In reply to Zuni Runesong (msg # 76):

Zuni and Selvin, there were four doses of the gaseous form potion. You used two of them getting here, so you have two more. You can escape the room if you want to become solid again.

There seems no obvious exit to the room Zuni and Selvin.  From the looks of things, there is nothing that screams obvious trap, secret passage, or anything else. The only entry to this room is blocked by the large stone plug. For some reason these people came down here and...pulled the plug behind them maybe?

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Suprisingly, it is Chandanar who answers your question Izzick. He points at the walls, indicating what appear to be faded murals.

Those look like they should be representative of the planets. This room might have had some kind of astrological function

Sial glances at Chandanar and says with a smirk. I'm surprised someone who spends their life on their knees would be so familiar with the night sky He turns to you Izzick and his smirk seems to become more a smile as Sial says respectfully, to you, He has the right of it though. Divinations would be my guess. This chamber was probably used to make forecasts. And it seems to be the only chamber down here, not withstanding what your companions may have found. Sial glances at the walls, none of which have a further exit, and shrugs. Was this what your party was searching for?
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Izzick spent some more time surveying the room. "We had hoped to confirm a legend in the region. One about a priestess who came here. We have some friends who are curious where her journey ended." He tried to keep his answer somewhat ambiguous to avoid saying they didn't have a clue what they were actually seeking out. This certainly didn't seem like it would be the case.

Zuni floated around the room.  Floated!  It was such an odd feeling to be a cloud of gas but it was also very exhilarating.  "...I'm going to have to get a few of these potions for later use..." she muttered to herself and she checked the room for anything suspicious.  With no other exits to the room, she was starting to wonder just how these victims got in here in the first place and how whatever had killed them had managed the same feat.

The safe thing to do would be to rejoin the others, but the shiny stuff was making a very enticing counter argument.  "Hey, Selvin.  About earlier."  Zuni started but was unsure how to continue.  "With these potions.  I don't...I've used healing potions and been attacked by magic, but I'm not often using it myself.  It's probably nothing for you, I mean look at you and your glowing friend, but magic was never something that..."

Zuni paused and looked back at the bowl of water and the clean plates. "Those are awfully clean, don't you think?  Can you sense if there's any magic around here?  If it's safe to liberate the shiny things?"

OOC:
Perception -> 25

Selvin chuckled and glanced over at Zuni with a raised...eyebrow of sorts. "This...this is new to me. I have never been gaseous before, though flying is something I am used to and yet still enjoy. I could fly you sometime if you wish."

He willed the potion's effect to end and became solid once more. "I'll check. He spoke the arcane words, made a few gestures to cast Detect Magic and looked around the room slowly to see if anything radiated magic.

OOC: 16:24, Today: Selvin Larst rolled 26,23 using d20+13,d20+9.  Perception and Spellcraft (if needed for Detect Magic).

In reply to Izzick (msg # 80):

Sial regards you a moment Izzick, then simply shrugs. Hmm.  It does not seem anyone has been here for some time.  Perhaps there is another secret entrance we missed. Let me check the room we just left.  He gestures in your direction while looking at Madam Chain Lady.  Guard them.  She curtsies slightly to Sial and then looks at you, smiling coyly.  Sial walks back into the room you just left.

Chandanar watches him go and then sighs.  He walks a few steps towards the big Moon orb-thing.  You think maybe we should poke around this thing?

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While there was no sensation when you became gaseous, the transition back to flesh feels moist.  You come back to your bodies covered in a fine sheen of dew.  And you smell really, really good too.  Sort of like fresh cut flowers.

The room has some low level magicks Selvin.  Mostly maintenance and cleaning type stuff.  But nothing that seems hostile.

There are several points in the room that are brighter than the rest.  One of the rings worn on one of the corpses lights up like a torch.  It seems to be some kind of storage device for magic Ring of Spell Storing, currently empty.  There is also a pair of bracers on another one that seem well enchanted Bracers of Free Action/Defense +4.

