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Message: <blockquote data-quote="rootbeergnome" data-source="post: 176191" data-attributes="member: 3462">One of these days, I'm going to have to end the session with some down time for the characters....maybe <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin    :D"  data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" /> But I can't seem to just end with something like "And you all go to the Sod House with Toady for a long needed rest." I like ending with the action and intrigue, makes them come back for more.  Ah, I do so love a good moral dilemma <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin    :D"  data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" />  As Rune said, when Virian and Dexerion went to the Academy Arcana, they were magically interrogated for hours because they had previously been asking the professors to research information on the "Zeitveg" (this was mis-pronounced at first by Dexerion, but the wizardly professor thought it might be a bad pronunciation of a word from another language)  The books with the information on the "Zeitveg" were missing from the library.   After proving themselves innocent, Virian and Dexerion were asked if they could help in finding the stolen books.  They agreed to help, and were shown to the library.  Just inside the very magically warded stone door to the library, there are 2 large magical mirrors.  The wizard explained that the mirrors were made to magically remember whatever was reflected in their surface if an alarm spell was triggered by anyone entering the library.  Virian and Dexerion watched the mirror as the images from the night before played out within them.  They watched for a very long time as nothing but the empty library was reflected, and then, Dexerion saw something moving in the shadows of the library's high ceiling.  Fifty feet above the stone floor of the library, within the shadows something crawled along the ceiling, something very....spider-like.  And it stopped, at a place on the ceiling, for just a moment, and fidgeted a bit, then moved out of the mirror's view.  Immediately Virian and Dexerion call for a library attendant to bring them a ladder.  They climb atop the the forty foot high book shelf, and with some ingenuity they make a rubbing of the rune that is scratched into the stone of the ceiling.  They determine the symbol is not arcane, and Virian's bardic experience does not lend him any idea as to it's nature either...--RB Gnome</blockquote>

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