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Molautters the words to faerie fire, focusing on the eastern side of the room, but the spell reveals nothing.
Gwin's prayer echoes through the room, and the only sphere in sight flits toward the stairwell and disappears, traveling downward to the first floor of the tower. The fate and location of the four other wisps in unknown, but the room is quiet and seemingly free of the undead menace.
Up the stairs, on the third floor, Rixton frees the latch on the trapdoor that leads to the roof of the tower.
“Rixton? What’s the story up there? Jheric disappeared on a symbol, might want to avoid them. Jheric can you hear us? Gwin, did the wisps flee? What did you do? It seemed amazing. And what happened to Jheric?”
He casts produce flame, his hand holding a flickering light and readies it to throw at the first wisp he sees.
Gwin responds to Mola with a wink. Just a little divinity channeling that got them out of our hair for a bit, but they'll be back so we shouldn't dawdle. Let's go check on Rixton and make sure he's alright and then we'll need to figure out how to retrieve Jheric. I'm trying to recall anything I've ever read about magic portals.Arcana: 10
I have a spell that wouldIdentifywhat magic is causing the runes to teleport and likely how they work, but that would require I touch them and disappear myself. Unless someone wants to go with me. Gwin looks directly at Rixton with a grin There ARE easier ways to shut me up, but this works, too.
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"Ah, okay," Rixtonsays. He takes a couple more bones and steps on the same symbol, then, after stepping off of any symbol he might appear on, he tosses a bone onto the symbol he landed on (or near).
"Ah, okay," Rixtonsays. He takes a couple more bones and steps on the same symbol, then, after stepping off of any symbol he might appear on, he tosses a bone onto the symbol he landed on (or near).
Rixton, and all that he carries, suddenly appears on the second floor, standing on the strange x-shaped symbol. Tossing a bone onto that symbol, he sees that nothing happens, suggesting that any x-shaped symbol in the tower serves one purpose: to teleport objects to the second floor.
Rixtonnext tosses a bone each onto the "talon" symbol (the second one above) and the mustache and beard symbol (the third one). He will check the third and first floors as needed.
He does a final sweep of the room and then joins Rixton for his experiments. "So Jheric is somewhere. Maybe near, or far. We probably can't risk following him. Do we have a way to communicate over great distance?"
Are there any plants inside the tower? And from his awareness of dispel magic, would it seem to have any effect on what he's seen of what's in the tower?
(Really wishing I'd had "Sending" in my list of prepared spells)
Gwin leaves Rixton to his investigating. In the meantime she will leave the tower and recount to Dendros Jheric's disappearance. She'll also draw the symbols in the dirt to see if the treeant has any insight on what they mean or who would've created them.
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Rixtonnext tosses a bone each onto the "talon" symbol (the second one above) and the mustache and beard symbol (the third one). He will check the third and first floors as needed.
Rixton's experiment quickly reveals that three of the symbols serve as in-house teleportation devices:
He does a final sweep of the room and then joins Rixton for his experiments. "So Jheric is somewhere. Maybe near, or far. We probably can't risk following him. Do we have a way to communicate over great distance?"
Are there any plants inside the tower? And from his awareness of dispel magic, would it seem to have any effect on what he's seen of what's in the tower?
Mola scans the tower for any sign of plant life but finds none. For a place that seems so empty, so forsaken, it seems odd that nothing has begun to grow here. Not so much as a weed springs up from the cracks between the stones, and no moss clings to the wall. Mola understands that the strange symbols on the floor are akin to the sigils needed for a teleportation circle. Something or someone has, oddly enough, invested time and resources into a system that does little more than transport objects from one floor of the tower to another (with the exception of the fourth symbol upon which Jhericstepped). It seems doubtful that casting dispel magic will undo the multiple layers of spell casting that created the teleportation symbols.
Gwin leaves Rixton to his investigating. In the meantime she will leave the tower and recount to Dendros Jheric's disappearance. She'll also draw the symbols in the dirt to see if the treeant has any insight on what they mean or who would've created them.
