Gaza walks in behind Rona and carefully looks around, examining everything carefully and looking for other exits to this room, and hiding places(for stuff that might be hidden, since she doesn't know about the woman).
Nothing in the room detects as evil.
I will compare the two crystals and even touch them together to see if anything happens.
I will also ask if anyone recognizes the language of the book.
Torr, clearly fascinated, cannot control his fascination with this incredible find, and slips into the room. But his first instinct is still caution. "Best not touch anything here til we are sure of what we have found."
He carefully looks around for any sign of anything or anyone alive. Then if he finds nothing, he examines the runes and what seems to be a magical circle of some kind.
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1d20+9Once the circle is thoroughly examined, he moves to the desk to look for notes on what the circle might be and who might have been making/using the circle and the laboratory.
His fingers twitch as he works, and his mind is working furiously. I'd rather check out this lab, and see what is being made here, but best err on the side of caution first. Find any notes the alchemist might have left before I start in on the actual lab itself. I just hope Elarya doesn't destroy anything in haste before I can get to it.
He examines the desk and its contents as rapidly as he can while still being thorough.
Rona and Noya, you will recognize the language as abyssal. The book starts off on written notes of someone attempting to find an easy means to give someone presumably a mortal, immortality. There are diagrams of various forms of undead and side notes presumably of experiments to alter the nature of them. The book progresses through other magical means before going on about some kind of other realm energy they suddenly stumbled across that had vast amounts of potential. It suddenly refers to a visit it made to the other realm to try and bring back a creature for study but the results were disappointing. It muses a means to summon a creature in with diagrams that match that on the floor but there are no further notes beyond that.
The great bear puts its head to the door and asks
What have you found?
Torr answers as honestly as he can, based on what he knows as yet. "So far, a magical circle of some kind, some unreadable books and papers, a piece of crystal and an alchemical lab with as yet to be determined experiments of some kind. Nothing specific yet, Aylya."
I look at the circle then flick through the book, "I know this writing, do you not? Is this not the language we are speaking? Anyway, the book tells that someone thinks they found a means of immortality, by going to another plane. That didn't work so they brought it here, via that circle of diagrams. Nobody cross the circle in case it does something."
"We are speaking the Common tongue, Ronan. Those writings are in a different language, which I do not speak or read."
Detect Magic 60' from the door 0 Level spell.
Nothing in the room is emanating magic except the crystals that Gaza has.
The bear looks back around outside but says.
"I do not feel that any thing is magic there but the crystals"
She will share what she sees if she sees something either way it will join the other in her bag(assuming no one asks for this one).
If nothing looks like its coming Aylya will god back to her searching.
edit; well dang, not the kind of save I would prefer to fail, but I guess this one is not as dangerous though.
No sooner then picking up the smaller crystal to compare the one she holds, Gaza suddenly passes out, slumping to the floor.
Torr runs over to Gaza to see what happened to her. He checks to see if she is alright.
Seeing what happened, he declines to touch the crystal she handled, and leaves that to others. He tries to wake her by sprinkling a little water on her face from his waterskin. "Wake up, Gaza."
Silly girl, touching strange things without any knowledge of them. Ah, Torr, you might have done the same if you'd found it first, leave the girl some slack.
I rush over the Gaza and shake her shoulder gently, "Wake up Demon, what happened to you?"
Seeing this other man asking her to wake up I realise what he said, "So the Demon's name is Gaza? I'm Rona, according to my sister. Who are you?"
"Yes, she's Gaza, and I'm Torr." He must have missed them earlier when everyone was recalling their names. Is that why he's been so silent most of the time? Because he didn't know anyone's name?
"I hope she's gonna be okay. She just touched that crystal and fell unconscious." He nods towards the fallen piece of crystal lying on the grond. [b]"Rona, do you think you can wrap it up in this piece of cloth without touching it?"
Gaza, their efforts to wake you work. It wasn't anything too terrible that put you out after all.
"Gaza, perhaps you shouldn't touch the crystal again with your bare hands," pTorr says.
He stands up and goes back to the alchemy lab. "There's nothing out of the ordinary here, alchemically speaking. The circle on the floor and the writings in the books and papers seem to be completely separate from the lab itself which is quite mundane. Whatever happened to the person I saw flee into this room, it had nothing to do with alchemy as far as i can tell."
"I must touch it again, after I prepare myself first. I saw people, like the first crystal, only these people were talking and one of them hit me with lightning."
Gaza stood back up immediately but simply wrapped the two crystals in cloth for now.
