"Well this room looks interesting. A gnome communication device, an elaborate summoning circle and an unusual figurine. Let see if I can read any of the symbols on the figurine, so as to discern it's nature or purpose."
This area is permeated with layer upon layer of centuries of magic cast, held and summoned in this room; swirls of power eminate but you notice two missing schools; no necromancy; no evocation. do you continue to scrutinize?
Visibly brightening, Gyldyr stands just outside the door and scans the room for any magical traps, residual spells, or signs of unpredictable magic.
Your fairly certain you have the knowlege to work this and reach your Uncle or at least the wizard running the (VGCD) Village Gnome Communication Device in your home village.
you also recognise that the figurines are types that are used for instant summoning of powerful guardians; if you can figure out the command word; they would be a big help if you were sorly pressed in battle.
"Well this room looks interesting. A gnome communication device, an elaborate summoning circle and an unusual figurine. Let see if I can read any of the symbols on the figurine, so as to discern it's nature or purpose."
"Gyldyr, I think we should check the other door before we attempt to use the communication device to contact my village. I think I can work it well enough to try to get in touch with my uncle."
"The figurine may also be useful as it can be used to summon a powerful guardian in times of need. I would just need to try and determine the command word to use it."
"The sooner that we determine how safe this location is, the sooner that we can setup camp, eat, and I can spend some time investigating these items. If this place is not safe, then we need to communicate with my uncle and move on."
Gloisil's usual dour attitude is now returning as he is beginning once again to feel the weight of the the task that they have been given. He then moves over to the other door and waits for Gyldyr to manipulate the figurine that unlocks and opens the door. He has his wand ready in case it is needed.
The summoning circle is the main part of the communication device; so no. The figurine is 12" high and wieghs about 5 lbs. There are no obvious exits but I suppose the summoning circle could be an exit.
Also; using the circle as a communication device takes quite a bit of arcane energy; you will probably need other players to help and be like a battery.
<am gonna contact the knight that was playing and find out why he hasnt posted, hmm>
"Gyldyr, I think we should check the other door before we attempt to use the communication device to contact my village. I think I can work it well enough to try to get in touch with my uncle."
"The figurine may also be useful as it can be used to summon a powerful guardian in times of need. I would just need to try and determine the command word to use it."
"The sooner that we determine how safe this location is, the sooner that we can setup camp, eat, and I can spend some time investigating these items. If this place is not safe, then we need to communicate with my uncle and move on."
Gloisil's usual dour attitude is now returning as he is beginning once again to feel the weight of the the task that they have been given. He then moves over to the other door and waits for Gyldyr to manipulate the figurine that unlocks and opens the door. He has his wand ready in case it is needed.
Even after the brown skinned Elf's tummy has protested so obviously at not being fed 'right now', Sunset is soon caught up in looking, poking and prodding almost everything and every where around the room.
As she does so little sounds of 'Oooh' and 'Ahh' escape her lips at whatever things of interest do catch her eye.
"Ooooh, this be in'erestin'!" Her voice comes slightly muffled from under one of the large benches, though all that can be seen are her trouser clad legs and brown feet.
He pauses to tell Suny, "I'd advise caution; their may be unstable magic lingering, or traps."
"Huh? Whut!"
"Owie!" Sunset cries as she is startled by Gyldyr's words. She rolls out from under the bench, both hands over her blond mop of hair.
sunset finds a sliding panel in the floor and inside is a waxed wooden box with a sliding top that is round and about 4" circular and 3" deep.
As you look around; you think some things have been moved and the experiements are progressing; like stools and chairs and things the party moved or bumped; they are back where they were and you didnt see anyone straightening up....
Gyldyr manages to drag himself away from the magic-infested room and go help the gnome. He pauses to tell Suny, "I'd advise caution; their may be unstable magic lingering, or traps."
While Gloisil is waiting for Gyldyr to finish his inspection of the octagonal room and open the other hidden door, he glances around the main room to see if there is anything of interest he may have missed.
"Sunset, Gyldyr is right, a little caution would probably be for the best."
