Break of Dawn [Manzanita judging] COMPLETED

[Rae ArdGaoth]

Quarion stands stoic at the rear, watching the horizon and stroking Garma's head.

 

[B4cchus]

On top of the platform stans a large slab of stone, again decorated with eroded drawings.
the altar is adorned with carvings. These carvings are somehow better preserved than those on the rest of the structure.
One side depicts the altar, with a deer on top of it, while a figure stabs the dagger in it.
The other side depicts the altar filled with fruits and wheat and the dagger lain on top if these.
On top of the slabs lays some kind of ceremonial dagger. and some bones (of a small animal of some kind).

 

[Rystil Arden]

"After we finish our usual searching for traps and secret entries, if we don't find them, my guess is that we may have to sacrifice an animal at the altar to proceed," Aletheia guesses.

(OOC: Go go Mordik!)

 

[B4cchus]

After giving the altar a thourough search, Mordik is pretty sure it has some kind of sliding mechanism, although he can't find a way of opening it. He finds no traps.

 

[Rystil Arden]

"Okay then. Let's go with the fallback plan. Quarion, since you're a Druid, I think it would be most appropriate if you did this to show all due respect to the Druid ways and whatnot."

(OOC: Okay then, we might as well have Quarion sacrifice an animal and see if anything happens)

 

[NakuruSai]

(ooc: thanks B4cchus)

I'm not sah sure about the animal sacrifice bit... Mordik eyes the dagger thoughtfully and then picks it up, looking at its detail. The dagger is in both pictures...maybe a food offering? see, meat on this side and fruit and grain of some kind on this side, right? Mordik shrugs.

 

[NakuruSai]

(OOC: B4cchus, I assume I know the block slides on/off an opening here because I see some sort of indentation or rubbing (however slight) in the rock... do I know which side I would have to push from in order to force it open? is it on a side with a picture? like push the grain & fruit to open and push the sacrificing of a deer to close?)

 

[Rystil Arden]

"I think that means that the animal sacrifice is a required action that is supposed to produce the other side as a reward. A before and after kind of thing, you know? Besides, we don't have enough fruits or wheat to fill the altar anyway. If I remember my Druidic sects 101, most Druids aren't the lunatic 'if any animal dies, ever, for any reason, I shall destroy all of civilisation' types, but rather the pragmatic 'animals killing other animals for a purpose is the way of nature and the cycle of life' type."

 

[jkason]

Eanos, human monk

"I think that means that the animal sacrifice is a required action that is supposed to produce the other side as a reward. A before and after kind of thing, you know? Besides, we don't have enough fruits or wheat to fill the altar anyway. If I remember my Druidic sects 101, most Druids aren't the lunatic 'if any animal dies, ever, for any reason, I shall destroy all of civilisation' types, but rather the pragmatic 'animals killing other animals for a purpose is the way of nature and the cycle of life' type."

Eanos looks around. "I suppose it sounds like a plan, except we killed all the animals around here. As I understand it, such sacrifices require an animal to be alive, do they not? Do you suppose a magically summoned animal might serve the purpose? Of course, by the pictographs, sacrifice gets us crops, not entrance..."

 

[Rystil Arden]

"The crops could be a metaphor, though I admit nothing is certain--it's just a thought. As for summoned creatures, they will typically return to the celestial realms or from wherever else they came the instant the killing blow is struck, so it probably wouldn't count...I wonder, though, are there no more animals around here at all?"