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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Quickleaf" data-source="post: 9368552" data-attributes="member: 20323">Angrom strokes his beard and scratches his head, hmms and ahhs, as he studies the scroll, "To be honest Miss Ostergaard, the clergy of Dumathoin were a secretive lot. When we weren't fighting zombies, I scarcely ventured within the temple save for the holy days. It's something about protection – no, that rune is fortification – but I know naught a drop of magic words!""Back in the upper chamber... I recall seeing an engraving of a chalice and Dumathoin's holy symbol," he nods toward Brydum who reveals the silver symbol of Dumathoin he has around his neck, "In the engraving a supplicant was holding both chalice and holy symbol aloft before a mighty door.""Ah, poor Ludo and Rurm." He laments, taking a heavy sigh as he looks from his shield to Rurm's shield on the ground. "Well, I s'ppose I can build a litter for him out of our shields. Give me a hand Brydum. Rurm is heavier than he looks."<img src="https://i.pinimg.com/736x/b8/02/29/b8022995d4f0f42c6f28639a926af85d.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable fr-fil" data-size="" style="width: 200px" />Brydum grunts as he finishes binding his own wounds and kneels down to strap together the shields, speaking up to Alma. "My forebear, Dorn Black Axe, founded this temple. I remember a lightning glyph like that during our fighting retreat from the zombies. Th' poor soul there-" he motions to the dwarven corpse, "-was Belleris Stornsharp, our mage. She made the glyphs to ward against monsters coming up from the Underdark. Got her drunk once, and she went on about a tentacled flying thing that was repelled by lightning a baker's dozen times and still wanders the Underdark till this day..."[SPOILER=Logrim or anyone knows Gnomish or Dwarvish]If Logrim reads the Dethek runes of the scroll, he realizes it is a scroll of fortification – it is designed to create a spontaneous barricade for warriors to seek cover behind. If read as an action (you must be able to read Gnomish or Dwarvish) the scroll creates a 20-ft radius of half-cover (+2 AC, +2 Dex saves) which emerges from the ground as mundane material suiting the environment like stone, earth, or wood. The cover created is permanent until destroyed. Then the scroll crumbles to dust.[/SPOILER]</blockquote>

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