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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Nephis" data-source="post: 9012236" data-attributes="member: 20459">PA'AVU steps back to allow Chanvati to enter the Oracle's cave to "handle things," smiling a little as she does so. His silver tongued words are good at "handling things." She is therefore at first puzzled, then concerned, as she observes the carvings he begins to chisel into the stone wall: a strange design of zigzagging and curved intersecting lines, resembling nothing so much as a crude rendering of the storm-wracked surface of a body of water. And were those figures hewn in the center of the maelstrom sea monsters? Boats? One head bobbing on the surface somewhat resembled a goliath, a hand from the waves wrapped around an arm, pulling it under? What?? She watches as the clanmother's hand "reads" the etched scene, the old woman's frown mirroring her own. Suddenly, Chanvati gasps in horror and steps away from the old woman's humble figure, colliding with the body of his sahtree, who instinctively draws up her hands to catch him by the shoulders. In this warm, damp room his skin feels strangely cold and dry, papery almost, subtly shifting. Pa'avu immediately swings her gosb'tar around and stares into his face. His mouth is contorted in a silent scream, and his eyes glow with an alien purple fire, the same hue she'd witnessed emanating from the now-destroyed meteorite. Even the tears beginning to fall from his eyes hold a faintly lavender light in the firelight's reflection.Resolutely, Pa'avu reaches down into her l'pahb'gin for healing strength to reach him, shaking him gently and calling out, "wake up, gosb'tar: come out of your fevered dreams and return to this place." After a long, anxious moment, the purple fire is extinguished, and Pa'avu's eyes are once again staring down into the pale eyes of her merchant prince. [HR][/HR]* Secondary Skill Insight to understand the consternation on the Oracle's face and the sound of Chanvati's gasp: r(8) + 4 = 12 vs. 11 Easy DC) to gain a +2 bonus* Primary Skill Heal check to shake Chanvati's out of his diseased hallucination: r(17) + 9 + 2 (SS) = 28 vs. 15 Medium DC Success!</blockquote>

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