VLAD the Destroyer
Adventurer
I posted before I saw this. We should probably check for traps before messing with the press.
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I posted before I saw this. We should probably check for traps before messing with the press.
Aethmud
Explorer
Knowing @Quickleaf yeah I'd say we should check for traps. 
Quickleaf
Legend
What’s the line between “trap” and “cool device that you may possibly kill your party with?”Knowing @Quickleaf yeah I'd say we should check for traps.
Necropolitan
Hero
Arcana check: 1D20+6 = [18]+6 = 24
Quickleaf
Legend
Zeth has had his fair share of gems tested by skeptical jewelers and gem-cutters... This device seems to be designed around a similar principle to test the quality and strength of a gem, but it goes a step further in that it is drawing on some kind of magic to transform a gem placed within it into a gem of greater value.
It could be described as a form of dwarven alchemy.
However, the process is not meant to be static – you don't get the device set up and leave it, rather the magical energies must be actively manipulated by a spellcaster... either through force of will or expenditure of their own magical power. This requirement of active manipulation suggests that there's some dynamic aspect to the device – for example, it might be working with a living energy or the dwarves see gems as having some kind of life force.
It seems likely that just as power could be imbued into a gem (not only to enhance its monetary value, but to give it magical powers), this could also be used to repair a damaged gem, or to drain the magic from a magical gemstone. Likewise, it might be possible to take the magic properties of one gemstone and imbue them into another.
Aethmud
Explorer
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Necropolitan
Hero
I'm not sure what Zeth can add to the current conversation so I was waiting for someone to open up an in for him.
VLAD the Destroyer
Adventurer
I'm kind stuck as well. With my poor mechanics roll I can't get the press working. Not sure who else can figure it out. I think we need to just move on and we can come back later when we aren't under such a time crunch.
