GM Granta's War for the Crown (Inactive)

Game Master Granta

"You would rather kill the living, and so bring around more undead? How thoughtful for the ghosts" Delena teases Pavo.

She walks to the next door, following the men and touches her glowing dagger when saying the magic words to keep it alight. "It is getting rather repetitive, and I'd like someone with a mind to play with."

"I'm beginning to suspect you were raised in Cheliax," Pavo comments.

Past the door, Tiber sees a long hallway disappearing into darkness. Straight across it, a large metal door is covered with chalk circles and mathematical notes.

"...don't ask questions you don't want the answers to," Pavo mutters upon seeing the hall full of doors. "I think it is time to clear the rooms behind us before we head into that maze."

Delena laughs at Pavo's comment. "Cheliax? Do you know how stiff that place is? Those princess-hating tradition-huggers would be considered dangerously open-minded there."

She steps closer to peek at the circles. "If nothing else, the drawings give us path to follow" she shrugs. "But I can accept a quick check behind us, I don't want daggers in my back either."

Tiber shrugs his shoulders. "Fine with me, another day, another door." Walking back to the wax room, he posts up on the eastern door in the same way he has been. "On three?"

"One..."

"Two!"

"THREE!" he cheers before throwing the door open.

Thalasou peeks through the doorway and tries to look down the long hallway but the length is lost in the dark. "Back to the other doors seems like a good idea." Walking through the room with the wax figures gives him the shivers. "This is just weird," he says to Tiber and takes a position that keeps Tiber between the door and himself.

Delena follows Tiber and Thalasou to the door.

"Incredible amount of work to do something like this and I'm already bored of them. Wouldn't call it time well spent" Delena frowns at the figures.

When Delena and Thalasou peek into the hallway, both suddenly feel a sense of dread, but it fades in seconds.

In the new room, Tiber sees rows of shelves running north to south. Dozens of objects line the shelves behind glass doors, resting on satin pillows.

"Well, this is certainly eclectic. Delena, if you wouldn't mind scanning for magical auras?" he comments as Tiber reveals more of the museum. He follows his lights into the room to begin the tedious process of searching for traps in the room.

"Yes, yes", Delena mutters and follows Pavo into the room.

"This is a very strange place. If it was a museum, you would expect some documentation about the items. But these have none", she wonders aloud as she tests the area for magic.

"A private museum," he says. "Likely of a powerful wizard."

"Hopefully we've found another cache of useful tools," Tiber says as he follows Pavo around the room. "Or perhaps at least worth some good money..." Must be worth something otherwise it wouldn't be behind glass!
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Thalasou moves into the room and follows the wall to the north. He keeps his senses keen, trying to absorb any magical auras. It looks like there's another door leading north. It probably heads into that hallway he peeked down a moment ago.

"I think we should go east," he says to the group. "That north door likely heads into the hallway. When I looked down the hallway a few minutes ago I got a very bad feeling. I think there's something bad there and I'd rather avoid it."

Pavo checks the room for traps while Tiber checks the doors. Neither finds anything interesting, but Delena and Thalasou have better luck looking for magic.

"Works for me, tackling the hallway now or later is all the same to me," Tiber confesses. When it becomes clear that magic is afoot and danger doesn't seem too eager to rear it's ugly head (for now), he leans against the eastern wall and stares wistfully at an empty cup on display.

"Let me know if there's anything special," Pavo says as he wanders the shelves in no particular order searching for anything of value or interest.

"Oh! I am sensing some magic here." A faint aura coming from the floor seems quite unfamiliar to Thalasou but the raven in one of the cases seems almost familiar. Thalasou closes his eyes and tries to concentrate on the magical emanation but its essence eludes him.

"I'm sorry, I can't quite figure it out." He looks to Lady Delena. Maybe she'll have better luck.

"There's something faint in the floor, but that raven is stronger", Delena says and walks over to check the raven.

"This is, responds faintly to this test, it was in the table on page 50"" she talks to herself while trying to remember the rules. Finally, she throws her arms out in frustration. "Can't make it! I just remembered the table last week", she says angrily.

@Pavo: Determining value would be Appraise.

No new info.

"You can't figure it out either? It must be powerful." He examines the case to see if it can be opened easily. "Pavo, can you open then case? Maybe we can take this raven with us and figure out its magical properties later."

Tiber nods his head absentmindedly as he turns his attention to scrutinizing his shield. He traces the arcane marks on the inside of the sturdy metal disk with his fingertip, trying to divine some sort of a pattern among them.

Pavo moves over to the case holding the raven and looks to see how it opens and then goes about trying to free it.

"Just smash the glass and stash everything in a bag" Delena says impatiently and follows Tiber to the next door.

The lock poses no difficulty for Pavo, but the silver raven leaves a dirty, greasy feeling on his hand.

Appraise to identify other valuables in the cases. Then pick the next door.

Once the goods have been bagged, valuable or not, Tiber opens the eastern door 12. "Come on, Delena, that wouldn't be right. The man's clearly practicing his trade, you can't just undermine him while he is doing the deed!" he says with a smirk.

Will give one more day because of the holiday season, but progressing tomorrow one way or the other.

"Thanks, Pavo. Hopefully we'll be able to figure out what that is later." After scanning the room one more time, Thalasou is confident that they have found everything of interest here. "Ready to keep moving." He steps up to join Lady Delena and Tiber near the east door.

"Well, I may need to reconsider my stance on paying Jowuan, as I may have just poisoned myself," Pavo says, handing the figurine off to Thalasou. He takes a moment to try to wash the grime off of his hands with soap and a sponge before looking back into the case. "May as well pay him with this."

"We are stealing these anyway and glass is fast to break", Delena shrugs at Tiber. She quickly looks through the items. "That, lots of gold. This, silver and fine craftmanship. That has pretty gems. Should be enough even for Abadar prices to clean poison."