Phelan nodded hesitantly. "That seems like a good idea. I can detect the arcane so that's one group solved. I'm assuming by your suggestion that you can detect arcane or psionic energy as well?"

He looked over at Lambent. "I'd be willing to go speak to the headmistress. If nothing else, she might permit me some resources to research into  what could be causing this." Plus it would be good for him to have access to resources that a practitioner of the arcane could make use of.

Jubei remained silent for the most part, mostly because he wasn't neither psionic nor arcane. "I shall go with the group that investigate the kraftworks.", he simply stated and then crossed his arms before his chest, having made his decision final it seems.

    Eluannar greeted Drex in return and seemed quite intent on what the adventurers were discussing.  After Enkii had joined again with his party they split up once more, Phelan and Drex would go to the Arcane University and Lambent, Iron Jubei and Enkii would travel to the kraftworks.

Until all of you meet up again there will now be a separate post for each group, of course this post will only be visible to the players in the particular group involved via the private message board.
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A sort of contemplative rumble emanated from Enkii's throat as he considered over the general plan going about; honestly he didn't find himself in grand need of adding to it or mulling over it...it certainly was a good idea to split up and he didn't find his new companions any worse for wear ror ill equipped from what he could see of them.

"Kraftworks it is, we'll meet back up here, or shall the Guildhalls suffice...?"

That said just before he was ready to slither off with Jubei and Lambent.

Please resume posting here after having read the posts I made to your two seperate groups of Phelan and Drex, Enki and Lambent and Iron Jubei respectively.

"Hay Phelan, look who it is." Drex nudges Phelan in the side with his leg. "It seems that there informants also lead them here too."

Drex walks over to his other party members, holding a hand up in greeting. "Hello, fancy seeing you guys here. Are you also here to speak to Uthnonin, or are you here to see someone else?"

"I whander what they have found out about the shared Dreams, the Gifted were having..." Drex thought to himself, smiling at them.
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The large Kaetyma seemed to be briefly irritated as he saw the others. Or rather did not see them until they greeted. With that many people around it was hard to notice someone standing out of the crowd, especially when they did not tower out of it like the Kaetyma and Musadi were. His expression then quickly turned to a smile however.
"Hello there. We are indeed here because we got invited to see the wizard in his tower. I assume you are here for the same reason and that your investigations were fruitful?", he rumbled and gave a light nod.

Lambent bowed in greeting.

"Our Musadi friend was contacted directly by the wizard who appears to know something about these dreams so we thought it prudent to accept his invitation." Lambent said with a slight grin to his voice. "Did you discover anything of note? We had the most interesting conversation with an old woman and uncovered what I can only describe as a record of a dream. Most fascinating."

"Well yes Iron Jubei, the Arcane University will send the notes of one of the students to the Guild. We, well Phelan more than me recorded the individual dreams and noted the answers to the questions we asked Headmistress Thilda Dolca Harkin, for comparison and later review." Drex motions to Phelan and smiles.

"The Headmistress then told us about this wizard, Uthnonin, living in the Roots and that he studied psychic phenomenon, including the Dreams, but who had failed to correspond with her when she sent letters to him asking for help about the dreams."

Drex sigh with relive when he heard Lambent mention that Enkii was contacted by a wizard living here. "For a moment I thought he might have left Galdion on some business or something. We have had some difficulty finding him thou"

"You would think a Wizards tower would stand out like a sore thumb in this area..." Drex thinks to himself.

"We also experienced the same thing with the Headmistress." Looking at Phelan "Why don't you tell them what we have seen in the vision."
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"The vision was... Unsettling." Phelan spoke calmly, looking up at the group. "They all take place in different areas of a settlement with a big clock tower in the center. The building styles are haphazard and come from various ages and cultures, as are the clock faces themselves. Each face is different and signifies a different measurement of time, not in minutes but in lives." He paused, shaking off a chill. "The two I saw... One ticked away the moments of my existence, it might have done the same for Drex. The other appeared to be ticking away the fall of civilisations. All around I could feel the presence of many people... But I was alone"

"Near the end of the vision, the clock ticked to 11 O'clock. An hour before judgement. Unsure as to who or what was being judged. Instead of chiming the hour, the clock unleashed silence that was followed by sinking to the stones and the end of the vision."

He grimaced. "Not exactly the most pleasant dream I imagine. I daresay I'm not going to be able to forget it easily." He looked towards Drex. "Was there anything I missed in my report?"

