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[Darvi]

But it buuuuurns!

[Taricus]

Then head to the red light.

[SeriousConcentrate]

Sheltering Leaves headed into the room with the cloak to investigate it.

[Darvi]

Then head to the red light.

<_<

>_>

[Ahra]

I'm not dead :V

im not dead either but what do you think is the worst, darkspawn torture or spider-elf torture?

[Darvi]

I wouldn't know since I'm subject to neither.

[Taricus]

Then head to the red light.

<_<

>_>

Not that red light. HELL. _Idiot.

[Riccto]

Examine the wands more closely, take one! but only one

[IronyOwl]

Help examine the guest rooms, especially those gold necklaces.

[Zako]

Head into the guest room and look in the chests and other containers for something useful. Don't go near the table. Also, use the healing kit on War Wind.

[Dwarmin]

Turn 26

Riccto:Examine the wands more closely, take one! but only one
Ironyowl:Help examine the guest rooms, especially those gold necklaces.
Zako:Head into the guest room and look in the chests and other containers for something useful. Don't go near the table (smart idea). Also, use the healing kit on War Wind.
Taricus:Go back to the guest quarters and examine the entire room in detail.
SeriousConcentrate:Sheltering Leaves headed into the room with the cloak to investigate it.
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Spoiler (click to show/hide)

(Molten heart int healing roll, 3=pass)
(Random loot roll 1d3=2, 1d100=59) (Trembling Peak Luck roll 4 VS Fate roll 1, lucky!)
(Sheltering Leaves Luck roll 3 VS Fate roll 10, Unlucky. )

(Pressing Tide hard charisma resist enchantment roll 6+2+1=9, pass)
(War Wind hard charisma resist enchantment roll 7+2-1=8, fail)

Trembling Peak

The Dwarf decides not to risk angering any latent defenses here, and begins studying them in earnest. He can't really determine their individual functions, so he chooses one that he believes is Dwarf make-half length, made of Mithril with a slight upward arch at one end. He opens the case and quickly snatches it. Trembling Peak has a moment feeling watched, but it quickly passes. That was weird...

It seems to be solid Mithril-and it's user friendly! Instead of saying some silly nonsense words, you merely place your thumb on a small button located above the handgrip to activate it. Someone at the monastery could translate the cryptic writing for you, but you do feel the urge to try it out right away, damn the consequences!

+1 Mithril Wand (Unknown effect)

Sheltering Leaves

You break off from the others and enter the room with the ring of stones that War Wind described. That cloak he described has you intrigued...the room is as he said-empty, save for a ring of stones. You walk into the ring, accidently knocking one of the rocks aside with your foot as you pass. You pause. What was that noise behind you? It sounded like someone was tapping..very quietly.

You decide it was just your imagination.

You walk toward the cloak, and flip it over with the tip of your bladed staff to avoid any traps. Big surprise-it's another skeleton! This one is hunched down in fetal position, with his hands over it's ears. As if he died in great fear. This makes no sense at all...if he was a Greycloak, he could have walked right out the door.

You see a scrap of paper clutched in his bony hands-last words, you guess. It's written in a tiny, spidery, jagged script that makes your flesh crawl.

Spoiler: stange note (click to show/hide)

I can see what you see not
Vision milky, then eyes rot
When you turn, they will be gone
Whispering their hidden song

Then you see what cannot be
Shadows move where light should be
 
Out of darkness, out of mind
Cast down into the Halls of the Blind

As you try and puzzle this out, Merame mentions she's confused about something-more than usual. She says she smells something, but what she smells isn't where she's seeing it's supposed to be. Odd.

Was that the noise behind you again?

Pressing Tide, Molten Heart and War Wind

Molten Heart has no formal medical training, but he's done quick patchwork on himself in the past-he fixes up War Winds hurt leg with no delay. Afterwards, the three Kai enter the Guest Quarters and begin to ransack it.

They make a conclusive search-if they were tomb robbers, they would surely be able to pawn the silverware...they break the rusty locks off the chests in the back-other than some old letters and notes, there's nothing useful. Molten Heart stays to read through them-Pressing Tide and War Wind seem to be preoccupied. They find themselves drawn to the necklaces.

Pressing Tide is intrigued. They almost seem...familiar. Powerful...all he has to do is reach out and claim one. Which he begins to do, before his trained mental defenses begin to awaken. He pulls his hand back. Something is very wrong here. It looks as if these persons died clutching their throats. Pressing Tide looks over at War Wind, who is reaching for one even now. He hurriedly warns the Kai, but War Wind merely smiles at him and place it over his neck, and then...

