Crown of the Kobold King


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Azog smiles at Aidan. "Yeah, yeah. Meanwhile, i've already scouted the room at a glance, while you're still wrestling with the prehistoric skills to light a fire, in order to see. I guess this is a case of the weak leading the blind. And i'd rather be the weak one, how about you?" Becomming serious, he says: "Monks by the look of them, glass shards in one hand, guessing a potion vial. A bit of parchment in the other, might be your type of thing, that. Some metal on them, which is strange. I didn't think monks used weapons or armor. And no, i'm not refering to fighting monks, but rather the fat, bald, and stupid variety. The kind that lives in a monastery like this one and spends all day praying and stareing at their navels. What intrigues me the most is how they died. They backed a chair up against the door, which held it closed until we came along. So what happenned? This bears investigation." Moving boldly forward, Azog enters the room with the intention of examining the bodies, and especially the metal item. He muses to himself: "Could it be a knife? Did they kill themselves? Why in the hells would they do that. They had blocked the door in order to preserve their lives. Hmmm."
 
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"I suppose they killed themselves by drinking the content of the vials, probably arsenic or some other poison. I could be able to determine, that, if theres some traces still in those vials. Of course I will need my laboratory. They seem to barred themselves here, afraid of someone or something outside. Terrible enough to make them take their own lives."
 

Azog holds the blue vial before Dimzel. "Do you think you could identify this one by smell? My guess is its probably a healing potion, but you're the alchemist."
 

Dimlez:[sblock]
You didn't make the roll for that one (DC 25), but I'll give you a circumstance bonus to make up the difference since you are an alchemist and it has to be the most common potion ever. It's Cure Light Wounds.[/sblock]
 

Azog steps in to the room and kneels to get a better look at the weapon poking out of the monk's belt. It turns out to be a light silver hammer.

If you remove it:[sblock]In design the hammer is like a lighter blacksmith's hammer, but more smooth- sleek. It appears to be functional but as a smaller weapon, not a smithing hammer. A dragon wraps up the haft of the hammer providing grips and it's head becomes the hammer's head.[/sblock]
 

The parchment is brittle but with careful handling can probably be unrolled safely.

Assuming you do so...

The script on the scroll is brief, but written in broad calligraphy to fill the page. The words are obviously in a goblin dialect, but ancient. It may take a minute to work out.

Reading the scroll is going to require Decipher Script DC 20. Normally that is a trained only skill but if you already speak goblin and are just trying to muddle through a much older version than contemporary I'll allow it untrained. That either means Aidan or Luger can read it by taking 20 (and 2 minutes time).
If you do so...

[sblock]“Forgive me, dark father of the forge, my toils shall never be enough.”[/sblock]
 

"Your guessing was right my half orc fellow. It is indeed a potion to restore light wounds." Dimzel says after snifing the vial. He shakes it a bit to see how the liquid moves. "It seems to be in good shape, I bet it still works, though I won't drink something that has been in the hands of a corpse for about some years."
 

"Mmmm. Silver. Could be useful" says Azog, slipping it into his pack. He glances around the room more thoroughly now that he's in it. If he sees nothing of intrest, he will go and open the south door, that is if Dimlez didn't already.
 


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