Crossed Paths, Part II

[Inez Hull]

Ehldannis finishes his morning mental exercises and opens his eyes to look upon the new day, his mind refreshed and focused, and bearing a hint of trepidation. He rises gingerly from his meditative stance and walks over to the spearpoint and with Octar's permission uncovers it and stares, crouched on his haunches for several minutes, his face unreadable.

"Curiousity ever wars with caution Ehldannis, make sure not to let yourself be caught between the battlelines....."
Ehldannis smiles as he recalls his master's words to him many years ago. Yes, either I must act or not act, as these humans do

He stands and turns to Brioc and Dhormium, "If you are ready and able to grant me protection from the flames then I am also ready for the divination."

 

[eoghanbt]

Tullius wakes, stokes the fire for breakfast, and begins cutting branches and then using his axe to split crude arrow shafts, surrounded by a pile of wood shavings and splinters as a few of the others discuss the spearpoint in hushed and serious tones.

 

[Jarval]

(OoC: Brioc will cast Resist Elements (Fire) on Ehldannis half an hour after Dhormium's initial casting.)

 

[Manzanita]

Identify

The protections seem to be suffucient, as the relieved party sees that Ehldannis seems to be unhurt by contact with the sizzling spearpoint. One hour and one pearl later, Ehldannis stands & sighs....

email to Inez sent

 

[Thomas Hobbes]

Octar waits with curiosity to see what Ehldannis will reveal- mostly wondering what it will tell him about Sergius, and how to defeat him.

 

[Inez Hull]

Ehldannis gives an exhausted sigh as he at last breaks out of his spell trance. He places the spear on the ground and takes a moment to reaquaint himself with his surroundings,.... and notices all of his companions staring at him expectantly.

"Alas my friends, I am able to add little to what we already know. The spear is definitely magical, but eluded my attempts to discern it's nature. Which is strange in itself, for I am confident that the divination was correctly wrought. It suggests to me that the spear is either protected somehow, or......."

Ehldannis's angular brows furrow in concern and he strokes his chin in careful consideration, "Or, the spear is of a magic of an entirely greater magnitude, a masterwork, a pinnacle of craftsmanship,..... an artifact of power."

 

[Krilith]

~Dhormium laughs~

"Dealing with higher magics is never easy Ehldannis, although brave your attemt, and if what you is true, that this spearpoint is a magical artifact I suggest you put it back in the cooking pot!
Indeed, it could wield great power, but be weary, for it could consume your mind and your person. Put it away in the cooking pot, so it's safe against a careless touch.
Let us concentrate us on these tunnels..."
~at the mention of tunnels and going underground, Dhormium seems to grow an inch just because of pure enticipation~
"...maybe we can some answers there, although I myself still do not even know the questions! and if answers elude us, maybe some of your fellow archeologist Tullius."

 

[eoghanbt]

Tullius finishes with his makeshift fletching, then, hefting his axe, moves towards the tunnel entrance, eyes skipping across the ground, occasionally stopping to press fingers into the dirt as if examining some trace of the previous events in this place.

 

[Manzanita]

The clearing

Tullius is very familiar with this area. The map attached shows the clearing at 10 feet/square. The main entrance to the tunnels below is a stairway in the large central building. There is also the wellhole in the lower left, not currently visible from where the party is approaching at the top right. When Sergius was exploring the underground there, he had built a wooden wench that would lower him down. Tullius doesn't know exactly how far down, but there was a good bit of rope used. The orcs took over the camp after capturing it, but they didn't damage much. The camp is now a scattered, burned and destroyed, which must have been done by the gnolls. The dark green areas are large trees, the light green is swamp.

 

[Krilith]

~Dhormium turns to face the group and starts speaking his mind. Questions about why these people are together, and what is their destination~

“Alright, I see we have two options here. We go in to those tunnels, or we stay above ground. If we stay here, we can have a talk about this spear point, why I think that you all know who Sergius is and why you all are not all that talkative about it.
Or, we save that talk for a later camp and start getting in to those tunnels to see if we can bash in some orc skulls and perhaps we might even fiend some of Tullius’ companions.
I’d recommend to enter the tunnels at the central building, if for some reason we need to leave the tunnels in a hurry we won’t be trapped at the bottom of a well with nobody at the winch.”