Still left just a tad bit unsettled by the experience, Enkii had hardened himself considerably upon the return trip and, as custom, kept to a sort of observational silence over his surroundings for the procession, "Hmmph..." He was content as such to allow Jubei to do the talking as he saw fit for it, finding some particular..."kinship" with the dragontaur in a plenty basic way; more likely than not because the both of them seemed to possess the necessity for certain adjustments on a social level being as big as they were. In any case, he spoke calmly in the proceeding conversations, chiming in, "That's probably more than likely why he's rendered it invisible to the unaided eye...so I suppose we ought to consider it some kind of honor that he considers it such necessity for us to find him, aye?"

Jubei listened intently to what Phelan reported before he nodded slowly. "That indeed sounds rather disturbing. This village does indeed seem to be at the heart of these dreams, given that Missus Ashur told us of a similar... setting. Although it lacked this focus on time. However of note was that a certain Seargant Pladius had a dream that involved dragons dancing in a ballroom. Or at least something akin to dragons." He then paused briefly to look over their surroundings, then looked over to Enkii again. "Did the wizard happen to mention just how we find that tower of his?"

Answering Phelan:"No that sounds like everything, oh wait here were the voices in the background but I thing that was it."

Drex listens to what Jubei has to say.

"No Enkii, being in the presents of one of the gods is an honor. Phelan and I were told to find him, He... did not ask us to come and see him and he is only a wizard. Phelan and I went to the Arcane University where many wizards study there art." Drex nods at his statement as a satisfying response.

"Interesting." Lambent mused. "The sergeant we spoke to also said that he had been contacted by the Encantos regarding these dreams and as a show of, I guess you could call it good will, they sent him this,"

Lambent takes out the small cube for all to see.

"It is a record of a vision. I was able to power it up with my own psionic abilities. It showed the same clock tower, but far in the distance. There was, however, a strange human man sitting on a rock. He said two strange things: the beginning and end are one and the same and all of this has happened before and it is happening again. It was like a warning or even a riddle...it was hard to gauge.

Lambent put the cube back in his pouch then continued, "As for the dreams, Missus Ashur assured us that they are usually common among the Gifted, though recently they have been more strange."
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Drex looks at the cube as Lambent takes it out.

And starts a conversation with Lambent. "The Lady Thilda also mentioned scenes like, where she beard witness to trivial scenes, such as a weeping over fallen fruits.  As if they have been ruined by their fall and upon approaching him and asking him about his ill he would try out against fickle fate and the loss of all his fortunes before him.  Yet upon closer examination the fruits would appear to bear the guise of children."

"I don't know if that scene might be about that man on the rock. but yes she did tell us that Such things were common within each of the dreams."

Jubei stood there and listened to the explanations of the two, ocassionally faintly nodding as a sort of response to it. But eventually he shook his head. "We could spend a while trying to interpret these... messages on our own now. But I would that, now that we're on a similar level information wise, we should carry on and talk with this wizard. If he is indeed such a well versed scholar then he will be able to help shed some light on it. No doubt he has made researches on his own as well." He then turned to look around for a place where it was likely that a tower could be standing there. Even if it would probably appear as something different.

    As the adventurers spoke each of them was wondering about how to find the wizard’s tower.  While it seemed that we wizard was not going to make things easy for them by simply directing them to his home; for whatever reason the wizard might have for not having done so.
  Both Enkii and Jubei realize that even if the tower was hidden from plain view there would have to be someone within the town who knew where the tower was simply because not everything could just be done by magic.  Even the mightiest sorcerer needed spell components.  The only trouble was they would have to look around for such trades folk.
  Drex, you believe your keen deseekay eyes might allow you to locate the wizard’s tower by looking for anomalies about the town.
  Lambent, if Uthnonin is a resident of the city of Galdion then he must be paying taxes to be allowed not only his property within the city limits but also to be allowed to practice magic outside of an institution like the Arcane University would be on the watch-list of some local officials of the Arian kingdom.  And such individuals would almost certainly know where the wizard’s tower was located.
  Phelan, you believe that whatever magics the wizard is using to conceal his tower it should be at the detectable.  Given that you are somewhere within the tower’s surrounding area it should not be too difficult to detect the tower mystically.

Finding Uthnonin’s tower shall be presented here as a skill challenge.  However you will not have to roll initiative for this skill challenge.  We will simply use the order of post for that as your initiative tally.  For those unfamiliar with skill challenges the premise is simple, your party must achieve a certain number of successes before your rack up several failures.  For more information on skill challenges please see page 179 in the Players Handbook.

