Break of Dawn [Manzanita judging] COMPLETED

[Rystil Arden]

(OOC: Was there any aura of magic when that happened?)

 

[B4cchus]

ooc: Yes there was a brief presence of magic coming from the guardian.

 

[jkason]

Eanos, human monk

To all present the gueardian says: "So be it then. Leave this place. I hope I will see you back with the other half of the amulet". Then he turns to Quarion and speaks to him in druidic:
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Go brother. I will send aid. I cannot promise it will ariive in time or at all but i will try. Take the rings and use them to protect yourself.
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After that then guardian bows it's head slightly at you and the wall behind you opens up again. Through it you see the same room as before.

Eanos moves through the door quickly, before the creature can change its mind. Once the group has left the creature behind, he says, "Anyone have a plan for how we're to find out if Graven has the other half of the amulet?" He doesn't really wait for a response, moving back toward the entrance to the temple, figuring the group has the days it will take them to get home in which to hash out the intricacies of whatever plan they hatch.

 

[Rae ArdGaoth]

"Clerics of some deities have the power to extract the truth from an unwilling person, do they not?" Quarion asks, glancing at Ally. "And Ally and I are capable of detecting magic. The aura from the artifact should be, as she said, overpoweringly strong." He follows Eanos quickly out of the temple.

 

[NakuruSai]

"Clerics of some deities have the power to extract the truth from an unwilling person, do they not?" Quarion asks, glancing at Ally. "And Ally and I are capable of detecting magic. The aura from the artifact should be, as she said, overpoweringly strong." He follows Eanos quickly out of the temple.

Mordik speaks up, for himself or for Graven you can't be sure: Is there a spell to show ye where loyalties lie? If'n yer more likely to consort with guardians or demons?

 

[Rystil Arden]

"There's a Detect Evil spell, but it's of my most powerful tier of magics, and if I prepared that, I would not have any useful combat spells left over to use to make my friends stronger, which I usually prefer. Plus if he was a depraved sort of neutral alignment that isn't quite evil, like a Lawful Neutral person who was so obsessive-compulsive about fixing broken things that he insisted that the amulet came together, or if he was wearing an item to foil the divination, it wouldn't work anyway."

 

[Someone]

"Before resorting to magical detection of thoughts, which as Aletheia points out is hardly infallible and tends to work only on the weak willed, we should perhaps try the mundane ones, the simplest of which is asking him about the subject at hand, in re if he has the other half. And now that we are at it, we should consider the possibility however slim that he's not aware of the true extent of it's powers and try not to mention them directly - or perhaps try to mislead him abot them." points Odno out.

 

[Rystil Arden]

"Of course, the corollary to that is that mentioning the other half will make it harder to get it clandestinely. And there is also Eanos to consider here. I don't want to do anything that would hurt him or make him compromise his own dreams. But here's a thought--what if we told him that there was a point in the shrine where you need the other half of the amulet to get through? The only way that he might know that this is false (because the amulet was split to prevent the two from coming together lest evil fall) is if he knew as much of the legends as the guardian himself and thus knew about the evil the amulet could perform."

 

[jkason]

Eanos, human monk

"Of course, the corollary to that is that mentioning the other half will make it harder to get it clandestinely. And there is also Eanos to consider here. I don't want to do anything that would hurt him or make him compromise his own dreams. But here's a thought--what if we told him that there was a point in the shrine where you need the other half of the amulet to get through? The only way that he might know that this is false (because the amulet was split to prevent the two from coming together lest evil fall) is if he knew as much of the legends as the guardian himself and thus knew about the evil the amulet could perform."

Eanos raises an eyebrow, considering. "It strikes me this is misleading, but not a lie," the monk says. "After all, I think we all agree it unlikely we could have bested the guardian, possessed as it is with otherworldly powers and its own half of the amulet. And in more specific terms, the guardian only let us leave on our word that we wouldn't attempt to reunite the two halves unless it was by bringing the other half here."

He nods. "There's enough truth here that I can live with it, I think."

 

[NakuruSai]

Eanos raises an eyebrow, considering. "It strikes me this is misleading, but not a lie," the monk says. "After all, I think we all agree it unlikely we could have bested the guardian, possessed as it is with otherworldly powers and its own half of the amulet. And in more specific terms, the guardian only let us leave on our word that we wouldn't attempt to reunite the two halves unless it was by bringing the other half here."

He nods. "There's enough truth here that I can live with it, I think."

Mordik seems to be talking more to himself than anyone else, once they're outside of these ruins,
Bringing em together looks like a bad idea. But that's founded on what the Guardian said about the amulet, and if we trust him, we dunna trust Graven to have it. But we trust the Guardian to have both?