Heroes, Inc.: Kryptgarden
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Timrin staggers upright holding in his guts. His hands glow momentarily as his focuses his attention on healing himself <lay on hands 90 hp, still down 6>
"Well done everyone. Alethia you and your friends guard the trail. Murdock fly up and keep an eye on the airships. Lets learn what we came to learn and get out of here."
OOC: First we would start by finding the Kryptgarden base then regressing time to see what Kurin did there. Then we try to play with the globe and crystal and figure out whatr they do.
"Well done everyone. Alethia you and your friends guard the trail. Murdock fly up and keep an eye on the airships. Lets learn what we came to learn and get out of here."
OOC: First we would start by finding the Kryptgarden base then regressing time to see what Kurin did there. Then we try to play with the globe and crystal and figure out whatr they do.
Alethia nods and sends her crows up to keep an eye on things aerially and orders the rest to assume perimeter detail, their eyes, noses and ears far more keen than most mortals. "Done. Make it quick. If those airships come down, we're good as dead. And that's if Kastitos is in a good mood."
And you can bet he's going to be in a foul mood. We already embaressed him once. Naverone remarked and Alethia's eyes begin to glow in a frightening sort of way as the demon goes on high-alert for any sort of tricks, traps and ambushes that might be in the making.
And you can bet he's going to be in a foul mood. We already embaressed him once. Naverone remarked and Alethia's eyes begin to glow in a frightening sort of way as the demon goes on high-alert for any sort of tricks, traps and ambushes that might be in the making.
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While most of you patrol and hide in the fog, Maggie works on the machine. She finds that one of the red crystals has already been replaced with a slotted one like the one you found, and she finds a crystal like the one you found inside it next to the dead metal man. She puts it in, holds on to it, and concentrats.
She removes it and says "Its a translator. The device can be controlled mentally, but only by someone who can think in Sarkrith. This seems to convert Sarkrith to another language. I recognize bits and pieces...It might be an ancient version of some existing language, actually, Perhaps, uh, bah, I'll think about it later. At least this might show us how a translator would work."
She then finds the Kryptgarden base. She did the necessary calculations ahead of time based on the settings and results from last time. Regressing time, it becomes clear that the base was being used for what you thought...developing and buildings new types of fiendpires and gathering up an army. It would take a very long time to count them. The portal seems to be used to deliver prisoners. All are humanoid, but their species and apparent ethnicities vary widely. They may be form all over the world. They are restrained, bitten either by a fiendpire or a strange wand with a mouth at the end of it, forced to drink a red substance, fed to the energy-draining pillar, then sent to the cocoons. Teams of wizards experiment in labs on new forms of the creatures. Kurin comes and goes with teams of fiendpires. There also seems to be various facilities in which they make weapons, clothing, and othe ruseful items, with raw materials brought in through the portal.
Maggie the switches in the crystal found in the base. The mitheril rings that Cronos added at the top of the pillars activate and create a grid of energy like you saw before.
The device shows a dark room. On one end is a throne with a man sitting on it in a black robe. He is deathly pale, with a long face and a huge mouth, and purple eyes with big black irises, such that his eyes look like holy symbols of Shar. On the other end is a very large man and a spectral one. The big one has shoudler-length grey hair, slightly wrinkly skin, and light grey eyes. Though he appears somewhat old, he also appears extremely fit and muscular, and holds a scythe in his hands. Next to him is a translucent wizard in blue robes. He has small horns and very sharp features, indicating at least a partially fiendish heritage.
In a booming voice, the large man says "I am Cronos, Master of Potentiality. You should have by now received orders from your mistress. You will do my bidding, Namer. I can see all that is or was possible. I kow everything about you. You are the mightiest practicioner of truename magic in the multiverse, given much of your powers by Shar herself. You have caused the fall of empires, the most destructive of plagues, even the Time of Troubles, then erased yourself from the timeline by forging yourself a new truename and obliterating your old one. The universe responds by splicing other possible realities with similar outcomes into the primary reality. I know because it is these realities, which exist to protect the timeline from meddling, that I manipulate in my magics. See, Namer, I can see the realities in which you haven't erased yourself. You have betrayed many in your time, but you can never betray ME. Now, come, conceal our plans, and provide us with the knowledge and power of your mistress."
The image moves to show the workings of the Kryptgarden base, except with the Namer leading the experiments. It also shows him performing odd rituals probably intended to keep their activities secret. It becomes clear as well that he is uniquiely-suited for word-magic: he has two tounges.
The images keep changing, showing various destructive deeds of The Namer throughout history.
The final image is the Namer changing his face and body and appearing in an office full books. It seems that he is a professor at the Waterdeep Bards College...you recognize him, becuase it seems he was the one attacked by the leader of that crazy Rashemi cult you met at sea, but survived.
She removes it and says "Its a translator. The device can be controlled mentally, but only by someone who can think in Sarkrith. This seems to convert Sarkrith to another language. I recognize bits and pieces...It might be an ancient version of some existing language, actually, Perhaps, uh, bah, I'll think about it later. At least this might show us how a translator would work."
