"Yes, let's go."

In reply to Ymid (msg # 596):

The elder thing pauses to examine its device.
"Interesting. There is a localized summoning of a servitor of a familiar nature in progress. Apparently a number of extraplanar entities along with the humans invoking have been sacrificed.  I would very much inclined to view the proceedings, but I need to rest."

In reply to Ymid (msg # 600):

"That sounds nasty. I am not sure we are ready to fight that thing...should we not go inform the guards?"

"Rest first.

"'Localized summoning'?  And sacrificing humans and whatever?  I don't like the sound of that, but we're probably not equipped to deal with it.  Especially with both you and Jareth just about to fall over."

"Agreed Mario.  An with Alaric being as bad off as he is, no shape to chargin after cultists.  Ymid, which direction from here ya feelin it?  An can ya estimate distance?  We can send Mario... maybe someone faster, Clarence to... ah, maybe respectable... Jocelyn, Nodwin one o' ya like hie off an alert t'e guards once we're topside?"

In reply to Jareth Mooncalled (msg # 603):

"Waddaya mean, respectable?"

Almost as if proving a point, he rubs his runny nose on his sleeve.

"I can shave..."

In reply to Jareth Mooncalled (msg # 603):

"It is fairly proximate, perhaps within this edifice, but not close enough to encounter without exertion.... (uncertain speculation about measuring tangible distances within a three dimensional vs a five dimensional space... the only reasonable standards of measurement are not found on this plane, and it uses platinum-iridium {secondary image of the color orange} and proper notation... nothing proximate adheres to standard... drat where do I keep that conversion application??)... it is a threshold shift indicator alarm ( brief thaumaturgical diagram, with numerous moving parts, including some usually seen as mathematical constants) and not a precision location system."

Anyone with Thaumatology as a skill needs to make a fright check, and also has a searing headache. Crit successes may grant a perk that grants a bonus on certain rolls.
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In reply to Ymid (msg # 605):

"oooh, what a headache! Can we just go now..."

[Private to GM: Rolled 11, Fright check 12, so made it. Unfortunately not critically!]
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Jocelyn holds her head ...oh Gods, what did you do?




[Private to GM:   15:59, Today: Jocelyn Lemru rolled 9 using 3d6.  Fright Check. no noted Fright level, but IQ is 13]

"The first part of that made some sense.  It's close, but not right next door, so to speak.  Even so, I don't think we can do anything with it without resting, and if it's like most magic it'll be all over by then.  Let's go home and see if anyone has burned our block down."

Mario is conspicuously un-bothered by the diagrams and description of the measurement method.

In reply to Mario Crowfoot (msg # 608):

Thaumatology skills for those with, again, crits are important.

In reply to Narrator (msg # 609):

Clarence just looks forwards dumbly...

[Private to GM: Rolled 2 over Thaumatology.]

In reply to Narrator (msg # 609):

A second roll or for those who haven't yet?

"T'e extra-planars were sacrificed?  Or maybe t'ey die close proximity to t'e incursion sight?"

Jareth acts unfazed.



OOC:   00:21, Today: Jareth Mooncalled rolled 9, 10 using 3d6,3d6.  Will 15, Thaumatology 14.


00:25, Today: Jareth Mooncalled rolled 11 using 3d6.  Acting 11.  Pretending to be unfazed by the splitting headache.

In reply to Jareth Mooncalled (msg # 612):

You are pretty sure the Ymid magically augmented an innate quasi-magical or psionic power, and that it wasn't quite a spell by itself, but something like a few pieces of interdependent meta spells cast to modify a power.

OOC:

Jocelyn Lemru:

A second roll or for those who haven't yet?

I take it was a Fright Check (that gives a headache regardless of success if have Thaumatology due to understanding what some of the numbers/symbols are thus giving the Ymid a foothold into your tasty brain bits) followed by a Thaumatology to actually understand the numbers/symbology...

OK, she seems to understand some of it...



[Private to GM: 14:05, Today: Jocelyn Lemru rolled 7 using 3d6.  Thaumatology=14]

In reply to Jocelyn Lemru (msg # 615):

The device seems to have a combination of the spells Alarm and Link tied into a native power that appears not to be limited to the proximate plane of existence, the modifiers of which appear to involve things like spell failure, summoning spells, and conditions of presence that are not magically described, but involve something other.
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In reply to Narrator (msg # 616):

Player, like character, badly failed Thaumatology roll...

In reply to Clarence Montague (msg # 617):

The Ymid can passively and actively detect weird things like catastrophic spell failure, weirdness magnets, and elder thig involvement; the tablet (among other functions) can refine this sense as a filter to specific conditions.


In any case, you head upstairs, schlepping the demon corpse and the still wounded Alaric.

The Magical Sword is likely Alaric's... we shouldn't take it from him.
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In reply to Jocelyn Lemru (msg # 619):

"Fair enough. Does he need the gemstone in it though?"

Most likely...and it is HIS! taking it is stealing from him.
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In reply to Jocelyn Lemru (msg # 621):

"Steady on, I was going to ask him first. Once he has his sanity, he might be grateful for the rescue."

He makes sure his little 8-legged friend has something to eat from his rations as well, since he will be getting some more soon.

And he might need cash, although if he joins us, we might float him a loan.
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