The bowl and plates are designed to provide sustenance. The bowl probably links to the elemental plane and will always be filled with clean, potable water.  There doesn't seem to be a way to turn the magic off though.  So if you take it, you'll be carrying around a bowl of water.  The five plates will probably create a meal once or twice a day.  There's a word, Ivanum on the back that probably triggers the affect.

Questions so far ya'll?

Selvin tilted his head back and forth, opened and closed his jaw a few times, as if feeling that he was still there and still all solid as he poked himself in a few places a few times as well. He looked over at Zuni appraisingly, "Yup, you seem t'all be there too." He grinned at her.

Then he looked with glowing eyes and pointed things out. "Magic. That ring. I think it's a...spell storin' ring." He pointed at the bracers. "Those bracers're magic too. An' that bow. An' those plates." He picked up and examined each carefully to see what they were, and shared the information with Zuni. Then he said, "The ring an' the bracers we take, for sure. The bowl and plates...if we really wanna take 'em, well it's fresh water an' food each day." He chuckled.

"But nothin' that would indicate what killed the people here."

Shifting back to normal was just as odd a sensation as when Zuni turned into mist.  She just had to do a quick check and make sure that no part of her was missing.  Selvin looked to be all present as well and she smiled at his comment to her.  There was something in the way that he looked her over.  Was he...was he flirting?  That was not an unpleasant thought, but one better left for a later time.

"When in doubt, take everything and sort it out later."  Zuni said, putting the plates into her backpack.  She cautiously sampled the water in the bowl and then held it out to consider it.  She tipped the bowl to let some of the water out, only to watch it refill. Fascinated by this, Zuni let more water out from the bowl to repeat the process. Now she really wanted the bowl.  Something like this could be very useful when traveling int he desert.  "I'm not sure how we're going to take this.  Maybe I have a waterproof bag that I could use..."
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Izzick shrugged, figuring they had not much else to do but wait.

I guess I'll take 20 if possible on a Perception check to look around the moon. That gives me a 19. Otherwise...well I already rolled 19-1 earlier, so not much else for Izzick to find if I can't.

Selvin stopped and suddenly turned back to Zuni. He had a peculiar look on his face, half-amused and half-surprised. "Uh. Well." He shrugged. "Funny y'should mention it. The pack I carry around...well..." He grinned. "It has stuff in it, but it's waterproof. I bought it specifically since it rained so much."

In reply to Izzick (msg # 86):

The pack is indeed waterproof. The bowl will fit inside, though it may eventually fill the pack with water...

Meanwhile, back at the ruin

You approach the moon Izzick. As you do, the orb begins to glow brighter. A shadow falls across one edge of it and slowly spreads. It seems the moon is going through it's phases.

As the moon approaches it's new phase, you see one of the craters actually take on some depth. The hole widens slightly and is now big enough for a hand to be placed inside it.

Zuni handed the bowl over to Selvin.  "I don't think that there's anything else of value here..."  She said, giving the room one more look around.  "We should probably catch back up with the others."

In reply to Zuni Runesong (msg # 89):

Zuni and Selvin:  Let me know if there's anything else you want to do here.  Otherwise...

You take the last swigs of Sial's potion and soon drift back down the plug hole.  Hmm.  There's probably a better way to say that, surely.  As you come back to solid in the room beyond you see only Sial there, inspecting the walls.  Through the archway to the northeast, the glow that was coming from there has grown stronger.

Sial turns to look at you.  Anything of interest?  The others are in the chamber there.

Putting a small protective ward on himself, knowing full well what happened last time with his 'bridge,' Izzick reached into the hole.

Cast Resistance
Then reaching in.

Selvin took the things in his waterproof bag out. He took the flint and steel and the signal whistle and put them in the pouches on his belt. He took the 2 flasks of oil and the lamp and held them out to Zuni, "Can you carry these for me for now please?"

