Storms of Change IC Part 4

[Someone]

If the old man greets him, Lucun returns the greeting.

(That´s going to be surprising, since the old man is a statue)

"By my grandfather´s beard! I knew this place had to have something interesting" says Dunathar. "Just have some patience and let me tell if there´s some danger hidden, you never know with this holyer-than-thou-types. Can you tell if any of those things are magical? They´ll sure be worth a good price if they are."

While saying that, Dunathar carefully examines the secret door, the consoles and the statue looking for traps [taking 20 if nobody feels in a hurry] and tries to remove the staff from the statue, if it can be done.

 

[doghead]

Lucuan of Oludan

ooc: Whoops. He is indeed a statue. I missed that

Lucuan decides that as he has not yet been dropped into a pit, or stuck with arrows, the spot he now stands is safe enough for the moment. He slips a shiriken into his hand, but he leaves the searching up to the dwarf, although he keeps a wary eye over Dunathar, as well as the room. He is no hurry.

 

[Sado]

Goven

"What is this place?" the ranger asks as he looks around the room in wonder. "A temple of some sort, maybe?

"And what of these?" he indicates the armor, scrolls, and other items. "Could these be what we are looking for? Perhaps they are magic as Dunathar suggests."

Though the items on the consoles are intriguing, Goven is even more fascinated with the murals on the walls. He stares in awe at one, then another, for a moment lost in the images, not wanting to take his eyes off them.

 

[Manzanita]

Manzanita

"All of this must come with us. Since we don't know what we're looking for, we've got to take what we can get. I've already cast my detect magic spell for the day, so I can't verify this, but I suspect all that is magical. The scrolls are probably clerical in nature. Zook, can you have a look at them?"

"I can't help but wonder what the warden would do with any of this. It would probably help his army little. I think we should use what we can ourselves. The cloak is the more important object. The message indicates it can be used to get somewhere. That somewhere may be the savior of Shillen."

OOC: I can' help buy notice Zook has knowledge (religion) +7. If Isida is inactive at the moment, perhaps Silentspace could still tell us if he recogized the diety.

 

[silentspace]

Zook confirms the statue, symbols and iconography are all Pelor's.

Dunathar examines the door, console and statue looking for traps and finds none. Turning to the staff, Dunathar sees that the sun disk is hammered gold, with a continual flame spell on it. It weighs as much as a quarterstaff. Dunathar appraises its value at 500 gp.

The staff seems to be gripped tightly in the statue's hand, but Dunathar works on it and it comes loose, sliding free. As the staff leaves the statue's hand, the statues suddenly speaks!

"The power of darkness is great, but seek not to bind it to your will. Only light can distinguish friend from foe."

Afterwords, the statue is silent and unmoving.

Goven studies the murals. He notices a black spot in the midst of the winged flying creatures. At first it seemed like just a shadow, but it could be a hole. It sort of looks like the creatures are coming from the hole.

Studying the objects, the light mace and suit of chainmail are of masterwork quality (at least). Manzanita an Zook study the 5 potions and 8 scrolls, and manage to identify 1 potion, a potion of bull's strength. The yellow robe appears to be the same or similar to the robe worn by the man in the murals.

 

[Someone]

Dunathar stumbles and nearly fall flat on his butt when the statue speaks, but recovers quickly. "What´s that, some kind or prophecy or something?" he turn to the others. "In any case we won the pize, though we don´t know if this is what everyone is looking for."

"And, er, the staff is worth a few coins, though now it´ll save us a lot of torches. Who´s going to hold it?" says then, while examining the light mace. "Heh, I bet I could knock someone cold with this. You don´t mind if I keep it, do you?"

 

[doghead]

Lucan, male human.

Lucan drops his weight a little in readiness to fight as the statue speaks. Once he realises what is going on, he straightens up warily. Bah! Why do priests always prattle on so.

"Knock yourself out," he responds dryly to Dunathar request. "I have no use for it. Don't know about the others though."

He glances idly at the rest of the stuff. None of it looks particulary useful as far as he is concerned. If no one else wants to, he'll take the staff. It won't affect him much in a fight, and the idea of getting stuck in the dark doesn't appeal all that much.

"Had enough of that in Goruka," he mutters.

 

[Sado]

Goven

Goven is momentarily distracted from the mural by the statue's sudden animation. He grows concerned as the others talk about dividing up the items.

"These should all be returned to Carodan," he states. "We don't know what the Warden has sent us for, but it can be sorted out after we return.

"I'm sure we will be allowed to keep anything other than the object of our search."

And his eyes wander back to the hole in the mural amidst the strange creatures.

 

[Manzanita]

Manzanita Sparrow

" 'The power of darkness is great, but seek not to bind it to your will. Only light can distinguish friend from foe.' " Manzanita repeats the saying several times, attempting to set it in her memory.

"I will take the staff to carry. It is surely more usefull than my lantern." She does so, extinguishing her lantern, and sheathing her sword. With nowhere to put her lantern, she lays it on the floor.

"All the rest must come with us as well. Let us study the pictures some more. Evil seems to have come from some hole, but is vanquished by Pelor's forces. The yellow cloak and the staff may help us find the greater treasures."

 

[Someone]

"A hole in the air?" says Dunathar. "No, it must be another kind of think. Nope, is a hole." concludes after examining the mural himself. "Bah, this is just a picture."

The dwarf puts the light mace in his belt, loads the crossbow again goes through the secret door into the corridor again, ready to continue.