Ptolus: The Legend of Longcoat

[Pitchwife]

"Actually," Jarem replies, "it's been a little embarrassing to wield such a pristine shield; it made me look soft." He grins wryly. "I have a friend who banged his against a wall until it looked like a veteran's board, but I didn't feel right about doing the same."

"I'm curious what you thought was in here, but honestly I'm still more curious about the cutlery. I don't know about you, but I've never seen or heard anything like it."

 

[Trench]

"You want to fight it out with angry spirits be my guest. There was something moving in there. And not the spider."

Ada peers into the room cautiously to see if she can see the creepy movements under the blanket she saw earlier.

 

[Pitchwife]

Jarem sighs. "If I wanted to do this alone, I would've come alone. We can check in here first."

He'll hang with Ada as she investigates the room.

 

[Cthulhudrew]

His third attempt to figure out the statue trap a dismal failure, Vanden gives up and attempts something new. He makes his way over to the walls and slowly starts to explore the clouded chamber, using all senses available to him and running his hands over the walls.

[sblock=ooc]Vanden will ease his way slowly along the wall, hoping the combination of using his hands to search and a more close-up viewpoint will reveal some other exit from the room.[/sblock]

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

With the pair knowing what they know now, looking again, the "blanket" in the store room is revealed as a large dense spiderweb, teaming with hundreds of newly hatched spiders.

* * *

On his way back to the wall, Vanden's foot scrapes against something on the floor. Looking down, he sees it's not an object that he heard, but a circle enscribed in the floor.

Unfamiliar characters dance along the inner and outer edge of the 10-foot diameter circle.

As the young monk examines the circle, a woman's voice whispers in his ear: "Find me, free me ..."

Looking around, he sees no one else within the red mist.

 

[Voadam]

Garn

"Oh yeah, the fountain is in a pool filled with blood and guts and has writing around the edges. The idjit said 'turn the dragon's horn 20 times as the sun rises and falls' like he was reading from a book and something about 20 elvish characters. Then he set off a hail of darts. Repeatedly. He's going to get himself and everybody around him killed."

 

[Cthulhudrew]

Vanden kneels to examine the circle more closely. He is careful not to touch it, remembering Garn's experience in the antechamber down the hall. "Garnet, Maugra," he calls out to the others, "There is something here I think you should take a look at- you might be able to make more of it than I am able."

[sblock=ooc]Vanden will make a knowledge (religion) check as he examines the circle, on the off chance it might have some kind of divine significance instead of arcane. Anything about it seem familiar from religious mythology or ritual?[/sblock]

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

The circle appears to be the same set of inscriptions, written in a language Vanden does not know, once inside the other. Each has been rendered in a decorative fashion, with the letters curved over at the top, suggesting the waves of the Whitewind Sea.

 

[Pitchwife]

"Do you care enough to find a torch or something to burn these out? Oh, wait." Jarem looks around to confirm that the building is made of wood. "Scratch that. Do you care enough to spend time crushing these underfoot, or shall we move on?"

 

[Erekose13]

Maugra will move in and draw from her own knowledge to see if she can read/understand anything that Vanden has missed.