Exploring further, you find the other doors out of the main chamber lead to rooms long lost to decay. However, when you open the door that goes up a few steps, you find something interesting; it doesn't open to another lab, but outside; from the doorway you see a small wall, and a few small buildings nearby inside the wall. Little demons, hand sized or smaller, walk about with pitchforks and other nasty implements. The dangerous aura you felt before seems.. worse.
Ars Magica 5e, Rhine Tribunal, 1220
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Walking Dad
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"Maybe it did it itself. Some sort of trickery, so we would set it free?" Thomas asks, still unused to the para-natural.
Yair
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"Unlikely" answers Leo. The ward will keep him from exerting any influence on anything beyond it." He pauses for a moment, then adds "Assuming it's Hermetic, at least".
"He must have had some... help... from outside. Or perhaps it just used the situation, that was set up for another reason."
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Upon seeing the demon town, Leo is shocked. "Unbelievable".
A short moment of reflection later, he adds "If these fiends could step outsdie the room, they would do far worse than lave a trail of blood or suck the life out of some people. One thing they could do is free their little friend, there. Yet, they did not. If they are behind what is going on, I think their power outside is.... limited."
You hear from just around the corner of the door a great noise, a summons like that of the acting troupes that wander about Mythic Europe, giving plays featuring stories from the bible or simply moral plays. You notice all the little demons are wandering in one direction, though they jostle and fight as they do so. A demon of toothaches carrying a nasty set of pliers spots you, but gives you no more attention.
'Come one, come all, to the great playhouse of the Astartes! See the tragic fall of the covenant of mages, who gave their very lives so we could live in fear and ignorance! Yes, Sodales, see not just their horrendous deaths, their tortured souls in hell, but indeed - And for one night only - You, yes you, oh Bilious, Lord of Stench, and Callixis, lord of Painful but inadvertent cuts, can have your very own chance to test the faith of the great, the powerful, but the eminently doomed Order of Hermes!' I, Barbatos, will show you!'
The noise is loud and clear, and coming from somewhere off to the left.
'Come one, come all, to the great playhouse of the Astartes! See the tragic fall of the covenant of mages, who gave their very lives so we could live in fear and ignorance! Yes, Sodales, see not just their horrendous deaths, their tortured souls in hell, but indeed - And for one night only - You, yes you, oh Bilious, Lord of Stench, and Callixis, lord of Painful but inadvertent cuts, can have your very own chance to test the faith of the great, the powerful, but the eminently doomed Order of Hermes!' I, Barbatos, will show you!'
The noise is loud and clear, and coming from somewhere off to the left.
Strahd_Von_Zarovich
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It seems like we found the lost covenant.
Gorgamesh say
And it was taken over by demons. I guess we are on another plane?
Gorgamesh say
And it was taken over by demons. I guess we are on another plane?
Yair
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"Plane...? Oh. Yes. It seems we're on the footsteps of one, at least." Leo cringes. "The question is.... so we cross over, to listen to the tale, or do we stay here in 'ignorance'? Hardly seem like a fair bargain - crossing into hell to see the lies of demons..."
OOC: There no 'planes' in Ars Magica, but this looks like an Infernal regio (something like a pocket dimension), which is close enough - or even a gateway to Hell itself, which would be a even more like a plane.
OOC: There no 'planes' in Ars Magica, but this looks like an Infernal regio (something like a pocket dimension), which is close enough - or even a gateway to Hell itself, which would be a even more like a plane.
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Walking Dad
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"Curiousness isn't one of my flaws. I will take no step into this!" Thomas says. Looking at these... things... he knows that it wasn't paranoia that drives him to cautiousness.
"It's clever isn't it? How they make it look so cute and harmless...and make a little offering of knowledge they know we want," Ilshana says admiringly. "They really are the best at temptation. You have to give them credit for it."
She turns away and looks at the other mages. "So...one door left, right? Lets take a look. There's gotta be SOME kind of record of what these lunatics were up to besides rooms full of demons."
She turns away and looks at the other mages. "So...one door left, right? Lets take a look. There's gotta be SOME kind of record of what these lunatics were up to besides rooms full of demons."
Strahd_Von_Zarovich
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Gorgamesh
"You go and check the other door."
Gorgamesh replies
"I will stay by this door, portal or whatever you want to call it and will monitor the area without stepping inside."
The magus is fascinated by the revelation they just revealed.
"I will stay with you master"
Theodor the hunter say, his bow ready and pointed to the portal.
Eying the demon of toothaches that carries a nasty set of pliers, Gorgamesh add
I wonder where he goes?
He turns to his companions with a horrible question
You do not think that the mages of the covenant are still alive and that they are still being tortured? do you?
"You go and check the other door."
Gorgamesh replies
"I will stay by this door, portal or whatever you want to call it and will monitor the area without stepping inside."
The magus is fascinated by the revelation they just revealed.
"I will stay with you master"
Theodor the hunter say, his bow ready and pointed to the portal.
Eying the demon of toothaches that carries a nasty set of pliers, Gorgamesh add
I wonder where he goes?
He turns to his companions with a horrible question
You do not think that the mages of the covenant are still alive and that they are still being tortured? do you?
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