The Primary Skills for this challenge will be Arcana, Diplomacy, Insight, Intimidate and Perception.  Each  primary skill check may grant your party one success or one failure depending upon the result of your skill check.

The Secondary Skills for this challenge will be Athletics, Endurance and Streetwise.  Each use of a secondary skill provides a +2 bonus to the Primary Skill check made by one other player who is acting after your turn.  Secondary skill checks do not count towards the value of success or failure for a skill challenge.  In this skill challenge a successful second skill check requires a total result of 10 from your dice.

You are only allowed a single skill check, either a primary skill or a secondary skill each round and you must choose one skill from either category to use.  I will make another post revealing your successes and failures at the end of the round.  Each of you are only allowed to make 1 post per round, unless otherwise stated.
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"Well, I'd suggest that we all go and find out what we can, and then meet back here within the hour?", the large dragonkin suggested, before he moved out to act on his plan and find out where purchases for spell components had been made and where those got delivered to. Of course that also required him to find those shops in the first place, which resulted in a large, more or less angry looking Kaetyma moving through the crowds of people around like a ship would plow through the waves of the sea. He didn't exactly paid much mind to how he interacted with the people, having more the intention of finding out as much as he could in the fastest time possible rather than make a good impression.

Intimidation check: 27

"Fair enough." Phelan broke away from the party to investigate, making use of his ability to detect magic in an attempt to detect any magical concealments the tower might be using.

I should be able to find this tower. To fail at magically detecting it would truly be shameful.

Arcana check: 26

"Good luck."Drex says as he turns and start looking around.

"Mmmmm.... If I was a wizard where would I build my wizard tower...Mmmmm"

Drex walks along one of the paths and examines the stones the buildings to see if all the buildings are made of the same type of stone. Thinking that a closer examination of the detail of the stones will reveal a possible mistake or overlooked detail that was not reproduced by the magical enchantment.

Perception check: 18

"Definitely with a try." Enki rumbles, before dispersing from the gathering towards any nearby purveyors of commerce, particularly that of magical items and components utilized towards casting. Though he seems one to let his bulk do most of the talking, his tongue is no less wagging in a bid of polite and kindly dialect with which to honestly appeal for any such information pertaining. Giving them no reason to mistrust his intent, he plainly asks every seller he can about the wizard's predictable forays into town and wherever it is he heads afterwards, at least in the hopes of brewing up some kind of trail to get started on...

Diplomacy Check: 21

Congratulations!  You have completed this skill challenge.  Each of you receives 50 Experience Points for your efforts.

    Before long the adventurers managed to acquire a few titbits which revealed quite clearly that Uthnonin maintained a modest tower about a quarter of a mile west of Sorom’s town square which put it a few yards just beyond the outskirts of Sorom, where a well-worn path through the very green grass lead to a clearing.
  Once the inside the clearing a structure materialized before the party, a dark stone edifice seemingly hewn from a single massive piece of rock.  It was an octagonal spire five storeys tall, well over 50 feet.  The base of the tower was around 30 feet wide with a large double door upon the face towards the adventurers and the path.  There was a smaller door inlaid upon it which probably saw more common use then the large double door did from the wear upon the turf before it.
  Just to the north-side and behind the tower could be seen a small cottage, mostly wooden walls a stone chimney and a thatched roof.  The cottage looked a very much like someone had taken a pile of materials and just dumped it down then moved it around a bit to resemble a house.  Grey-white smoke was rising from its chimney.
  Both the tower and the cottage appeared starkly different to the buildings the adventurers had seen within Galdion.
  Although the tower had a few windows upon each of the four opposing faces of the tower – which alternated between the cardinal directions upon the second story and then laying between them upon the third floor and alternating like this again from the fourth floor up to the fifth, the adventurers could not see the interior of the tower as each of the windows had peculiar black, glass windows which revealed nothing about the tower’s interior.

  Just as the party of adventurers approached the doorway, the smaller door within one of the doors opened and out stepped an isleborn human man.  He appeared to be rather young possibly just within his adult years.
  He wore a worn tunic of dyed green wool and rather loose pants of light brown leather hide which just hung over large grey boots slightly caked with dark grey-brown dirt.
  The man’s head held a thick mane of blond hair though the roots were a darker brown colour.  His hair flowed around the side and back of his head, curling a bit forward at his face.  His jaw was covered by a generous beard about the same colour as his hair only a shade or two lighter.  A wide, flat moustache covered most of his upper lip and his eye brows were rather bushy as well.
  A thin bronze chain held a topaz gemstone in an ornate disc about his neck.  And a ring was held on the index finger of each hand.

