight with Chaig, though short, has caused a delay. You come out of the trees to see a sight that may be new to some of you. The Spiram Appears to be a large rock formation jutting out of the ground right on the shore. It looks all the world like an arm & hand reaching out of the ground toward some distant star. It stands a hundred or more feet in the air from base to tip of its finger. The forearm is twisted around itself several times to give it the appearance of a spiral. It may have been a beautiful piece of artwork from in a previous age, but time and tide have not been kind to it. It is pitted and worn and oxidized by the sea salt. Some earth has managed to cling to it however and it is partially overgrown by grasses, wild flowers and scrubby trees.

A few participants of the Rite circle the base of the structure, looking for a way up. You cannot see a pathway to the top. You have heard that petitioners of the Seer are either met at the base or whisked to the top through some unknown method. You can see a small hut built just below the first knuckle on the first finger. Standing on the tip of the first finger is the Seer. You can feel his gaze as a weight upon you, though why this feeling has come upon you your cannot say because it is clear he has his back to you.



He turns then and does glance down at all the participants before moving slowly back to his home.

:::If you like you may use your Recovery Action to heal 1d6+1 to your trait pools. The +1 is your current Tier. You will have another chance to heal once you are at the top of the Spiram, but you have a climb ahead of you. You will have time to use another healing action at the top also, if you don't want to use the Action healing right now.:::

Yes, "damage" is any missing points from the three pools. Effort and activating powers is tapping your "energy reserves" just as dodging and attacking in combat would. You do need to make a repair roll. I think a Difficulty 3(9), anyone can assist and act as an asset, and you can have 2 assets per check. Basically you would be directing the work, so with your repair skill, if you as for help from 2 people, it will be a 0 Difficulty.

:::Sorry gang, forgot to post this earlier. The Difficulty for the Climb is 4(12). Carrick, your Difficulty is 1(3) because of your Cypher use. Yaru, feel free to make an Intellect roll...the difficulty will be 6(18) as the Seer is very secretive. You can sense the presence of 'magical' energy but nothing jumps out at you without some searching.:::

Ok -- since I'm specialized in Identifying or Understanding Numenera -- can I whack the difficulty 2 steps with that asset?

Yep.

"I figure part of the Rite is thinking and figuring out for yourself how to get from one point to another..." replied before Yaru went to investigating things. Pha shambled over his form now not the best for walking around casually and poked the 'obstacle' and looked around before he tried to start up.

Edit: I'd like to use an XP (Not use if we have 3 total awarded so far or not) to reroll

Carrick begins his climb. His body practically tingles under the affect of the stim pill he took. His muscles don't seem to feel the weight of his body as they pull him from one level to the next. His senses tell him more about the world around him than he could ever imagine was there to know. He sees insects working to stock food for the coming winter. He can hear them digging under the earth. It would overwhelm him, if the cypher didn't also increase his ability to focus and immediately dismiss distractions. As it is however the path before him practically jumps out to make itself known to him.

Galen and Kveit begin their climb, they follow Carrick as he seems to have made some kind of sense out of the difficult climb. At one point they come to an overhang however and all three of them are stopped in their accent. Kveit however realizes she is at an advantage in this instance and uses her own deformity to cling to the rock while she sends her nanos out to grab the next hand hold while Galen looks the other way for path. From the ledge above she could reach down and assist either of the boys who have made it this far.

Far below this activity Pha struggles to find his own way up the Spiram. Meanwhile, Yaru has uncovered something interesting. There is some kind of devise hidden at the base of the Spiram. There is a strange glass panel with runes that Yaru cannot fully decipher. From what he can read, this device can transport individuals from the base of the Spiram to the top. Likely this is the source of the tales. It has a relatively short range and must have an appropriately attuned target devise within range in order to work. Each time it is used it needs to recharge, which takes a few hours. Yaru sees that the device is ready and that he could transport to the top of the Spiram right now. Or he could try and reconfigure the device to take more than one person.

:::I'm going to use my first GM Fiat(s) here. Normally I would save this for when it would be interesting to see someone fail a roll, but I think we have a couple opportunities here to develop some character. So... Friar_Tuk and Farlyx, I extend the offer of 1 XP for you and 1 XP for another player of your choice if your characters give in to their competitive side and make their way to the top without the need of another check. If you refuse you have to pay me off with an XP.

OOC: Can you elaborate a little bit? I read this as you saying if we head to the top ditching the others, we get XP. Is that correct?

OoC: It's a complication you take an xp and someone else gets an XP as well that you choose. If you'd prefer to not let it happen you can 'pay' one of your XP to void it (you can't use the intrusion xp being given for this).