"It might be a guardian chamber, where our spells will be more difficult...Perhaps what made those prints."

"Tumedaks reinforce the walls in their areas with star iron to block the prying eyes of your mages above.  And many years before we were taken to here, the great star fell and spread itself into the rock, deposits of it's iron can be found all over.  It is a hungry star and consumes mana.  That is likely what is causing ebb of mana, the walls or the room beyond may be laced with remains of the fallen hungry star."

"So, is this place a shrine of sorts, then?"

"Sounds more like a cell... A place where you keep something you don't want to be found." Jendrich frowns. "That changes a lot though... Ulo, you can't move the wall if it absorbs magic, right?"

In reply to Jendrich (msg # 702):

"Maybe not found.",  Grohm interjected from the doorway.

"What if there is something in there that was not meant to be released."

"Yes.  If the wall is laced with the star metal, it will not be moldable.  However if instead it is the room beyond that houses something draining mana, the wall may be just outside the area, within a lowered mana.  In that case it just becomes more difficult, more hazardous to ensorcell the stone.  Regardless as soon as I've rested and this room is deemed 'dealt with' I can try the next wall."

She looks over the debris.  "When you gentlemen are done sorting the goods from the trash, if there is too much to carry, I can create a hole in the stone wall back here to house it and cover it over to remain hidden until we return."

OOC:  I presume by "golem room" you mean the "hallway" with the "animated statues/golems", but what do you mean by "the library room... is another matter"?

Ulo secured the doors on both walls.  Or do you require further searches of this room?

In reply to Ulo (msg # 705):

the hall of animated statues is the golem room. this room has shelves snd held books- thus the library room

OOC:  I get that.  What do you mean by "is a further matter"?  Are both doors secured or not?

Grimaldi busies himself salvaging what items are intact, from those obviously ruined..

Jendrich looks at the wall, considering what Ulo said. "I was told I have magic in my blood... I'm just not too good at controling it." He focuses on a piece of broken glass, muttering in a low voice as he mimics taking it, without actually touching it. After a moment, the glass starts wobbling, before lifting off the ground. "I can just... move small objects... sometimes..."

Slowly, the glass moves toward the strange wall. "It's  probably silly, but... maybe we seeing how that thing reacts will help you figure out what the wall does?"

[Private to GM: 21:41, Today: Jendrich rolled 7 using 3d6.  Apportation (13). Using something less than a pound for 1 FP.]

Jendry finds it a little difficult to hold the spell as it gets closer to the far wall.

This room has two doors- no one has approached either. One to the left presumably heads to the hall of statues, the other to the right you are uncertain of.

unless examined,  I cannot describe more, even with Syvanus' per roll.

has Grimaldi checked the book with the hidden vial?

He will go look at the door, look for any traps and at things around it. Something cataches his eye to the side of the door and he moves to look at it more closely.

[Private to GM:  13:12, Today: Syvanus rolled 12 using 3d6.  Search.  made it
13:12, Today: Syvanus rolled 15 using 3d6.  Traps Missed by 3 ]

In reply to Syvanus (msg # 711):

there is something vaguely magical about the door...

Is the vial situated within the cutout pages of a book, like it was hid inside, and is the vile still full?

OOC:  Both doors have been sealed by stone as per msg #678 unless something stopped that.

OOC: Or until something breaks the door down...

"It's... hard to keep it up... but I think it's still possible to use magic against the wall. The question is, do we want to open the wall, and risk bringing out whatever is in there?"

In reply to Grimaldi (msg # 713):

that would be the case. the book-safe has some intrinsic value.


about the doors- I thought you were sealing the corridor with the statues from the Slorn side of things, not the exits from this room

OOC:  Things Ülo has sealed off "for later":

The Slorn Tunnels.  Sealed from the Main Tunnel, also the nest room is sealed completely as is the (now) short tunnel the slorn bodies are in (to protect them from predation).

The Main Tunnel between the Golem/Animated Statues and where we cut our side tunnel into these rooms.

Both doors of the Library Room as we have an exit tunnel behind us out to the Main Tunnel.

[Private to GM: And don't forget, she is now retreating into smoking to remain calm the closer they get to her home.  I have no idea how you want to handle the hallucinatory mushroom effects or if they'll affect anyone else (enclosed space with smoke), or if they're only hallucinatory to Trolls, etc.]

In reply to Narrator (msg # 716):
Grimaldi blows the dust off it, and carefully puts the book in his backpack.

In reply to Grimaldi (msg # 718):

The fumes seem to relax anyone who doesn't critically fail the health roll+2 I am now asking for, Ulo now has quirk level chummy  and is starting to see colors in the dark.

everyone has -1 to initiative, unless the HT roll is passed.  crit failure causes severe hallucinations,  enough to have -1 on all rolls for a few minutes.  a critical success leads to temp version of Visualization

He doesn't seem to notice the issue as he looks at things near the non-golem door.

[Private to GM:  13:43, Today: Syvanus rolled 7 using 3d6.  HT +2.  HT is 11 and he is "Fit" .]

In reply to Syvanus (msg # 720):

the door is covered with an inch of stone, as moved by Ullo. when she is rested, shemay remove it.

the large foot? prints passed through and back.

Ülo continues sitting and resting, occasionally applying Ignite to the small coal in the pipe when the mushrooms smother it...





OOC:  21:30, Today: Ulo rolled 9 using 3d6.  HT 16.  Just in case of crit..

Jendrich starts coughing from the dust. "Hack... why's this place so dirty? There wasn't..." He coughs a bit more, before stepping out of the room. "Need some air..."

21:37, Today: Jendrich rolled 16 using 3d6.  vs HT (12).