[KAUAI]The Rod of Seven Parts: Of Hexes and Gems

[Mista Collins]

Wanting to take a breath for Voadam after his long words, Chev wonders if he is always like this.

"My mother died during my birth, and I have no prior siblings. I have one living family member, my father, which I have a connection with. He was injured ten years ago, leaving him crippled, working for the Edaesmyd guard on the Arrund border. A raiding party of bandits attacked one of the smaller villages and he took massive injuries. Coming from generations of soldiers and seeing my father crippled is what has lead me to Narn.

"After years of praying for his health to return with no results, I decided my place should be at the forefront of battle, living Narn's dogma. This is why I travel to Teggest. It was my plan to join the Edaesmyd army, but Narn has brought me here to a greater battle."

 

[Voadam]

As he waits for Chev to consider his questions Voadam pulls out his two potions and hands them to the albino dwarf. "Gamad, I have need of your skills. I suspect the transparent one is for invisibility, but I have no skill at alchemy. Can you identify these? Also when we parted the Vaati woman touched my arm and I felt an effect. Can you divine whether she placed any magical effect upon me?" Voadam also pulls out the bead Arquestan gave him and inspects it closely to discern if any trace hairs came with it. "Or if this is magical or has magic placed upon it." Voadam does not hand over the bead however but holds it up to the light.

 

[Voadam]

Wanting to take a breath for Voadam after his long words, Chev wonders if he is always like this.

"My mother died during my birth, and I have no prior siblings. I have one living family member, my father, which I have a connection with. He was injured ten years ago, leaving him crippled, working for the Edaesmyd guard on the Arrund border. A raiding party of bandits attacked one of the smaller villages and he took massive injuries. Coming from generations of soldiers and seeing my father crippled is what has lead me to Narn.

"After years of praying for his health to return with no results, I decided my place should be at the forefront of battle, living Narn's dogma. This is why I travel to Teggest. It was my plan to join the Edaesmyd army, but Narn has brought me here to a greater battle."

Voadam nods in response to Chev's answer. "So you can name the village and your father is someone living who knows you, but nobody in this city? Very well, let us put aside my thought that you might have been created here on the spot. We have fought spider demons and there will be more battles before this is resolved so your god sending you to join us is a definite possibility. As a cleric can you detect Law or Chaos? It would be worthwhile to determine if the Wand is touched with Chaos in addition to Law, and whether the Vaati's touch upon me was actually a power of Law being used. I was not able to obtain a lock of hair from her to test, but she did give me this token."

 

[Strahd_Von_Zarovich]

Gamad - dwarf Wizard

That is quite a story Voadam
Reply the albino deformed dwarf and eyes the others as to ensure what he heard.
Demons are on our tail I understand, and the piece of wand must not fall to their putrid hands.
He says with horse voice and continues
And I hold the first segment of a mighty artifact … interesting.
He walks to his window, eyes the thrown pillow that sits on the ground outside and turns on heel
And to find the other segments we need only to concentrate and …
He stops, waits for Voadam to continue and takes the potions
I'm unable to sense magic right now, I'm quite exhausted and my arcane powers are weak, but …
He opens the potions, smell and taste.

Spellcraft +8 and being an Alchemist, Craft (Alchemy) +6 – so +14 to identify the potions.

 

[Ambrus]

"Ya can show your writ to this here human if ya like..." Maelicent gestures towards Lewit. "...and ya can go about whatever business ya like so long as ya don't be gettin in my way. I aim to start bucherin me kills in short order." The proud Gudwulf warrior, ignoring the two priests, strides confidently towards the open stable door to begin stringing up the first carcass.

 

[Mista Collins]

"...As a cleric can you detect Law or Chaos? It would be worthwhile to determine if the Wand is touched with Chaos in addition to Law, and whether the Vaati's touch upon me was actually a power of Law being used. I was not able to obtain a lock of hair from her to test, but she did give me this token."

"Yes, I am able to call upon the divine power of Narn to detect whether my foes or powers my foes possess are of a chaotic or lawful nature. But I cannot call upon those powers today."

I'm unable to sense magic right now, I'm quite exhausted and my arcane powers are weak, but …

"Do not worry, Gamad. Whatever has brought me here has still left me with the divine power of Narn. Let me see if I can detect any magic on those vials."

Concentrating on the vials Gamad holds in his hands, Chev whispers a small prayer to Narn in the dwarven tongue and focus his eyes to see if he detects any magical auras.

 

[CanadienneBacon]

The priest frowns at the retreating back of Maelicent but hands Lewit the scroll tube. Inside is a trimmed piece of parchment with the Hostelerie Guild wax seal on the outside. Lewit reads the scroll and finds that Vaja has ordered and paid for two castings of gentle repose upon the spider carcasses at her establishment. The writ has been notarized by the city clerk's office.

