Beacon Below CORE (Inactive)

Game Master Helikon

Define useful :)

After disabling the magical barrier, Meri quickly hustles over to the column with the most items on it, searching...

Perception: 1d20 + 13 ⇒ (3) + 13 = 16 or +16 traps

The dispel failed, but meanwhile Merisiel managed to reach the goal.

The sorceress will cast detect magic to see what she might find on the pillars or the area.

The pillars are not magical. The crystal in the middle is!
What do the others do? 90 seconds left!

Did my search turn up anything?

Does Bramble holding the sage jewel can do something to deactivate this?

Marisiel try to focus light in those columns!

Grabbing a scroll. Maybe it'll help.

She has a light spell she can use to add light :)

Merisiel can see some glasses.
Light does not do anything.
Waiting on Brambles action.

Glasses like eyeglasses or containers?

Like the ones I wear on my nose! ;-)

How do we know you wear glasses though? Or they are not coke bottles? :)

Helikon you did not answer my question.

Meri fumbles with the odd folding spectacles and puts them on, gazing at the crystal through them.

Command the solar disc to rise back up, in as authorative a voice as I can, while presenting the jewel. I'm speaking Osirian, via the scroll.

Did the Knowledge arcana reveal any clues?

Go, go power Halfling!

I had to wait till Bramble did something.
Merisiel can see a lot clearer now and feels confident to be better in disabeling.
Bramble holding the sage jewel does indeed feel a connection to the disk and slowly it raises and raises and raises.
It takes almost half a minute, but in the end it returns to his place, lightening the library.
You have saved the library.
You find out that there is another option to do with the sage jewels. You can track others.
If you track the sapphire sage jewel, the sand shows Amenopheus poring over a scroll before noticing the scrying sensor, and
the stars indicate that he’s in Absalom. Tracking the diamond shows Tahonikepsu in soaring dragon form,
and the stars gradually shift as though she were traveling at great speed. Tracking the emerald shows a deciduous
tree growing in a garden, and the stars point to a location in western Andoran or eastern Cheliax. Finally, if the
PCs track the amethyst, the sand shows the sage jewel set in a strange device next to a humanoid figure with no
discernible facial features. The person startles and stares at the scrying sensor before the gritty tableau collapses.
The alignment of the stars suggests the amethyst sage jewel is somewhere in Katapesh or northern Nex.

You return upstairs and Tahonikepsu returns several hours after you emerge from the library, and
reports that with time and care, she might be able to repair the beacon and use it to locate the other wayward sage jewels.
She also compliments you on their resourcefulness, particularly with regards to the flawed sage jewel.
The actions of the Amethyst Sage trouble her greatly, and she muses aloud whether other sages might have
also survived the Qadiran attacks and either passed their knowledge on to proteges or secured exceptional
longevity. Either way, she notes your efforts may have drawn the attention of the current bearer of the amethyst,
and that sage might contact her and return to the order.
As you allied with Saruna, she demands Tahonikepsu lift her geas and grant her freedom.
Tahonikepsu allows the sphinx to depart, albeit with some reservations about losing an ally from a past age.
Saruna thanks you while plotting revenge against the Amethyst Sage.

You do receive 2 Prestige Points.
Unfortunately our Cleric friend will receive no Prestige and no XP.
I will finish the chronicles later.
Will any chronicle be given to a scarab Sage faction character?
Game is reported.

I chose Grand Lodge, as I was going to make a druid with the xp.

I was also going to suggest racing around and robbing the place securing the artifacts, to maximise our gold, but it looks like we already got enough for the prestige.

Thanks for running this, and being open to creative solutions.

There were some tough encounters, especially the secuidinar and golems, and I can see how they could wipe parties without the correct resources.

I will like to apply that chronicle on the 1 level character.

Since Barm has not played any scenario. Character info is the same.

Let me see what my options are for the chronicles. I have a few that I can apply it to.

I have already reported for everyone. You did already give me a number.

ok

When can we expect chronicle sheets?

By tomorrow. Maybe earlier if everyone answers.

We did it, we did it!

The Scarab Sage question? No for me.

Alright we did it! I was getting pretty worried there at the end. Thanks for running Helkion.

In response to your question, I'm still pretty new to the whole organized play factions in general, so I won't be writing up a chronicle of the adventure to the Scarab Sages.

No Scarab Sage

So if this is reported to a level 1 PC, we get 500gp, instead of the official gp reward, but the unlocked items and boons are still available for when we can afford them?

Or you can wait till level 7