Everything else is pretty much the furnishing you would expect; you could take some paper and writing charcoal; inkpots; calipers and stuff like that; just magic user furnishings for a summoning room. There are probably books of names and summoning stuff, you figure, but you dont see them here. They are probably very well guarded.
"Sunset, Gyldyr is right, a little caution would probably be for the best."
Sunset sits upon the floor, her arms still over her head. She pouts and shifts sideways, away from the box, with skuffs and pushes of her bare feet and trouser-ed seat.
"Stoopid piece o' wood....not worth t'effort o' findin' it..." She mumbles...still obviously put out by the bang she's received to her head as she glances sideways at the item that came out from under the bench when she did.
This open to a hallway is three and a half feet high and two feet wide and about 30 foot long; you see three doors; two about 20 foot in and one at the end of the hall. They look pretty fancy; but no magic. This floor is carpeted in dyed wool woven in a zig zag of many colors.
"Quite possibly correct Gyldyr, the mage's quarters and his apprentice's I would guess. I'll go and knock on the door's and check them out. I think we ought to at least look for clues to what happened to them and make sure there are no other entrance's to this area before we start settling in for a rest."
Gloisil walks 20' down the hallway and faces the door on his left. Then leaning close to the door, listens to see if he can hear something on the other side. His owl Hoot, also listens for any sounds that can be heard.
you take note of one experiment that catches your eye, wierd; looks like an amusement part; little ferris wheel, a twirling hammer, horseless carts going down hills; miniturized giant swings; greased pig wrestling; and so on all made super tiny; the ferris wheel is about an inch high and very detailed; the detail of all of it is amazing.
Desidera had taken to examining some of the nearby experiments in more detail, as the others were poking about as suited them. None of the looking around or complicated fiddling was anything that she was particularly good at, with her specialized knowledge. She had looked up at the sound of an impact and Sunset's exclamation, and stopped trying to make sense of the notes of one experiment (though she did her best not to touch anything) when she heard something about living quarters.
She looked into it as the angle afforded her, giving Sunset a bemused smile and a comforting hug, raising a dubious eyebrow at the box that had been found. The dark elf had not tried to betray them yet, but perhaps it was because he was outnumbered.. Figuring out what she was going to do when they had to sleep had not entered her head yet.
you hear nothing; but see on the doors; one has a yellow star; one has a blue moon; the other has an orange triangle.
"Quite possibly correct Gyldyr, the mage's quarters and his apprentice's I would guess. I'll go and knock on the door's and check them out. I think we ought to at least look for clues to what happened to them and make sure there are no other entrance's to this area before we start settling in for a rest."
Gloisil walks 20' down the hallway and faces the door on his left. Then leaning close to the door, listens to see if he can hear something on the other side. His owl Hoot, also listens for any sounds that can be heard.
"Well, lets see what is behind the star."
Gloisil reaches out to open the door with the star on it and open it enough to see what is beyond the door.
Sunset smiles and leans into accepting Desidera's consoling hug. Leaving the nasty wooden box upon the floor Sunset hops up and begins to do her best to make a 'camp-site' within the room.
While she does her best, Sunset's skills definitely don't seem to be of the 'Handy home making' variety....
you cannot stand in this tunnel; please describe your position.
Gyldyr remains a few paces behind Gloisil, who he has taken to be this patrol's leader. Why the leader isn't one of the females, he hasn't yet figured out. The rooms seem harmless enough. Nevertheless, he keeps his mind ready for spellcasting.
It is actually a beautiful box; the kind that confections are kept in; nasty and gnomes dont really go together though it does roll off the tounge well.
Sunset smiles and leans into accepting Desidera's consoling hug. Leaving the nasty wooden box upon the floor Sunset hops up and begins to do her best to make a 'camp-site' within the room.
While she does her best, Sunset's skills definitely don't seem to be of the 'Handy home making' variety....
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This door is locked. what do you do?
"Well, lets see what is behind the star."
Gloisil reaches out to open the door with the star on it and open it enough to see what is beyond the door.
