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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Nail" data-source="post: 1125868" data-attributes="member: 224">Rowan's Animal Companion Ceremony, Part 2*********************************Rowan's thoughts: Suddenly, her  earlier words about this really being a helpful thing come back to her.  "....maybe I was wrong about that she thinks, "....should have waited until we were somewhere safer and more....wholesome...."  "I wonder if this is a poisonous snake....I hope it doesn't kill me....maybe this is part of the ritual.......I hope it doesn't hurt any of the others....was this what I heard speaking to me? Is this what was coming to me? Many have turned away....I will not turn away....I will not turn away......teach me....ancient secrets....I will not turn away....."(but she's still kind of frightened by this latest development....the raven didn't bite....)********************************DM’s secret note to Rowan’s player:Warm up that d20, when you get a chance, and roll a Fort save....no rush.........(Druidic Knowledge: Yup, this sucker's poisonous, and its poison does Con damage.  That is: Its poison could kill you, unlike the poison of those wussy spiders, which only made you weaker.  What wimpy little vermin, those spiders.....)***********************************The player rolls well....Rowan makes the Fort save.***********************************To the rest of the group, they see:Rowan makes a small sound as the serpent strikes. Her arm jerks slightly in reaction to the bite, but she remains still aside from the involuntary movement, silent, waiting.....Riva, whispered to Garret: "A snake, eh!  Y'know, me father always said they were good eatin'.. skewer 'em and marinate 'em in good dwarven ale and barbecue 'em.. a real treat that's common up over in the dwarven lands.. tunnels y'know.. well, something to think about if that snake gets to be a problem"..Garret (just barely audible to even Riva)"If that snake has just killed her you can take what's left of it back to your pappy, because we'll be heading home straight from here!  Now, keep quiet and still!"******************************To Rowan, only:Your eyes are open.The snake's venom courses through your veins, but does not harm you.  It mingles with your blood, flows through your heart, passes into your mind's eye.  Its fire illuminates you from within.Your eyes and the serpents eyes.  Locked together, you are  held by them, but not mastered by them.  You are the initiator, you have plunged into their depths, allowed entrance while the deadly venom courses through you.The adder speaks to you, in a soft voice you've not heard before: "I am here, mistressssss......you call me from thissss place, the place of beginningsssssss....you survive my fire....I will protect you if you wishhhhh it."Rowan holds out her hand, again. The serpent slithers up her arm, and wraps itself around her, under her cloak.  "Welcome, my friend." Rowan says to the serpent, suddenly happy that this creature has come to her. "I wish for your help and your friendship. I must come up with a name for you, if you have no preference of your own.....The black snake speaks into Rowan’s ear, in a low, soft whisper:"My name is Asmathiassssssss.... My fire burnssssss within you for a sssssshort time.... Only with my fire within you can we whissssssper together.....  Let usssss sssssspeak of ssssssssecretssssssssssss... What do you wish to know of beginningssssss, misssssstressssssss?"Feeling under pressure, Rowan blurts out what questions she can think of: <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"> "What began at this place, why is it the place of beginnings?" </li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"> "Who built this place?" </li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"> "What do you know of the dragon's eye?" </li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"> "Do you know anything of the dragon idol that was removed from here by the kobolds who were living here before the goblins?" </li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"> "Do you know what the goblins are doing here?" </li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"> "Is there a reason that they have chosen this place over others?" </li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"> "Is there a way in that the goblins don't know about?"'</li> </ul>The black serpent whispers in Rowan’s ear....."Sssssssso many questionssssss.....I do not know the answerssss to all of themssssss.......The great voice sssspeakssss to me, but I hear only piecesssssss........."This is a place of beginingsssss....beginingsss of my people, beginingsss of many otherssss....it is a sacred placesss, abandoned by the godssssss.....desssssecrated by the humansssssss...... tended by the children of the old onesssssss......"The godssss hide thissss placessssss..........only one wantsssss it found again........."...The great serpent'sssss eye?  It issss a place of dreamssss at the beginningsssssss.......  Dreamssss now condemned by godssssss.....  It is ancientssssss......of an ancient race that once guarded these placessessssss.......it lookssssss to itssss children........many things looksssss to these children........dangerous thingssssssssss......bright thingssssss........there issssss hope in the eye'sssssss lightssssssss............."Thesessssss other thingssss you ask......I have not heard the great voice sssssspeak of themssssssssss......I will lisssssten......My fire in your blood fadessssssss.......I hope we can speakssss again.........."The serpent's voice, his whisper, fades into nothingness.  He is wrapped around you, but only his animal intellect remains. You have recovered from the poison.</blockquote>

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