We don't have many visitors here, but yes master like when they come. Please if you want to talk to him, meet him upstairs in his library, I must to tend to this room.
Frank returns from his circle around the building and is quite surprised by the scene. He steps just inside the door and finds a table corner to put down the delivered package.
"You going upstairs? I'll stay here and keep an eye on things."
Zuri follows Gethin upstairs with the package, still trying to wrap her head around what she just saw.
Seeing no one as suprised by the talking metal thing and the broom, makes her think that things like these are just normal around here. She shouldn´t be suprised, she´s far from home afterall. but it still does. It´s all so different than what she was used to.
As you climb the ladder, your nose is hit by an even stronger smell of old books. Old bookshelves surround the whole room. Opposite the ladder, there is an old large table with a small lamp and a chair. On the table there is an opened book with a parchment and a quill lying next to it. There are even more book piles then on the first floor. To your surprise there is no-one in the room except you and your friends.
Zuri walks around the room. "He´s not here?" She says, suprised and confused. "But, didn´t the lady at the inn say he never leaves this tower? I wonder where he could have gone."
She will put the package with the supplies next to the large table and look at the open book laying on it.
Mydri remains at the foot of the ladder, unsure what to do. When she hears Zuri speaks, she begins to climb up and see for herself. Once up, she notices where Zuri placed her package and follows suit. "Maybe she exaggerated? Nobody truly stays inside all day. Even I would go out, sometimes, I think." She definitely remembered being outside, looking for a pretty landscape or a flower to draw. She wouldn't do this often, but sometimes her Elven half called to the natural world too strongly. She sighs, enjoying the memory before it abruptly ends, and she remembers no more. "We could ask the thing downstairs if it knows when his master will be back."
Zuri: as you look at the open pages of the book, at the first glance you see some obscure diagrams, runes and a text written in a pleasantly looking script. You know it isn't the standard form of writing generally used by the commoners. There is also a picture of a manor of some kind, on one of the pages. Similar script and runes can also be found in the parchment next to the book, although is it obvious at the first sight that the book and the parchment were written by two different people.
If you want to try to understand the texts, make an Arcana(Int) check please.
"Yeah, you might be right, he does have a nice garden that he seems to take care of." She says to Mydri while still looking at the book. "I wonder what he was studying here."
Arcana: 16
After a few minutes she calls out to the other two in the room with her. "Hey guys, come take a look at this." She says and shows them the book she was trying to read. "I was curious about what he was working on but I can´t really make much sense of it."
You easily recognise the script as the one used in magical treatises by wizards and arcane scholars. From what you manage to read in the short time, you understand that the book deals with conjuration of buildings and similar structures from other dimensions ((like Magnificent Mansion)). Unlike most other books whose aim is to teach wizards specific spells, this book seems to go in much more detail. Almost like if its primary aim was a research of these spells.
The parchment contains notes/reading diary regarding the book and confirms that the book deals with spell research, more specifically, the book tries to make the Magnificent Mansion have permanent effect. At the bottom of the parchment, there seems to be seemingly unrelated note preceded by yesterday's date:
Gethin scratches his head as he looks through the book and the scroll
"I think our guy was researching ways to make magical places to live, its all a bit beyond me but I sort of understand it a little bit. There is this interesting note he made about a scepter which I think he was going to check out today, I'm not even sure if its anything to do with all the other notes. It all seems to be weird dimensional stuff way above my pay grade, maybe he's in another dimension."
He puts the scroll down. His casts his eyes around the piles of magical looking stuff for a scepter but is not really expecting to see anything distinctive.
"Unless anyone thinks different I guess we just leave a note to say we delivered the stuff and we go back. We can't really take any of the books without talking to him and he's not here. I'm not doing anything to annoy a magician powerful enough to properly understand any of that stuff in the book, so we just go back and say we could not return the books. What does anyone else think?"
As you are explaining what is in the book, a "pop" can be heard in the library room as a rectangular shape, roughly the height and width of a double winged door but slim as a piece of paper. From the one side the shape is just pitch black, but from the other, it seems translucent, like if you were looking through a layer of water. If you look into the translucent side you can see a room and a hallway of some kind, but you can discern too many details. As Gethin continues to explain what he has found, you can see the shape slowly fading away and you are almost sure that it will completely disappear in a few minutes.
Mydri doesn't even pretend like she understands any of what the man said. "We could just wait for him. If this is his house, he'll be back, I think. If he doesn't come back 'till sundown, we can go back and say he wasn't home and didn't come back."
"Its kinda fading. Do you think the door was some sort of invitation, or is it a trap? I don't think we have very long to make up our minds what to do"
He goes over to the door, indecision and confusion clear on his face as he looks at the strange magical apparition.
Gethin looks at the mechanical creature with great interest.
"Hello there, does your master welcome visitors? We have a delivery for him. Could you go and tell him or should we do it ourselves?"
(Looking at the creature Arcana check to know what it is? 7 )
The creature answers with the same squeaky voice.
We don't have many visitors here, but yes master like when they come. Please if you want to talk to him, meet him upstairs in his library, I must to tend to this room.
Gethin shrugs
He then proceeds upstairs calling out as he goes “Hello sir, we have a delivery for you. May we come up?”
Frank returns from his circle around the building and is quite surprised by the scene. He steps just inside the door and finds a table corner to put down the delivered package.
