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Liminy opens the scroll tube. Within is some writing in ancient Osirani. The scroll describes a process to refine a substance called Crystalline Aether.
"The basic Crystalised Aether must be exposed to Fading Light and the resulting..."
The scroll provides a set of detailed steps that would require a well equipped laboratory to perform.
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Numair opens the door through to the next room.
The chamber gleams when illuminated, bouncing reflections across the multitude of glass tiles covering the walls and floor. The pool in the center of this chamber is utterly still, and a small, pearlescent object glimmers at the bottom
Status: (time in ruins: ~7 minutes)
Numair (Fading Light)
Liminy Anti-plague
Theodore
Jair Anti-plague; (Ghoul Fever)
Amri
Sir Godfrey
Amenopheus
Amiri looks in interest at the pool.
"This is too simple, too safe. Must be a trap!"
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Numiar breaks out in a sweat as he reaches for the magic to pull the glowing object to the surface.
A massive wave of fatigue washes over the sorcerer, but rise the glowing object does. The glowing object looks to be a small glass bead, perhaps from a child's necklace. It sits on the ground next to the pool, glowing prettily.
Status: (time in ruins: ~7 minutes)
Numair (Fading Light) ; one negative level;
Liminy Anti-plague
Theodore
Jair Anti-plague; (Ghoul Fever)
Amri
Sir Godfrey
Amenopheus
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Godfrey is of little use with the library, and has simply opted to stay out of the way of his more academically gifted comrades, keeping watch between the two doors for any sudden surprises so they aren't distracted by watching their backs. When the party has moved on to the next room he frowns and reaches down to pick up the beat Numair left on the floor. "I thought perhaps, friend Numair, that the bead was simply oddly heavy, but it appears to be quite light. Perhaps your mind needs more exercise?"
Godfrey will help search over the pool filled room after patting the sorcerer on the back in a friendly manner.
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Jair casts guidance on Liminy to help him decipher the scroll.
Once in the new room she casts detect magic to help the search.
May be it’s a consequence of what happened when we open door to the complex?
She goes near Numair and after casting guidance on herself she tries to determine if the sorcerer has some sort of disease.
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It does indeed appear that Numair has acquired some exotic disease. As for the small gem, Jair is reasonably sure the magic on it is an ancient continual flame spell that is slowly fading after untold years.
Liminy thinks on the scroll. While he can work out how to make the Blood of Nethys, his thoughts is that the purpose of the scroll was more about making a cure for "Fading Light" whatever that is.
The search of the room takes a few minutes, but is fruitful. Aside from the pool, Numair discovered a loose tile on a wall that looks like it could be manipulated... With no obvious signs of traps he opens it, finding behind it a small box with four lids, a scroll case and two small potion bottles.
Amenopheus looks at the pool with a sigh of disgust as unpleasant memories struggle to rise to the surface.
Opening the door at the other end reveals another room full of bones, all carefully arranged. One more exit leaves this new bone "library".
Status: (time in ruins: ~10 minutes)
Numair (Fading Light) ; one negative level;
Liminy Anti-plague
Theodore
Jair Anti-plague; (Ghoul Fever)
Amri
Sir Godfrey
Amenopheus
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The bones in this place have names, and short notes on them. This time they seem to have comments about the participants background and experiences, with a focus on how good their memory was.
Status: (time in ruins: ~25 minutes)
Numair (Fading Light) ; one negative level;
Liminy Anti-plague
Theodore
Jair Anti-plague; (Ghoul Fever)
Amri
Sir Godfrey
Amenopheus
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Liminy checks for magic, finding the scrollcase has magic within, and the box also. A quick check shows the box hold four crystalline samples of something. It seems to have some type of magical enhancement properties, but Liminy has never seen anything like it before.
The potion bottles don't have magical auras, but there are liquids within.
Amiri will search the bone room.
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"This is a troubling place. The evil is palpable and the necromancer has desecrated many deceased for this... library. If we only had time to give them a proper burial." Godfrey frowns at the sight, but accepts the fact that with their time limit it's not likely to happen. He heaves a sigh and resists the urge to declare vengeance, because he doesn't know what to declare it on except some intangible presence inside the jewels. That would be silly.
When Numair moves to the door he lightly nudges the man out of the way so he can step through first. "I appreciate your zeal to destroy this vile place, friend Numair. But allow me to go first, it is my task here. As your's is to understand what is happening."
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Opening the scroll case Liminy finds, unsurprisingly a scroll.
The crystals... well.. one might hazard a guess as to them being unrefined Aether, but that would be a guess.
The pathfidners follows the corridor around and through another door, which leads into a room.
A bridge crosses a dark chasm containing mountains of bones. Fearsome fiendish statues armed with serrated blades guard one side of the bridge, standing before a double door. An obsidian moon embosses the doors’ center.
Amenopheus shakes his head.."Such a waste? But what was wasted?"
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Assuming that Liminy casts read magic, he realities that the scroll has a "heal" spell upon it.
Amenopheus nods his thanks to Jair. "Memories, or feelings of memories... come back to me. It is as if I have been here before, but I have not. They are not exactly like the sage jewel memories, but older and fainter."
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Liminy does a quick scan around the room and then heads across the bridge. Which tilts suddenly dropping him into the pit below...
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Paler than ever, Numair flies to the doors at the far end of the room. Though another wave of fatigue washes over him as he flies, he manages to suffer through that one within noticeable effect.
Status: (time in ruins: ~25 minutes)
Numair (Fading Light-1) ; two negative levels;
Liminy Anti-plague
Theodore
Jair Anti-plague; (Ghoul Fever)
Amri
Sir Godfrey
Amenopheus
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Liminy hands the scroll of Heal to Jair since she seems to be really concerned about the party's well being. Liminy moves into each room after a couple of party members do. He then casts detect magic and does a cursory search.
"We may want to be sure every room is safe before we spend more time cataloging the dead. Maybe she kept notes that will speed up our search."
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Looking down, Theodore can see hundreds and hundreds of (inanimate) skeletons.
The bridge has quickly swung back into its normal orientation.
Liminy, once he reaches the bridge room, detects a couple of magical auras across the bridge, one on each statue.
Status: (time in ruins: ~26 minutes)
Numair (Fading Light-1) ; two negative levels; fly
Liminy Anti-plague
Theodore
Jair Anti-plague; (Ghoul Fever)
Amri
Sir Godfrey
Amenopheus