Gloisil then tries to open the other two doors. First the one with the blue moon on it. If that one doesn't open, then the one with the orange triangle.
"Well darn, it's locked! Let's try the other two."
all three are locked; the last two lesser quality locks than the first; seem like normal doors; though painted; would take about 5 round to chop them open if you had an axe.
Sunset hums a bright and cheerful tune as she plays 'house maker' out in the Gnome work shop.
"Gyldyr, all three doors are locked. I have not the skill or the power to open them", Gloisil says as he walks back down the corridor towards the dark elf.
"If I had to guess, I'd say that those are the private quarters of Yuri Brighteyes and his assistants, but we can find out later. I suggest that if we close the trapped door into the hallway, that we should be safe enough in here to rest and have a meal. That will give me an opportunity to study the items that we found on the shelf further. If anyone of you has the skills necessary to open those doors, your more then welcome to try. I'd hate to just bash them open but we may need to do just that."
"Sunset, Desidera, have you found anything else of interest while looking over this place? Do we have a means of cooking a meal or are we going to be forced to eat cold food."
Gloisil then begins searching the room for a means to heat his kettle.
So were you going to do anything with the wooden box you found; is a common style used as a gift box.
Sunset hums a bright and cheerful tune as she plays 'house maker' out in the Gnome work shop.
There is a largish stove in the workshop with an oven and some coal.
"Gyldyr, all three doors are locked. I have not the skill or the power to open them", Gloisil says as he walks back down the corridor towards the dark elf.
"If I had to guess, I'd say that those are the private quarters of Yuri Brighteyes and his assistants, but we can find out later. I suggest that if we close the trapped door into the hallway, that we should be safe enough in here to rest and have a meal. That will give me an opportunity to study the items that we found on the shelf further. If anyone of you has the skills necessary to open those doors, your more then welcome to try. I'd hate to just bash them open but we may need to do just that."
"Sunset, Desidera, have you found anything else of interest while looking over this place? Do we have a means of cooking a meal or are we going to be forced to eat cold food."
Gloisil then begins searching the room for a means to heat his kettle.
I want to impress on you that the main workshop is full of stuff; organized junk; piled high to the cieling; hanging from the cieling; on tables; shelves and the floor; hundreds of experiements in various states of repair.
"Gyldyr, all three doors are locked. I have not the skill or the power to open them", Gloisil says as he walks back down the corridor towards the dark elf.
"If I had to guess, I'd say that those are the private quarters of Yuri Brighteyes and his assistants, but we can find out later. I suggest that if we close the trapped door into the hallway, that we should be safe enough in here to rest and have a meal. That will give me an opportunity to study the items that we found on the shelf further. If anyone of you has the skills necessary to open those doors, your more then welcome to try. I'd hate to just bash them open but we may need to do just that."
"Sunset, Desidera, have you found anything else of interest while looking over this place? Do we have a means of cooking a meal or are we going to be forced to eat cold food."
Gloisil then begins searching the room for a means to heat his kettle.
Stopping what she's doing Sunset walks over and pokes the small wooden box with a toe,
"Well, I dun found this afore..." She says to Gloisil, absently scratching at the bump beneath her blond mop of hair.
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Gyldyr rummages through his pack, quickly finding a small parcel. "I am unfortunately low on rations myself, but I have some food," he remarks, unfolding the parcel to reveal a few large dried mushrooms.
He leaves the parcel beside the patch of bare ground where dinner is being seen to, then finds an area in the room as far as possible from everyone else and organizes it just enough to make room for his bedroll, being very careful not to disrupt anything magical and possibly explosive.
Gloisil goes over to the door that he used to gem to unlock to make sure that if they close it, that it can be opened again. As he looks at the door and the area surrounding it he says, "You know, we may want to sleep in the secret room with the communication equipment rather then in here with all these experiments going on. I just wouldn't lay out you bedding in the circle."
Gloisil then heads over to the stove and using his kettle and spoon starts preparing a meal for the party, being careful to not disturb anything else in that area of the room.
