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<blockquote data-quote="Sic_Pixie" data-source="post: 5961790" data-attributes="member: 52403"><p><strong>Pringle gets a boost ...</strong></p><p></p><p>They come to the conclusion that they need to check into the other sites before they sit down and decipher the documents they found. They make the long walk back up to the surface and exit out into the rain soaked streets. Accosting one of the Crows they make their way through the suddenly busy streets which seems to be teeming with people trying to leave the city. Apparently word has been leaked that the buildings are not safe after all; the stables are very busy. They check out the two other sites and find that something pulled the buildings down from below; foul smelling slime covers the area but no strange symbols adorn these buildings. They head back to the sloppy rune inn and sit in the relatively dry taproom before the fire to dry off before Pringle pulls out the notes they picked up leaving the Tome for later.</p><p></p><p>Reading through the notes takes a few hours to decipher the code but he finally gets the information out of them which he writes down. The notes refer to the five who toiled here in the “Sunless Grove;” it was a site of the used by an old cult in ancient times to contact entities of the Dark Tapestry. Studying the notes reveals that this group “The Keepers of the Oldest” hoped that by opening the portal anew using rituals they had found in the Pnakotic Manuscripts they would be able to learn potent secrets of magic and more from those on the far side of the portal.</p><p></p><p>While this is all very interesting they however don’t have much more useable information than they had previously. Pringle pulls out the large solid tome which he has identified as the Pnakotic Manuscripts with shaking hands and sets it upon the rough wooden table before him. Sayuri, Zordlen and Nashkar all back away to the other side of the bar and order some wine while Pringle and Grembor struggle to open the tome. Pringle considers briefly smashing open the book but logic thankfully prevails and he attempts to manipulate the devilishly complex locking mechanism which comprises the lock. After an hour he gives up and hands it to Grembor who with his advanced knowledge of locks, traps and devices manages to figure it out; his nimble fingers glide over the slots rearranging the puzzle lock to conform to a rune Pringle identifies as a combination of an ancient rune for the school of Conjuration and an obscure god of knowledge that died out several millennia past. With a distinct whirring sound over the space of 20 heartbeats the many locks along the books edge disengage and like clockwork retreat into the locking mechanism. Pringle with a smile takes the book back and with eyes aflame with desire open the book to the first page.</p><p></p><p>The inside cover of this book has an inscription which may hold the key to the source of the problem. It reads “May we the Keepers of the Oldest, prevail over the scourge of simplistic thoughts and lesser men.” Beneath this weird phrase are five signatures; Keeper Baskerwhel, Keeper Crove, Keeper Hyve, Keeper Marshan and Keeper Myre. Each it seems has a hand in the recent disturbance in this fair city.</p><p></p><p> Proceeding with the actual book Pringle turns the first page and finds it’s written in an obscure dialect of Aklo; several hours later after he has deciphered the dialect and stored the strange cipher away he starts reading the marvelous tome. Pringle discovers several spells some vastly out of his current ability to even consider casting; several of which are closer to his abilities but still beyond him. With shaking hands he turns each page taking care not to get the delicate pages dirty. </p><p></p><p>One part of the book is marked with a silken red ribbon; flipping the pages to this location he finds the beginning of a rather lengthy discussion upon how to use special rituals to open portals in key locations. This section has been heavily annoted in the same spidery script as on the inside cover. An hour of study later Pringle leans back and takes a long pull from his wine glass and nibbles at a wedge of cheese which seem to have dried out somewhat. Drawing the attention of the rest of the group he quickly outlines the predicament they are currently finding themselves in. Apparently these “Keepers of the Oldest” were hoping to use the ritual described in the book to try to open a portal in the Sunless Grove to contact “spawn of the Dark Tapestry” and further enhance their knowledge of forbidden magic and arcane secrets.