Gaming W/Jemal: Planar Quest IC (Prologue)

[Binder Fred]

A nod: if Gerard trusts her, that's good enough for him. Though: "It seems fairly well trained," he mildly contradicts, referring to Wade's 'madness'.

As Gerard passed on taking up a scroll, he matter-of-factly turns them toward Braham and Mei Ying, seemingly slightly favoring the latter: the scrolls are just a smidge closer to her hand.

OOC: Shall we?

 

[kinem]

Braham does not hesitate to demure to Mei. "By all means; you are best versed in arcane lore."

 

[Shayuri]

Mei-Ying takes the scrolls, and tucks two under her arm before unfurling the third with a sharp motion. The silk cloth made a raspy noise as it unrolled, revealing arcane sigils in strange patterns that made the untrained eye water as they seemed to move, then jump back into place when one blinked.

She inspected the scroll for a moment, perhaps assessing its nature; that it was what had been claimed...then she began to read. Though she did not raise her voice, she seemed louder and more resonant than usual. Gold-hued ink blackened and charred as each word was incanted. The smoke swirled overhead making a flat disk in which half-glimpsed faces shifted in and out, whispering in siblant voices words that none could comprehend.

Then she asked, "What is the nature of the Key to the Power of the Stars that is hidden in the Far Realms?"

There was a gust of wind, and the lights in the room went out, plunging everything into a chill and unnerving darkness!

 

[Scott DeWar]

Gerard, alarmed by the sudden loss of light, draws his rapier with a singing sound of the fine metal.

 

[Binder Fred]

"Fine so far," calmly reassured Ur's soft voice, somewhere to Gerard's left. The dwarf obviously *can* see. And the complete darkness doesn't last long anyway <Tag Jemal >.

 

[Jemal]

OOC: Apologies, I've been distracted. Had meant to post up the Visions earlier this week.

The whispers coalesce into a shout, then a shriek as the darkness lifts, and the sound is silenced. Everyone looks at Mei-Ying for a second, wondering if that was it, and then she suddenly straightens as the floating disk of smoke above her extends a beam of light down to encompass her. Her eyes glaze over for a moment, and then the light and smoke both dissipate, leaving her gasping. The resilient woman manages to retain her footing, but even with most of the work done by the scroll, she feels slightly drained by the experience.

[sblock=Mei Ying's Vision]
She floats through Smokey fields, past rolling hills that flatten and then raise up again to form mountains, seas of acid that catch fire then boil away leaving nothing but sand. A thousand suns burn in the sky, merging and splitting apart.
A single place seems static.
A Platform lowers her into the ground.. things grow fuzzy as she descends, and eventually she finds herself in a room, a strange mechanical device in the center, and shimmering walls of light covering the doorways exiting the room.
Then suddenly, She is elsewhere, a face leering down at her - An Illithid with Mandible claws in place of his four tentacles, a crescent shaped mark burned into his forehead.
"You will perish here. Do not release them!"
[/sblock]

 

[Scott DeWar]

Gerard steps over to hold up Mei As he sees her legs wobble.

 

[Shayuri]

Mei-Ying falters against Gerard's hands for a moment, then seems to recover. She pulls away to stand on her own again, giving Gerard an inscrutable look that is not quite gratitude nor reproof, but has elements of both at the same time.

"It's a machine," she says, "In a room walled by light in the heart of chaos. But the vision came with a warning from a strange creature. It looked like one of the illithid, but had...pincers or claws instead of tentacles, and a mark like a waning moon on its forehead. It said we would die in that place, and that we should not release them."

She takes a deep breath, clearing away the vestiges of the instinctive reactions to the vision.

"I assume it means the Keys, but that wasn't explicit."

 

[kinem]

Braham is slightly alarmed when the vision is accompanied by unexpected magical effects, but since it passes quickly he relaxes a little.

"Hmm. Anyone know what the waning moon symbol might be? As for the warning ... It may be so, but there could be other meanings. It said 'them', plural, yet it only guards one of the Keys. Perhaps we won't know until we are there.

Mei, do you think you got a good enough look at this room - or what is outside it - that if we were to plane-shift to this chaos, we could then teleport to the room?"

 

[Binder Fred]

"Too simple," is Ur's forecast, but then, you never know..."What did it look like?" he asks Ying once she's covered the desert man's question. If it gets too complicated: "Could you draw it in the air for us?"


OOC: He's referring to an illusion/cantrip of some kind.