I go to wrap the crystal up, but go to pick it up with my hand ... until I remember that is what put Gaza on the floor. I take the time to get a piece of cloth out and just as I reach in to pick it up, Gaza swipes it up quickly in a piece of cloth that she pulled from somewhere. I look up to her, "First crystal? People in a crystal? Talking people ... in a crystal? Did you hit your head or are there some people that live in crystals?"
"Not in the crystals, they are visions... or a link to somewhere. Yes, a link to somewhere makes more sense after this second crystal. A way to see somewhere without being there I think, though I can't be sure."
Gaza puts the crystals in her pack for now.
"We can study these more later for now lets examine this building and see what else we can find. You should take that book it might be useful later." She points to the book that spelled out the experiments.
Aylya heads, as she gets close her form changes and soon only a small pale elf can be seen entering the room.
"I could find nothing and no one outside around here, this seems to be the only place of interest, Have you found any thing Brother?"
I look to Aylya enter the room, "Demon saw some people in the crystal, who weren't in the crystal ... It confuses me but it could be a link to somewhere else, without being there? Like a window I guess? Torr thinks the person who ran in here didn't disappear because of the stuff on the table, what person that is I don't know. We have a circle of writings; that I can read but no-one else can, and a book with the same writings that mentioned summoning, immortality and dead things that are not dead."
I head over to the book and put it into my backpack. I turn back to face Aylya, "As we are brother and sister, does that mean I can turn into a bear too?"
"No, brother the great bear chose me when we where small, You had all ready been chosen by the way of the sword by then and had done to our Father to learn war skills. "
Aylya points at the cleaned and oiled sword
"Even with your memories lost have you not wundered why that sword you found feels like a part of you."
"So am I your big brother ... or little brother? My body remembers how to hold this blade, even if I cannot. Hopefully the memories will return soon."
I turn around, "Demon, Torr should we continue our search elsewhere or do you think there could be more clues here?" "Speaking still hurts a little, but a lot less than before. Maybe I am getting used to it, at least I know their names now. If only I could remember something, other than what I have been told. Why are they able to remember things and I cannot?"
"you are 12 Summers older than me Rona, you are my elder brother and if our farther.."
Aylya seems over come for a moment with emotion then she seems to steel herself
"My other has told me if our farther perished with the others then you are the head of our family"
Torr shrugs slightly. "There seems to be nothing here left to examine. I would love to stay and use this laboratory, though it appears to be a normal and mundane lab, it is well stocked with equipment." He grins and runs his hand over a beaker or two, then shrugs again.
"But I'm sure we don't have time for such personal indulgences. We may have to resign ourselves to the idea that Honda may not return and we are on our own."
"Also, since this is probably a traveling or summoning circle of some kind, since someone or something DID run in here, this room might be someplace we'd want to keep our eye on from time to time at least while we are here in this city."
I think it would be an ideal place to make into a safehouse myself... lab, desk, what more could I want, though I suppose that circle does make it a might too dangerous for that.. He sighs for no apparent reason.
"...Me ... the head of a family? Lets hope Father is still alive then, big sister."
I look around the room, "If we can remove the circle from the floor, this could make a decent shelter. We all know where it is, it has walls and a roof, the door could be put back up and Torr could stay and use the laboratory and all of its equipment. We could even set up a word for if we go out to explore, then we will have to say the word before we are allowed into the house. That way no enemies will catch us off guard. What do you all think?"
"Sounds good but lets sketch this circle for future reference before we deface it, unless you want to leave it with only a minor break in the circle? Should make it useless while leaving it mostly intact, Of course the girl you saw may have used it to go through to the other side which would be why she is not here. If that is the case we may want to have this available later."
"We'd better be sure it is unusable, not just open, in case something can still come thru and be free rather than contained because of a small break. But using this place as a shelter sounds good to me." Torr looks almost rapturously at the alchemical lab in the room and the idea of being able to use it at his leisure.
I flick through the book before putting it away, checking to see if the circle from the floor is in the book at all.
I hold the book open for the others to see on the right page, "Here is the circle, so we can remove it and then if needed draw it again."
"Just defacing it a little bit should render it unusable. We don't need to destroy the entire thing. Though in truth, without knowing exactly what it does or how it works, there's not really a point in preserving any of it."
Torr moves over to the circle and rubs out a small section of it to make it useless. "There, that should take care of anything that might try to pop in and surprise us."
I place my bag in a corner of the room and look up to the other people taking shelter in this building, "The safe word could be "Broken Circle"? Who would guess that?"
It seems like the circle seems fairly mundane right now especially seeming rendered useless with the minor defacement, however both crystal shards continue to pulse with light while in proximity to each other, something neither did until the other was present.