GM Woran's Rise of the Runelords

Game Master Woran

Its hard to stand in the room, as its a sphere. The objects gently float in the room.

"Found the playground. Tell me three hoops and some balls and we're not good to go here. "

He leans against oskar just in case and throws up a detect magic

Know. Arcana: 1d20 + 2 + 4 + 3 ⇒ (16) + 2 + 4 + 3 = 25

"I. SEE"

Vy tries to grab Dayo before he enters the room, but his armor makes him too slow. He can only watch in dispair as Dayo walks on.
"Oh dear gods, not another one of those over-eager fools..."

Justin sees the chamber as one big blob of greed (transmutation) and universal magic.

As with the pools, the magic is strange, and its obvious that book knowledge is very different then encountering this magic in the flesh.

But where the sloth auras had many options, the combination of greed and floating objects leave a lot less options.
Greed has more then enough options for air, but few are this... peaceful.
It could be the slowest feather fall ever. Or a form of Levitate or Fly.

Does Dayo float as well? Or does gravity affect him normally?

"While you're in there see if you can get out the larger chunks of bird and... things eating the bird. Was THAT in your backpack too? Gossip, Don't look

Dayo doesnt float

Everything floating is an object. Except for the maggots. Kind of. Justin tosses a pebble in . For science!

Runs a detect magic over the wand 1d20 + 2 + 4 + 3 ⇒ (6) + 2 + 4 + 3 = 15

"Pass out the wand and the book would you?"

"What in the Hells is all this? We've moved pretty far past dumbass goblins, haven't we?"

The pebble moves out of Justin's hand and only moves a few inches before it starts floating.

Ill do the rest tonight when I have access to the book

" It's fascinating is what it is. hmmm.. Dayo. Think... light thoughts. Your head is empty. It is floating above you. Gently taking the rest of your body with it. Inner peace.... "

"Oh! That's easy!"

Dayo sits and crosses his legs in an uncomfortable-looking posture as he straightens his spine, closes his eyes, and attempts to sit still.

Hare Apsu hare hare...

Dayo floats slowly uowards untill he hangs in the middle of the room.

The wand has a wrath (evocation) aura. But Justin has no clue as to what it might be.

Checking, the scroll that is floating around also has an aura. Its a normal evocation aura.

"You should try this! It's really pleasant!"

Whether he falls back slowly or abruptly, Dayo tries to land gracefully.

Acrobatics: 1d20 + 8 ⇒ (9) + 8 = 17

He then goes about trying to collect his things, delicately placing them back into his pack. He pauses as he considers his Holy Book of Apsu with the scribbling in the margins.

"Maybe they're notes from whomever was reading it. Maybe it helped open their eyes to a new purpose!

He closes it shut and places it back in his pack as well, and then shoulders it. He collects other items as Justin directs.

"Say. You folks seem pleasant enough. Even if you are a bit hairy. What were you tasked with down here? You don't seem like you've escaped from a pit recently."

Vitro looks at the objects and person floating in the air with morbid fascination. "That's just...wrong..." he shudders, and settles into a somewhat lower stance.

Eager for a distraction he also takes a peek at the wand and scroll.

Spellcraft (wand): 1d20 + 10 ⇒ (9) + 10 = 19
Spellcraft (scroll): 1d20 + 10 ⇒ (4) + 10 = 14

"We're clearing underpoint from those who would attack sandpoint. The mayor said we could have whatever we found down here and..." he pauses for a second. "Slavery.. legal, not legal in Sandpoint?.. either way pass the book out please. I want to see if we need an exorcism before our first game."

Dayo floats back to the ground. Being in the air was really peacefull.

Vitro takes a look at both items. The meaning of the scroll eludes him, but he thinks the wand could be a wand of shocking grasp. (28 charges)

Vy takes the bait
"Definitely NOT legal" He snarls.A feint echo of that snarl is felt rather than heard.

Vitro suddenly rather looms over Justin, making emphasizing gestures at him with the shock prod. "I was talking about the floating objects. Slavery is an abomination."

"Alright alright, i was just going to take him out of your... i mean kidding. "

Vy glares at Justin. But he is done playing his straight man.
"You know, this looks like a chamber where one could indeed meditate. But with the door open, meditation would be a bit hard to do, with all kinds of distractions. Maybe, Vitro, we should run a test. See what happens if somebody, and I'm taking a guess here by all this stuff we found, trained in the arcane arts, like Justin, would take a few minutes, medidtating, with the door closed"

*gulps*

"Hey hey wait a second lets see what the voices from beyond scribbled in the notebook first THEN toss my life away.. "

"What's the matter? You've been eager to volunteer to take a drink... or a swim... why not some swimming in the sky?"

