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<blockquote data-quote="Systole" data-source="post: 6125956" data-attributes="member: 93930"><p>Consulting the dwarven map, it seems the likely that the cave they used to breach the tomb would have actually required a day's travel or more. There's no direct route between the tomb entrance and the cave entrance.</p><p> </p><p>The tomb itself has been ransacked thoroughly. Only a few broken weapons remain at the bottom of the pile of weapon racks, and they’re the same make as the ones you’ve been finding on the wrathspawn. It appears that the items were intended as prizes for those who passed the Architect’s challenges, and Rattegift and the others used these weapons to arm the wrathspawn they created.</p><p> </p><p>Rattegift himself seems to have been been carrying a selection of potions, a rapier, and a chainmail shirt. However, all of them have been rendered broken and unusable by the energy discharge, the fall, or his subsequent transformation (which was especially hard on the chain shirt).</p><p> </p><p>In the antechamber, you find a selection of tomes which apparently served as both a research notebook and a journal. The books stretch back to his days at the Vertgaard Alchemical Institute in Irthos, where he details his experiments in purifying phlogiston from fire elementals, and some speculation on how a specific form of phlogiston might be extracted from one of the students who had an ifrit bloodline. After this, several pages have been removed with a razor, possibly so they couldn’t be used against him in his trial for murder, for which the doctor was acquitted due to insufficient evidence. (The entry following the doctor’s acquittal takes up several pages and is in mostly capital letters.)</p><p> </p><p>Not long afterwards, it seems Rattegift was approached by a man known as ‘Brother Darktail” (or something like that – Rattegift is rather inconsistent about the naming and also refers to him as Dark-Tall and Dirt-Tail.) Darktail hired Rattegift to break into the tomb and extract the holiness from the bones of Serroth’s saint and turn it into, as Rattegift puts it, “a more useful form.” The journals also detail quite specifically how it was accomplished, with pages upon pages of formulae and detailed schematics, along with a complete list of the required components, many of which are best described as ‘unwholesome.’ Certainly, these notes would be worth a vast sum to a suitably unprincipled alchemist.</p><p> </p><p>In the middle of the tomb, the sarcophagus contains a bit of dust that might once have been a skeleton, and a set of mithril platemail, along with a shield and a heavy pick. All pieces of set are inscribed with the symbol of Serroth - a stylized pick enclosed in a circle. The items radiate a faint magic, but whatever Rattegift did seems to have drained most of it away. Aside from the historical value, the workmanship is incredible. They’re probably worth a small fortune.</p><p> </p><p>Searching the men yields the most interesting discoveries. Each wore an enchanted breastplate and shield, and wielded a heavy pick. And each carried a copy of the Scriptures of Serroth … and also a holy symbol that looks somewhat like the one Ben carries, but instead of one pick inside a circle, there are simply two crossed picks without a circle.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Systole, post: 6125956, member: 93930"] Consulting the dwarven map, it seems the likely that the cave they used to breach the tomb would have actually required a day's travel or more. There's no direct route between the tomb entrance and the cave entrance. The tomb itself has been ransacked thoroughly. Only a few broken weapons remain at the bottom of the pile of weapon racks, and they’re the same make as the ones you’ve been finding on the wrathspawn. It appears that the items were intended as prizes for those who passed the Architect’s challenges, and Rattegift and the others used these weapons to arm the wrathspawn they created. Rattegift himself seems to have been been carrying a selection of potions, a rapier, and a chainmail shirt. However, all of them have been rendered broken and unusable by the energy discharge, the fall, or his subsequent transformation (which was especially hard on the chain shirt). In the antechamber, you find a selection of tomes which apparently served as both a research notebook and a journal. The books stretch back to his days at the Vertgaard Alchemical Institute in Irthos, where he details his experiments in purifying phlogiston from fire elementals, and some speculation on how a specific form of phlogiston might be extracted from one of the students who had an ifrit bloodline. After this, several pages have been removed with a razor, possibly so they couldn’t be used against him in his trial for murder, for which the doctor was acquitted due to insufficient evidence. (The entry following the doctor’s acquittal takes up several pages and is in mostly capital letters.) Not long afterwards, it seems Rattegift was approached by a man known as ‘Brother Darktail” (or something like that – Rattegift is rather inconsistent about the naming and also refers to him as Dark-Tall and Dirt-Tail.) Darktail hired Rattegift to break into the tomb and extract the holiness from the bones of Serroth’s saint and turn it into, as Rattegift puts it, “a more useful form.” The journals also detail quite specifically how it was accomplished, with pages upon pages of formulae and detailed schematics, along with a complete list of the required components, many of which are best described as ‘unwholesome.’ Certainly, these notes would be worth a vast sum to a suitably unprincipled alchemist. In the middle of the tomb, the sarcophagus contains a bit of dust that might once have been a skeleton, and a set of mithril platemail, along with a shield and a heavy pick. All pieces of set are inscribed with the symbol of Serroth - a stylized pick enclosed in a circle. The items radiate a faint magic, but whatever Rattegift did seems to have drained most of it away. Aside from the historical value, the workmanship is incredible. They’re probably worth a small fortune. Searching the men yields the most interesting discoveries. Each wore an enchanted breastplate and shield, and wielded a heavy pick. And each carried a copy of the Scriptures of Serroth … and also a holy symbol that looks somewhat like the one Ben carries, but instead of one pick inside a circle, there are simply two crossed picks without a circle. [/QUOTE]
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