“Do either of you use a bow?  These arrows look quite promising.”

In reply to Garl Ligoosh (msg # 57):

Neither of your companions has a bow as part of their current equipment, as far as you can see.

In reply to Garl Ligoosh (msg # 57):

"Just my axe, close and personnel that way. Lets keep looking."


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The only other standing thing in the ruined city is the white stone portal, closed. You can walk around it and both faces look the same. It looks like a bizarre monument gate leading to nowhere.
Garl eventually walks closer to examine it in detail and touches it. Suddenly, a secret compartment opens in the portal, revealing a socket. You immediately think that its dimension would fit nicely one of the tiles that you found before.

“Shall we try putting in one of the tiles?”

In reply to Garl Ligoosh (msg # 61):

"Looks like our only option."


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"Yes let's do it! " Storm says.
He also says they should keep the arrows for future use

In reply to Garl Ligoosh (msg # 61):

Now you have to chose which one of them you want to slot in.

Garl tries the lightning tile.

The portal releases a storm of lightning all around! You are all hit! [OOC: deduct 6 points of STAMINA each. On this occasion no LUCK roll can reduce it]
[Private to Garl Ligoosh: It comes up into your mind that you may have given the wrong answer when you got the tile]
This message was last edited by the GM at 06:36, Sun 07 July 2019.

What next?

Storm eats some rations first.

What other options are there? As in the tiles

Garl also wants to rest and eat rations.  He tells his companions that he suspects he gave the wrong answer before receiving that tile...

The place is very quiet and nothing happens while you eat.

[OOC: all of you having one ration recover 4 points of STAMINA]

Storm offers to try a tile.

OOC: What other tiles can i use?

You have also the arrow tile.

Storm tells the others to stay back and he slots the arrow tile in

This time the portal opens with a grating sound, but on the other side of the threshold you see the inside of a building that didn't exist when the gate was closed!

Garl sighs with relief.  He felt certain they would be attacked with a volley of arrows!

Storm looks inside the building.

Robustous follows the others as they enter the building.


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You realise that you are now in the fabled Library of Skelo!
All around you are ancient books and scrolls of all kind! you feel the urge to dive immediately into some of them!

Storm searches the library, paying attention to any signages that may catalogue the items.

He will try to find items that teach magic or improve his stats and skills.

So far you can find only few documents written in a language that you can read, but they seem awesome and you can only imagine what great power can be unleashed by the knowledge in this library:
• A Scroll containing the Teleport (6) spell. A Wizard needs to read it just once to be immediately able to cast the spell.
• A Scroll containing the Wall of Power (6) spell. A Wizard needs to read it just once to be immediately able to cast the spell.
• The Book of the Ancient Hero which adds 2 points to initial and current STAMINA score of the reader (only once in life, of course).
• The Romance of Lethe: a collection of ancient poetry which grants the reader a +2 bonus on every Social Action roll which implies storytelling or poems recitation (only once in life, of course).
• The Art of Carnage dictated to the Scribes of Pentergan by the legendary Human Warlord Huriah. Once read (only once in life, of course) it bestows a +2 bonus when rolling for strategical or tactical matters associated to warfare.
• A Cornucopia: a magic object that produces fresh food and drink (for the tastes of a traditionalist Elf) to the rate of a meal every turn (if removed from the Cornucopia to be replaced by a new meal).

What do you want to try first?
This message was last edited by the GM at 14:31, Fri 12 July 2019.

Garl wishes to try the Cornucopia... although he has some misgivings about this situation...