Dev is overwhelmed. This is far too much to take in and rush through. But isn’t there something that could be preserved?? All those people lived and loved and had their fears and everything, like us. But what were they like?
He pecks the search screen until it reads “famous songs lyrics.” Full of self-doubt, he awaits the result, and will try to make hard copies whatever those are, following the “options” instructions.
The threat that the Dwendalians left with Dev continues to eat at the young bard, despite his curiosity.
“I need to purge the data before turning up the heat”, Normont replies to Dev. “We have some time I think, so let’s stick together”.
He looks across at what Dev has found, intrigued.
In fact, he cannot help but look about for another screen to search up Artifice.
If they don’t all want to rush out, why not make the most of this opportunity.
(OOC: Have we had enough of a breather to get a short rest? Also, can Normont deduce what hard copy means? Can he roll for it maybe?)
“I don’t know what to do, Normont. We don’t know how much time we have. Lokilia, Quinn, what do you think? Should we go?”
Dev presses buttons a little unsure as to exactly what he was doing.
After a minute or so there was sudden panic as a thirty or so sheets of paper?....well something paper adjacent...came firing out of a formerly invisible slot on the mounting of the screen.
Dev has-
* 10 printed sheets of lyrics and notes in High Draconic for something which he will after some extra research discover is Aeorian Opera ( Vocally theres a lot of resembelance to Klingon Opera.).
* 10 printed sheets of lyrics and notes of ' Popular Music of Zemniaz' this is essential pre-Calamity K-Pop......one of the songs is about the forging of a blade called Mythcarver.
* 5 Printed sheets of lyrics and notes of ' The Ballads ofVos'sykriss' the language used is unfamiliar to Dev but the notes and musical arrangements resemble some folk songs Dev is familiar with.
* 2 printed sheets of lyrics and notes in Arcane......it will take some study but after a week or so this will give Dev the Magic Initiate ( Sorcerer) Feat.
* 8 pages of lists of Winners of " The Voice of Avalir" singing competion.
* 4 pages of childrens nursery rhymes ( I'll leave these up to you).
Normont is too intrigued by how many responses came up when prompted with artifice at first, and it takes him a moment to realise Dev has spoken to him.
"What? Oh, yes. We really should be quick. Maybe just a minute to...", he drifts off as he types in some sub search terms, automated defender battle construct.
Normont receives similar sheets to Dev though his are mostly blueprints and schematics.
When you get around to creating a construct by using this information you may also imbue it with 2 Feats........further by examining the schematics you can also learn how to give Amber a single Feat.
"What in the world is all that?" Lokilia asks as she sees the things that look like paper fly out. She then notes the creature near the fan assembly seem to awaken. "Hey, you guys see that? Those creatures may be moving soon. How much longer are we going to play around?" She starts to move towards the stairs heading up, eager to get going.
Normont is looking at the schematics when Lokilia points out that one of the servitors has started to shift.
"Right, yes, right", he says carefully sliding the schematics into his pack and moving to the control screen. "Here we go then...".
With that, he selects the option for Engineering and then Database Purge, entering the password Halas69 when prompted. He hopes that will work and set that in motion whilst not freezing the screen.
"Can someone keep an eye on the screen showing the front door, Amber is keeping watch and will send out a flare if something is approaching".
As Normont had asked, Lokilia pauses to try and look at the screen which shows the front door. "But we are going to get moving, right?" She's still very ready to start heading up.
When Normont purges the database the screens flicker for a moment but return....however the screens Dev and Normont were 'printing' from are now blank.
"First phase complete, just a moment, Loikilia. I need to turn off the cooling fan and then we need to run. I am not sure how long it will take to become unbearable, and whether the change in temperature will wake the servitors", Normont says.
With that he presses the option for Cooling Fan Power and deactivates it. He then disconnects the black rod with the t-shaped handle and puts it in his pack, along with the unbroken crystals from the control console.
"Ok, run!", he says, assuming they haven't already started up, and he bolts as fast as his boots will carry him.
The four companions began legging it up the stairs and around each level to the next set of stairs, the air was becoming unbearably warm and they could hear movement behind them some levels down as they ran.
Three levels up.
Four levels up.
Five......the air was parched now, the metal rails and gridwork growing uncomfortably warm to the touch.......
Sounds of pursuit behind still....
SIx levels up....
Seven levels up....
Eight......each breath swapped every bit of moisture from your mouth and throat and sweat poured down your limbs.....
Nine.....the metal grid work and frames were beginning to become too hot to touch
Sounds of pursuit still.....
Ten levels up....
Eleven levels up.....
( Con Saves for everyone please....can be avoided if you have a Spell or some other way of bringing the cool.)
