Dungeon Raiders: The Wolf's Den

[Shayuri]

Sulannus catches Bartlesby's vibe and sighs. "Oh all right...we can check the shield. But we shouldn't touch it."

She casts a spell, and a ghostly hand wreathed in pale flames appears in midair. It dips down to grasp the shield's edge and tug it gently away so that the source of light can be discerned.

(OOC - A little Mage Hand fun. Sorry, Bartlesby...she's got some growin' up to do. That said, grabbing stuff off the grave-robber cursing body probably isn't wise regardless. )

 

[Li Shenron]

Tock feels out of his depth with talk of curses, magic, and transformations. Walking slowly around the edge of the room, he starts looking at the images on the walls of the chamber to see if there might be anything of interest.

All the walls in this room are painted with scenes of violence perpetrated by black-armored knights or soldiers against peasants. Besides the "frescos", the walls appear featureless, with nothing of particular note.

She ducks down low and looks around on the floor, around the slab, looking to see if anything came away from the corpse that hasn't been accounted for.

There seems to be no objects on the floor around the slab.

Bartleby is still curious who might have been responsible for the warning, and is suspicious of the centipedes who have made their way back into the room, but he carefully tries to slide the shield out of the way without disturbing the skeleton.

Rejik glowers at the party from a safe distance. "This is insane." When no-one pays any further attention to him, he grits his teeth and moves up to help Bartleby with the shield.

I am going to assume that Sulannus succeeded at stopping you two, before you had time to actually touch the shield.

She casts a spell, and a ghostly hand wreathed in pale flames appears in midair. It dips down to grasp the shield's edge and tug it gently away so that the source of light can be discerned.

At first you "feel" some resistance, as if the skeleton didn't want to let go of the shield... but now you think it was only your imagination. The shield slide away from the skeleton's hands, and as you make it hover towards you, you also notice the glistening: it is coming from the shield itself.

 

[Jimmy Disco T]

Tock turns his head away from the paintings upon hearing the arguments and commotion in the centre of the room. He slowly approaches the hovering shield, being careful not to touch it.

Slowly, he speaks. "Curses go in circles... wards against thieves... so if these insects were thieves, who were transformed by magic from this shield, could this shield also... change them back?"

He surely must have misunderstood something - the complexities of magic were far beyond his comprehension. What chance had he of being able to free the poor cursed creatures? But it was all he could come up with.

"...probably not. Forget I even brought it up."

 

[tuxgeo]

Aeiyan attentively watches the scene unfold. "Interesting approach," he offers, as if to cover up the fact that he would never have thought of that.

He watches carefully to see whether the remaining 'centipedes' are willing to allow the shield to be brought anywhere near them, or whether they will recoil in dismay the same way they did when presented with his offer to carry them over the threshold.

 

[Shayuri]

Sulannus nods slowly.

"This shield seems like the focus of the curse," she muses. "I felt resistance when the spell took hold. All right then." She lets the piece of armor down to touch the floor. "Centipedes, up onto it. Lets see what happens if you 'return' this object."

She looks at Bartlesby and adds, "If this doesn't work, the only other solution I can think of that's within our power here and now is to destroy it."

 

[Kobold Stew]

Bartleby raises his eyebrows, waiting for the result.

 

[Li Shenron]

The two centipedes on the ground take a little while to understand Sulannus' command, then crawl over the shield (the third one is still standing on Tock's arm). Nothing happens.

[OoC: [MENTION=6705909]Warren LaFrance[/MENTION] informed me they are busy in the process of moving house but will come back to play. I am restraining myself from taking control over his character as long as I can, but will do so (partially) if it takes too long for him to come back]

 

[Shayuri]

Once the centipedes are on the shield, Sulannus puts the piece of armor back where it had been, in place on the body.

 

[Kobold Stew]

Bartleby stands and looks at Sulannus, awaiting whatever comes next.

 

[Li Shenron]

Once the centipedes are on the shield, Sulannus puts the piece of armor back where it had been, in place on the body.

The shield is put back into place, and the two centipedes stay there for a bit, before tentatively starting to crawl down from the slab, back to the floor again. Nothing interesting seems to happen as a consequence so far...