pneumatik's WotBS 1 - The Scouring of Gate Pass
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"I might recognize it, but if you know seven languages, chances are I won't either. Won't hurt to look though, right? The scrolls aren't magic ready to explode, are they?"
The young boy was eager to help, but reluctant to get himself exploded by magic with which he was not particularly familiar. He had a few potions, but that was about as ambitious as he got with magic.
The young boy was eager to help, but reluctant to get himself exploded by magic with which he was not particularly familiar. He had a few potions, but that was about as ambitious as he got with magic.
pneumatik
The 8th Evil Sage
Hollister slides the empty scrollcase towards the voice and a moment later it disappears. "Done and done," the voice says.
As the group looks over the sheets, no one immediately recognizes the language. The best anyone can do is Hollister thinks it's an outer-planer language because it looks vaguely similar to ignan. The drawings are for a large underground complex. The annotations on the drawings are in the same language as the text.
"That's going to take hours for us to copy, and I need to leave the city tomorrow morning," Shealis says, interrupting your study. "We should have paper, ink, and writing implements upstairs. If you want a table and chair you'll have to make something out of the doors and wood parts in here, though." She looks at the guards. "Brew a large pot of strong tea," she says.
The sheets that filled the scrollcase are divvied up. Each one is almost a foot wide and the range from three feet to ten feet in length. The copying work is slow and tedious. Since none of you read the language you need to copy each character specifically. It's a good thing you all slept late today, because this work is going to take all night.
OOC: After an hour or two of work you can estimate that you'll finish up in the early morning before sunrise. At that point you'll be pretty tired. You'll be able to stay awake but will have to make fort saves every hour to not be fatigued. If you sleep before becoming fatigued you only need four hours of sleep if you're not worried about getting spells back. Once you become fatigued you need eight hours of sleep to no longer be fatigued.
As the group looks over the sheets, no one immediately recognizes the language. The best anyone can do is Hollister thinks it's an outer-planer language because it looks vaguely similar to ignan. The drawings are for a large underground complex. The annotations on the drawings are in the same language as the text.
"That's going to take hours for us to copy, and I need to leave the city tomorrow morning," Shealis says, interrupting your study. "We should have paper, ink, and writing implements upstairs. If you want a table and chair you'll have to make something out of the doors and wood parts in here, though." She looks at the guards. "Brew a large pot of strong tea," she says.
The sheets that filled the scrollcase are divvied up. Each one is almost a foot wide and the range from three feet to ten feet in length. The copying work is slow and tedious. Since none of you read the language you need to copy each character specifically. It's a good thing you all slept late today, because this work is going to take all night.
OOC: After an hour or two of work you can estimate that you'll finish up in the early morning before sunrise. At that point you'll be pretty tired. You'll be able to stay awake but will have to make fort saves every hour to not be fatigued. If you sleep before becoming fatigued you only need four hours of sleep if you're not worried about getting spells back. Once you become fatigued you need eight hours of sleep to no longer be fatigued.
pneumatik
The 8th Evil Sage
OOC1: It's my assumption that the whole party is helping to copy.
OOC2: Detect magic only lasts for concentration, which lapsed when Hollister cast knock from the scroll. He didn't see any lead in the scrollcase and it was less than one inch thick, so if there were any magic on the paper Hollister thinks he would have seen it when he scanned the unopened case.
OOC2: Detect magic only lasts for concentration, which lapsed when Hollister cast knock from the scroll. He didn't see any lead in the scrollcase and it was less than one inch thick, so if there were any magic on the paper Hollister thinks he would have seen it when he scanned the unopened case.
Rhun
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OOC: Fair enough. With that said, I think Hollister would try giving the copies to Shealis, and keeping the real ones...just in case.
The wizard directs his companions to bring light while he lays out the paper, ink and pens. He rolls out his bedroll to make himself comfortable, and lays a flat piece of wood across his crossed legs to make something of a table. Then he sets to work copying the documents. While it would certainly be exhausting and take time, he was use to such things from penning his own scrolls and adding spells into his spellbook.
The wizard directs his companions to bring light while he lays out the paper, ink and pens. He rolls out his bedroll to make himself comfortable, and lays a flat piece of wood across his crossed legs to make something of a table. Then he sets to work copying the documents. While it would certainly be exhausting and take time, he was use to such things from penning his own scrolls and adding spells into his spellbook.
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