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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Knightfall" data-source="post: 9595450" data-attributes="member: 2012">Aureus listened intently to Rikiron's words about The Gloom and its dangers. 'What did Bastiaan say', she thinks. The androsphinx's story about the knight mentioned that the the man's squire had fallen due to the corrupting influence of the The Gloom. 'I wish we had asked him what that meant.'She finishes updating the journal's maps with the changes the inevitable mentioned. There isn't room for everything, but she works diligently to add more details with her quill and ink. She also pulls out her own maps and adds more detail to them as well, although at the larger scale, she has to pick and choose what to add. She flips the map over and write a few details on the back in her own language.Then, she goes back into Stratesus's journal and begins looking at all of Caerth's notes. It takes a bit of time, as her understanding of Harqualian is still new, especially in written form. The journal has one section that goes into detail about The Gloom in great detail, but a lot of it seems, from Caerth's notes, to be about how the demiplane corrupts plants and animals."Hmm," she reads one of Caerth's additions out loud. "The Gloom can corrupt the body and the mind. Undead creatures are more powerful in the demiplane, and the Gloom Blight has little effect on them or creatures from beyond the Material Plane that are wholly evil."Rikiron hears her refer to the corruption of the demiplane. "Yes, that is the taint I encountered. Even I was not entirely immune to it. While it cannot damage me physically, I can feel it... at the edge of my mind."He looks at Maur. "You wonder what is making me pause to go back in there. While I'm not afraid for me, I am concerned that the Gloom Blight, as The Hermit called it, could unhinge my mind." He points to Cruel Justice on Quinn's hip. "Even the Star Arms will not be immune from it.""There is more here. Caerth translated some sort of list... carved lightning oak, lamb's vellum, pure jade, silk sash, vial of filica." She tries to understand the meaning. "A list of spell components maybe? Hmm... no, I don't think that is it." She looks at the inevitable."For every affliction, there is often a natural cure or preventative item of power.""Caerth wrote something else underneath... so small... substances that Stratesus hoped would stave off blight. Tested jade a silk." She shakes her head. "I can't read the rest. It's been smudged." She looks at Phar. "You have Xander's spellbook, right? Are its pages made of vellum?"Aureus continues to hunt for more useful information about The Gloom in The Hermit's journal, but she doesn't find anything else that's been translated from the Druidic script by the half-orc druid. As she flips to the back of the book, she notes something else."Caerth wrote in the back that he's going to send a message to Carnell. 'I will send Screech to seek out Lady Pendour to update her on the search for Eike and young Brutus's ring. Also, I want to find out if Aeron has returned home, and if Lorien is alive and well'."[OOC]Rikiron suffered <a href="http://roll.coyotecode.net/lookup.php?rollid=295593" target="_blank">1D3 = [2] = 2</a> points of taint when he entered The Gloom. His Fast Healing will not be able to remove it. Since he has no CON score, Taint cannot corrupt him physically. But, he can suffer what is called Depravity (from Heroes of Horror), which taints the mind.[USER=15882]@TaranTheWanderer[/USER], the pages of Xander's spellbook are indeed made of vellum. Phar also has the spellbook of the man who was named Reynold. However, his spellbook's pages are made from the skin of a much darker creature. The blank pages of Xander's spellbook could protect Phar for a time, but using it such a manner will destroy the magic of the book.[/OOC]</blockquote>

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