Dendros, mildly fascinated and with eyes unblinking, watches as Gwinrecreates the symbols in the dirt. "These pictures mean nothing to me, dwarf. What happened in the tower? Did you discover the one who lives there? Long have I wondered about this place."
I guess we only get 2 minutes at most from Gwin's turning of the wisps. How much time has passed?
(The effect of Gwin's channel divinity lasts for 1 minute)
It seems the wisps, for now anyway, have lost interest in interacting with the party members because they have remained invisible for more than the span of a minute. Aralea, considering the two corpses found within the tower, remarks to Rixton and Mola, "The wisps appear to have done them in long ago. Their remains lie here unmolested; so, it seems the wisps may be the only residents of this strange tower."
The wood elf stands near the symbol that is responsible for Jheric's disappearance. "I wonder..."
Before Aralea can finish her thought, however, Gwin's voice--loud and clear--reaches the ears of everyone else (all of whom stand on the second floor in the tower). "Jheric may have had the right idea, friends! We have company!"
Gwin:
As Dendros is asking his questions about the tower, you see a pair of Tree Ghosts step into the clearing that surrounds the tower. Turning around, Gwin sees three more Tree Ghosts on the opposite side of the clearing. Of course, there could be more on the other side of the tower...
Mola was going to cast speak with plants and step outside (if there was no plant life inside) to ask who if anyone had visited the tower recently. Hearing Gwin call out, he comes to the door, querying the plant life within 30 feet of the tower about who or what is out there, and what is going on.
Gwin responds to Dendros, We'll have to finish our conversation in a bit, my many branched friend, it appears we may have to draw swords. Grateful to see Mola in the doorway, the cleric shouts into the tower I see five tree ghosts approaching, but I have a dreadful feeling there may be more!
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15, 20, 4, 16, 7
24, 10, 19
Mola utters the words to faerie fire, focusing on the eastern side of the room, but the spell reveals nothing.
Gwin's prayer echoes through the room, and the only sphere in sight flits toward the stairwell and disappears, traveling downward to the first floor of the tower. The fate and location of the four other wisps in unknown, but the room is quiet and seemingly free of the undead menace.
Up the stairs, on the third floor, Rixton frees the latch on the trapdoor that leads to the roof of the tower.
“Rixton? What’s the story up there? Jheric disappeared on a symbol, might want to avoid them. Jheric can you hear us? Gwin, did the wisps flee? What did you do? It seemed amazing. And what happened to Jheric?”
He casts produce flame, his hand holding a flickering light and readies it to throw at the first wisp he sees.
Gwin responds to Mola with a wink. Just a little divinity channeling that got them out of our hair for a bit, but they'll be back so we shouldn't dawdle. Let's go check on Rixton and make sure he's alright and then we'll need to figure out how to retrieve Jheric. I'm trying to recall anything I've ever read about magic portals. Arcana: 10
‘The hardest thing in this world is to live in it.’ - Buffy Summers
Rixton takes a loose bone from the skeleton on the third floor and tosses it onto the symbol that looks like a wavy X.
(Are we out of combat? If so, Mola's got stuff he'd love to do...)
I have a spell that would Identify what magic is causing the runes to teleport and likely how they work, but that would require I touch them and disappear myself. Unless someone wants to go with me. Gwin looks directly at Rixton with a grin There ARE easier ways to shut me up, but this works, too.
‘The hardest thing in this world is to live in it.’ - Buffy Summers
"Those wisps will be back," Rixton says. "And we are not sure how or if we will be able to return. Jheric can wait a little longer."
Rixton begins searching through the skeleton of the gnome.
The bone immediately vanishes, but a moment later Mola's voice reaches Rixton's ears. "Where'd this bone come from?!"
Rixton deduces that the strange-x-like symbol on the third floor serves to teleport items to the second floor.
Yes, for now. There is a time limit, however, on the effect caused by Gwin.
In a span of twenty seconds, Rixton has an inventory of items carried by the deceased gnome:
"Ah, okay," Rixton says. He takes a couple more bones and steps on the same symbol, then, after stepping off of any symbol he might appear on, he tosses a bone onto the symbol he landed on (or near).
