TCotM: Ashna's Idylls

Rystil Arden

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(OOC: Based on her schedule, she was supposed to check on an experiment called 'Elemental Infusion Resonance of Shattered Phylactery Shard', though it isn't clear that she is actually needed for that. It isn't clear how many prepared lava portions still exist. It looks like she's careful about waiting between experiments for everything to normalise before running that one again, since she doesn't want any leftover fluctuations from the previous experiment to influence the next one. Thus, it seems like she creates enough for several days on certain days and then rests in between as the experiment is consecutively performed, with pauses to normalise the surroundings.

There is probably enough fireproofing on some of her mildly-enchanted parchment to survive being carried by Fuosala, but that's a guess based on logic--something that trivial would not make it into the hidden dossier.

By 'read' a person, do you mean Sense Motive? Technically neither Fuosala nor your bog standard mephit has that as a skill, though some of Ashna's mephits do. Fuosala has higher Wisdom than a bog standard mephit, so she'd be better untrained at Sense Motive)
 

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Knight Otu

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(Nothing so drastic is needed, just gauging reactions, spotting oddities... I don't suppose Fuosala can bring passengers? :p )
Ashna takes an empty piece of parchment of the same make as the latter to determine how fireproof it is, and deduce from there whether Fuosala could carry it.
 

Rystil Arden

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(OOC: She can bring objects. If you jump into a Bag of Holding and hold your breath, it could work)

*The parchment appears to be relatively fireproof. She performs some tests. First, she just holds it. It stays just fine. Then, she puts it up to the candle, it is still fine. Then she tries to make a flame attack to incinerate the side of the parchment. The edges begin to blacken and curl up, and if she continued to focus her energy on burning it with a direct attack, she thinks she would eventually succeed.*
 

Knight Otu

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(I was initially thinking a Sense-Motiving mephit, but that other possibility did cross my mind. So, the conclusion appears to be that Fuosala should be able to carry the letter as long as she decides that the letter is no enemy?)
 


Knight Otu

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(Some more inventory - Is there a prison or dungeon? If so, what about prisoners (of note)? Does Future-Ashna have a bag of holding at her disposal so that Ashna could pull the Fuosala trick off? Any other names and/or faces I should know? Any secret passages from the private rooms?)
 

Rystil Arden

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(OOC: There is a donjon, just in case, but it doesn't have very many inhabitants. It seems Future-Ashna finds it easier to just kill things back when they try to kill her, since you don't have to feed them afterwards and make sure they don't break out, though if they're useful for a proximal experiment, it can be more efficient that way. The prisoners are thus not notable--they're more of guinea pigs who forfeited their life already and were temporarily spared so their deaths would mean something in the pursuit of knowledge.

She probably has a Bag of Holding somewhere, but she'll have to look for it.

Future Ashna is too paranoid to put a secret passage from her private rooms because, on the off-chance someone discovers it, it becomes a far-more-dangerous secret passage to the private rooms ;))
 


Rystil Arden

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(OOC: Ashna has one better--in her elemental form, Ashna need not eat, sleep, or breathe (though if she is doing so, she will still need air for the combustion of her elemental fire), but she may do so if she so chooses

There seems to be a secret vault that was carefully hidden in such a way that it can only be reached by a 12th-level or higher caster Dimension Dooring to it from a certain point. Unfortunately, Ashna does not meet those qualifications at the moment. There might be a few useful knick-knacks, including a Bag of Holding, in her bedroom storage though)
 

Knight Otu

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(Are there any time-critical, now-or-never experiments planned or going on? Presumably there shouldn't be any now-or-we-go-boom experiments, of course :p. I think that's the last thing to milk out of the notes for now, though ;))

Ashna stows away the notes in their rightful place. If there is time for her to do so before the mephit returns, she checks the bedroom storage. Otherwise/Afterwards, she returns to the throne room.
 

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