"You going upstairs? I'll stay here and keep an eye on things."
Zuri follows Gethin upstairs with the package, still trying to wrap her head around what she just saw.
Seeing no one as suprised by the talking metal thing and the broom, makes her think that things like these are just normal around here. She shouldn´t be suprised, she´s far from home afterall. but it still does. It´s all so different than what she was used to.
Gethin (and anyone who went upstairs):
As you climb the ladder, your nose is hit by an even stronger smell of old books. Old bookshelves surround the whole room. Opposite the ladder, there is an old large table with a small lamp and a chair. On the table there is an opened book with a parchment and a quill lying next to it. There are even more book piles then on the first floor. To your surprise there is no-one in the room except you and your friends.
Zuri walks around the room. "He´s not here?" She says, suprised and confused. "But, didn´t the lady at the inn say he never leaves this tower? I wonder where he could have gone."
She will put the package with the supplies next to the large table and look at the open book laying on it.
Mydri remains at the foot of the ladder, unsure what to do. When she hears Zuri speaks, she begins to climb up and see for herself.
Once up, she notices where Zuri placed her package and follows suit. "Maybe she exaggerated? Nobody truly stays inside all day. Even I would go out, sometimes, I think." She definitely remembered being outside, looking for a pretty landscape or a flower to draw. She wouldn't do this often, but sometimes her Elven half called to the natural world too strongly. She sighs, enjoying the memory before it abruptly ends, and she remembers no more. "We could ask the thing downstairs if it knows when his master will be back."
Varielky
Zuri: as you look at the open pages of the book, at the first glance you see some obscure diagrams, runes and a text written in a pleasantly looking script. You know it isn't the standard form of writing generally used by the commoners. There is also a picture of a manor of some kind, on one of the pages. Similar script and runes can also be found in the parchment next to the book, although is it obvious at the first sight that the book and the parchment were written by two different people.
If you want to try to understand the texts, make an Arcana(Int) check please.
"Yeah, you might be right, he does have a nice garden that he seems to take care of." She says to Mydri while still looking at the book. "I wonder what he was studying here."
Arcana: 16
After a few minutes she calls out to the other two in the room with her. "Hey guys, come take a look at this." She says and shows them the book she was trying to read. "I was curious about what he was working on but I can´t really make much sense of it."
Gethin goes to have a look at the book
"There is something about this place, reminds me at least slightly of one of my old teachers. Can I have a look at that book and see what it says?"
He leans over to see the book, and then looks across to the parchment
(Arcana check 18 )
Gethin:
You easily recognise the script as the one used in magical treatises by wizards and arcane scholars. From what you manage to read in the short time, you understand that the book deals with conjuration of buildings and similar structures from other dimensions ((like Magnificent Mansion)). Unlike most other books whose aim is to teach wizards specific spells, this book seems to go in much more detail. Almost like if its primary aim was a research of these spells.
The parchment contains notes/reading diary regarding the book and confirms that the book deals with spell research, more specifically, the book tries to make the Magnificent Mansion have permanent effect. At the bottom of the parchment, there seems to be seemingly unrelated note preceded by yesterday's date:
Gethin scratches his head as he looks through the book and the scroll
"I think our guy was researching ways to make magical places to live, its all a bit beyond me but I sort of understand it a little bit. There is this interesting note he made about a scepter which I think he was going to check out today, I'm not even sure if its anything to do with all the other notes. It all seems to be weird dimensional stuff way above my pay grade, maybe he's in another dimension."
He puts the scroll down. His casts his eyes around the piles of magical looking stuff for a scepter but is not really expecting to see anything distinctive.
"Unless anyone thinks different I guess we just leave a note to say we delivered the stuff and we go back. We can't really take any of the books without talking to him and he's not here. I'm not doing anything to annoy a magician powerful enough to properly understand any of that stuff in the book, so we just go back and say we could not return the books. What does anyone else think?"
As you are explaining what is in the book, a "pop" can be heard in the library room as a rectangular shape, roughly the height and width of a double winged door but slim as a piece of paper. From the one side the shape is just pitch black, but from the other, it seems translucent, like if you were looking through a layer of water. If you look into the translucent side you can see a room and a hallway of some kind, but you can discern too many details. As Gethin continues to explain what he has found, you can see the shape slowly fading away and you are almost sure that it will completely disappear in a few minutes.
Mydri doesn't even pretend like she understands any of what the man said. "We could just wait for him. If this is his house, he'll be back, I think. If he doesn't come back 'till sundown, we can go back and say he wasn't home and didn't come back."(OOC: Ignore the above.)
Varielky
Frank calls out towards the ladder, "What was that sound?"
Gethin calls down
"That's complicated. A door just appeared out of nowhere, a rather nice door that might lead to where the owner of the tower is"
Zuri looks at the door curiously and carefuly puts her hand through the translucent side.
"How did it even appear, did something here activate it? It lookes like it's fading."
If nothing happens to her hand she will put her head through as well and quickly look around before getting back.
Gethin looks confused
"Its kinda fading. Do you think the door was some sort of invitation, or is it a trap? I don't think we have very long to make up our minds what to do"
He goes over to the door, indecision and confusion clear on his face as he looks at the strange magical apparition.
Frank says, "Oh, ok. Well, we were paid to bring packages here and books back. Who has the list of books we had to take back to get paid?"