Six From Gate Pass - Chapter 2: The Indomitable Fire Forest of Innenotdar

[funkmamagoat]

			Fire is hot stupid!

Kirio shakes his hand and blows on it "well, the soldier is quite warm, and most definitely alive. A staggering amount power is centered around him, transmutation magic... Arnir any insights?"

Kirio examines the mace more closesly "this is also magical, and seemingly contains a complicated arrangements of enchantments... I may be able to learn more...?"

OOC: Kirio attempts to determine nature of enchantments on mace - spellcraft check to identify
while detect magic active.

 

[Gregor]

Kirio, you are able to identify the heavy mace and communicate its history and properties to the party. Its name is 'Bhurisrava’s Wish' and it was forged 40 years ago in this village. The wielder and enchanter of the weapon was a priest of the same name which you now know to be a Celestial word for "defeated in no battles." Though a priest of Correllon, he attempted to infuse the weapon with the blessings of a god of healing. He prayed over the weapon for many days, starving himself and neglecting sleep, hoping that he could harness the power necessary to save his people and his forest. Whether his prayers were answered by Correllon or another is unknown, but he managed to enchant his mace with extra healing potential. However, this enchantment came only at the moment of his death, when his final prayers and wishes were spoken.

GM: In game mechanics, the weapon is a +1 heavy mace that bypasses damage reduction as if it were good-aligned. Additionally, a creature carrying the mace gains a special benefit when using the Heal skill to treat injuries: after spending one minute tending to a creature, if the mace’s bearer makes a DC 15 Heal check, the patient heals an amount of damage equal to its Hit Dice. A particular patient can only benefit from one such healing treatment per day.

 

[Adjuntive]

Alric regards the fallen elven warrior, unsure if he is truly dead. As such he keeps his hand unconciously upon the hilt of his sword.

"What is this place? Does elven worship bring about such strange things?" he says gesturing to the elves. "What has happened here? Some sort of theft?" he says gesturing to the broken case.

 

[The Bashar]

Hrimr ponders the strange situation as well.

"Hmm a Shahalesti soldier is here. Maybe a bunch of them tired to steal something from this place as Alric suggested? And this priest died trying to stop the theft? This does seem to implicate the Shahalesti as the aggressors here. It does look like the magic in this room is holding back the ever burning flames. And this elf is on fire, but does not burn like the other bodies we have seen. Most interesting."

After listening to Kirio talk about the Heavy Mace Hrimr sighs.

"A weapon that heals as well as hurts. If I were only trained in its use. Torrent maybe you can make use of it?"

 

[funkmamagoat]

Does elven worship bring about such strange things?" he says gesturing to the elves. "What has happened here? Some sort of theft?"

Kirio gives the human warrior a strange look "worship of all kinds brings about all manor of strangeness; elven or otherwise I have always found involvement of the gods to be strange, fickle and on the whole unsatisfying... yes?"

This does seem to implicate the Shahalesti as the aggressors here.

"I'm not sure I agree with you my stout friend. There presence in an elven settlement is anything but odd, and why would the magic of this place sustain him if he were a thief, or if he represented the powers that brought about this tiresome curse. On the contrary it seems this soldier is being protected from it along with this shrine. It is transmutation, which makes sense as it seems to be holding time at bay, cocooning him from the effects of the forest fire, and holding back decay from this unfortunate corpse." He smiles wickedly and holds up his left hand, which is now red from having touched the elf "I can attest to the heat of the flames however, they are quite real."

He indicates the fallen priest "As for our fallen mace making friend here, I'd wager it is none other than our Bhurisrava, the priest from the tower. He certainly seemed to agree with you that Shahalesti is to blame for this?" Kirio shrugs and walks over to the shattered display case to see if he can find further clues...

 

[Adjuntive]

"I agree with Kirio. We have not enough information to draw conclusions of what the Shahalesti were doing here. Though I dislike mentioning this, it may be that awakening this one may yield some answers." Alric motions to the still living body on the floor.

 

[fromage67]

Lars says, "Looks like nasty things happened here. What do you think was taken from the glass case? Could be important. I doubt it's the mace, suppose it could be, though."

Lars approaches the two unconscious or dead elves and says in a loud voice, "Can you hear me? Hello!"

 

[Gregor]

Torrent hefts the simple-looking heavy mace in her hand, examining it. "I am trained in this weapon, but to be honest, I'm not much of a traditional healer. My church training was more focused on martial aspects and divine magic, and I spent more time learning to swim than I did learning splints and poultices." She slings the weapon through leather loop on her belt and continues. "It would be a shame to leave such a weapon behind though, its well-made, infused with good and enchanted. At a minimum it will serve us well if that bearded beast from Hell returns." She turns to Hrimr before speaking further. "Hrimr, in the long run, maybe you can teach me a few things about field dressings and other healer skills? I might as well train so I can use this to the fullest."

Kirio, its difficult to tell anything of substance from the smashed glass. Its fairly clear that is was probably a display case, but that is all you're able to glean.

 

[The Bashar]

Hrimr smiles at hearing Torrent's desire to learn.

"Of course I can teach you! Your education can begin tomorrow. I will show you how to help someone who is suffering from a disease. As for field dressings and the like I am sure opportunities will present themselves as this mission continues."

Hrimr regards the sleeping elf wreathed in flames.

"Maybe we need to douse the flames to free him from his unnatural rest?"

 

[funkmamagoat]

"Can you hear me? Hello!"

Kirio shakes his head at the debris of the display case. To Lars "I sort of tried that already, I think something a little more involved will be required."

she slings the weapon through leather loop on her belt and continues. "It would be a shame to leave such a weapon behind though, its well-made, infused with good and enchanted. At a minimum it will serve us well if that bearded beast from Hell returns."

Kirio walks over to torrent and extends his hand to look at the mace again "may I" He hefts it, swings it experimentally a couple of times "I'm certainly more proficient with a bow, but am trained in using this. If you're not wedded to the idea, I would not mind carrying and using it? It is... appealing to me. If Torrent is willing to part with it perhaps you could teach me instead Hrmir?"

Kirio fixes his attention back towards the elven soldier and sctratches his head. "I don't think these two were fighting. Perhaps they were both trying to protect whatever was taken from the display case, and were overpowered..." He looks over the wounds of the fallen priest (OOC: knowledge nature) to see if he can determine what killed him.

"I would like to talk to this soldier, but I don't know if breaking the spell that preserves him would only let the forest fire encroach with full force?" Kirio begins a slow and methodical search of the entire room, trying to determine if there is more here than they are seeing...

OOC: as greg pointed out, since I am being slow and methodical, I will take a 20 on the perception check.