1.4 - The Wyr River: Out of the darkness, into ...

Darazen and Utazó walk back to the room, talking to each other. Darazen offers, "Perhaps what you saw were spirits, remnants of the past, of those who built this place. Not that I believe in spirits, but I do not know what else to tell you. I mean, they did not seem interested in you, or us."

Vult joins in the room. Looking around, he sees the beds and desks and the panels on the wall. He steps next to a desk next to Khoren who asks, "Rememdium? I think that sounds familiar, like stadium or something, but this is no stadium."

Vult, not thinking about it as he hears the word out loud, responds "Rememdium? Contains the root word 'Remedy' from a dead language I found scraps of."

Khoren nods, "Yes, that's what the guild at the Empty Sanctum called themselves, Remediers. Personally, I was always told to stay away from the Empty Sanctum, and I did. But one day while escorting a small caravan for the company, we were ambushed. I was hurt pretty bad and the sanctum was the closest place to find aid. I woke up in a room, stark white, kinda like these walls. And this man was standing over me, and he had a pendant with a symbol of a sword and two snakes twisted around it."

Khoren spots a paper on the desk and moves to pick it up, "The symbol looked similar to thi....", the paper crumples to dust in his hands and falls back to the desk.

As most of you search the room, you find many of the books and pages to be extremely fragile.

Tara finds herself looking deep into the darkness, almost getting herself lost in it. At the edge of her vision, she sees movement. It is not much and not approaching her at all. Just a slow movement, up and down.... up and down... almost.... hypnotic.

Not find the books and papers easy to search, the group looks elsewhere. Searching the devices is more fruitful. Between you, you find 9 cyphers (and most are actually labeled, though the labels are fragile too:

1) Lvl 6 - Intellect Enhancement
2) Lvl 3 - Knowledge Enhancement
3) Lvl 7 - Mood Patch
4) Lvl 6 - Rejuvenator
5) Lvl 4 - Antivenom
6) Lvl 8 - Speed Heal
7) Lvl 3 - Stim
8) Lvl 8 - Ear Worm
9) Lvl 5 - Telepathy Implant (Small metal box of 16)

Anything level 4 or below is well known or found in your own books and Identified.... anything higher will need an Intellect roll. Pick one (and a second in case someone picks yours and roll):

Finally, a few of the beds seem to have power running through them. The mattress is warm and inviting.

Darazen hones in on the Intellect Enhancement device. Using effort he tries to identify it.

Khoren tries to ID the Speed Heal cypher.

Intellect Enhancement
Wearable: Adhesive patch that activates when slapped
Effect: Substance adds 1 to Intellect Edge for one hour.

Speed Heal
Level: 6(18) - Specialized brings it down two levels to a 4(12), if only you had had an asset (like a book)
Usable: Injector
Effect: ?? So close. You think it helps with a pool of some sort, healing it quickly, but just not sure how much or if it affects body, muscle or mind.

Rejuvenator
Level: 6(18) - Training lowers by one as does the book... tis a 4(12) .... just missed it. ;)
Internal: Pill, ingestible liquid
Effect: You are pretty sure this will restore some vitality to body or mind.... at least you think it will, it could do just as much harm.

This bed feels like a warm feather bed... if you knew what a feather bed felt like. I seems to conform to you and support you in all the right areas. You feel peaceful and calm. You close your eyes and ..... zzzzzzz.

**beep click click click beep**

The panel above the bed Utazó lies on comes to life. Symbols and numbers, a pulsing light, and arrows move up and down in rhythmic fashion. A smile forms on her face. She is dreaming.

**beep click click click beep**

(Ooc: Glad to see I'm not the only one who misses rolls by one, Q)