Island Empire, Part III, The Lich's Curse
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Scotley
Hero
Those of you who attempt to resist the lure have no difficulty staying in your bodies. In fact nothing happens for you. The odd feeling passes and everyone begins behaving normally again though some of the others are grinning at you.
Those of you who step out of your normal world find you have stepped out of the normal stream of place and time. As you move from your body you discover that a small golden strand leads back from your new-found awareness to your body. If you concentrate on the strand you can sense what is happening back at your body, but otherwise you have a new-found sense of freedom. You are detached from the curse and it is only with the absence of it that you can truly appreciate how onerous it is. Drifting into the garden you 'hear' a music that you realize is the ebb and flow of the true song around you. A discordant series of notes plays close to your bodies, but in the garden is a harmony that you've never really experienced before. "Now tell me what has happened." says the Chancellor.
[sblock=H'Roosh]Your instinct was correct, this is the plane you have touched but never quite reached in meditation. Perhaps you will be able to find it again...[/sblock]
Those of you who step out of your normal world find you have stepped out of the normal stream of place and time. As you move from your body you discover that a small golden strand leads back from your new-found awareness to your body. If you concentrate on the strand you can sense what is happening back at your body, but otherwise you have a new-found sense of freedom. You are detached from the curse and it is only with the absence of it that you can truly appreciate how onerous it is. Drifting into the garden you 'hear' a music that you realize is the ebb and flow of the true song around you. A discordant series of notes plays close to your bodies, but in the garden is a harmony that you've never really experienced before. "Now tell me what has happened." says the Chancellor.
[sblock=H'Roosh]Your instinct was correct, this is the plane you have touched but never quite reached in meditation. Perhaps you will be able to find it again...[/sblock]
Leif
Adventurer
Gnurl Whiskerling
Gnurl Thinks, "Ohhh, I'm SO happy that I didn't resist after all! This is COOOOL!!!!"
In a quiet, serene, and subdued voice that is very out-of-character for the extremely vocal wizardly Gnome, Gnurl says, "I don't fully understand what has happened, if you are speaking of the discordance that surrounds our bodies, and as a fairly accomplished student of the arcane this troubles me greatly. It all began when the lich we were battling pronounced a curse upon us. At the moment, I am free of that curse, and truthfully, I had become so acccustomed to it that I no longer even realized how onerous it is!"
Gnurl Thinks, "Ohhh, I'm SO happy that I didn't resist after all! This is COOOOL!!!!"
In a quiet, serene, and subdued voice that is very out-of-character for the extremely vocal wizardly Gnome, Gnurl says, "I don't fully understand what has happened, if you are speaking of the discordance that surrounds our bodies, and as a fairly accomplished student of the arcane this troubles me greatly. It all began when the lich we were battling pronounced a curse upon us. At the moment, I am free of that curse, and truthfully, I had become so acccustomed to it that I no longer even realized how onerous it is!"
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Leif
Adventurer
Gnurl Whiskerling
"No, it was no spell in the conventional sense, and it may have been related to the ritual he was performing upon himself, at the time we entered, to begin his unlife. It was the lich's dying curse upon us. But we were unable to fully dispatch him from existence. We did not find his phylactery, and at the end of our battle he simply vanished. It was just a truly rotten day all around! What I don't understand is this -- if he was just now making himself a lich, then it stands to reason that his phylactery would be an absolute necessity to complete the ritual, and so it should have been present for us to find and destroy. Very strange......"
"No, it was no spell in the conventional sense, and it may have been related to the ritual he was performing upon himself, at the time we entered, to begin his unlife. It was the lich's dying curse upon us. But we were unable to fully dispatch him from existence. We did not find his phylactery, and at the end of our battle he simply vanished. It was just a truly rotten day all around! What I don't understand is this -- if he was just now making himself a lich, then it stands to reason that his phylactery would be an absolute necessity to complete the ritual, and so it should have been present for us to find and destroy. Very strange......"
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Mingo Frasse & Anson & Mig
"And the lich was sitting on an altar of ice, which must have provided some of the power for his ritual. The altar was shattered as part of the curse being pronounced." Mingo adds. "Sorry to interrupt. My magical training is not as advanced as you gentlemen. I merely wanted to add in those details." Mingo smiles at Gnurl and then looks to the chancellor and Geoffrey expectantly.
"And the lich was sitting on an altar of ice, which must have provided some of the power for his ritual. The altar was shattered as part of the curse being pronounced." Mingo adds. "Sorry to interrupt. My magical training is not as advanced as you gentlemen. I merely wanted to add in those details." Mingo smiles at Gnurl and then looks to the chancellor and Geoffrey expectantly.
Leif
Adventurer
Gnurl Whiskerling
Gnurl immediately removes his cap and executes an impressively formal, sweeping bow to Mingo. "Not at all madam! My overtaxed brain had already erased those details that might prove to be the most important keys to our healing! Thank you, thank you, thank you. Please add anything else that you remember?"
Gnurl immediately removes his cap and executes an impressively formal, sweeping bow to Mingo. "Not at all madam! My overtaxed brain had already erased those details that might prove to be the most important keys to our healing! Thank you, thank you, thank you. Please add anything else that you remember?"
Scotley
Hero
A little insider info...
OOC: [sblock=For any who are interested]Being the wicked DM that I am I arranged for the homunculus to depart for the Sea Sorcerers ship with the phylactery immediately as the ritual was completed. I set a number of rounds before the ritual was complete when you started your assault on the final building. You had a chance had you moved quickly enough, to stop the ritual. Or possibly arrive in time to see the homunculus departing. In all fairness I didn't expect you to get there in time, but I did make it possible. I really thought someone might go up on the roof and come in the hatch during the ritual. Anyway, the curse would have been avoided and I'd have set up plan b or maybe c for the new adventure. [/sblock]
OOC: [sblock=For any who are interested]Being the wicked DM that I am I arranged for the homunculus to depart for the Sea Sorcerers ship with the phylactery immediately as the ritual was completed. I set a number of rounds before the ritual was complete when you started your assault on the final building. You had a chance had you moved quickly enough, to stop the ritual. Or possibly arrive in time to see the homunculus departing. In all fairness I didn't expect you to get there in time, but I did make it possible. I really thought someone might go up on the roof and come in the hatch during the ritual. Anyway, the curse would have been avoided and I'd have set up plan b or maybe c for the new adventure. [/sblock]
J. Alexander
First Post
Off to Consult
Geoffrey will relate to the Chancellor the story has he knows it starting with the arrival of Captain Marin's request for Church Intervention. "I was far afield from Mermaid's rest when the summons reached me and made all haste to get there. Once there I established contact with Captain Marins other operatives and the assault upon the compound as i have related it occured...but perhaps these gentlmen will have additional information that may be insightfult?
Geoffrey will relate to the Chancellor the story has he knows it starting with the arrival of Captain Marin's request for Church Intervention. "I was far afield from Mermaid's rest when the summons reached me and made all haste to get there. Once there I established contact with Captain Marins other operatives and the assault upon the compound as i have related it occured...but perhaps these gentlmen will have additional information that may be insightfult?
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