Julius picks up the Gem. His body immediately pauses when he lifts it up. His eyes start to glow red!
[sblock=Julius] Holding the Gem you are suddenly sucked into another reality! Well, your mind is at any rate: you can still sense the others far away, but now your mind is inside a dimension within the Gem.
You're face to face with a beautiful young woman, seemingly human but with hair that blows in a wind that doesn't touch anyone else. She's wearing veils and jewelry and little else, and looks more lovely than any human woman you've ever seen. She has eyes that are like the great depths of the sky, sprinkled with white like a tossing snow storm.
The color within the gem is red, and you can see yourself colored red.
The woman speaks I am Arael, daughter of the Djinn. You must hurry and get me our of this vault, and away from that creature. It is a horror that has fed off my magic for many millenia, weakening me so that I cannot escape. The vile men of this temple serve it and other dark creatures as if they were gods, and captured me within this gem so that I could feed their master. Please get me to the surface and smash the gem under open sky. If you do this, I can reward you handsomely, for my people have great magical powers.
Julius: you suddenly get pulled out of this conversation.
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Everyone: Ragnor takes the butt of his spear and knocks the gem out of Julius' hand! The Gem clinks as it hits the ground, unharmed.
Julius wakes instantly.
The pedastle has a hole in it (Knowledge: Arcana check to identify the specialized hole)
The whole surface where Julius and Ragnor are at starts to rumble. Everyone can hear chittering and buzzing, as of trillions of moving legs and shuffling carapaces rubbing together.
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