It’s why the Hornd Tackle Shop burned down. Three year-old Dev had been playing with the flint and steel while his parents slept. He’d noticed the wood stove fire had gone out and mama and papa were already old and tired and didn’t notice despite the now penetrating cold. So Dev lit the kindling. But he hadn’t put it in the wood oven first. The heat didn’t bother him, what was there to be alarmed about…
But now, as the companions hurried upstairs, as the heat mounted, it was the same for him as that fateful night. For tieflings are resistant to pain and hurt from heat and fire. He could stick his hand into flames and experience mere discomfort, not burns.
But he watches the others with concern, knowing the same does not hold true for his friends.
The companions keep running up, somewhere around the 13th set of stairs they hear a number of loud thuds behind them as the sounds of pursuit cease.........they keep running as all the metal in the silo begins to glow slightly, looking up the long tubes in the roof above the shaft are now almost orange in colour and appear on the verge of shattering.
Sweat pouring off their bodies, they make it to the entry doors and into the large pool of water that is beginning to flow into the ajar entry as the ice and snow around the library melts due to the temperature of the structure.
The four of them push out of the doors and collapse into the softening snow as hot dry air gusts out of the doors behind them......
All around the tower the snow is melting into slush and the tower is being surrounded by a morass of mud, slush and water....
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Dev presses buttons a little unsure as to exactly what he was doing.
After a minute or so there was sudden panic as a thirty or so sheets of paper?....well something paper adjacent...came firing out of a formerly invisible slot on the mounting of the screen.
Dev has-
* 10 printed sheets of lyrics and notes in High Draconic for something which he will after some extra research discover is Aeorian Opera ( Vocally theres a lot of resembelance to Klingon Opera.).
* 10 printed sheets of lyrics and notes of ' Popular Music of Zemniaz' this is essential pre-Calamity K-Pop......one of the songs is about the forging of a blade called Mythcarver.
* 5 Printed sheets of lyrics and notes of ' The Ballads of Vos'sykriss' the language used is unfamiliar to Dev but the notes and musical arrangements resemble some folk songs Dev is familiar with.
* 2 printed sheets of lyrics and notes in Arcane......it will take some study but after a week or so this will give Dev the Magic Initiate ( Sorcerer) Feat.
* 8 pages of lists of Winners of " The Voice of Avalir" singing competion.
* 4 pages of childrens nursery rhymes ( I'll leave these up to you).
Normont receives similar sheets to Dev though his are mostly blueprints and schematics.
When you get around to creating a construct by using this information you may also imbue it with 2 Feats........further by examining the schematics you can also learn how to give Amber a single Feat.
One the surveillance screen one of the creatures gathered around the fan assembly begins to stir awake....
"What in the world is all that?" Lokilia asks as she sees the things that look like paper fly out. She then notes the creature near the fan assembly seem to awaken. "Hey, you guys see that? Those creatures may be moving soon. How much longer are we going to play around?" She starts to move towards the stairs heading up, eager to get going.
Rabbit Sebrica, Sorcerer || Skarai, Monk || Lokilia Vaelphin, Druid || Liivi Orav, Barbarian || Vanizi, Warlock || Britari / Halila Talgeta / Jesa Gumovi || Neital Rhessil, Wizard
Iromae Quinaea, Cleric || Roxana Raincrest, Rogue || Meira Dheran, Rogue || Qirynna Thadri, Wizard || Crisaryn Melkial, Sorcerer
Normont is looking at the schematics when Lokilia points out that one of the servitors has started to shift.
"Right, yes, right", he says carefully sliding the schematics into his pack and moving to the control screen. "Here we go then...".
With that, he selects the option for Engineering and then Database Purge, entering the password Halas69 when prompted. He hopes that will work and set that in motion whilst not freezing the screen.
"Can someone keep an eye on the screen showing the front door, Amber is keeping watch and will send out a flare if something is approaching".
(OOC: Those schematics are really cool!)
(Boss loot!)
Dev carefully puts the sheets in his pack to study later or submit to a scholar for research, and does what he can to Help Normont.
”Oh no!, he answers Lokilia, “okay let’s get out of here!”
DM for Candlekeep Mysteries // Dev Hornd in Curious Critters // Eclipse Faraway in Gallows Dancer
Quinn shakes his head and looks around for any baddies.
As Normont had asked, Lokilia pauses to try and look at the screen which shows the front door. "But we are going to get moving, right?" She's still very ready to start heading up.