</p><p></p><p>However a section close to the end of this chapter cautions those who would attempt such a thing stating that the action of forcing open such portals causes the life force of the casters to be drawn forth and absorbed by the creature so summoned. Any entity so contacted can make “hideous use of this essence by consuming it, growing more powerful in the bargain, such that only the end of such essence can challenge the intruders rights upon your world.” Pringle with growing horror understands that opening a portal in this manner links the souls of all concerned to a creature on the far side, the creature will grow more powerful if it can kill those who conjured it. Conversely if some other agent kills the conjurers then that spiritual energy will be lost to the conjured creature. In this way making the creature weaker; which if all the conjurers are killed before the creature does then it’s sent back to the space between the stars.</p><p></p><p>With many Oooh’s and Ahhhh’s to this the rest of the party goes back to drinking while Pringle remains curled up by the fire with the Pnakotic Manuscripts. Several hours later when the party is solidly into their cups Pringle sets down the book; he can feel energy surging from the book into his body while also the pain of something is pulled forcibly from his mind and into the book. His eyes widen as otherwise uncastable spells coalesce into useful and understandable formula within his mind. New methods of casting and a more efficient style of storing and using magical energy causes his eyes to widen in surprise. Pringles eyes glow with a lurid purple/silver glow before returning to their somewhat normal silvery colour. It is at this point that Pringle becomes a follower of the path of the Alienist as his mind is warped with strange and alien thoughts.</p><p></p><p><em>DM Note: Pringles player is back with us for the summer holidays so Pringle is promoted from Cohort to full player status once again. This book is the medium through which this is being done. Pringle gains the first two levels of the Alienist prestige class and can now cast 5th level spells as he is now casting as a 9th level wizard. However these levels are only in effect while the book is on his person so should he loose the book in say 10 weeks he may very well become a cohort once again; we will have to see what happens.</em></p><p></p><p>Pringle in a power crazed frenzy joins the party after carefully putting the book away and enters a drinking contest with Nashkar and Zordlen. Pringle looses and it’s unclear who the winner is come morning as the rooms they share is bathed in a sea of vomit as all three of them emptied sufficient vomit onto the floor to have come from nine normal people’s stomachs.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Sic_Pixie, post: 5961790, member: 52403"] [b]Pringle gets a boost ...[/b] They come to the conclusion that they need to check into the other sites before they sit down and decipher the documents they found. They make the long walk back up to the surface and exit out into the rain soaked streets. Accosting one of the Crows they make their way through the suddenly busy streets which seems to be teeming with people trying to leave the city. Apparently word has been leaked that the buildings are not safe after all; the stables are very busy. They check out the two other sites and find that something pulled the buildings down from below; foul smelling slime covers the area but no strange symbols adorn these buildings. They head back to the sloppy rune inn and sit in the relatively dry taproom before the fire to dry off before Pringle pulls out the notes they picked up leaving the Tome for later. Reading through the notes takes a few hours to decipher the code but he finally gets the information out of them which he writes down. The notes refer to the five who toiled here in the “Sunless Grove;” it was a site of the used by an old cult in ancient times to contact entities of the Dark Tapestry. Studying the notes reveals that this group “The Keepers of the Oldest” hoped that by opening the portal anew using rituals they had found in the Pnakotic Manuscripts they would be able to learn potent secrets of magic and more from those on the far side of the portal. While this is all very interesting they however don’t have much more useable information than they had previously. Pringle pulls out the large solid tome which he has identified as the Pnakotic Manuscripts with shaking hands and sets it upon the rough wooden table before him. Sayuri, Zordlen and Nashkar all back away to the other side of the bar and order some wine while Pringle and Grembor struggle to open the tome. Pringle considers briefly smashing open the book but logic thankfully prevails and he attempts to manipulate the devilishly complex locking mechanism which comprises the lock. After an hour he gives up and hands it to Grembor who with his advanced knowledge of locks, traps and devices manages to figure it out; his nimble fingers glide over the slots rearranging the puzzle lock to conform to a rune Pringle identifies as a combination