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Message: <blockquote data-quote="97mg" data-source="post: 7381136" data-attributes="member: 6799460">Held out to shadow the view of her fellow explorers, squinting into the stone’s surface, Metea notices a change. No lightning streaks out to incinerate anyone. None of them gasp in asphyxiation. The only alteration is to the stone itself. Soaking up the room’s light, the fire within appears to dull and fade. Bright flashes become a little mediocre. For some reason they seemed at their best before, straight after she’d retrieved them from the darkness of her pocket. That makes a twisted sense really, for something born in darkness to wish to avoid the light.Metea might recall Annit’s mention of “permanence”. Even permanence in magic can only be attained when certain conditions are met. A fundamental in arcane training of course, is the learning of simple conditions. What to say. What gestures to make. When to not use such skills. The Church of Suru in this regard was as much about how to quietly and discreetly help others, as to how to make decisions… wisely. As for the small moonstone orbs and her learnings? Metea can’t remember anything that directly links the two…<They might be magic, but it would take some kind of identification spell to be certain and ascertain their exact properties. The other way to discover if their purpose other than looking purdy, would be through further experimentation. Somehow, under the right conditions, they can make a spell's effects permanent!>Had the battle in some way, cleared the Barbarian’s mind? The outlet of aggression might have done wonders for her. Jeovanna reviews the rockfall carefully, almost like a mason or expert in earth movement. It just makes sense to her right now!This stone is dense and most of it is tightly packed.The crushing and cracks within pieces at the bottom indicate that this might have happened a long time ago. A relief, that rocks randomly falling on heads doesn’t seem overly probable. The mass is sturdy and sound, if left untampered. “Kasholsik rarghi snurrah,” a Gnoll expression. “Let it lie, live for the now.” Relevant perhaps, because it looks to be that the tampering or removal of too many of the lower stones “could” have a disastrous effect. If anything, the existence of this mass is proof, that these days the shoreline’s faults no longer stress against each other of their own accord. Looking upwards and running her eyes across the higher regions, Jeovanna can estimate that an upper level of the mine collapsed, cracking the floor beneath and tumbling further.What could have done that? Well… an earthquake or another natural cause is a possibility. Maybe it also split the fissure that Annit had wandered into? Or… maybe the miners of old made a simple mistake, that seems unlikely unless they were using some kind of blasting force that got out of hand. A force like that, would surely be able to kick some arse!This stuff was hard. How long would it take with a hammer and chisel, versus a more direct approach? Maybe back then it took magic… to find magic. Some things never change.</blockquote>

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