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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Nephis" data-source="post: 8961480" data-attributes="member: 20459">CHANVATI holds his palms splayed above the burbling mud where Pa’avu’s giant head is submerged. Though faint through the intervening muck—and more significantly, her spirit’s transit to another plane—Pa’avu’s thoughts are still accessible to him, communication possible through the lingering traces of her ki force.As the image of the Spirit Serpent and the harp-like gate flood his consciousness through this connection, Chanvati’s eyes open briefly in the mortal world, truly taking in the lineated runes scribed around the sacred mud-baths for the first time: they are swaras, notes on a musical scale! This inscription is the information Pa’avu needs to complete her ritual in the Spirit Realm.<Sahtree, hear me: follow my instruction and pluck the bars of the gate as strings in the order I show you!>As PA'AVU learns the new weight, shape, and movement of her body in this realm, she studies the colossal instrument while considering the instruction given her that she must play her purpose upon its strings and play them well. The goliath understands that it is clearly the entrance to a sacred space through which she and her H'z'lahto must travel. Her gosb'tar has spoken at times of symbols standing in for material items - and she has surely left the materiel world: this must be evidence of such a thing. She is hesitant, for while she has seen such instruments through association with Chanvati - and even heard one played a time or two - she has never played one herself.  She sends the images of what she sees back to him through their connection and receives this reply:<sahtree, hear me: follow my instruction and pluck the bars as strings in the order I show you.>At first he attempts to use words to convey the needed information, then he seem to recognize that images are more direct and less filtered through linguistic translation. Pa'avu closes her eyes and allows the picture to grow into understanding until she Knows what Must be done. Opening her eyes, the goliath quickly "leaps" through the limitless space, catching hold of one of the larger strings - for strings, they are, not bars. She allows the weight of her leap to pull it back, before letting it go with a deep resonant tone. Then, using her hands to hold another large string, she quickly "climbs" up a number of the smaller ones, causing a cascade of liquid sound in a tonal scale. Still holding that one string, she allows her body to swing around, feet slamming into one of the largest strings, causing a deep reverberant "bell" sound to resound and reverberate. Finally, silently climbing to the thinnest part of the harp, Pa'avu strokes the smallest strings over and over, getting quieter and quieter, until only the vibrations of the echoes can still be heard.  [HR][/HR]We are engaging 2 as both a Secondary Skill and Advantage deployment wagered for 2 Successes.* Chanvati makes a Secondary Skill Religion check to interpret the sacred music to communicate the notes to Pa’avu, r(5) +9 = 14 vs 12 Easy DC = Success, +2 forward* Pa'avu makes a Primary Skill Athletics check (Powerful Athlete) to climb and jump on/between the Harp's strings: r(11, 17) + 12 + 2 (SS) = 25/31 vs. 24 Hard DC = 2 Successes* We will hold off on making a move against the threat of the encroaching lava ... for now!</blockquote>

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