Flug's face twitches and his head jerks back. He seems to get over it quickly and continues inspecting the device.
Flug's face twitches and his head jerks back. He seems to get over it quickly and continues inspecting the device.
"What is it Flug? Did you feel a great disturbance as if millions of voices suddenly cried out in terror, and were suddenly silenced?"
"There's something in here with us!" Celif repeats, more forcefully this time. Trying to detect it, she stares into the darkness...
Darkness! A sudden flash of inspiration strikes her, and she quickly pulls out the old holy symbol she used before she acquired the Tabard of Septimus. A quick chant and she flicks it with one finger, causing it to light. Spinning it around her index finger on its neck chain, she lifts it high into the air, causing constantly shifting light and shadow.
"There! There!" she shouts, pointing towards the ceiling near the mechanism. "Like a tiny black cloud!"
Flug continues working out the device, though it seems more like he's just running his hands over it.
Nästród draws a wooden stake from his belt and heaves it at the object.
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Nastrod flings a wooden stake at the object floating near the ceiling, but his aim is off and the chunk of wood sails far from the intended target.
Rufina and Thorgrim are unable to see the object floating in the room...
Group 1: Gezzo, Imowen
Imowen swings her mace at Flug attempting to knock his hand off the machine... and she raps him on the knuckles for four points of damage! You are not listening...I said to leave this device alone!
"Get back, Flug. You've never been too sharp, but even you can see you shouldn't be messing with the device." Gezzo growls and points his greatsword at Flug's neck. "Try it one more time and I'll run this through you!"
Flug flinches from Imowen's attack and Gezzo's further threat seems to confuse him. He draws back a bit but doesn't remove himself from the device.
"What is that thing?" Nästród said while pointing with another wooden stake at the dark form near the ceiling.
He tosses the stake at it to study the reaction.
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Nastrod studies the floating black orb, and he tries to strike it with another wooden stake, but the thing evades the attack easily.
Flug stops fiddling with the device and looks up at the orb.
He the moves to the west wall, north of the door.
"I suspect that it is of a negative energy substance, and that it is composed of the elements of death rather than life."
"We can't just leave them," she says, gesturing at Gezzo and Imowen.
"Unless you think finishing the crystal swap will release them?"
Nästród whispers to her: "I see it up near the ceiling. I tried throwing some stakes at it but couldn't hit it."
Celif scowls at the thing. "Well let's see if I can!"
She begins a chant, weaving her hands in an intricate pattern not previously seen, then sharply pushes both palms out at the thing, wrists touching... and an intense beam of sacred light streams forth.
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Celif invokes the power of her diety, and a shaft of light beams from her hands, striking the dark orb! It instantly vanishes!
Imowen and Gezzo look startled, and gaze around the room in surprise, as if seeing it for the first time...
End of Encounter
Rufina: The guardian of this room is gone. We have the crystal for the device in the room of Light. Let's leave this device alone and proceed to find the final white crystal.
"Hah! Take that!" she cries while shaking her fist at the spot the black cloud had been. "No one stands against the glory of Septimus!"
Then, looking around, she brings her fist to her mouth and makes an embarrassed little cough. "Sorry, caught up in the moment," she mutters.
"Gezzo, Imowen, are you alright?"
Flug goes back to the room of earth and peeks through the west and east doors to the room of fire and room of water. He steps back.
"We must t-traverse these rooms to find others."
I say to Celif, Thank you so much for the healing, Celif! I was injured quite a lot but am quite a bit better now.
Then I say to Flug, You are confused, Flug. Come back in here. We need to check out what is behind the 3 doors in THIS room next. Which one should we open first?
Without waiting for a reply, I go and open the east door and peak in and look around. Then I proceed to the south door and open it and look around. And lastly I go to the west door and open it and look around.
Flug looks a bit dazed but does as Imowen says.
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Imowen and Flug open the doors in the wall of the Dark room, and discover they reveal the following:
Opening the east door, they look into the south doorway of the Water room.
Opening the west door, they look into the south doorway of the Fire room.
Opening the south door, they see a room not yet encountered. All surfaces of this room appear to be made of clear glass. The planet of Saemyyr is visible through the floor many miles below, and clouds float past the floor, walls and ceiling. Three other doorways are evident, located centrally in the transparent walls. A transparent crystal orb radiant with white and yellow sparkling motes sits atop a strange device in the center of the room. A rod of white crystal lies on the floor adjacent to the device.
"I have a feeling. . . that flying will somehow be involved in that room."
"By the gods!" Gezzo says as he looks into the room. "What is this place? Rufina, do you know anything about this?" He scans the room and casts an incantation.
"Imowen, don't you dare go rushing into this room! You can't fly and neither can I!"
Flug steps into the room, ready to step back out if attacked.
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Flug goes through the door and just barely steps into the room of Air. He stands upon something solid, and a wind blows steadily past him. He can see the white crystal laying beside the device in the center of the room, and he also notices that the device has four clear crystals in it, with its gauge pointing at 80 percent.
Ah, Celif! What makes you think I would go rushing into this room?
I say as I chuckle to myself.
Seeing Flug go into the room I wonder if I would be able to join him. . .
"Oh, I don't know," Celif says with a relieved grin. "Maybe because you do that all the time?"
Watching Flug "walking on air," she adds, "Looks like it's not as dangerous as I thought, though."
Flug approaches the device to take the white crystal.
"Grab it, Flug and get out of there!" Gezzo says keeping his voice low.
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Flug approaches the device in the center of the room. When he gets within 10 feet of the device the air in the room begins to stir and gain velocity! Flug obtains the white crystal, and as he turns around he sees whirlwinds of air forming cloud-like creatures with dark hollows reminiscent of eyes and a mouth. A howling wind whips them into ominous shapes, which attack!