Salvation Outpost - Chapter 2

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Aug 29, 2024 6:05 am
The spring is very strong, but Vice is eventually able to pry the two pieces clamped to the warforge’s hand apart. He hears the sound of a spring snap and the device pops open, releasing 37’s hand. The device hangs, dangling from its clinking chains.

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Aug 29, 2024 6:59 am
"I gotta say, you are being extraordinarily calm, all things considered" Vice says to 37 as the trap is unsprung. "So what's in the book thats worth all this?"
Vice
Aug 29, 2024 2:01 pm
"I am admittedly unsure at this moment. It could be a simple decoy, with the trap making one easy prey of the undead that were here. However... a tome on a pedestal in the middle of a network of magical obelisks keeping undead... well, active I suppose... and pulling their destroyed bodies back together? It's at least worth checking the contents. If it isn't a decoy, it is probably important."

With that, 37 will look to the book and back to Vice -- implying his next action and allowing his companion a chance to back away -- before again reaching to open the book.
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Aug 29, 2024 2:51 pm
Now that the booked has been lifted, 37 notes an inscription carved into the pedestal.

In memory of my beloved Vera. May our chain never be broken.

Inside the trap, he finds a diary of a woman named Vera Uzimilele. The diary is elegantly written in common. Within the cover is a sketch of a dragon skull with a red tear drop similar to the design of the jeweled skull that opened the chamber.
Aug 29, 2024 3:14 pm
"Interesting... what do we make of this?"

He will skim the journal.
Aug 29, 2024 4:19 pm
The journal appears to be from somewhere in history and follows the life of a young Vistani woman. Based on some of the information, it seems to be from early in the Last War.

In skimming, 37 can see Vera spent much of her life running from those of the Emerald Claw who sought her power. As the Vistani are want to do, she travelled much of Khorvaire before settling here in this hall. You find several references to the Blood of Vol temple here and a person named Kassel. Perhaps she even help found this temple of Vol when this area was of little consequence and attention would not be drawn here.
Aug 29, 2024 6:12 pm
Active SheK sees that her services aren't needed there and returns to the door leading further. She has her warhammer ready for action.
Aug 29, 2024 7:28 pm
OOC:
Roll me another perception check SheK
Aug 29, 2024 9:08 pm
Roll me another perception check SheK

That would be a nice sweet 20. SheK has an eye for detail.
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Rolls

Perception Check - (1d20+7+1d4)

(12) + (1) + 7 = 20

Aug 29, 2024 10:33 pm
SheK makes her way down the hall, as she approaches the room with the fallen wolves. She notes a solid black rectangle, resembling a door at the far end of the room, past the crumbled obelisk. More than just darkness, the ‘door’ is most obvious next to the stone surrounding it.
Aug 29, 2024 10:55 pm
Curious SheK will check around the door and even listen to it.

Well, a 10 for looking traps and oddities and 12 for listening for noises.
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Rolls

Investigation, Perception - (1d20-1, 1d20+7+1d4)

1d20-1 : (11) - 1 = 10

1d20+7+1d4 : (4) + (1) + 7 = 12

Aug 30, 2024 12:48 am
Peldan, always curious about the written word, and especially that which contains the unbridled honesty of a diary, asks of 37, "May I have a look at it when you're done?"
Aug 30, 2024 1:31 am
"Certainly," the construct replies as he skims the book. "When we have more time I'd like to sit and read it fully. It was well guarded, it may have information some would deem important." As he finishes his brief scan, he hands the book to Peldan with a nod.
Aug 30, 2024 2:07 am
Rather than skimming, Peldan simply takes a thorough read of the first few pages. It doesn't take him long to realize that it is the diary of Vera. The spectre that had touched him and shared with him an insight into her existence that to his knowledge only two had ever had...himself and Armat. His thought go to the knightly fellow and, though the man seemed not to care for him much, that shared experience bound Peldan to him in some way...yet he could not comprehend, let alone explain it.

Upon realizing that the diary belonged to Very, he was reminded of the sensation of her "presence?" earlier, when they'd activated trap within the book and chains had emerged from within it, trapping 37s hand and suspending him in the air by it.

"I too would like to read this when time permits.

It was written by a spectre that was imprisoned within the church. I had followed Armat there and in the encounter with her ghost, it touched me and shared some of her past with me in that moment of contact.

Once you've read it, and anyone else that wishes too, may I have it. That experience was very important to me, and having something of hers would mean a lot to me."
OOC:
my memory may be off, but do the tarot cards Peldan has have a connection to the vistani?
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Aug 30, 2024 2:08 am
SheK crosses the dark room. The door now directly in front of her is so completely void of light, it’s a little unsettling. She’s uncertain if it’s a door or just a very dark hallway.
OOC:
Let me know if you press on.
Aug 30, 2024 2:40 am
"A discussion for a later time, my friend. While I would caution that what happens with that book may be dictated by what is contained within, on a personal level I currently have no objection to you keeping it," 37 assures him.

Looking around, he adds, "Let us finish our current task. SheK seems to have found something?"
Aug 30, 2024 3:16 pm
As 37 joins SheK in the chamber, the light emitting from his shield does not penetrate the void in front of them.
Aug 30, 2024 3:56 pm
37 will pick up one of the longer wolf bones and poke the end into the impenetrable darkness before them.
Aug 30, 2024 4:42 pm
The bone passes into the darkness with no resistance, but the end vanishes from sight upon entering it. When 37 pulls it back, the bone seems unharmed.
Aug 30, 2024 4:45 pm
Mostly out of curiosity at this point, Vice lights a candle, and then uses Mage hand to move it into the darkness.
Vice
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