The Wizard's Challenge

(Nathan can help.  Shalech, reroll with Advantage.)

Strength check: 8

OOC: We're both wimps...

(Lol.)

Isa tries as well.  (Strength Check: 4) Dar calls out, the books are too powerful to seal alone; we'll have to defeat them both together."  Dar slams his hands on the books, his eyes turning instantly white.  

So Rosetta has rodents loose? Cats typically solve that problem where I am from. She wants them returned safely? I doubt I have the patience for all of that.... Who is she?"

It isn't long before people start to shuffle into the church; dressed in their well kept clothes.  This must be the people of "new" Northbank, shop owners, farmers, home and land owners; having service before the people of Old Northbank.

The girl stops short or the tavern, afraid to get closer.  "Um... I'll wait out... out here." She stammers to Kizori.

"Just a zookeeper, if you can call her that." Boabby replies to Croak.  "She just has Joran capture whatever wild animals he can find and then puts them on 'exhibit'."  He downs his drink and signals for another.  

"Well, if big rats won't do you, how about something bigger?" He asks with a sly smile on his face.  "Heard there's a weretiger running about Old Northbank.  Couple idiots from the dust bowl said they fought it off last night; even showed me some tattered rags, not that it looked different from the rest of their clothes." He spits on the floor and takes his second drink from the barkeep.

Dar freezes in place as the magic of the room pulls into the books.  A look of pain sits on his face; otherwise the room is calm.  (Shalech and Nathan, make a Perception Check.  Isa's Check: 17)

(When you released your magics, you spent all your spell uses for the day.)

Perception: 4

"Why are you afraid? They're mean in there, but don't seem dangerous." Kizori smiles at the girl, confused.

Urselles stands at side and turns to Normand “just tell me when you’re ready”

Perception: 18

Shalech, you hear a strange cracking noise.  Isa suddenly calls out; "The ring!  It's crushing his finger."  Horror crosses her face as she watches the ring slowly get pulled into the journal.

"I'd... rather just wait outside.  There aren't many nice people in this town." The girl says to Kizori, before moving between the stable and the tavern; leaning against the wall, her arms crossed.

Normand stands before the people and begins the sermons.  About midway through, before evening prayer, he says; "I have a special guest and friend here to talk to you.  Her name is Urselles, a priestess of Eldath.  She would like to say something."

Many are shocked when you step up, some even look offended; but they are all listening.

Alarmed, Shalech tries to get through to Dar, "Let it slip off your finger man!  Unless you want a missing finger as well as a missing leg."

Dar seems unable to respond or move, trapped in some kind of combat with the books.  They are likely trying to add the rings power to their own.

Kizori nods at the girl, then turns and enters that tavern searching for the others.

Shalech swears, then rallies the others, "Nathan, Isa, grab Dar with me and lets drag him away as far as we can!"

"hello everyone, as a priest of Eldath it is my job to spread peace across the land. My journey has brought me here, to a city that seems divided. One side prosperes while another suffers. In these times trouble may arise from the suffering. In these times the gods call upon us to help are fellow humanoids, to help them, and give them new opportunities to help build them up, out of the despair where hatred can be born" Urselles stops speaking as the messedge sets in