"Next time we're in town someone remind me to get the Spam Blocker for my afterlife. Var you do it if you remember."

In reply to Berry (msg # 749):

Gareth nods.

"The dead will stay dead. I will call up his spirit and you may ask him what you will."

He goes to the body and begins casting...

[Private to GM: Summon spirit. At the body, presumably at the place of death? 5 to cast, 3 to maintain, both minus 2 for skill. Rolled 8 under skill]

In reply to Gareth (msg # 750):

"Why do you wake me?"

In reply to Narrator (msg # 751):

"We wish to know about the designs you were carrying. Please tell us all you know about them."

In reply to Gareth (msg # 752):

"I helped design an armor golem, some defenses for the tower."

In reply to Narrator (msg # 753):

"Were you then killed as payment for your work?"

In reply to Gareth (msg # 754):

"I left, and could not find my way out. Hunger took me."

In reply to Narrator (msg # 755):

"I see. Tell me about the person who hired you?"

In reply to Gareth (msg # 756):

"The master of the tower? He collects...many things."

In reply to Narrator (msg # 757):

"To what end? Is he evil, or a simple researcher?"

In reply to Gareth (msg # 758):

"I would not know. He was strange, but not rude, and stood by his word, paying me well in alkahest and with a lever I might use to move the earth. "

In reply to Narrator (msg # 759):

"And yet he put spells on the area to stop you from leaving, so you would die here. Very cold tell me about the lever please?"

In reply to Gareth (msg # 760):

"It was among my things, a crow made of unbreakable metal, that might pry anything I set myself to.  I think he forgot I was here, and used spells to seal the tower."
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In reply to Narrator (msg # 761):

"Oh, I doubt he forgot. I bet you have a lot of secrets he wanted to keep. Like the location of that lever, or weaknesses of your inventions...what are they, by the way?"

In reply to Gareth (msg # 762):

**he just described the orichalcum crowbar that was looted from the body.***


my inventions have no weaknesses!

In reply to Narrator (msg # 763):

"Cool. How do they work?"

In reply to Gareth (msg # 764):

"When a sufficiency of weight impinges on the pressure plates, the repeating crossbow is activated. After ten bolts are spent, a small automaton  will reload a cartridge from the storeroom.

A system of weights and counterweights control a sluice gate to flood a room, which drains back from the secondary reservoir and resets by activation of a treadmill operated water screw. At the same time the room floods, mechanical fish with a buoyancy system are released, the gas is released when they latch, causing the target to sink as the water rises.
Failsafe release is arunic dial."
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Haveron Quietly observes what is going on.  He does not understand any of it, but the decision was worth it.  Quietly he whispers to the Adept "I do not like this any more than you, but it could save our lives".

He Nods  Ssssstrange!

In reply to Adept Yisslitheniss (msg # 767):

Gareth is actually fascinated by the complexity of the system.

"So how are the Automations controlled?"

In reply to Gareth (msg # 768):

"Pendulum driven clockwork that is reset on activation of the trap. The fish are reset by a small golem equipped with a bellows, and provided by the master. The crossbow automatons are set in motion by the discharge of the bolt cartridge, and then the bows are restet when the clockeeorks dock the counterweight.

Is there more? I should like to rest."
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Ask if the master of the tower performs cruel experiments on animals. Or harms cats.

In reply to Berry (msg # 770):

"some of the golems are made of clay, some from living or even dead flesh. There were some. Cats made him sneeze, h e's would teleport them smewhere far away. He did keep bugs and worms though. I tire. Take me from this place."

In reply to Narrator (msg # 771):

"Thank you. One last question...how would you like us to dispose of your body?"

In reply to Gareth (msg # 772):

"Bury me outside of this accursed circle that I may go on, and say a word to Hephaestus on my behalf."