BrOp's Age of Worms Adventure Path: The Whispering Cairn (IC)

[Bront]

Zan:[sblock]OOC: D'oh! I forgot you had Knowledge (arcane) and Knowledge (history) as well. You gain the following additional information.

From what you remember of your studies with Allustan, these symbols are reminiscent of arcane symbols representing elemental air. This glyph represents the name of a fairly important, high-ranking individual. You don't remember what culture used Vaati (and therefore can't date it) and don't know if Icosiol is anything more than just a name (i.e. if it means anything else).[/sblock]

GM[sblock]It's a good think he doesn't think anyone else would care about that, and they'd definately be more impressed with what he knows than what he doesn't [/sblock]

 

[D20Dazza]

Fixit Warforged Artificer

Fixit quickly joins Rial and Zan in studying the strange artifact. "So no one recalls the girls name?" he says as he strides over "Onatar's Hammer! Not remembering is going to annoy me. So, what do we have here gentlemen?" he bends at the waste and starts to carefully examine the device.

[sblock]Knowledge arcana and the planes (+4 each); long shot - artificer knowledge - see if that gives up any info DC15 +3 to the roll[/sblock]

 

[Branding Opportunity]

GM[sblock]It's a good think he doesn't think anyone else would care about that, and they'd definately be more impressed with what he knows than what he doesn't [/sblock]

Zan:[sblock]Yeah, it's always a question for me of whether to put something like this in spoiler tags or not. Doing so means you generally increase the sense of mystery for the party as a whole, but it does slow things down a bit, as you have to repeat everything. But this way you get to decide what to say or not to say.[/sblock]

 

[Ranger Rick]

Sniffer - warforge ranger

Back stepping: "The remains of the sleeping are from the time the little girl people have heard of went exploring here. They are not some ancient explorer's messy garbage."

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Currently, Sniffer is watching and pulling guard duty as the others explore. The item is treated with no more awe and wonderment than a piece of rubble is.

 

[Branding Opportunity]

The warlock approaches the thing on the platform with curiousity and examines it more closely without touching it. Searching around the base of the arcane structure he discovers a few shards of an unidentifiable shiny black substance, different from the material that the base or the apparatus are made of. You guess that if the artifact were completed, and the upper piece were a circle or oval it would be much taller and wider than a human.

 

[Branding Opportunity]

Fixit quickly joins Rial and Zan in studying the strange artifact. "So no one recalls the girls name?" he says as he strides over "Onatar's Hammer! Not remembering is going to annoy me. So, what do we have here gentlemen?" he bends at the waste and starts to carefully examine the device.

[sblock]Knowledge arcana and the planes (+4 each); long shot - artificer knowledge - see if that gives up any info DC15 +3 to the roll[/sblock]

Fixit: Looking around the device you find a few shards of an unindentifiable shiny black substance that feels like stone, but is slightly cold to the touch. Upon taking a closer look at the incomplete apparatus you notice numerous runes and glyphs carved into the slot on the inside of the frame, where the "mirror's" glass would have been held (OOC: Search check). Remembering your study of magical iconography these symbols seem to signify transportation (OOC: Knowledge (arcana) check). You study the entire structure for about a minute before deciding that it is probably not a functioning magical item, and therefore has no aura (OOC: Artificer Knowledge check).

 

[Someone]

Back stepping: "The remains of the sleeping are from the time the little girl people have heard of went exploring here. They are not some ancient explorer's messy garbage."

"Good!" says Rial. "If she died here then maybe the tomb is still intact"

"Though I doubt it. The marks in the wall show otherwise, and this thing... I´d say it was either a mirror or some magical thing, both out of place in a tomb." The warlock picks up and pockets one of the shards. "What was this place?"

saying this, he returns to the main corridor, ready to continue.

 

[Branding Opportunity]

Picking up the shard, Rial discovers that it is slightly cold to the touch and is made of a smooth black stone or stone-like substance, different from the materials used for the rest of the artifact.

 

[Erekose13]

Kerwyn thanks Mulch for the healing and at the comment about being bait, Kerwyn gives the dwarf a dirty look, even knowing he was joking the scarred man has little to no sense of humor.

While the others search the apparatus and the rubble, Kerwyn maintains a watchful stance just slightly up the corridor towards the limits of their light. He offers to hold one of the sunrods for the moment, though in combat needs both hands and will thus give the sunrod back when they choose to move on.

 

[Knight Otu]

Meldain looks at the... thing with curiosity. "Vaati? Does that mean that thing could be valuable? Whatever a Vaati may be...
Girl? Where?" at the mention of a girl, he looks around, only slowly realizing that the girl was the owner of those cloths. "Oh, I see... when was that?"

Meldain keeps his dagger in his hand, to be prepared if more wolves are coming this way.