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"Wait... what are you doing! It could kill you!"
As they step in Ahn moves forward, but does not enter and the barrier comes up.
"It's a wall of force!"
With his hands against the wall, " Agate... Agate... remember... if you stay within thirty feet I'll take some of your pain!"
"The Wall of Force... you can Dimension Door out if you need to... you can do that, right?!"
Quietly to the others, "This will likely be over before we could break down the wall."
Then he braces himself for what is to come next.
You hear a buzzing sound after 20 seconds and the wall of force disappears.
When Frost and Ragnar enter, Peridot is waiting for them. Again, you suddenly see something sparkling.
Moments later magic seals each entrance to the room with a transparent invisible wall!
You are all surprised when seconds later a ray of fire tries to completely consume Ragnar!
The celestial horse tries to jump away but there is little space and Frost as well as Peridot look in shock at the animal as the fire almost burns it alive.
Ragnar drops to the ground and the room smells of burnt flesh...
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When the shield goes up, Ahn runs to the exit, hands against the barrier. When Ragnar is hit, Ahn blurts out in shocked surprise and pounds his fists on the shield in frustration
Then, thinking quickly of anything he can do, he retrieves his wand of Shield Other from his belt. It takes him all round because... haunted. His brother had moved the wand...
Ahn casts Shield Other on Ragnar.
He stows the wand, and quick releases his wand of cure light.
Wait... the waiting is the worst part.
Frost realises after the second LoH that the illness that is within Ragnar cannot resist his magic and it fades away.
The wall of force disappears.
Any creature infected with a disease entering the room triggers the trap. When it activates, the trap seals each entrance to the room with a wall of force and immediately affects each creature within the area with remove sickness (Pathfinder RPG Ultimate Magic 234). On the second round, the trap affects each creature in the area with remove disease. On the third round, the trap incinerates all diseased creatures and objects in the room, dealing fire damage. The room remains sealed for an additional 3 rounds as a vents open to suck any remaining contaminants from the area, after which each wall of force dissipates.
When Athum enters you see the known sparkling and realise that the wall of force is up!
When heat starts to form Athum realises that fire wants to consume him ...
Athum tries to escaoe but he is too slow!
Athum's rocky body is burnt but he is still standing!
Athum has to wait a moment but the wall of force disappears and he can exit the room on the other side.
Athum realises that heat is building up and immediately creates a fire resistant shield!!
Three tables laden with alchemical equipment, glassware, and other arcane tools occupy this chamber.
A thick liquid drips from a broken glass jar that never empties.
Numerous marked vials that appear intact are enclosed within glass-fronted cabinets along the southern wall.
A sealed metal canister sits in the southwest corner.
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Torch crosses the pillar room and looks at you all a moment, then hums softly to himself and stares about.
He seems completely unconcerned with what happened to Ragnar and Athum, and maybe even rolled his eyes at the ‘competency’.
"This place is the entrance to a research lab, I believe. Should I probe further?!"
Agate, the room is in disarray, but sufficient equipment remains to use as a functional alchemy lab.
Several of Tahari’s notes have also survived, all written in Ancient Osiriani.
When you detect magic you see that one cabinet holds a vial that contains three doses of a clear substance that is a clear viscous fluid that spontaneously crystallizes into fractally complex formations before melting back to a liquid state.
The substance radiates a strong universal magic aura.
There are no magical auras on the other vials or the canister.
Torch looks at everything from a distance.
”I would suggest you thoroughly read her research notes!“ he says with a sky smile.
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Agate translates the notes for the non-Osiriani speakers.
"Those vials there," she says, indicating the ones that radiate magic, "might be the 'waste product' she wrote about. Whatever's in that canister isn't magic-- it might be the plague. And that liquid there--" she indicates the never-emptying glass jar. "--very curious, but it's also not magic as far as I can tell."
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"Let me see what I can discern." Athum cautiously takes hold of one of the vials and focuses his energy into making sense of the various energies within this concoction.
Athum touches some of the vials and feels incredible thoughts... you see how Tahari crafted new diseases here before taking them to another area to test on her experimental subjects.
The container contains thoughts of pride ... thoughts of near perfection in the eyes of Tahari.
The crystalline in the vials is a powerful magical by-product of Tahari’s wildly unethical experiments!
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"Well let's leave the super plague here for the time being. Also it appears that we found something that may be used as a cure? Im not sure. Her notes mention a substance or byproduct that the disease can't tolerate. We should find the rest of her notes in the other chamber that she mentioned. She seems like such a wonderful person the more we learn about her. I wonder what horrors we'll find out next."
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AS the team moves onto the next area, Athum is reading over the notes that they found. "You know, I may have misunderstood my reading of that vial. Perhaps those are the by-products of which she speaks here. 'They radiate a pure aura, one the plague cannot tolerate'. The contents of those vials were crystalline in nature..." The Oread trails off as he continues to ponder the mystery.
You see that in addition to the vials being numbered #1-40, the metal canister in the corner happens to be labeled #14.
Peridot, from what you can tell even without magical assistance these vials are filled with pure distilled crystalline magic in a shifting form.
You wouldn't be surprised to find this stuff in the veins of Nethys himself, and it's quite likely the side effect of the disease... the magic being pulled out of people when they trigger the effect.
However, it's not a cure.
You think with the lab here you might be able to make one, but you need more information about how to do it and how it works.
You move to the next room.
Wall alcoves hold rust-covered stone pits into which the soupy liquid covering the floor spills.
Along the north wall stands a complex gold and bone framework linking dozens of crystals set into the stone.
Ancient, rusty blood covers bronze shackles bolted to plates in the floor near the mechanism.