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Henric is startled by the appearance of Sir Roderick's spirit, but tries his best to hide it, for Kiley's sake, if not his own. "Yes sir," he replies. "We found your map, and the stone house, as well as some interesting contents inside. But why? What does this all mean?"
When they arrive back to Roderick's Cove, Henric can't help but smile at the sight of Audrahni. He thinks to approach her, but is immediately dissuaded as she and Esmaralda embrace and converse. Instead, he just nods his head at getting some rest before their meeting with the ghostly founder and heads towards his room at the inn. -------------------------------------- The next morning, standing before the Wreck, he is immediately assaulted by the memories of their first time here, and is more than willing to fill the others in on the details. Otherwise, he straightens up the collar of his duster and grips his staff before saying, "Guess there's no time like the present", before heading into the leaning house.
After about a minute, Henric just shakes his head. "No trigger word or anything. But whoever cast the spell must have been powerful for it to last this long." He moves out of the way to let Kiley go to work.
"Well done, team! amazing teamwork!" says Esmaralda, shaking everyone's hand with excitement. Henric is taken a little by surprise at Esmaralda's suddenly boisterous mien, but shakes the woman's hand anyways. Once the others have found the invisible chest, Henric steps forward, "Let me see if I can reveal it's secrets without destruction." He places his hand on the lid of the invisible chest and uses his Object Reading ability.
Henric is scouring the room with the others, and nearly jumps out of his skin at the sight of the spectral mushroom-thing. He nearly sends a spell at the location where the creature disappeared, but instead holds onto the energy, waiting for it to pop up again. Readied Action: If the creature appears again, Henric casts his last Fire Ray.
Henric silently nods at Munkle when she asks about leaving, and gives the goblin plenty of room to not feel threatened. He wishes Stryn well as he accompanies the skittish goblin out. ------------------ When they get to the boarded up room, Henric helps how he can, using his blackwood staff as a kind of lever to help out.
He quickly gets out of the way, though, as Camellia seems to have the task well in hand. "Agreed. I'm not afraid to admit that my own strengths are not of the bodily variation."
...suddenly, a goblin appears in the circle in the room with the others, eyes closed. She cautiously opens her eyes and lets out a squeak as she sees Henric looming over her before running to a corner. Henric jumps back at the appearance of the goblin, nearly tripping over his overcoat in the process. After taking a moment to catch his breath, he sits on the ground, staff over his lap, and says to the goblin, "Sorry for scaring you, but you startled me nearly as badly."
It's bound to happen. You're basically giving your immunity system a high-powered workout. My wife got both of her shots early (she's an RT, so was at the top of the list), and she has MS. It hit her hard, but for the most part she just slept it off for a few days, and came out the other side just fine. I just had my first shot on Friday, and it was a bit jarring, but not too bad.
Getting a little anxious, Henric tries to distract himself with Esmaralda's music.
Henric stands in front of the teleportation rune, seeming to almost dance from foot to foot in anticipation of Cam and Kiley's return.
"A goblin?" Henric asks, grateful that they were correct in their assumptions. "That seems unusual. Were there any other ways out of that room, that you could see?"
Henric nods in agreement. "We should at least give them a chance to come back. The Runes were supposed to allow a return trip."
Henric looks aghast at the runes in the room, then looks to the others still on this side. Finally, he breaks down and laughs. "Well, I suppose there's nothing for it now," the researcher says as he starts heading for the runes.
You should know by now that it doesn't bother me at all. Of course, there will be times it might not be appropriate (mostly just to move things along), and I'm sure it'll get brought up, but for the most part I've never had an issue with it. Kiley is an awesome character, for her strengths and flaws both. Keep at it, I say.
Henric nods in agreement. "I didn't detect any kind of ill intent or malicious effect from the gauntlets," he adds, "but better to be safe." He grabs the sack from the dwarf, and carefully places the gauntlets inside, then stows the bag away in his backpack.
Henric stands up, cradling the gauntlets in his arms, like a pair of twin babes. "Yes. We weren't given any further instructions past collecting the gauntlets, so let's go see the founder." He notices Kiley's sudden tension, and moves closer to his friend. "Don't worry, Kiley. We're right with you. Just stand behind me if you're not feeling comfortable." Looking down at the gauntlets again, he asks, "What should we do with these?"