After setting his kettle on the stove and stoking a fire if needed, he begins to pull patches from his robe. As he does they become different things: Water, ham, flour, potatoes, onions, and carrots. They all go into the pot with out much preparation at all.
At one point in the preparations he takes some of the dried mushrooms that Gyldyr offers and adds them to the rest of what ever he has put in the pot, returning the rest.
"Thank you Gyldyr, that will make an interesting addition to the stew. It will be ready in not too long."
Gloisil absently stirs the stew he is cooking as he talks. He then mutters something in the quick gnomish language once everything has been added to the kettle.
A little while later, with a final stir with his wooden spoon, he again says a phrase in gnome and then says, "It's ready to eat."
There is a cold locker in here; with food in it near the stove; is pretty obvious; has steaks; potatoes; carrots; beer; more beer,block of cheese, a bit more beer, sausages, and beer. In a closed bin there is a quantity of dried apples; figs; pears; and several kinds of berries.
Gyldyr rummages through his pack, quickly finding a small parcel. "I am unfortunately low on rations myself, but I have some food," he remarks, unfolding the parcel to reveal a few large dried mushrooms.
He leaves the parcel beside the patch of bare ground where dinner is being seen to, then finds an area in the room as far as possible from everyone else and organizes it just enough to make room for his bedroll, being very careful not to disrupt anything magical and possibly explosive.
you can edit this to use the stuff in the bins and save your patches; there is also several spice bins of leaves and peppers as well as salt.
Gloisil goes over to the door that he used to gem to unlock to make sure that if they close it, that it can be opened again. As he looks at the door and the area surrounding it he says, "You know, we may want to sleep in the secret room with the communication equipment rather then in here with all these experiments going on. I just wouldn't lay out you bedding in the circle."
Gloisil then heads over to the stove and using his kettle and spoon starts preparing a meal for the party, being careful to not disturb anything else in that area of the room.
After setting his kettle on the stove and stoking a fire if needed, he begins to pull patches from his robe. As he does they become different things: Water, ham, flour, potatoes, onions, and carrots. They all go into the pot with out much preparation at all.
At one point in the preparations he takes some of the dried mushrooms that Gyldyr offers and adds them to the rest of what ever he has put in the pot, returning the rest.
"Thank you Gyldyr, that will make an interesting addition to the stew. It will be ready in not too long."
Gloisil absently stirs the stew he is cooking as he talks. He then mutters something in the quick gnomish language once everything has been added to the kettle.
A little while later, with a final stir with his wooden spoon, he again says a phrase in gnome and then says, "It's ready to eat."
yes; the door to the hall opens and closes; the English Knight is still out in the hall on gaurd watching the hall and elevator.
Gloisil hands a bowl of stew to Gyldyr and then goes over to the doorway confident that if they shut it, that it will open again and says to the knight, "Sir knight, I think we better close this door and secure ourselves within. Come inside and get something to eat and rest for awhile."
if your using your magic soup bowl and the ingrediants here which are fairly fresh or dried; then the soup comes out as if you had +15 skill in cooking; so really tasty and nutritious; so +1 hp regained this night when you sleep.
Sunset brings the small box to Gloisil's attention again,
"I did find this over there." She indicates both the item and the bench under which she found it. Then happily folds her lanky frame down beside Desidera and enjoys the filling, tasty repast. Quite happy to be full of good food and good beer.
After the meal is complete and the utensils put away, Sunset's mood is such that she happily sings for her companions,
Sunset smiles happily at her friends, even scooting across and giving Gloisil a hug for what truly was a glorious meal for them here in the dungeon. Before returning to Desidera's side and preparing for a good, long, uninterrupted nights sleep.
Gloisil smiles a bit at the thanks that he gets for the meal. After cleaning up, he says, "I think I better try to see if I can communicate with my Uncle Hava and let him know what we have found here."
"Sunset, if you don't mind, could I examine the box after I talk with my uncle?"
Gloisil then makes his way into the octagonal room and tries to contact his uncle.