The Whispering Cairn (Team Diamond Lake) - IC

[Shayuri]

Aria shivers at the talk of hungry ghosts and dread vampires, and hurries closer to Eldariel, keeping pace with him as he moves onward.

"I never thought I'd find someplace that made that run down cottage feel homey," she murmurs.

 

[fireinthedust]

mm. he hrms in reply.


ooc: advancing into the Cairn! Oooooo

 

[s@squ@tch]

Zeke leaves the scraps of cloth and goes back into the center of the cairn, then turns to the north, slowly advancing into the only unexplored portion of the cairn.

 

[HolyMan]

The party enters another area with two alcoves, each slightly large than the last ones. The western one whole but the eastern one is choked full of rubble possibly from a cave-in.

The western hall extends perhaps forty feet, ending at a small marble platform raised about six inches off the floor. A strange, shattered arcane apparatus rests upon this platform, its curved ovular frame giving the appearance of a noble's dressing mirror. Only a third of this frame remains. An unusual arcane glyph about the size of a man's head has been delicately carved into the base plate of the support platform.

Fifteen feet down the east passage, a huge pile of collapsed rubble blocks the alcove from top to bottom. It looks like it would take weeks to tunnel through the densely packed debris.

[sblock=OOC] Ok you may make any of the following checks...
- identify the glyph (arcana or history).
- tell what the frame does (or did) - know (arcana).
- perception for looking down the northern hallway or to search the rubble. [/sblock]

[sblock=OOC2] When everyone finds the chance can they post a stat block with the basics and spells please. [/sblock]

 

[HolyMan]

OOC: Bad map


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Key:

l l = impassable
l l = open, explored
l l = shadowy or lowvision
l
l = strange apparatus

J = Jules
Z = Zeke
G = Galyne
A = Aria
E = Avren
V = Vixtrin

[sblock=Hero Point] remeber everyone has +1 Hero Point that can only be used inside the Whispering Cairn and once used you don't recieve a new one for 24 hours (Game time) [/sblock]

 

[s@squ@tch]

Zeke

Zeke knows that magical glyphs are not his area of expertise -- he barely recognizes it as such, so he moves with his sunrod to the north, to see what lies beyond, while the other, more magically inclined folks study the glyph and apparatus.

 

[renau1g]

Jules leans against the wall idly watching the others examine the apparatus, clearly uninterested in the broken device.

[sblock=ooc]
Lean at Qu [/sblock]

 

[CanadienneBacon]

Not interested in the broken "mirror" frame with glyphs, Vixtrin turns her head from the others and peers into the darkness of the main passageway further north. Carefully watching her step, Vixtrin advances north and has a look around.

OOC: Move quietly 15' to square Tq. Look as far ahead into the passageway as the light will allow. Perception +0.

 

[Shayuri]

Alone of the party, it seems, Aria moves towards the broken archway...drawn by disastrous curiosity. She hunkers down and her gaze lingers on the strange emblem at its base before following the rest of the device's unnatural circumferences up. Though she reaches out, Aria keeps enough of her wits about her not to actually touch the strange stuff, even as she invokes a minor magic taught to her by her mentor, before the accident..

(Casting Detect Magic...)

 

[HolyMan]

Detecting magic in the area reveals small black "glass-like" shards about the base of the broken frame. They give a vary faint aura of conjuration magic, but it is so weak they themselves are probably no longer able to do anything. They seem broken.

[sblock=Frame] Searching the frame Aria discovers numerous runes inside the frame, where the black "glass" would have been held. The symbols signify transportation. [/sblock]
[sblock=Glyph][sblock=DC:10]The glyph does not seem to be formed from a common alphabet, although it is reminiscent of arcane symbols representing the element air.[sblock=DC:15]The glyph represents a name.[sblock=DC:20]The letterforms look similar to an ancient glyph-language called Vaati, which some unorthodox scholars consider the original written form of Auran.[/sblock][/sblock][/sblock][/sblock]