  He spoke in a loud tenor voice “Welcome, welcome!  I knew you would not have that much difficulty in finding my tower.  Oh yes.” the man bends down on one knee and bows slightly for a moment “Uthnonin, Former First Magister of Aria at your service.” he then stands up again, smiling at the adventurers.

  Phelan, despite his appearance you can sense a great latticework of magic about this man.  And you suspect there is even more about this man then you are presently aware off.  You did not sense the same sort of power about the wizards of the Arcane University.
  Lambent, you can sense that the man before you has his mind linked to another somewhere within the tower.  There is a continuous stream of thought to and from this other mind.
  Drex, this creature before you has at almost nothing for a soul.  His spiritual presence is almost non-existent.  Though you sense nothing malignant of evil about it, it is disturbing.

Drex takes in the sight in front of him as the tower shimmers into view. "At last I thought we will never find this blasted tower before the day was done." As the lion-like man approaches and introduces himself, Drex noticed the strangeness. "Odd, I wonder why his  spiritual presence is almost non-existent. Mmmmm... But that is later worries now to the quest at hand"  Drex thought.

Drex bows his head in respect. "I am Drasden Braskaal Anoer, Sword of the Aurelian Pantheon,and Adventurers Guild Representatives of the Arian Kingdom. Please to make your acquaintances." He presents his Guild Badge.

Drex then proceeds to introduce each member of his party using there proper names and titles, if he knew them.

"Me and Phelan, were send here by Lady Thilda Dolca Harkin." Drex gestured towards Phelan. "We are investigating shared Dreams the Gifted are having, Lady Thilda told us that you are investigating psychic beings and phenomena which including dreams. But I assume you knew this already, seeing that you have contacted the other members of our party to come and meet you."
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    The wizard looked to each of the adventurers as Drex introduced them.  Once the avenger had finished speaking the man who called himself Uthnonin said “Yes I gathered you here for I believe we can achieve an arrangement beneficial to us both.  Come.” He stepped outside and closed the door behind him and stood away from the door as the large double doorway swung open revealing the small entrance hall beyond.
  “Please, come inside.” the wizard turned and walked in, the adventurers following.  Enkii found that he had to crouch to fit in through the doorway and Jubei had to almost crouch.  The kaetyma and musadi both felt slightly cramped within the tower.  Though given its width both adventurers believed they were in for some discomfort within the tower.

  The interior of the tower was clean, and comfortably warm with the entrance way lead right into a large octagonal room which looked a bit larger than the party of adventurers would have expected it to be.  At the far side of the room, across from the place they had entered lay another doorway.  A thick set of wooden double doors with a smaller door set into the larger door on the left hand side.
  Upon the room’s walls, hung dozens of picture frames each holding either a picture of some peculiar object, a page of text or fragments thereof, behind a sheet of glass.  Near the back of the room – just off centre – stood the grey statue of a dragon.  It was seated upon its hindquarters with its great feathery wings spread out above and ahead of it while its claws rested upon a small pillar before it.  The pillar was inscribed with many lines of draconic glyphs though closer examination would be required to read it.
  The room was lit by a soothing orange light cast by a few well-placed glowing, globes which floated just beneath the 10 foot ceiling of the room.
  Once all the adventurers had made their way inside more than half the room was taken up by an almost prone musadi and an almost kneeling kaetyma.  The wizard, spotting this apologized for it and promised not to keep the adventurers longer than absolutely necessary.  As the doors shut behind them they echoed loudly throughout the room.

  “Before we discuss the matter of the dreams, I would like to learn from you Enkii.” the wizard paused with one hand raised in a quieting gesture as his other hand was digging through the pockets on his tunic.  “Ah!  There it is!” he pulled out a golden, gleaming shell-like object which had an opal the size of the man’s thumb imbedded upon its surface.  There was some Serpentine writing imbedded upon the golden surface.  “Would you please tell me what this is?”
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The Kaetyma meanwhile was paying rather little attention to what was going on, as his eyes had been fransfixed on the dragon statue the moment he had spotted it. No doubt the big dragonblood wondered how this came to be here and curious he 'crept' a little closer to it to be able to read what was written on the pillar, no doubt some praises to a long forgotten dragon or maybe some other sort of monument of sorts.