"A fair point, we should be careful until we know this land a little better. This place has probably not run out of surprises just yet."
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"Not unless it speaks any language we know, I'm afraid. We should see this place out first, it looks promising."
"We seem to be making a lot of friends around here. Let's hope our luck continues once we may find people. Let's push ahead for now."
Arrahska eases up and slides closer to Selen to inspect the creature. She tries to sense its magical aura while carefully reaching out to it, attempting to calm it down.
It's been almost a month now, i would hate for this to die. I really love the campaign so far and the chemistry between the PCs.
"The curious creatures certainly don't stop coming. Is that thing mechanical?" holding her spear ready Arrahska looks around carefully for anything that might have been chasing the little creature.
"Let's see what Zero finds first."
"They use gold, silver, copper and platinum. This world can't be too different frm ours. Well, aside from the big mess they made out of the world's magic."
"Or whether it would mean anything to us if we knew...", Arrahska has also sat down and massages her tail. "But it's probably just this universe's version of Golarion. For whatever that is worth."
Arrahska manages to pull herself up the crumbling stone with some difficulty. Once at the top she looks around to find the pipes.
It's fine, your health is more important. And thanks :)
Hey Avian, I completely forgot to get any gear on character creation, is it okay if i catch up on that? I will make sure to choose it without using knowledge I wouldn't have had curing character creation.
Arrahska pulls herself out of the water and balances on her tail again. "Alright, let's see where it goes."
Arrahska breaks the surface once again: "The pipes pull water from the bottom of the lake. They are still running, it appears. Maybe that means someone else is around."
Absolutely am!
I'm all right. Hope Avian is still around.
"I will see about where it goes. But maybe we should also examine those tubes" Arrahska dives back down, splashing her tail fin and disappearing beneath the surface. She follows the copper tubes under water.
"I can see in the dark actually, but some light might help, if you have something that stays lit under water." There is an expression of joy on Arrahska's face that none of you have ever really seen from her before.
When Selen finishes making her way down Arrahska simply releases the spell on herself and then slithers over to the cave. "Looks like I should check this out. I hope you don't mind me swimming in our potential water source."
Arrahska invokes words of power, holding on to the magical energy she calls up the stairs. "I got down okay, looks like this is skippy's nest. You can come now, one by one, just to be sure."
im here, kind of waiting for Avian to tell me if anyhting happens on the stairs or what i find at the bottom.
"What I had in mind was not a spell to hold the stone together but to let anyone glide down safely should the stairs give way below them. But if Skippy uses it regularly, it should be stable enough to hold any one of us.", Arraska slides forward and tries the stairs. Not having the anatomy for which stairs are designed she has some problems at first but begins making her way downstairs. "When I say it, you guys follow one by one."
"Well, I don't really have much beside my spear and my clothes. Maybe we should explore these ruins further. It might give us some hints as to what happened to the people who lived here." Arrahska looks at the staircase "This looks precarious, but I know a spell that should allow us to get down safely."
"Skippy it is!" Arrahska cheerfully proclaims their new companion's name, before focusing back on the task at hand "We can stow the stuff that might be weighing us down in one of these buildings and then move on to exploring. As for water I think we can get some from the nearby stream, although I would want to check if it is safe first."
"What makes you sure this is a guy? So..." Arrahska grins, "Who wants to check? She should have a name after all.", continuing to scratch the giant rodent's ears and neck the mermaid begins examining the ruins.
"Well done, Slobad."
"You like that, little one? See, Selen, it's alright."
Arrahska slowly moves closer to Selen, her spear held downwards. "No sudden moves. With any luck it's full from its meal, we don't want to seem threatening."
Arrahska thanks slobad as he drops her off. When the sound is heard, she clutches her spear tight and tries to locate the source.
"Slobad, I'm not as fast as the rest of you" Arrahska calls out to the now giant-sized half-orc, as she motions to him to pick her up, almost like a child would to her mother.
Arrashska finishes her spell, and Slobad grows to twice his original size. "Not a lot I can do about this creature. I'm afraid,", she backs off, spear still at the ready.
Arrahska incants a spell and directs its energy into Slobad, causing him to grow to twice his original size. "This might help."
Arrahska is moving on the greener side of the barrier.
"Hmmm , maybe some sort of arcane force literally exploded there, leaving all of this in its aftermath..." Arrahska says looking at the crater near the center of the parched circle. She then turns her attention south. "Those ruins might tell us more about the people who lived here. Maybe even have some answers to this mess. And if nothing else at least provide decent shelter."
Arrahska extends a hand to her familiar "Thank you, Vorana, you can come back."
"I wouldn't think so, the magic on the other side of the barrier seems to be what animated those plants. This magic seems completely unpredictable, it seems to completely deplete the moisture from everything within it, which is why everything is parched. At the same time it did, that to your armor, while dispelling any spell passing through."
I can think of so many more experiments to perform with that barrier, but I dont know if we are getting too hung up on a detail here.
"The same thing as with my detection spell. It was dispelled. I think for your safety you shold take your armor off before crossing. I don't know if the barrier would destroy the enchantment or just suppress it momentarily."
"I'm not sure how immediately dangerous it is to us. We seem to be able to move through just fine after all." Arrahska looks around for a small object, like a stick or stone, when she finds one she casts another spell on it. "Let's hee what happens if i move an obviously visible magical effect through the barrier."
"The barrier reacted with your armor somehow, Slobad." Arrahska now also crosses the barrier. "It's magic, all right. But something is fundamentally wrong with it... Not just this,", she points at the separating line: "but with magic itself. It's as if it is... broken, in ruins. Something must have caused this, and it might be a potential danger."
"Wait," Arrahska puts her hand on slobad's shoulder. "Let me see if I can make sense of this first.", she speaks a magic word and examines the line between the parched and the green landscape.
"Gods..." Arrahska mutters quietly as she takes in the desolate surroundings. She scans the horizon while keeping her spear levelled at the animate plant.
"Let's go then.", Arrahska slips through the portal spear in hand.
Arrahska "steps" forward, or what the slithering motion of her fishtail could be called: "How soon should we report? An immediate description of the environtment, or should we scout for an in depth report first?"
Red portal is perfectly fine.
Ooh, ooh! Can we call the teams, Red, Gold and Rogue? :D Team 2 is Rogue.
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