War Wind thinks they are very beautiful in the right light. It's such a shame that they will molder here, unseen and unenjoyed by all...he thinks of all the women he could pleasure with such fancy jewelry adorning his rugged reptilian frame. He's given up enough for the cause, doesn't he deserve this...so small a thing.

Almost against his will, he finds himself reaching for one...He hears Pressing Tide saying something. Don't wear the necklace? He's just jealous. Probably wants to keep them all for himself.

He lifts it from the remains of the man who was once died in agony, who was named Lord Arrow, and places it around his neck. Now that's a necklace fit for a Lord, he preens...when suddenly, War Wind feels the necklace begin to tighten around his neck like a python...

Molten Heart was perhaps wiser, wanting nothing to do with strange jewelry adorning the dead. He instead pulls out an old journal-he can't read the name of the author, but the title says "The Keeper", so he figures it must be important. As Molten Heart often does, he skips past all the boring parts and goes straight to the end...

Spoiler: Final Entry (click to show/hide)

Year 999

We're celebrating the new millennium to-night, me and...all my friends. Lords Walton, Arrow and Shrubs, and Ladies West and Plumdale. How they mock me. With their pretentiousness, their self righteousness. What did Walton call me? The "Fair Weather Friend"? None of them know how much I gave up to get us all here. We could have been rotting in one of the cells, but no, I convinced the Greycloaks to allow us to remain in the guest quarter and adjoining hall. We've all done our share of crime, aye, but...I will not be disrespected. No.

I could even have ignored the insults, the taunts. Locked in this damn hall, with only those five for company...I was going mad. I thought Lady West understood. She said she loved me. Then...spurned my advances. In this place? It's criminal. Well, things are going to change soon! Very soon. I've brought out the old adornments for us to wear with dinner tonight-so it can be like old times again. All of us wining and dining, with Richard Morrows as the host and butt of all jokes. They have all forgotten how skilled at enchantments I am. All one needs is a pinch of grave dust...one for each of us. It will truly be a night to remember.

-Signed, Richard Morrow, last entry

Molten Heart then hears the sound of War Wind choking to death in the dining room behind him.

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Molten Heart, -1 healing poultice, 5 hitpoints healed (War Wind +5 12/17)

War Wind, +1 Necklace of Strangulation (-1 to all stats every round worn, death at -1 to any stat, cursed-cannot remove without hard difficulty roll)

-Exits and Entrances-

North West Door (Guest Quarters)
South West Door (Stone Ring)
North East Door (Wand Room)
South East Door (Cavern)

Staircase up (Leads to lobby level 1)
Staircase down (Unexplored)
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Spoiler: Player Inventory (click to show/hide)

Trembling Peak(Riccto)

Str: 5+1=6     End: 6
Agi: 4+1=5     Int: 3
Cha: 3    HP: 13/16
Equipment
-Worn and equipped-
Green Kai Cloak, worn, +2 to sneaking
Leather Armor, worn, +2 to defense
Dwarven Bear Claw Gauntlets, wielded, +2 damage, +2 Str when grappling

-Stowed-
Lucky Flask, 3 shots of Goblin Spit left-increases all damage done and taken by 1d3 for 1d10 rounds
Half full Lampsur potion, refills half HP, can only be used outside of combat
Mithril Wand (Unknown Effect)

Disciplines:Weapon Mastery/Dwarven Wrestling, Mind Shield

Pressing Tide(IronyOwl)
Str: 3     End: 3
Agi: 3    Int: 3
Cha: 9    HP: 13/13

Equipment
-Worn and equipped-
Chains, +0 damage, two attacks a turn
Green Kai Cloak, worn, +2 to sneaking
Leather Armor, worn, +2 to defense

-Stowed-
Elder Sign, does 3d10 to all undead and demons in battle when envoked-Pressing Tide must make an agility roll to avoid being damaged himself. Anyone else would have to make a charisma roll or go insane.
Karma Cards, GM hax
1x Torches, provides ten turns of light (unlit)

Disciplines:Mind Blast, Sixth Sense

Molten Heart (Zako)
Str: 5     End: 4
Agi: 4    Int: 6
Cha: 2    HP: 10/14

Equipment
-Worn and equipped-
Bastard Sword, +2 damage normal, +5 damage when wielded two handed, =Elemental Bane= (This weapon give you a passive +2 to damage elemental based enemies combat-if your feeling gutsy, a passed agility roll allows you to reflect elemental attacks aimed at you.)
Green Kai Cloak, worn, +2 to sneaking
Leather Armor, worn, +2 to defense