Henric gives Tellanya a quizzical look, then opens his mouth to start asking questions, but pauses and closes his mouth again, staring on in a ponderous look.
Henric very carefully reaches into the chest to pull out the gauntlets, closing his eyes to read their auras. After a moment, he nearly falls back, but keeps himself upright. "Very magical," he says, breathing like he had just run a marathon, his eyes wide. "These are Runewarded Guantlets, a powerful Thassilonian artifact. They protect the wearer from the influence of magic items with intelligence, as well as suppress all magical qualities of a single intelligent weapon carried." He looks around the room at everyone, his eyes still wide, "Why would they need such things, and why would these bandits want them so bad? It seemed like they had some idea of what was in here."
Barring anyone interfering, Henric will open the chest.
Seeing the culmination of years of study come to a positive finding, Henric reverently makes his way to the chest and runs his hand over it before he tries to open it.
Henric steps back away from the door, mouth hanging open. "Alaznist..." he mutters aloud, but then continues in a regular tone of voice. "Seems like we have quite the job on our hands. This lock has 78,125 possible combinations, and our friend here hadn't figured it out yet. Whatever is in there, we can't let some common bandits get ahold of it." Henric stops for a moment, realization dawning on his face. He digs around in his backpack and pulls out the map of Roderick's Cove that they found. Looking it over, he examines the marker that was placed in the Stone House; where they currently are. He quickly makes his way over to the lock and starts adjusting the tines to resemble the marker on the map.
Looking up at the door in front of them, Henric replies, "That is an excellent question! Let's see what we can find out." The scholar moves towards the door and tries to see what he can discover.
Henric's self-inflicted spell is broken at the sound of light-hearted conversation. When he sees Kiley without her coverings, and the others smiling at her, Henric can't help but to join in. He comes up beside her and nudges her shoulder with his, "See," he tells her, a little smugly, "I told you that you'd be fine, didn't I?"
"You've got this, Kiley!" Henric calls out, keeping up the pressure. Full-Attack Action:
Henric stays on the defensive, giving someone an advantage against the foe. Full-Attack Action:
Immediate Action: Aegis (2 Mental Focus; 6 hp buffer) As Henric twists to avoid the fire, he lifts his arms in front of him and wills a shield into existence to absorb the damage. In response, Henric makes his way over to the dwarf and takes a hard swing with his staff. Move Action: Move 15' feet
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Henric makes his way to Kiley to back her up, staff in hand. "We've got this guy!" he encourages her.
Henric touches the suit of armor, seeing if it 'speaks' to him.
Henric helps out with searching the area, hoping to find something to study.
"Shall we head that way?" Henric asks, pointing towards the double door, "Or look around first?"
Henric pipes in, "You guys are free to go where ever you like, as long as it far from here, and you never come back."
Henric almost complies with Esmaralda's sensible request, but then remembers himself. Instead, he just holds his staff in a defensive manner, on the off chance that they don't comply.
Henric points his staff at the most available target and looses one of his beams of fire at the pour sod.
That's pretty much the long and the short of it, I think, once Stryn has a poke at it.
Henric smacks his forehead, "Force! Of course! That would be perfect for taking down barriers! Why didn't I think of that before?" He shakes his head at his own lack of planning. "Sorry Kiley. Mostly just a whole lot of fire, right now."
Hey Kiley! Glad to have you back! :)
"Shall we move along?" Henric asks, motioning to the door at the end of the room. "These bandits won't get rid of themselves, and I'm thinking that the town will be better for it."
"Is that all of them?" Henric asks, looking around the room. "Let's make sure that they didn't leave any surprises for us."
Inspired by his companions' prowess, Henric dives in between the two remaining Roadkeepers to get into a flanking position, doing his best to protect himself from harm. Move Action
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Henric steps into the room after Camellia, feeling (over) confident from her bravado. "Or don't," he adds, before unleashing a fan of flames from his staff. Move Action Standard Action
Once he is finally feeling himself again, Henric makes his way among the pilfered items, handling each one briefly before moving onto the next.
Kinda feels like getting the band back together. :)
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