Shackled City - Chapter II

[hippocrachus]

Orpheus unstraps his lyre and strums a few chords until he feels the arcane power flow from its strings.

Detect Magic

 

[Manzanita]

Raven

Raven returns to the others. "Well done, Althorn. My name is Raven by the way." She'll offer to take the objects. "I don't know that I can find traps on something I can't see, though." She'll try, none the less. (Search +5, disable device +3)

 

[Majin]

Orpheus' spell reveals to him a permanent illusion spell surrounding this room.

From what Raven can tell the objects felt are not trapped and can easily be picked up and carried.

 

[hippocrachus]

"The gnomes have enchanted this room with some kind of illusion. Bring the findings out here and let us see how far the enchantment goes," he says to the group, swinging his lyre back across his shoulder.
Nothing is as it seems when dealing with gnomes...

 

[Manzanita]

Raven

Raven will bring them out of the room. If they remain invisible, she'll feel them thoroughly with her fingers. Are they books? Boxes? Something else?

 

[Majin]

As soon as the carried objects break the magical field of the secret room they slowly appear and show themselves to be 3 very well done paintings, each quite valuable to an interested buyer.

 

[Manzanita]

Raven

"This place is full of surprises," Raven mutters. "I don't want to hold these. Perhaps we should leave them and take them back up on our way out. I wonder if they'll turn invisible again if I put them back in the room..." Raven tries this.

"Can anyone detect for magic?"

 

[hippocrachus]

"Yes. Yes, I can," Orpheus says in a dry tone.

 

[Verbatim]

As the items were revealed to be paintings, Zeric was slightly disappointed, but once more impressed by the skills of the gnomes.

"I would have liked to have seen this place before it fell into ruins..."

Stopping himself before more of his thoughts escaped, Zeric looked at the others hoping they did not catch his momentary lowering of his guard.

"Place them back in the room and we shall retrieve them on the way out, as they will only hinder us if we carry them."

 

[Majin]

Upon returning the paintings to the confines of the small secret room they do indeed return to their invisible state.