Rabbit Sebrica, Sorcerer || Skarai, Monk || Lokilia Vaelphin, Druid || Liivi Orav, Barbarian || Vanizi, Warlock || Britari / Halila Talgeta / Jesa Gumovi || Neital Rhessil, Wizard
Iromae Quinaea, Cleric || Roxana Raincrest, Rogue || Meira Dheran, Rogue || Qirynna Thadri, Wizard || Crisaryn Melkial, Sorcerer
When Normont purges the database the screens flicker for a moment but return....however the screens Dev and Normont were 'printing' from are now blank.
"First phase complete, just a moment, Loikilia. I need to turn off the cooling fan and then we need to run. I am not sure how long it will take to become unbearable, and whether the change in temperature will wake the servitors", Normont says.
With that he presses the option for Cooling Fan Power and deactivates it. He then disconnects the black rod with the t-shaped handle and puts it in his pack, along with the unbroken crystals from the control console.
"Ok, run!", he says, assuming they haven't already started up, and he bolts as fast as his boots will carry him.
The ambient temperature began to climb almost immediately.....
Lokilia doesn't have to be told twice. She is on her way up the stairs as quickly as she can manage. "Let's go!"
Rabbit Sebrica, Sorcerer || Skarai, Monk || Lokilia Vaelphin, Druid || Liivi Orav, Barbarian || Vanizi, Warlock || Britari / Halila Talgeta / Jesa Gumovi || Neital Rhessil, Wizard
Iromae Quinaea, Cleric || Roxana Raincrest, Rogue || Meira Dheran, Rogue || Qirynna Thadri, Wizard || Crisaryn Melkial, Sorcerer
“Come on, Quinn!,” Dev shouts, and runs up side-by-side with the big genasi.
DM for Candlekeep Mysteries // Dev Hornd in Curious Critters // Eclipse Faraway in Gallows Dancer
Quinn begins to take the rear making sure his slower friends do not fall behind.
The four companions began legging it up the stairs and around each level to the next set of stairs, the air was becoming unbearably warm and they could hear movement behind them some levels down as they ran.
Three levels up.
Four levels up.
Five......the air was parched now, the metal rails and gridwork growing uncomfortably warm to the touch.......
Sounds of pursuit behind still....
SIx levels up....
Seven levels up....
Eight......each breath swapped every bit of moisture from your mouth and throat and sweat poured down your limbs.....
Nine.....the metal grid work and frames were beginning to become too hot to touch
Sounds of pursuit still.....
Ten levels up....
Eleven levels up.....
( Con Saves for everyone please....can be avoided if you have a Spell or some other way of bringing the cool.)
It’s why the Hornd Tackle Shop burned down. Three year-old Dev had been playing with the flint and steel while his parents slept. He’d noticed the wood stove fire had gone out and mama and papa were already old and tired and didn’t notice despite the now penetrating cold. So Dev lit the kindling. But he hadn’t put it in the wood oven first. The heat didn’t bother him, what was there to be alarmed about…
But now, as the companions hurried upstairs, as the heat mounted, it was the same for him as that fateful night. For tieflings are resistant to pain and hurt from heat and fire. He could stick his hand into flames and experience mere discomfort, not burns.
But he watches the others with concern, knowing the same does not hold true for his friends.
DM for Candlekeep Mysteries // Dev Hornd in Curious Critters // Eclipse Faraway in Gallows Dancer
(OOC: DM - does Absorb Elements count as a way of avoiding the check?)
Quinn got a 13 Con save
As the heat increases and increases, Lokilia uses her elemental ability to create a breeze to blow on her, hopefully coming herself off a little.
(CON Save if needed: 23)
Rabbit Sebrica, Sorcerer || Skarai, Monk || Lokilia Vaelphin, Druid || Liivi Orav, Barbarian || Vanizi, Warlock || Britari / Halila Talgeta / Jesa Gumovi || Neital Rhessil, Wizard
Iromae Quinaea, Cleric || Roxana Raincrest, Rogue || Meira Dheran, Rogue || Qirynna Thadri, Wizard || Crisaryn Melkial, Sorcerer
( Hmmmm...sure, why not.)
( Quinn has 1 level of Exhaustion)
The companions keep running up, somewhere around the 13th set of stairs they hear a number of loud thuds behind them as the sounds of pursuit cease.........they keep running as all the metal in the silo begins to glow slightly, looking up the long tubes in the roof above the shaft are now almost orange in colour and appear on the verge of shattering.
Sweat pouring off their bodies, they make it to the entry doors and into the large pool of water that is beginning to flow into the ajar entry as the ice and snow around the library melts due to the temperature of the structure.
The four of them push out of the doors and collapse into the softening snow as hot dry air gusts out of the doors behind them......
All around the tower the snow is melting into slush and the tower is being surrounded by a morass of mud, slush and water....