The platemail is brand new, there is no smell attached to it yet. As for the spikes, they are still in bubble wrap considering Tal has net worn them yet.
Dibs on "Spikes in Bubble wrap" as a band name.
I believe we have a scroll of that we picked up from the manor/knot treasure.
Okay so what were we up to again?
Trying to figure out the Crux.
Taking it to the pathfinder or allowing the reality warping 12 sided artifact sit on the kitchen table to annoy the wife?
Take it to the pathfinder. Get it off the table now, dear!!!!!
But it makes for such a nice conversation piece. Trevor heads out to find the Pathfinder.
Try conversating some place else then. Preferably without that thing here any longer. If you ever want a home cooked meal again or a palce to sleep get going. Tal, if you don't get them to leave in 2 miuntes I swear you will be sleeping on the couch for the next month!!!
Tal meekly: Yes dear.
Must be hard to pee when your wife has your willy in her purse.
*pokes glaive*
*pokes reality warping 12 sided artifact*
giggles
.....
"It looks like the top might slide open..But is bigger on the inside so would really be sliding closed?"
[ooc]{Any relevant skill/check to open/use/insert the McGuffin?}
I bourght 2 scrolls total: remove curse and either dispel magic or heroism depending on what I happening with the scroll we found. I want to make sure we have an option to remove the curse that we received when picking up that note earlier.
Sighing Caldazar relents "Aye, lets take it to the pathfinder woman... but it doesn't leave our sight"
You return to the hideout to much applause, tears, and hugs. Apparently one or two of the smaller members of the Children were hiding in the rafters of the theater witnessed the terror unfold. You are showered with praise, worry, and congratulations. No one bothers to question why it took you so long to get back into contact with them as it seems at least as far as they're concerned your well being was more important than any convoluted plan to rob a vault.
After about half an hour where you are coddled and cared for like newborn babes by the worried women of the league you are eventually led to the upstairs study where Arael, Janiven and the pathfinder Ailyn Ghontasavos await you.
Once things have calmed down a bit Ailyn simply gets straight to the point. "Were you able to retrieve the Crux?"
Trevor places the Crux on the table. Indeed. Hopefully this was worth all the blood,sweat and acid.
Indeed, Trevor is neglecting most of the details of what we went through so hopefully you have some answers for us as I have no idea what it is or how to use it. So, Ailyn, tell us what it does and why we had to go through the horrors we did to obtain it.
Looking to see what kind of reaction he gets from the three of them, he adds, Oh and one of us is cursed from a piece of paper and I also think this glaive doesn't like me most of the time.
Caldazar accedes to Trevor's confirmation and remains silent and watching, trying to see and read how Ailyn reacts as well as allowing her the space to prove ability by opening the device.
The glaive concurs.
Tal shakes his head, Of course now I get the sense that the glaive agrees with me. Anyone want to try and tell me what is going on and why I am getting these feelings from it. I would really like to know before I get the urge from it to go on a murderous rampage and cant control myself. Not that we haven't just done that already but knowing why I am getting these thoughts would be nice.
We indeed need to get this paper disposed of. It carries a runecurse which will make a devil attack us. Perhaps a nice debased noble.
Arael wards off the shots fired towards the pathfinder. "I'm sure whatever pain is inflicted on you, me, or any of us we can agree that it's a worthy price to pay to see the shadowbeasts ended corr...wait, runecurse??"
Ailyn for her part simply ignores Tal's remark and puts her face level to the artifact on the table scrutinizing it closely but not yet touching it. "Don't worry about him. If I told half the stories of the things Pathfinder's put up with on a daily basis he'd give up his armor and live as a hermit for the rest of his days." After several agonizing minutes where Ailyn simply focuses on the object muttering to herself and circling the table a few times to get a different view of it she sighs and slumps back in her seat. "It's definitely what we're looking for and every bit as damnably complicated and dangerous to open as I feared. If we attempt to solve the puzzlebox and we do it wrong it incinerates the person doing it and whoever happens to be in the room as well. I can get it open, but it will take time. And wine. Yes lots of wine."