She then finds the Kryptgarden base. She did the necessary calculations ahead of time based on the settings and results from last time. Regressing time, it becomes clear that the base was being used for what you thought...developing and buildings new types of fiendpires and gathering up an army. It would take a very long time to count them. The portal seems to be used to deliver prisoners. All are humanoid, but their species and apparent ethnicities vary widely. They may be form all over the world. They are restrained, bitten either by a fiendpire or a strange wand with a mouth at the end of it, forced to drink a red substance, fed to the energy-draining pillar, then sent to the cocoons. Teams of wizards experiment in labs on new forms of the creatures. Kurin comes and goes with teams of fiendpires. There also seems to be various facilities in which they make weapons, clothing, and othe ruseful items, with raw materials brought in through the portal.
Maggie the switches in the crystal found in the base. The mitheril rings that Cronos added at the top of the pillars activate and create a grid of energy like you saw before.
The device shows a dark room. On one end is a throne with a man sitting on it in a black robe. He is deathly pale, with a long face and a huge mouth, and purple eyes with big black irises, such that his eyes look like holy symbols of Shar. On the other end is a very large man and a spectral one. The big one has shoudler-length grey hair, slightly wrinkly skin, and light grey eyes. Though he appears somewhat old, he also appears extremely fit and muscular, and holds a scythe in his hands. Next to him is a translucent wizard in blue robes. He has small horns and very sharp features, indicating at least a partially fiendish heritage.
In a booming voice, the large man says "I am Cronos, Master of Potentiality. You should have by now received orders from your mistress. You will do my bidding, Namer. I can see all that is or was possible. I kow everything about you. You are the mightiest practicioner of truename magic in the multiverse, given much of your powers by Shar herself. You have caused the fall of empires, the most destructive of plagues, even the Time of Troubles, then erased yourself from the timeline by forging yourself a new truename and obliterating your old one. The universe responds by splicing other possible realities with similar outcomes into the primary reality. I know because it is these realities, which exist to protect the timeline from meddling, that I manipulate in my magics. See, Namer, I can see the realities in which you haven't erased yourself. You have betrayed many in your time, but you can never betray ME. Now, come, conceal our plans, and provide us with the knowledge and power of your mistress."
The image moves to show the workings of the Kryptgarden base, except with the Namer leading the experiments. It also shows him performing odd rituals probably intended to keep their activities secret. It becomes clear as well that he is uniquiely-suited for word-magic: he has two tounges.
The images keep changing, showing various destructive deeds of The Namer throughout history.
The final image is the Namer changing his face and body and appearing in an office full books. It seems that he is a professor at the Waterdeep Bards College...you recognize him, becuase it seems he was the one attacked by the leader of that crazy Rashemi cult you met at sea, but survived.
Naveron watches from afar, troubled. What does this have to do with his host? Shar, he knew was behind their binding. But what was her original purpose? He knew that she had not intended for her sister to snap up the two of them, turn them to her service. If things had turned out differently, would they now be.... Naverone turned away from that thinking. It did not matter. He had mortals to protect and an enemy to defeat.
Alethia and her demon stalk the edges of the perimeter, aided in part by her Leskylor cohort. All of her followers are aware of her dual nature. It is in part why they chose to follow her. To keep an eye on both.
Alethia and her demon stalk the edges of the perimeter, aided in part by her Leskylor cohort. All of her followers are aware of her dual nature. It is in part why they chose to follow her. To keep an eye on both.
"What in the Nine Hells does that mean?"
"So we learn that Shar is indeed involved with the Twice-Damned. But what is 'name magic'? Was that translucent blue wizard the nemesis your <refering to Maggie> gauntlet was built to destroy?"
"We came here for answers but leave with more questions. Can anyone shed some light on this?", Timrin says imploringly.
"So we learn that Shar is indeed involved with the Twice-Damned. But what is 'name magic'? Was that translucent blue wizard the nemesis your <refering to Maggie> gauntlet was built to destroy?"
"We came here for answers but leave with more questions. Can anyone shed some light on this?", Timrin says imploringly.
Name magic... Is what it says it is paladin. Everything and everyone has a true name. Know it and pronounce it in the right way and right time and you can change that thing or command it. Or destroy it. True names are dangerous. It binds outsiders and those who live on the inside, the prime as well.... The demon rumbled, clearly troubled. If he is a master of true names... Gods help us, he is seeking to rewrite Toril... Shar's ambition has always been to make things as they were. An endless night. he said, thinking 'outloud' as it where.
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frostrune said:
Maggie tries to answer... "Well, it is difficult to explain. I'll try to put it in terms that you can, uh, oops, yeah that didn't come out right. Yeah, anyway, everything in the universe has a truename. Its a system that underlies all magic and much reality. The actual manipulation of trunames is extraordinarily difficult, but if done right can alter the universe on its most basic level. If something has an ever-changing truname, it is truly invisible to all, and the universe will eventually alter itself to accomodate the effects of its existance. A sufficiently powerful practitioner of truename magic could theoretically even erase entities entirely by altering their truenames. It seems this one has done so time after time to hide his crimes. When someone is erased, the universe accomodates it by altering to produce maximally similar results. No one has ever accomplished this in recorded history, but of course anyone who would accomplish this could erase themselves from history, so that means nothing. The only reason we can know about this at all is that cronos produced this crystal as insurance against being double-crossed. it seems that he altered this device to be able to see into alternate universes, and that crystal records the Namer in universes similar to ours, excpet in which he has not erased himself from the timeline. These powers are also useful in fundamentally creating new creatures by altering old ones, by using magic on their truenames themselves. This Namer could be very useful to their experiments."
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