-Stowed-
Smithing Tools, allows crafting
Iron-Mind Headband, allows Molten Heart to heal his one ally of all mental damage a battle, at the risk of taking it upon himself.
1xLampsur Potion, refill all HP, cannot be used during battle
Healing Kit (1 Poultices left, heals 5 hitpoints)
Disciplines:Kai weaponsmith, Mind shield

War Wind (Taricus)

Str: 3     End: 3
Agi: 3     Int: 8
Cha: 5     HP: 12/17
Light Source: *Lit Torch (9 rounds remaining)*

Equipment
-Worn and equipped-
Iron Longsword, +3 to damage
Unloaded Crossbow, +5 damage, needs a full round to reload, cant be used in melee, ignores half armor
+1 Exquisite Young Ironwood Light Spiked Heater Shield:+2 to defense, -1 damage, wielding in offhand, additional 1 spike damage on successful defense roll, damage: 12%
Spidersilk vest, +4 HP
Green Kai Cloak, worn, +2 to sneaking
Lamellar armor, worn, +3 defense (Small plates of a strange silvery metal, woven with spider wire, this armor is fairly light, but stronger that your Kai leather by some degrees.)
Necklace of Strangulation (-1 to all stats every round worn, death at -1 to any stat, cursed-cannot remove without hard difficulty roll)


-stowed-
Seeing Eye Necklace (A gruesome collection of eyes, gathered by the enchantress. It may have unknown powers.)
Smithing Tools, allows crafting
Food Rations for 4 days (smoked meat, tasty)
1xLampsur Potion, refill all HP, cannot be used during battle
1x Chunk of White Iron:Weapons or armor smelted from white iron are bane to the undead, doubly so if the rites of Ishtar and Kai are spoken aloud while they are being forged.
Prayer Book, A book of prayers to the Gods Kai and Ishtar
Round shield +1 defense (strapped on back)
Leather Armor, worn, +2 to defense =Demon Bane= +2 defense vs Demon enemies (The Term Demon is used to describe anything that comes from the evil realm-things like dragons, Shadows, and the Dark Lords themselves.)

Abilities: 0/1, Used once todayFire Breathing/Three times a day and once per battle you can breath fire on your foe for 3d3+1 damage. You have to eat a full meal to use this ability, not counting what you must eat to avoid starvation, and cannot eat a sapient being to do so, such as a Giak or a Human.
Disciplines:Kai Armorer, Weapon Training/Longsword

Companion
Horse (Paladin)
HP: 20/20

Sheltering Leaves (SeriousConcentrate)
Str: 4     End: 4
Agi: 5     Int: 3
Cha: 5     HP: 14/18
Equipment
-Worn and equipped-
Reinforced Gauntlets/Boots, +1 damage, +1 agility, dried mud spattered
Green Kai Cloak, worn, +2 to sneaking, dried mud spattered
Spidersilk vest, +4 HP
Leather Armor, worn, +2 to defense, dried mud spattered

-Stowed-
Food Rations for 4 days (Came with orange slices, so you can share with Merame)
1xEmpty glass bottle
1xVial of Unknown, Untested Antidote (Shade Cap Poison)
Draconic Flute (unknown effect)
Double bladed staff,  +2 defense, +2 damage (strapped on back)
2x Torches, provides ten turns of light (unlit)

Abilities
-0/1, used once today Mystical Flash/Leaf gathers energy into his palm, then lunges forward and hits the target, releasing it as a bright flash in the colors of the rainbow. The release of spiritual energy is very powerful and can blow the enemy away. (Special attack that, if successful, adds Charisma to damage, can be used three times a day, and once a battle. Recharged through meditation.)

Disciplines: Animal Kinship, Weapon Training/Bare Hands

Companion
Monkey (Merame)
HP:10/10
Status: Well Fed, +1 to all rolls
Orders:
Abilities: Merame trap sense, +1 int vs traps
Fetch-can use simple items like potions in combat without rolling for difficulty
Armed-Poisoned Kris, can attack an unaware enemy

Horse (Thunder)
HP: 20/20

OOC: Remember to always be careful trying out unidentified magical equipment

[Taricus]

GET IT OFF!

[SeriousConcentrate]

Leaves replaced the stone, ignored the note, and left the room. Clearly no good would come from fooling with this any further. He also ignored Merame for the moment; she was just talking nonsense. Back out in the hall, he waited for the others. There was no point in going any further on his own, considering what had happened the last time.

[Zako]

Well, that's why I'm cautious about looting the dead at times. Usually nothing wrong with good old chests in the way of curses.

I'll have to read this later. Put it away for the moment and run back and help War Wind pry it off. Try to find a lever of some kind to help.

Also, you haven't updated war wind's health points.

[Riccto]

Point the wand at the ground a good distance from him, not at any of the other wands, and attempt to activate it.