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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Nephis" data-source="post: 9056891" data-attributes="member: 20459">As ARUNNY looks around the room, curiosity peaked by the items left behind, consternation caused by the purple light and the rather doubtful altar to a rather doubtful primordial, Ibhea briefly picks up a dusty piece of fabric, glancing cavalierly at what he declares is a crudely sewn prayer quilt before dropping it to the ground and moving away, staring off into space, attention caught by something the seer cannot perceive.Indeed, her attention has been caught by the odd familiarity of the quilt - its melody feels well-known to her - so she picks it up to examine it closely. There are three section to it, sewn somewhat carelessly together. Puzzled, she begins to read the symbols, fabrics, and colors in each. The entirety is a triptych of Omthalan lore. The maker of the first section uses golds and whites - both in fabric and thread. Almost invisible to the unschooled eye, so torn and encrusted with dust that it is, it takes the eye of a fellow maker to fill in most of the gaps left by tears and dirt for a more complete story. This section tells of Omthala's battle with ... someone? something? Arunny cannot tell which, but the symbols stitched into the cloth are suns and rays and water and ... arrows?The maker of the third section - for it is clearly not the same maker as the first - uses darker materials, including some very simple beading. Her partner clearly only saw the top of the poorly folded quilt, for this section should have caught his attention more intensely. As with the first section, there are circular pieces of fabric, but here there are circles sewn over circles - indicative of an eclipse, perhaps? Arunny fingers the fabric and feels something inside. Carefully opening the quilt fully, she looks for a large enough tear to pull out what feels like paper hidden within. As she searches, she suddenly realizes two shocking things. First, the purples - ranging from pale to dark - used for this central section create landscapes in moonlight, very faint as the hues seem to have been chosen for their subtlety in shade and a design is barely discernable. Second, the reason she is able to see them at all is because she recognizes the maker of this section: herself. Stunned, she stares down at the quilt. This central section was once part of a slightly larger quilt, a quilt she'd stitched for her father when she was quite young, a quilt she'd last seen when he was packing his bags - the last time, in fact, that she had ever seen him. Does this mean that her father had been here? That the child whose words she'd "seen" actually saw him?[HR][/HR]Arunny uses a Primary Skill Perception check to "read" the quilt for information about her father and find something.... : +15 = Autosuccess vs. 16 Moderate DC.</blockquote>

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