Then he put the bowl in to the bag and took the second of the potions he'd gotten. He unstoppered it and drank it, turning back in to mist. He forced himself slowly back in to the room they had come from originally and then reformed once more.

He looked to Sial and shrugged. "Sort of. Dead bodies that had been pulverized. No other exits. A few trinkets. A bowl of never-ending water." He took that out of his waterproof bag to show, letting Zuni take over the narration.

In reply to Selvin Larst (msg # 92):

As Sial opens his mouth to respond to Selvin, Chandanar pops his head out of the open archway to the northeast. Hey. Izzy is glowing. So...yeah.

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Izzick, there is an odd, warm, gentle tugging sensation on your wrist. And then you notice the soft glow of the orb travel up your arm. It doesn't hurt. In fact, it feels pretty refreshing. As the flow envelops your whole body, you feel your muscles relax and a calm descend over your mind. All in all, this feels alright. So you're probably about to explode. But might as well enjoy the valm while it lasts.

Chainy smiles at you and touches the area around her left eye, obviously meaning somethjjng is going on there for you as well. You touch your face and feel an odd scar. You search for something reflective as Chandanr informs Sial in the other room about your glow.

You inspect your shiny face in the shaft of a dagger. A crescent moon scar now borders your left eye. Somehow you know it's permanent. And fetching. For a glowing half orc necromancer, you are pretty hot if you do say so yourself.

Izzy, raise your Charisma +1

Selvin frowned, stopped what he was doing. "What?? Like in a bad way? Or a good way? Or..." He cut himself off and shook his head. "Never mind." He headed in to the other chamber as quickly as he could.

"Flows well enough with the rest of the tattoos," Izzick says, taking the mark in. He could certainly work with it, and the energy emitted from it seemed to mingle well with his sorcery. Maybe it would even serve as mark enough to prove themselves to the moon clan, though he didn't exactly expect it to be so easy with Krojun being a rather loud obnoxious voice in every elder's ear.

Zuni rematerialized back in the room and was about to continue on describing what they had found but instead she went into the next room to see what was going on.  The sight of a glowing Izzick stopped her.  "....looks like you've all been busy...." she said softly. "What's going on, Izzick?  You look...different.  Not just that crescent tattoo but there's something else..."

"Glowing in a good way I'd say. I know, I kind of like it," he said as he answered first Selvin and then turned to Zuni with a confident grin. But the middle of a tomb was hardly the time to play bard, "Did you find anything on the other side? This room seems mostly empty except for whatever did this to me in that spot." He pointed towards the alcove he'd reached into. He wasn't sure if they could all benefit from the mystical properties, but it was worth a shot if they'd found little else.

In reply to Izzick (msg # 97):

Chandanar and Sial collow you all in. They both inspect the plucky half orc.

I don't think it's a curse. More a blessing. Chandanar opines.

What an astute analysis, Sial remarks dryly then turns to you all. I would hazard a guess it is a gift from the Moon Goddess.

Chandanar points at the crescent moon scar. I would guess this is what we came for, right? Something sacred to the lunar tribe people?

Selvin looked Izzick over silently for a long moment, walking around him a little even. "Sooooo...what did you do? How'd you get that?" Then he grinned. "Are we ALL gettin' matchin' tattoos t'gether??"

"It's a crater inside the moon. Or was," he said, trying to keep a closer eye on the changing phases to see if the crater once more turned into the alcove that had given him the blessing. "But perhaps this would work. So what did you two find?"

In reply to Izzick (msg # 100):

The lunar model has dimmed back to it's original level of luminescence. It seems the mark is a one and done kind of gift.

Selvin looked a bit disappointed that he wasn't getting a cool new mark either - though to be fair he was already freaky looking most of the time so couldn't complain too hard. He described what they had found in the other room, especially the pulverized bones. Then he pulled out the water bowl and poured a bit out to show it refill. He gave a shrug.

Anyone vot anuthing else they want to do here?