Upgrade your account to a Community Supporter account and remove most of the site ads.
Enchanted Trinkets Complete--a hardcover book containing over 500 magic items for your D&D games!

Reply to thread

Message: <blockquote data-quote="DiFier" data-source="post: 932068" data-attributes="member: 2345">I'm having trouble dealing with the detect thoughts part of this next update so I'm gonna move it.  Ciramar cast detect thoughts and then questioned the scorpian woman.  she didn't answer any of his questions directly but he got many answers.  I'm gonna move it to after the this next part which was more fun to write.___________________________________Ciramar arose and prepared his spells. He cast comprehend languages and attacked the scrolls. Most were not of much use. They were interesting but really didn't tell him anything. The Ones on the 6 gajin had a familiarity to them. Ciramar had a suspicion that they were the other's who had been traveling with them on the road to Lothilawyr. He would ask Sinji what a Korobokuru was. Sinji led them up the stairs to the temple proper. It was another five-minute climb into the immense building that seemed to precariously sit on the side of the mountain. Ciramar had told Arsindis about his research into the legends and his suspicions. He still had the scrolls and was rereading the one on the six gajin trying to find more clues before the comprehend languages wore off."Sinji, What is a Korobokuru?"Sinji looked at him a little funny "they are a race of small stocky people they live to the north of the Empire. They aren’t friendly and they keep to them selves. I'd guess that they are around 4 feet tall we don't get many around here they prefer the cold weather. They are sort of uncivilized.""Ciramar. . " said Arsindis"they are dwarfs. . . Sinji can you get me copies of the legends of the 6 gajin?" He said reading the description of the koroboku named Koru again. Sinji didn't respond He and Arsindis were looking out across the landscape to the village of Emei. A black cylindrical cloud hovered over the village. Lightning flowed through the cloud and repeatedly struck the tower of the keep at the center of the village. The lightning stopped. Suddenly the cloud got smaller it shrank to half it's size and then the lightning began again as it grew to it's original size again but only for a second. It pulsed and then it dissipated quickly. It was again a perfect day for as far as they could see."What was that? Ciramar searched his magical knowledge but this was not a something that he recognized. 'We are going back to the village, I'm sure we will find out." They watched for a few more seconds but when nothing happened they turned and climbed the rest of the way to the temple. "I will have someone search for those legend scrolls" continued Sinji. The stairs went up through a large arch held the temple above from crashing down the mountain. They climbed to the top of the stairs. Directly in front of them was a column of air that spun like a whirlwind. The surrounding air was unaffected. They were on a large circular walkway around a deep, dark chasm the bottom, if there was one, was obscured in black shadow. There were 3 other columns at the cardinal points of the walkway. To the right was a column of fire then a solid marble column and finally a column of falling water.Between the columns were spiral staircases that led up to a second circular walkway. The ceiling above was of black polished stone with white "stars" in a gentle dome. "The Temples are upstairs,” said Sinji, "there is one for each element and the doors for each are opposite their respective column.""I believe that we should check out these columns, first" Said Ciramar They walked up to the air column and Ciramar and Arsindis checked it out. They made their way to the fire column it gave off an immense heat. It was hard to look at and the heat kept them from staying too close for very long. The stone "earth" column was just that a simple stone column. Beautifully made but just a solid stone column. Ciramar decided to search it anyway. At about chest height his hand went through the stone surface and hit solid stone a few inches behind where the illusory image was. Ciramar disbelieved the image and it was gone. Arsindis and Sinji seeing Ciramar's arm going into solid stone also disbelieved the illusion. There was a 6" square hole on the side of the column. It was 2 inches deep and on the back wall was shallow octagonal indention about 2 inches across. "Is there a key?" asked Arsindis."No. Perhaps the key was here and has been removed.""Or this is the lock.""Let's see if the other columns have similar indentions"They found an indention on the floor of the air column and one on the top of a pedestal in the center of the column of fire, which Ciramar had protected himself to reach into. They were unable to locate one in the water column but the powerful falling water made searching inside the torrent difficult. In fact the air column was also difficult to search but the indention on the floor was easy to spot once you knew what to look for. "I'd say that there is an indention in the water column as well and that these are the locks. Let’s check upstairs in the temples for the keys." decided Ciramar. They ascended the closest staircase and took in the second level. There were 4 sets of large doors. Each of the corresponding element's color and with the symbol of the element in a large emblem on the pair of doors."So where do we start?" asked Arsindis.</blockquote>

Verification