Henric has no idea.
The ship is slightly angle so that the eastern side is lower than the western one but for some reason you are perfectly balanced as if some force is altering the gravity to compensate.
You go to the eastern door and it opens revealing a long hallway with two doors on the left and one on the right.
Still frustrated over not being able to identify the symbol, Henric spends a few moments staring blankly at the hallway. Eventually, he shakes his head and says, "Shall we keep with the trend, and go left?"
Being unaccustomed to strange building materials, lighting and automatic doors opening. She keeps her bow notched with an arrow as she slowly walks forward following Henric. Keeping her eyes shifting about awaiting for the sorcerer to appear all of a sudden.
You go to the first door on the left and it opens revealing a laboratory of sorts.
alien medical bay that includes an operating table with restrains in the middle two empty tanks in the back (big enough to submerge a person)
The desk has a lab setup for brewing mixtures and several injectors with blue, red and purple liquids inside.
If she had any clear irises, they'd go over the lab quickly.
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"These glass..containers of sorts.
They could hold people. I haven't seen them, but the purpose feels familiar somehow."
Jayla goes over the injectors after the tanks.
Raskir shies away from the human-sized containers. He examines the liquids. "Henric, did you ever come across something like this in your studies? "
"These injectors, i'd say these are stimulating fluids."
She holds them in front of her and turns them examining.
"The red one, it is restorative.
The purple one, i'd say a stimulant.
The blue one, i do not know."
"Wow, I would not of been able to even guess than."
Xaikon enters the room, and slowly walks around the room looking at all the strange items in the room, avoiding touching anything. At times a puzzling look appears on her face as she struggles to fathom what the item is or what it could be used for.
As Jayla speaks up about the strange fluids, Henric raises one eyebrow, examining the purple fluid. "How did you know that?" he asks curiously.
He frowns at Raskir's question, examining the equipment. "It's hard to say. Some alchemical equipment is more sophisticated than others, but this is unlike anyting I've seen. Given time, I might be able to identify the general purpose of the equipment."
Jayla stashed the two injectors.
"As i had mentioned, my first memories are being held captive by the Technic League, whom had just returned from an expedition. They had set up a small alchemy table of sorts displaying several of these things.
I have heard quite some details before the attack that allowed my escape."
The blue one is a tranquilizer/anesthetic.
Alvoise holds one of the “potions” in his hands, studying it. ”So, you squirt this in your moth or suck on the small opening here? Seems impractical. Are the liquids based on different magic? Why are the colors different?”
He regards the chamber one last time. ”So, a healing room. We should put arrows pointing towards this place in case we need to find it in a hurry. Ready to go?”
"The way they used it, you put that end to your bodypart like arm, chest, neck, to receive its effect."
Most curious.
Henric glances around at nothing in particular, before realising the voice is inside his head again, speaking with a heavy, unfamiliar accent. The memory was there, but hidden, as if behind a veil.
What do you want?
I thought you'd be interested in this. Take note of your studies. Remember all that time you spent with various potions and mixtures? This is most unusual, and I do not know the means by which this curious concoction was formed, nor its components, but feel it. Listen. Reach out to it.
You're mad.
No, you are mad, because you are hearing me. Can you feel the way your heart slows as you examine it? As you pick up on the power within it? This is some form of sedative. A tranquiliser, even, or an anaesthetic.
How did you-
That matters not. Take care, young one.
Henric swallows, his eyes focusing on the injector of purple fluid again. "This one's a tranquiliser of sorts," he offers, handing the device to Jayla. "You should hold onto it, since you know how to use them. I've never even seen such a thing."
Shaking his head to clear the last mutterings from that strange voice, he nods to Alvoise. "Good idea. What shall we use to mark the walls?"
"If your going to mark the walls, we can use either chalk or Arcane Mark."
"Use the chalk. Whoever made this thing had powerful magecraft. Making magical marks may trigger some kind of wards." Raskir seems apprehensive about being surrounded by such unfamiliar technology.
”Does anyone have chalk?” Alvoise asks looking around the room for something that could mark the walls with arrows.
”So does this use positive energy healing magic?” he asks Henric and Jayla holding up one of the injectors with a red liquid. ”Or is it maybe based on some other magic? If based on an alternative, I could use it...I think.”
