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[miauw62]

Mike will look for doors to other rooms.

[Harry Baldman]

Inside a room in the Dream Palace...

Mike looks for an entrance to another room around the great hall!

[Perception roll: ?+1]

He's pretty sure there isn't one. He does, however, notice that there is an interesting stone slab on the fountain with the numbers 1 through 5 written on it. Otherwise he can't really see a whole lot of intriguing things in the room.

[miauw62]

Mike will inspect the fountain.

[Harry Baldman]

In the only room of the Dream Palace that isn't off-limits...

Mike makes sure to inspect the fountain for any trickery, treachery or stunning beauty.

He comes to the conclusion that the swirling patterns the black inky stuff makes in the lavender water are pretty cool-looking.

[Perception roll: ?+1]
[Imagination roll: 5-1]

As he stares into the fountain, he feels his avian brain tingle and process information from it. He sees dreams, nightmares, all manner of things in the fountain. He can see an indescribable being slumbering far above him, a being of mud slinking along the lower levels, a woman made of razors dancing in a ballroom made of deformed scrap, a child with hands stretching out from his brain. It's all rather trippy, Mike thinks. Just as he is about to turn away, he sees something else - a man with five heads and ten open arms, looking at him with five pairs of eyes.

[Mood rolls: 1, 1, 5, 4, 5]

Of the five heads, one looks at Mike with curiosity, one seems genuinely happy to see him, one has a look of love in his eyes, one regards Mike with open hostility and another sneers at him.

[Perception roll: ?+1]

Together they all seem to be asking what it is he wants, exactly.

[miauw62]

~I wish to return to my own realm~
Mike will answer him!

[Harry Baldman]

Near the Fountain of Visions...

Mike informs the creature that it seeks to return to his own realm, and the creature's five heads all nod, though the two less-pleasant ones seem to be rather less than pleased by this turn of events.

[Perception roll: ?+1]

Mike can't quite understand what they're trying to tell him now. It's quite difficult to decipher their body language.

[Guardian explanation roll: 3]

The guardian looks at Mike and shakes its heads. The two nasty heads roll their eyes.

[Perception roll: ?+1]

This time Mike pays more attention to their subtle movements, and is able to decipher some of their demands!

[Demand roll: 4-1, 1-1, 6+1, 1+1, 6+1]

The hostile head seems to be demanding an expensive porcelain doll. Well, that can't be all that hard. The next two, however, are much more difficult. The happy head asks him to provide a handshake, while the curious head asks for a smile. The loving head asks for proof of love - a pink diamond, and the mocking head ponders his choice for a while, then asks for one thing and one thing only - the words of an infinite circle.

[miauw62]

Mike will smile and then reach into the fountain with one of his wings to shake the hand of the happy head.

[Harry Baldman]

Near the Fountain of Visions...

Mike is about to smile and give the Guardian a handshake, but then realizes that there are two problems with this plan.

Firstly, he has a beak. Beaks are not known for their ability to form expressions. Secondly, he has no hands, so he can't perform a proper handshake.

[Perception roll: ?+1]

The happy and curious heads smile at him with sly expressions. Smartasses.

[Firelordsky]

Go through the ajar door and explore the area behind it.

[miauw62]

Mike will telekinetically find some dust and arrange it into a smiling face and a hand.

[Harry Baldman]

In front of a richly adorned building...

Vincent heads inside the door and tries to explore it! Once he is inside, he notices that the inside of the building seems to be entirely devoted to exhibits of all sorts - ancient objects, modern weaponry and some things he doesn't have any clue about.

[Exploration roll: 6]

After passing through several halls filled with various ancient, but useless swords, Vincent comes upon a rather interesting exhibit - a large wooden staff with a large torus mounted at its tip.


Next to the Fountain of Visions...

Mike focuses on the room and tries to telekinetically gather all of the dust within!

[Dust presence roll: 3]

There's not a whole lot of dust to work with, but Mike is determined to make the best of it!

[Telekinesis roll: 1]

He succeeds in throwing the dust in his own eyes and dropping like the very confused bird he is. He screeches horribly for a bit, then gets up and looks at the fountain.

He can't see the Guardian anymore, just the mixed ink-water. Well, there goes that idea.

[Firelordsky]

Take the large wooden staff and continue exploring.

[Harry Baldman]

Inside a... museum?

Vincent elects to smash the display case and commence the looting! He loots the staff most thoroughly. He then proceeds to hold it in his third arm since it doesn't fit in any of his sacks, then goes on exploring.

[Exploration roll: 5]

He finds a corpse! This one's different than the others, however. Looks relatively fresh, hardly decomposed at all, though he does look dreadfully emaciated. He seems to be clutching a book, a horrified look on his face!

[Firelordsky]

Set down my halberds and read the book the dead body is clinging onto.

[Harry Baldman]

Inside a museum of some kind...

Vincent wrenches the book out of the dead body's hands and begins to read!

[Book roll: 5]

It looks like a journal of some kind. It's marked as belonging to one "Lemuel J. Hardy", and it seems to be quite lengthy. It details the travels of the author along something he calls "The Ancient Lands", an area filled with ancient ruins of times long forgotten. The journal seems to describe all manner of places he's found and any interesting things to be found in them, though it's mostly written from a scholarly point of view, not an adventurer's, so mentions of amazing treasure or good loot are few and far between.

There seem to be several places that Hardy has marked out as being of special interest - the Temple of Demons, which is a place focusing on the worship of five powerful demons for some nefarious heathen purpose, the Tower of Steel, which is a place protected by a powerful magical field that prohibits any entry and has thus probably remained untouched for many hundreds of years, the Flying Island, once seen by Hardy as it traversed the skies over a forest, and the Tuskless Capital, which seems to be the city Vincent is in right now.

In fact, the last entries are particularly interesting, as they describe the venture of Hardy and his companions into the Tuskless Capital. They seem to have been followed at every turn by what he calls "actual, honest-to-goodness tuskless primitives, totally unlike the people we've encountered on the continent so far". He describes them as "curious ape-like creatures, fascinating in their own degenerate way". Soon enough, however, the entries take on a more fearful tone, as he seems to have noticed the apes following him at every turn. When his companions begin to disappear in the night, Lemuel seems to have panicked, judging by his shaky handwriting.

After that, the remaining pages of the book seem to be filled with strange symbols drawn in charcoal.

[Intelligence roll: ?]

Difficult to say what they are, but they definitely aren't Hardy's work. He didn't seem to be the doodling type from his journal.

Well, that was an enlightening skimming session. Maybe later Vincent can study certain passages of the journal or the symbols in-depth.