The Selgaunt Campaign

[Artemis Blade]

Artemis walks around the room some, checking the portal areas and other main areas of interest to see if they have any portal activation symbols that were present in other areas of the tower.

"Let's scout ahead some and find a area to rest. Then we can retrieve the torso tomorrow."

After looking for portal activation symbols, Artemis stands by the doorway to the curved hallway. He feels confident that other party members will be able to decipher all this stuff better than he can.

 

[haiiro]

Artemis walks around the room some, checking the portal areas and other main areas of interest to see if they have any portal activation symbols that were present in other areas of the tower.

Artemis finds all three portal arches completely devoid of any symbols or markings whatsoever.

Both marble spheres, however, have Netherese writing etched into their surfaces. Each bears the same inscription, and they are very fine carvings -- almost too fine to feel, and only visible if the light catches them right. Almost as if they were designed more to remind someone of what they say, not as a decorative or functional addition to the spheres.

When Cupric has a chance to take a look at them, he finds that both spheres say, "Make this place ready."

OOC: I assumed Cupric took 10 on his Decipher Script check, which gives him a 20 -- enough for a basic phrase.

 

[Xen]

Marduke

"Hrm. So, why do you suppose those weasels are keeping this army so clean? Maybe one of them should be doing some 'splaining... Maybe the bard could use his Weaselspeak to get some more information out of those two."

Marduke twitches a bit, then walks to the halfway point of the bridge to get a better view of things.


OOC: Know Planes on the lit up sphere: 20 [10 +10] - with the thought that it would somehow be used to control the portal. He will climb down if he must, to do the inspection.

 

[haiiro]

OOC: Know Planes on the lit up sphere: 20 [10 +10] - with the thought that it would somehow be used to control the portal. He will climb down if he must, to do the inspection.

Marduke climbs down without any problems, but quickly finds that the sphere doesn't seem to have anything to do with any of the portals.

OOC: Not sure what you meant by lit up, but I assumed Marduke went for the shiny, dust-free sphere. That's really the only difference: one is free of dust and nicely polished; the other is coated in dust, except where it was disturbed by Artemis to find the inscription.

 

[Xen]

Tal

Tal walks down to the two smaller portal archways. "Do you think we can just walk through these?", says Talishmere, as he pokes at one of the archway "openings" with his hand.

"I don't have a problem with coming back here tomorrow. But, while we all still have some energy, lets continue to explore this room, or this place, and we can backtrack tomorrow. I don't think it's that late in the day yet. If we need to get more information out of the weasels, though - we may want to do that now.

Artemis - can you operate these small portals with that arm of yours?"


OOC: Tal pokes around the two smaller portals, inspecting. Are they still functional?

 

[Xen]

OOC: Not sure what you meant by lit up, but I assumed Marduke went for the shiny, dust-free sphere. That's really the only difference: one is free of dust and nicely polished; the other is coated in dust, except where it was disturbed by Artemis to find the inscription.

OOC: Thanks for the clarification - I was confused. When Marduke is done inspecting, he will go poke his head through the door to the weasel room - seeing if they are still around.

 

[haiiro]

OOC: Tal pokes around the two smaller portals, inspecting. Are they still functional?

OOC: They don't do anything when you poke your hand into the arch, but Tal suspects that they are still functional.

 

[haiiro]

OOC: When Marduke is done inspecting, he will go poke his head through the door to the weasel room - seeing if they are still around.

Climbing back up to the bridge, Marduke peers into the previous chamber. Both spelleaters are still there, curled up despondently on the floor where the Follies last saw them. One of them -- Marduke thinks it's Griffilhalz -- lifts its head and glances up at the dwarf, and then settles its head back down on its front paws. It doesn't look like they're going to be going anywhere.

 

[Artemis Blade]

Artemis looks puzzled. "So far our experience with the arms has been that they are door openers. I'm not sure how they would relate to the smaller portals, other than just being part of this place."

Artemis wanders over to the two smaller portals and tries the rune combinations we know on both arms.

If those don't work, he tries to figure out if there is a pattern or path to the pressed runes on both arms. (Like one press on the top part of the arm, two presses near the elbow, etc.)

If he finds one, then he'll try a similar (yet different) combination of rune presses on both arms at both portals. Failing that, he'll try some random combinations of rune presses that seem important.

Going with the possible skills that might have an effect:
Decipher Script: 20 (16+4)
Open Lock: 22 (13+9)
Int. Check: 19 (16+3)
Random Button Pressing: 15 (10+5) (+5 from Perform-Dance)

If he fails:
"Well, I can't get it to work. Perhaps Cupric would be better suited to activating these arms in a different fashion."

If he has success:
"That was unexpected."

 

[dharmabum]

Tuggle moves to stand behind Artemis while he attempts to activate the portals with the runekey arm. He is ready to toss off a Magic Missile if anything threatening comes through.

OOC: I'll be waiting for Cupric to talk to the weasles and get more details about the siphon. We've made them some promises about protecting their access to it, and since we don't know what it is yet, we can't keep those promises. Once everyone is on the same page (so to speak) Tuggle will suggest marching formation down the curved hallway.