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Ok, first some OOC nonsense: Yarin and Seeker thoroughly scour and search the shop but don't find much- the potion flasks are mostly empty or contain precursors or 'mixer' type potion ingredients that aren't very useful or tasty.
Yarin finally discovers something kind of weird. Hidden under the counter is a tangle of twigs bound in a strange shape, tied with red thread and adorned with polished teeth and glittering insectlike wings. It is some kind of talisman.
Only Alek (knowledge Arcana) and Kytheria (knowledge Religion) have a chance to identify this item.
Kytheria looks it over closely, but can't quite place it. Alek can't place it either.
DC 25
Kytheria (K: Religion +10):
12
Alek (K: Arcana +11):
23
"It's a.. well obviously it's a... thingy of some sort."
"some kind of..."
"yeah.. "
"what do you call those?"
"I think it's called a .. uh.."
Nobody is sure what it is.
The alchemical gear is worth some 250 gold.
The fey is bound. The party is healed.
CHAPTER II
You are all gathered in the chamber of the Creature Studies Lab. It's a large, reinforced chamber of huge metal brackets and braces over stone. A variety of empty cages and magical protection circles are enscribed here. A strange stone table with a band of metal in the middle- large enough to hold an overweight ogre or a small hill giant is located in the center of the room. Osbry is directing a pair of headless constructs, who are struggling in with a sheet of rusty blackened iron.
"I'm pretty sure this is safe." Osbry mentions. "I saw Winterfell bind a pit fiend here last summer. So I imagine our little friend will be quite well accomodated."
Winterfell is the headmaster of adavanced arcane studies. Alek has seen him on a couple of occaisions levitiating through the halls, followed by a skeletal servant named Rutledge. Winterfell is an impatient and humorless teacher, that most of the arcane students suspect of having an aspiration to lichdom.
"Ah yes. A little more to the right.. now bolt it on.. very good."
The headless constructs begin bolting on the iron slab to the table using massive metal shafts and linchpins. Osbry produces a pair of masterwork iron manacles.
"This will do. It'll have to be quick."
The redcap is still unconscious, but is now tightly bound by Arvin's rope. He is quickly bound down to the iron table by the masterwork manacles. (You -one of you- has the redcaps hat as well)
Osbry puts on his glasses.
"Invucuris Claid. I recognize him now. One of the most brutal fey on the island. "
"Well, go ahead, wake him up and ask him what you like..."
DM: ok, let me know what you'd like to do/say/ask....