Mola goes over to the corpse on the second floor with the shield and mace and grabs the weapons, armor, and anything else he sees.
Is there anything else of note in the room?
Rixton, and all that he carries, suddenly appears on the second floor, standing on the strange x-shaped symbol. Tossing a bone onto that symbol, he sees that nothing happens, suggesting that any x-shaped symbol in the tower serves one purpose: to teleport objects to the second floor.
Mola picks up the mace, the shield, and the chain shirt. He looks over the corpse but finds nothing else. The room is utterly bare.
Regarding the four symbols...
Rixton next tosses a bone each onto the "talon" symbol (the second one above) and the mustache and beard symbol (the third one). He will check the third and first floors as needed.
He does a final sweep of the room and then joins Rixton for his experiments. "So Jheric is somewhere. Maybe near, or far. We probably can't risk following him. Do we have a way to communicate over great distance?"
Are there any plants inside the tower? And from his awareness of dispel magic, would it seem to have any effect on what he's seen of what's in the tower?
(Really wishing I'd had "Sending" in my list of prepared spells)
Gwin leaves Rixton to his investigating. In the meantime she will leave the tower and recount to Dendros Jheric's disappearance. She'll also draw the symbols in the dirt to see if the treeant has any insight on what they mean or who would've created them.
‘The hardest thing in this world is to live in it.’ - Buffy Summers
I guess we only get 2 minutes at most from Gwin's turning of the wisps. How much time has passed?
Rixton's experiment quickly reveals that three of the symbols serve as in-house teleportation devices:
Mola scans the tower for any sign of plant life but finds none. For a place that seems so empty, so forsaken, it seems odd that nothing has begun to grow here. Not so much as a weed springs up from the cracks between the stones, and no moss clings to the wall. Mola understands that the strange symbols on the floor are akin to the sigils needed for a teleportation circle. Something or someone has, oddly enough, invested time and resources into a system that does little more than transport objects from one floor of the tower to another (with the exception of the fourth symbol upon which Jheric stepped). It seems doubtful that casting dispel magic will undo the multiple layers of spell casting that created the teleportation symbols.
Dendros, mildly fascinated and with eyes unblinking, watches as Gwin recreates the symbols in the dirt. "These pictures mean nothing to me, dwarf. What happened in the tower? Did you discover the one who lives there? Long have I wondered about this place."
(The effect of Gwin's channel divinity lasts for 1 minute)
It seems the wisps, for now anyway, have lost interest in interacting with the party members because they have remained invisible for more than the span of a minute. Aralea, considering the two corpses found within the tower, remarks to Rixton and Mola, "The wisps appear to have done them in long ago. Their remains lie here unmolested; so, it seems the wisps may be the only residents of this strange tower."
The wood elf stands near the symbol that is responsible for Jheric's disappearance. "I wonder..."
Before Aralea can finish her thought, however, Gwin's voice--loud and clear--reaches the ears of everyone else (all of whom stand on the second floor in the tower). "Jheric may have had the right idea, friends! We have company!"
Gwin:
As Dendros is asking his questions about the tower, you see a pair of Tree Ghosts step into the clearing that surrounds the tower. Turning around, Gwin sees three more Tree Ghosts on the opposite side of the clearing. Of course, there could be more on the other side of the tower...
(One minute to run away, one minute to come back! ;)
Mola was going to cast speak with plants and step outside (if there was no plant life inside) to ask who if anyone had visited the tower recently. Hearing Gwin call out, he comes to the door, querying the plant life within 30 feet of the tower about who or what is out there, and what is going on.
Rixton hops onto the "Talon" symbol to teleport to the first floor, drawing his short sword in anticipation of whatever is coming.
Gwin responds to Dendros, We'll have to finish our conversation in a bit, my many branched friend, it appears we may have to draw swords. Grateful to see Mola in the doorway, the cleric shouts into the tower I see five tree ghosts approaching, but I have a dreadful feeling there may be more!
‘The hardest thing in this world is to live in it.’ - Buffy Summers