Looking up at Tal she remarks. "Picked up a runecurse have you? I can try to remove it in the morning if you can resist it long enough. Don't pass it on. A noble in this town has more than enough money to pay an iron mask to cure what ails him and track the fool who tried to kill him with it."
Arael sighs and agrees. "As much as I'd rather be the one to do it I'm afraid such a spell is outside of my abilities. Afraid playing the organizer has left me unable to further my priestly powers."
I am able to pray for magic that can help resist fire so you won't get charbroiled, plus some minor blessings to increase skills
]"It's definitely what we're looking for and every bit as damnably complicated and dangerous to open as I feared. If we attempt to solve the puzzlebox and we do it wrong it incinerates the person doing it and whoever happens to be in the room as well. I can get it open, but it will take time. And wine. Yes lots of wine."[/b]
"...incinerates....This will be fun! Right Castor?"
Pollux leans over the table and chuckling lightly, caresses the sides of the crux.
Caldazar chuckles without mirth at the pathfinder's work, before settling in to watch from a middling distance. Unhelpfully he adds "I'll watch... if you burn then at least I'll know what not to do the next time."
"That's sweet of you" says Ailyn. "But unless you plan on staring at me for the next two weeks there's no need. I'm afraid to touch it let alone leave with it. So I'll be taking my time opening it." With that she gets up from the table and rummages in another part of the library in her things and pulls out a 3/4 full botle of wine.
Trevor will use his 3rd level slots to memorize Resist Elements-Communal and give Aiyln the benefits of Resist Fore 10 while she works.
Trevor will spend some of the time making new purchases and getting his armor and weapon enchanted as well as addressing the others.
So we need this curse dispelled. Since it is rather powerful perhaps we can find a wizard or Iron mask who is willing to use the various scrolls we found to get rid of it, anyone have suggestions?
Very well if that is how long it will take you then I will take my leave. You know how to find me and where. I shall expect your message indicating to meet here again in about 2 weeks. Until that time, don't blow yourself up. I would hate to have gone through all of that for no gain other than another lost pathfinder.
Turning to the others, Can either Trevor or Pollux get rid of it by yourselves since it seems that Pollux is at least in possession of a scroll I purchased for him.
I can make the attempt but there is no guarantee since it is advanced magic and I might fail
Let us combine our efforts with Ailyn then. Instead of Resist Elements, Trevor will prep two Remove Curses.
Trevor herps so much he derps
Having forgotten about curses, puzzle boxes and strangely enough veal, Pollux wanders the city, making purchases and spreading the light and joy which as is his particular idiom.
The rat eats hearty and seems sleeker and perhaps a bit larger when you next see Castor.
@TaL: The Glaive seems insulted at the notion that it'd ever want to possess you. Tal knows that there are few willing to purchase na intelligent weapon due, in part, to their personalities. However you have received mail at your forge noting that the church of asmodeus is interested in purchasing rare magical items or lost relics of the Prince of Darkness.
You can have multiple days of waiting. Ailyn makes her attempt after Trevor tries.
After the first day Ailyn sadly announces that the curse is rather potent and that he'll have to come back in the morning for them to try again.
That In his nightmare mind his flesh is burning as he is writhing in a lake of fire being drowned by devils. Perched atop a stone made of the screaming danmed above him is a creature that looks like some twisted deity combine the worst elements of a bat, scorpion and giant skeleton. It points a gaunt and wicked finger at Tal.
Tal wakes up screaming until his wife calms him down.
Trevor makes sure to Guidance himself
So given that one will be calling soon what do we know about the devil in question.....
[ooc]{pssssst Trevor Guidance does not work on caster level checks. Nor does fortune or aid other. The dc is impossible for us to reach.}