Tests and Trials Game Thread

Cladmir heard Kroshav's excitement and started looking around, when he spotted a familiar item.

"That's my mum's necklace!  I thought I lost it for sure!  But why it would be here though?"

Excitedly he grabbed the necklace that was his last link to his family: a plain-looking thing of copper chain holding an unremarkable green stone.  It belonged to his mother who gave it to him before he left home to join the mercenary unit that was recruiting in the nearby town and has been on him ever since until his recent encounter with the Drows.

Little did Cladmir know but this unremarkable stone is actually a good luck stone that has saved his hide on more than one occasion.  

((Says and thinks Cladmir after opening one of the crates Lurn identifed as having magic.

Little miscommunication on timing there.))

Now that things have calmed down and they aren't being hunted by drow anymore, Jaq thinks back.  He thinks it may have been his cloak that one drow was wearing earlier.   Hmmm.  Now where exactly was it that he was downed by the group?

((Floor below, right outside his relatively well appointed room. The body was gone last you'd checked and, interestingly enough, NO other drow bodies have been found.))

((So either the Librarian's been cleaning, or the spiders were.))

((You could ask the librarian, but you'd guess that she'd have mentioned it. Also, she was quite reticent about coming up until the tunnel was collapsed, which just happened.))

((Spiders, then.  Cleaning up was likely one of their roles, and kept them fed at the same time.))

The party eventually get both of the boxes with magical aura's open. In addition to finding Cladmir's necklace the group find:

• A pen that looks to be made from a solid emerald
• A pair of gloves that look like they are made from beetle shells
• A pair of nasty, clawed looking metal gauntlets
• A brooch in the shape of a small shield
• Ornate black breastplate
• A scroll
• An emerald gem
• A ring with a fish design
• A rope, hempen
• A lute, in good shape

Some of the items have clear signs of dried blood on them, particularly the breastplate and beetle gloves look to have been removed forcefully from someone.

((Happy belated Christmas!))

Kroshav will kindly ask Joe if she wouldn't terribly mind cleaning the crustier items.

((Joe willing/able to identify stuff when we take the time, I'm assuming?))

He also asks Lurn, "Which of these things show up as magical to you?"

((@Spider, I'm not sure Joe ever bothered to get a pearl for the spell? Last time you needed things identified you paid some mages in training for it and some people at Lurn's temple. I'll double check.

@Hound and Row, ALL of the items in the boxes were magical.))

:facepalm:

Jaq looks over the pile of magical stuff.  "Well, this might make it at least semi-less horrible that we were tortured by drow."   He picks up the emerald, holds it up to his eye and peers through and into it.  Does he see anything inside of it?   Does what he sees of the room through the 'lens' of the emerald look different (other than green).

"Well, that's a lot of magic stuff.  I can take a minute to work out what types of magic they are, but I guess we won't know the specifics until we get back to civilisation...  Don't put on any of the armour or such.  We've seen enough demon magic and had enough arms eaten by it already."
(Lurn will take a while to use Detect Magic to manually check the magic type on each of the items.)

((Joe's interests and goals have been... Eclectic.

@Row, investigation or arcana check please.

@Hound, sigh. Okay, later today.))

"Mebbe the librarian can tell us?"

Items' schools of magic:

• A pen that looks to be made from a solid emerald --> Weak illusion and weak conjuration
• A pair of gloves that look like they are made from beetle shells --> Weak/moderate transmutation
• A pair of nasty, clawed looking rusty metal gauntlets --> Moderate transmutation
• A brooch in the shape of a small shield --> Moderate abjuration
• Ornate black breastplate --> Moderate abjuration
• A scroll --> Moderate abjuration
• An emerald gem --> Moderate conjuration
• A ring with a fish design --> Weak transmutation
• A rope, hempen --> Weak transmutation
• A lute, in good shape --> Weak illusion

((Always fun to try and figure out where different items fall based on what they do. Also added another adjective to the gauntlets.

Also can confirm that Joe did not get a pearl when she had the chance because she didn't trust/like the magic item vendor (during the unsuccessful(?) hag investigation).))

Mikram would comment to Lurn as he was looking at the breastplate.

"That's adamantine or aye'm a myconid. Decent work but wasted time on the frilly designs."

Arcana:  17

Jaq sees a shimmering mote of bluish green flicker from one side of the green tinted gem to the other before it swirls back and pauses near the edge of gem.

The mote of light hovers in the gem and Jaq gets a distinct impression he is being studied in return.

((Oh and I forgot, can you roll me a d20 @Hound.))

Jaq quickly puts the gem down.  "Whoa. You are right Lurn.  We should be careful with these items.  I looked deep into that emerald and I saw 'something' in there.   And it really felt like something was watching me back."   He shivers a bit.

"One thing my dad taught me was that there are cursed magic items, and items that also are not cursed, but just have their own intelligence and that they can be very strong willed and not always in a good way.  This emerald gives me reason to worry a bit, until we get it thoroughly checked out, be careful with it, all."

He will dig in his pack for a small rag or piece of fabric and roll the emerald up in it, just to be safe....though he isn't really sure of what.