"I have 10 pieces of chalk on me."
"I don't know if it is infused with positive or negative energy.
I only know it is for that specific purpose, it might be a finely crafted alchemic concotion for general purpose."
”At least one of us is prepared,” Alvoise says to Valeria.
He nods in understanding of Jayla’s words, staring at the injector in his hand. Taking a series of deep breaths, Alvoise rolls up the sleeve of his shirt. He runs his fingers over his pale skin. ”I get angry so often. It’s good to be relaxed. Well, can’t help be nervous a bit...If this kills me, it wouldn’t be much different than getting struck by lightning or one of the other dangers of this place,” he licks his lip and swallows.
He places the tip against his arm, gives one final exhalation, and pulls the trigger.
When you inject yourself your body starts to heal at an incredible rate. You heal 2 points a round until you are fully healed.
Checking the other rooms you find that the room accross the hall from this one is a room like the one were you dodged the lightning (mostly anyway). This room is intact however and features a chair facing a "window" (monitor) that shows the outside of the ship. There is a stick in front of the chair with buttons.
The room at the end of the hall is living quarters, 3 small rooms with beds and strange furniture. The rooms seem to have the bare necessities and nothing more.
Raskir watches with interest. "Strange, it seems like magic but I can't detect any."
”This isn’t magic!?” Alvoise says surprised as his wounds heal. He inspects the device to see if all the liquid is gone. ”It works so fast. I need to learn how to make this. I’ll take one more for me, and recommend we take as many as we can.”
A peel of laughter bursts from him as he jumps to land next to Jayla. ”Your people did this? Geniuses!” He gives her a friendly slap on the back.
Sorry only one dose of each was left on the counter the cabinets are all empty.
Her eyes slightly widen at the slap on the back with the over excited mood of Alvoise.
What is with this man?
"As far as "my people" go, i yet still have to physically encounter one.
Whoever made these medical devices, it is unlikely others of my kind.
Time will tell."
”Oh, sorry. I must have misunderstood or made some assumptions. Not trying to cause offense,” Alvoise says with a slight bow.
”So we’re ready to leave, yes?” he asks the group.
"We should go back to the way we came in and start marking our path from there."
....
"None offense taken, i was merely stating i have yet to meet one.
As to how they will behave, who knows, they could be friendly or on a murder spree.
That will be something for later."
"May i suggest that after we mark our route we head for the other door.
If this room facilitated medical care, the other room might provide something useful as well."
”An excellent suggestion. A kitchen would be nice to find. Though I guess any food has long since spoiled.”
You take the last door you haven't tried and make your way into the cockpit. The viewglass looks out to the cavern outside. Several panels and monitors display all kinds of information in the strange alien language. The most interesting things is a holographic map in the center of the room that shows all of Numeria with several blinking red dots.
"....A huge window and we can see where we came from.
Quite a feat, this construction."
Jayla looks over all the panels, seeing all the strange signs and text, before stopping at the hologram. She tries touching it, realizing it's an image.
"A map.....of Numeria. Landmarkers, but as to what for i can only guess."
You can make a knowledge geography to identify each location marked.
Dunno how many, so i'll make 10 rolls.
Raskir puzzles over the displays, trying to figure out at least the general purpose behind the alien script.[/ooc]
One of the dots is obviously starfall the capital, another is over at scrapwall and another is near Hajoth Hakados (the city you were heading too before you stopped here.) The rest you cant be sure what they mark.
”Some sort of minor illusion?” Alvoise asks Henric indicating the map. He passes his hand through the hologram. ”Impressive.”
He sits in one of the chairs and looks around. He laces his fingers behind his head.”It’s an odd house, but I guess a floating house would have to be.”
"If it's an illusion, it's a convincing one," Henric replies to Alvoise, tentatively touching the map with his fingers. "This... 'house', this structure, this thing, whatever it is... perhaps it could be from another place - another world, even, somewhere in the sky? Remember the symbols of the Dark Tapestry we found? Perhaps whoever drew them had the same thought." He looks around at the strange script on the walls, maddened at the knowledge that it's beyond his lingustic reach.