"Because I think there's something else in there and I prefer to meet it with a large orc and the chosen of the gods between me and it first. "

Oskar, his attention finally caught, looks around, slightly bored. "An orc? Hmm, I didn't see any orcs around here..."

"Well I was trying to not be indelicate and bring up your worse half. "

Oskar raises an eyebrow skeptically, suppressing a smile. "A little brown-nosey, but quick reply. Nice," he nods. "Now what needs doing, here?"

Dayo gasps.

"Notebook!?" he exclaims, his voice a few octaves higher than usual.

"I'll have you know that this is the Holy Text of Apsu! It was even written by a Gold Dragon! The Varisian pilgrim that sold it to me said so!"

He pulls it out of its protective cloth.

"It's actually one continuous story... I haven't been able to finish it, yet. But reading is a little bit slow for me. We didn't write much on my island."

"Okay, sure, I guess. But how did it fit a little quill in its big dragon-sized mitts?" Oskar pauses, a thought occurs to him, and he perks up again. "And, uh, what island?"

"Well, when you're this tall its a constant hazard. No shutting the door yet. " Justin winces at the mind numbing pain this will cause later. "Can I have the book? I'm particularly interested in the comments. "

Dayo pauses before handing the book over to Justin.

"What language do you think those words are written in?"

"Probably thassalonian. This is definitely one of their structures and their wonderful magic is all over the place "

The comments in the margins of Dayo his book are written in abyssal.

"I mean the chances of it being anything other than Thassalonian are..."

Justin looks at the margins and gulps a bit.

"Yeah. I've seen this before. This was in the book i was not allowed to read. Museum piece or not, I never went near that book again once I found out what the cover was made out of. One of us might have a spell to read it tommorow, but for now, they're dead, we're alive. Underpoint is ours. Pancake time. Everyone out. "

"Pancakes? Can... Can I come...?"

Dayo gets a guilty look about him.

"I mean... The rations you gave me earlier were... Wonderful! Really. But..."

In keeping with a childlike innocence, Dayo will generally always Take 10 on Sense Motive.

Sense Motive: 10 - 3 = 7

"And, uh, what island?"

"Oh! Goodness, in my native tongue our name for it translates roughly as Little Beautiful. Varisians call it Hermea. It's so weird to see it on a map, now. It was my entire known world! It is a pleasant place."

knowledge Arcana: 1d20 + 4 + 3 + 1 ⇒ (5) + 4 + 3 + 1 = 13

"I'm sure its lovely"

" Let's go, indeed. I feel more at peace now that we've cleared the sandpoint underground. The other entries looked boarder up enough, although I wouldn't let children run around here. And charge them admission."
Vy pointedly doesn't look in Justin's direction.
"besides, I think we're all spent, and though we are luckily all hale, I think our new found friend would love to sleep in a real bed for a change. And so would I"
He looks at Dayo
" Ameiko makes some stew with recipes from her ancestor's country, that will make you more at home, if I guess your heritage correctly. If not, It's still good eating"

Do you want to do something about/with the statue at the entrance? There were plans for it when you entered, but I dont know how solid those are

Justin wanted to carefully knock out the base and take the statue back to the surface. The rest of the party wanted to smash it. Unfortunately for the amature archeologist, Justin would need the rest of the party for his plan but the rest of the party doesn't need justin for their plan...

Oh, Vitro also wanted to just put it in a shed somewhere out of sight for study.

"It's an intact thasalonian statue with no magic on it. Ot belongs in a museum. Maybe see how much Vorvashali would trade us for it and THEN decide if being mad at an inanimate object is worth it? I know money is a dirty word to some of you, " He looks at snowflake " But the more of it we put into ourselves the better we can defend the town. "

Super sad face =(. I had a whole paragraph typed up regarding the island, my people and more furriness comments, but it doesn't look like it posted.

I'll try again another day when I'm not moving.

"I wonder what is worse. An aphogee brought with us above ground,where it can lure people into worshipping it, or keep it out of sight, but than also out of our control. I see let's hoist it upstairs. I heard my father tell tall tales about an museum interested in this sort of things"

"I'm not sayin' money's a four-letter word, but some things ain't worth gettin' paid for. We can at least take that thing up, and see if we can dispose of it some way that don't make it a disaster, y'know?"

Dayo contemplates the statue while the others discuss it. When there is a quiet moment, he voices his thoughts.

"Where I am from, my people have erected many statues in honor of our Father, Mengkare, blessings be upon him. I wonder how they would be received if, after thousands of years had passed, nobody were left alive to explain them?"

"It d'pends, I figure. Who's this Mengkare fella...?"