The sound of wooden bar being slid back fills the narrow garden a moment before the kitchen door is thrown open and Frane steps out, a mop and a bucket of dirty bile-laden water in his hands. The big blonde barkeep looks to be in better health than he was earlier and calls out for his sister. "Vaja! Two of 'em are back." Frane saunters over to Lewit and the priest. "Vaja and I thought to thank you for saving the festhall from complete destruction. When we saw the goblin'd drug these out through the back door, Vaja figured the little beastie'd be bent on getting some good out of 'em, so she called for a couple of black skirts from the Tower of Xylla." Frane puts down his mop and bucket and rocks back on two heels. "An' I see they made it here in good time, too. Anyway, the little beastie'll have an easier time of it if the carcasses don't rot through afore he can finish. VAJA! Where is that woman?" Frane looks around the garden. "Where's the rest of everybody?"

Satisfied, the priest nods at Frane and then at Lewit. The black-cassocked man picks up his buckets of salt and heads into the stable, intent on preserving the carcasses. The second priest who'd been on the verge of running off after the Guard, settles back into his work and joins Arne at the stable.

 

[CanadienneBacon]

The priests in the stable put down their buckets of salt. Maelicent, who'd already begun foisting up his kills with a few lengths of rope hanging in the stable, heard the entire exchange between Frane, Lewit, and Arne out in the garden. Arne coughs once, loudly and pauses in what he deems to be an obvious manner before speaking to Maelicent. "Though I can't say that I can ever have claimed the...pleasure...of preserving two morbidly obese spiders for a...goblin...I would certainly appreciate the opportunity to go about my work here, that we may quit this hovel all the sooner. It seems the proprietors seek to indulge your industry." The priest is pompous and has an obvious and strong disdain of Maelicent. "The preservation will make your task easier, particularly if you need be elsewhere for a day or two at a time. So if you wouldn't mind standing to the side for but a few moments...sir?"

 

[Voadam]

"Do not worry, Gamad. Whatever has brought me here has still left me with the divine power of Narn. Let me see if I can detect any magic on those vials."

Concentrating on the vials Gamad holds in his hands, Chev whispers a small prayer to Narn in the dwarven tongue and focus his eyes to see if he detects any magical auras.

Voadam readies himself to observe what happens from the priest's spell. If the priest's appearance is actually due to the Queen sending an agent of hers when Rancid relinquished all claim to the Wand, then Chev is that agent and might take this opportunity to strike while the party is split and everybody is expecting him to perform a divination.

 

[CanadienneBacon]

Voadam hands two small glass vials of liquid to Gamad. One vial smells of cinnamon and is opaque russet in color. The other vial smells not at all and though at first the liquid inside seems clear, when Gamad picks up the second vial, the substance shifts and he sees that while at times it is clear, when the light from the window in his room refracts off the vial, the liquid inside is alternately silver or matte grey.

[sblock=Gamad]

Spellcraft +8 and being an Alchemist, Craft (Alchemy) +6 – so +14 to identify the potions.

I'm not seeing how you can add Alchemy to Spellcraft to boost your Spellcraft to identify the potions. You can use just Spellcraft, though. DC is 25. I rolled a natural 20 for Gamad for the first vial, so with his +8 to Spellcraft, he gets a total of 28, which is more than enough to beat the DC of 25. The clear potion that alternately refracts silver and matte grey is a potion of Invisibility. Gamad is unable to identify the vial of liquid that smells of cinnamon and is opaque russet in color.[/sblock]

Chev weaves a detect magic spell and has a close look at the vials on the table in front of Gamad.

[sblock=Chev]Both vials each contain a liquid that has one faint arcane magic aura to it. The clear liquid that refracts silver and matte grey is of the Illusion school. The opaque russet liquid is oilier than the clear liquid, as if it's perhaps meant to be applied to an object rather than drunk. The arcane nature of the second liquid makes it difficult for Chev to determine anything about it other than it's of arcane magic and faint in aura. Chev spends roughly half a minute concentrating on both liquids before he realizes that the purple and green bead given to Voadam by the gypsy woman also has an arcane aura to it, of moderate strength and of the divination school. Likewise, Voadam has a second item on his person that has a magic aura. Contrary to Voadam's suggestion, however, there is nothing innate about his person that gives off any sort of magical aura. Widening his field of vision, Chev realizes that there's an aura somewhere within the reach of his spell, and though not in Gamad's room, it's perhaps on this floor of the inn.[/sblock]

When Chev casts his spell, Voadam visibly tenses. The Green Wizard leans in with eager anticipation, clearly expecting a reaction of some sort from the priest of Narn.