of an ancient rune for the school of Conjuration and an obscure god of knowledge that died out several millennia past. With a distinct whirring sound over the space of 20 heartbeats the many locks along the books edge disengage and like clockwork retreat into the locking mechanism. Pringle with a smile takes the book back and with eyes aflame with desire open the book to the first page. The inside cover of this book has an inscription which may hold the key to the source of the problem. It reads “May we the Keepers of the Oldest, prevail over the scourge of simplistic thoughts and lesser men.” Beneath this weird phrase are five signatures; Keeper Baskerwhel, Keeper Crove, Keeper Hyve, Keeper Marshan and Keeper Myre. Each it seems has a hand in the recent disturbance in this fair city. Proceeding with the actual book Pringle turns the first page and finds it’s written in an obscure dialect of Aklo; several hours later after he has deciphered the dialect and stored the strange cipher away he starts reading the marvelous tome. Pringle discovers several spells some vastly out of his current ability to even consider casting; several of which are closer to his abilities but still beyond him. With shaking hands he turns each page taking care not to get the delicate pages dirty. One part of the book is marked with a silken red ribbon; flipping the pages to this location he finds the beginning of a rather lengthy discussion upon how to use special rituals to open portals in key locations. This section has been heavily annoted in the same spidery script as on the inside cover. An hour of study later Pringle leans back and takes a long pull from his wine glass and nibbles at a wedge of cheese which seem to have dried out somewhat. Drawing the attention of the rest of the group he quickly outlines the predicament they are currently finding themselves in. Apparently these “Keepers of the Oldest” were hoping to use the ritual described in the book to try to open a portal in the Sunless Grove to contact “spawn of the Dark Tapestry” and further enhance their knowledge of forbidden magic and arcane secrets. However a section close to the end of this chapter cautions those who would attempt such a thing stating that the action of forcing open such portals causes the life force of the casters to be drawn forth and absorbed by the creature so summoned. Any entity so contacted can make “hideous use of this essence by consuming it, growing more powerful in the bargain, such that only the end of such essence can challenge the intruders rights upon your world.” Pringle with growing horror understands that opening a portal in this manner links the souls of all concerned to a creature on the far side, the creature will grow more powerful if it can kill those who conjured it. Conversely if some other agent kills the conjurers then that spiritual energy will be lost to the conjured creature. In this way making the creature weaker; which if all the conjurers are killed before the creature does then it’s sent back to the space between the stars. With many Oooh’s and Ahhhh’s to this the rest of the party goes back to drinking while Pringle remains curled up by the fire with the Pnakotic Manuscripts. Several hours later when the party is solidly into their cups Pringle sets down the book; he can feel energy surging from the book into his body while also the pain of something is pulled forcibly from his mind and into the book. His eyes widen as otherwise uncastable spells coalesce into useful and understandable formula within his mind. New methods of casting and a more efficient style of storing and using magical energy causes his eyes to widen in surprise. Pringles eyes glow with a lurid purple/silver glow before returning to their somewhat normal silvery colour. It is at this point that Pringle becomes a follower of the path of the Alienist as his mind is warped with strange and alien thoughts. [I]DM Note: Pringles player is back with us for the summer holidays so Pringle is promoted from Cohort to full player status once again. This book is the medium through which this is being done. Pringle gains the first two levels of the Alienist prestige class and can now cast 5th level spells as he is now casting as a 9th level wizard. However these levels are only in effect while the book is on his person so should he loose the book in say 10 weeks he may very well become a cohort once again; we will have to see what happens.[/I] Pringle in a power crazed frenzy joins the party after carefully putting the book away and enters a drinking contest with Nashkar and Zordlen. Pringle looses and it’s unclear who the winner is come morning as the rooms they share is bathed in a sea of vomit as all three of them emptied sufficient vomit onto the floor to have come from nine normal people’s stomachs. [/QUOTE]
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