(RP) Dangerous Legacy

[hafrogman]

Feeling almost light-hearted for a moment, Liam nods solemnly for a moment.

"Yes. It's magical. The glowing is a dead give-away."

Then his own worries about Lady Asta and whatever lies beyond the doors overwhelm him and he lets out a shuddering sigh. His slight grin fades away and he shakes his head.

"Let me get a look at it, but it's not exactly my area of expertise."

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Spellcraft +12 with Detect Magic (at will)
to try and figure out any ongoing spell effects, types of magic, anything you got, etc.[/sblock]

 

[Vendetta]

Liam looks over the lock and glowing rune for several minutes. It is definately magic, but of a level of power well beyond his understanding... though, he's confident this magic is not something so powerful as to be beyond the realm of understanding for the King's wizards... at least, he hoped. About the time that Liam is ready to give up, thinking that whomever set this up meant it to not be reopened again, the Guide speaks. "This is the seal of Movak that he placed upon the catacombs when he sealed the tombs to stop the undead from escaping."

then, suddenly, from just to your left, comes a very small voice. Turning, you notice a young boy, maybe 11... but very thin and hungry looking... and dirty as well as unkempt. The kind of boy whose lived on the streets most of his life. "Ye lookin' ta get in there, huh? ye'll never get in that'a way." the boy says.

 

[Knight Otu]

Sel kneels down and looks at the boy "Well, what would you suggest?"

 

[hafrogman]

Liam turns away from the seal in surprise. What is a little boy doing down here? Did Movak place this seal to keep the undead at bay. . . or so he would have a place to hide when the need arose?

He nods to Sel's question and looks the boy over.

"Can you help us?"

 

[Vendetta]

"Well... I don't know." The boy says coyly as he wraps his arms around his tummy. "I'm awefully hungry." he says, obviously wanting some kind of financial compensation for his "time".

 

[Knight Otu]

(Did we pass any shops recently? If so, Sel asks Thomas to fetch some food from one, promisingly also shuffling some silver coins in his hand. Otherwise, he'll only promisingly shuffle some silver coins in his hand.)
"I think we can remedy that."

 

[Vendetta]

(No shops too close by, several blocks back at best... how much did you want to give the boy?)

 

[Knight Otu]

(One or gold pieces worth of silver coins. Sel can't exactly boast a lot of money at the moment himself. I guess if necessary, Liam could chip in, but the current offer should buy some meals.)

 

[Vendetta]

Sel slips his hand into the coin purse and pulls out a small handfull of silver coins; seven of them, and hands them to the boy. His eyes light up and the boy virtually shouts, "THANKS MISTER!" You can see in his eyes now daydreams of various foods that he'll buy and you note how lean he is... probably doesn't get much to eat, much less a healthy meal. The boy grins hugely at the group and then takes off running. "FOLLOW ME!" He shouts over his shoulder.

He runs around toward the back of the Mausoleum, but when he gets to the back of the building, he continues running away from it, toward the street behind the Mausoleum. The runs across the fenced in grounds and up to the fense itself. He slips easily between the wroght iron bars of the fense, pausing only briefly to wave you on, the darts across the open field behind toward a very old, very worn down looking two story shop with boarded up windows and doors.

The boy leads you to a boarded up door of one of the shops and to the side where he shifts a couple of boards aside to reveal an opening into the shop. Inside the shop is covered in dust and cobwebs, but tale tell tracks lead from the opening by which you just entered around behind a countertop, from which the shop owner once did business. Following the boy around the counter, he kneels and takes hold of some of the floorboards. With a grunt, he lifts a trap door free, revealing a dark cavern below... a cavern that heads in only one direction... straight back to the mausoleum, entrance to the catacombs...

 

[Knight Otu]

"Thank you. What is your name, by the way?" Sel'Tarien motions to his companions to look at the cavern and enter it.