Yeah just having a chat and hanging with the ghosts. I think the next step will be to talk to the nereid ness pa?
Satari also looks startled - turtle dragons are tremendously good luck. Why hadn't he noticed such an auspicious sign before now? Truly the mysteries of Wa are manifold and full of delight.
"Let's do it." Altai is completely weirded out by the invisible two-dimensional shades flittering around in the background, and has spent the dinner staring wildly into seemingly empty spaces. "Anywhere but here."
Mr. Han leads you to a chamber in the north of the keep. Then there's a trapdoor; he lifts this.....telekinetically, with an upward motion of his hand.
A spiral staircase becomes evident.
"She is through there," he says.
Then, "here is a key; there is a door within that it will open, to an interdimensional pocket. She is within that pocket."
He holds the key out. It is gold plated, and has blue gems, blue like the ocean in the Bahamas.
Emreal nods her head. "Thank you. I will see that you get this back when we return. Anything we should know about her interdimensional pocket? Or her?"
Dok remains impassive as the discussion takes place around the trap door, though his eyes dart to Mr. Han at the words "nobody......vulgar", looking to see if even the dead deem half-orcs two-legged vermin.
FYI, folks, this week is going to redefine busy. I might not be around much at all, though I will try to keep up. That being said, feel free to NPC Rholf, or Pixie Rogue could take up my slack. Cheers!
"Gittik went off to kill his foster family soon after I joined the company. Stigwold was shunted off away by Loki when we first arrived here, for no reason I can fathom, except he might have used Loki's otter form as a snot rag. He, umm, was a bit uncouth."
"Dat's nut ez guud ez deh smell o' deh furest. But at leas' iz nat'ral. Les go an' see deh ladee, shell we?" Elgan asks in an accent even thicker than usual for some reason.
Pip's melancholy cords are answered by silence and darkness, cooly waiting as if to pounce, beyond the yellow orb of that which is seen by Emrael's carried light spell.
Emreal waits until the rest of the party has reached the bottom of the stairs before she enters the chamber. She does approach and look within, however.
Altai pulls his faceplate back over his face and strides confidently down the stairwell. He stops and looks around the ossuary, clearly disappointed. "So, our ghost-emperor buddy stashes his nereid alongside the dusty remnants of his long-dead ancestors? She must be thrilled. Philistine. I certainly wouldn't board a honoured guest in my garage or in my cupboard with my cleaning supplies."
"Still, take some care navigating here. Don't topple the bone stacks. Who knows what kinds of guardian spirits or curses that haunt a place like this."
"We had an ossuary much like this at my first monastery. Made me shiver then too." Satari's shoulders start to hunch nvoluntarily before he asserts control and regains his usual relaxed perfect posture. "Onward?"
Elgan forces himself to pull his gaze away from the empty eye sockets. He can outstare almost any beast known, and most humanoids, but the deep darkness of the unblinking gazes weirds him out in ways he hadn't realized existed.
"Yeah. Pleeze Chere'. Les git outta heah. Ah'm wunderin' if'n deh king's hospitality iz bettuh expressed towurds hiz guest in huh chambers?"
Elgan sniffs. Sneezes from the dust, and glances at Altai sheepishly.
"Leeve dis tuh us chere'!" Elgan says, pointing a thumb at both himself and Beldan.
Leaving the almost magically invisible Beldan to do his shadow trick, Elgan shimmers into the shape of an owl, Silent flight and night vision! ;) and quietly flaps up over the piles of bones on the floor,...
He'll go as high as he can. I get the impression this is more than 10' high? If not, he'll hug the ceiling as much as possible. He makes a circle of the edge of the room, trying to spot the exit.
OK< starting at the "A" in CLAW, I will fly down row 10, J-S, then down row "S" to 15, then left across 15 back to J10. IN other words, making a complete circle of the room (unless interrupted) keeping approx a 10' distance from any walls.
