|
|
Post by Rule Hound on Sept 12, 2016 15:56:57 GMT
Work with Morrigan
Assist domain
carbon in on Deamos meeting.
|
|
|
|
Post by Rule Hound on Sept 21, 2016 14:11:06 GMT
You travel to Laibach meeting Morrigan and Raqa to study the gems and hopefully piece together the special candle and it's recipe. From all the information you have gathered you arrange for a supply of rare and mystical ingredients fitting the descriptions and several more oddities just in case.
You meet with Raqa in his lab in Laibach.
The three of you piece together the recipes and work on deciphering the remaining instructions into a common language. Then begin attempting to assemble a candle.
It takes several tries and several nasty explosions but the three of you manage to finally put together and assemble another candle. It is agreed that the properties should be tested. Raqa rings a bell and a slave is delivered to the room. They will be used to to test the healing capacities, he tells them that if they want to live they will have to light the candle.
The Slave just looks at you three blankly until Raqa's hand whips out from his sleeve and slashes a obsidian dagger across their belly. Imperiously waving you and Morrigan out of the vicinity to take up your positions for observation he throws a taper infront of the slave, who is holding their guts in with one hand, and takes his own place to watch the spirit lands.
Sinking into a puddle of shadow you do the same.
The slave leaving a blood streak across the floor carefully crawls to the fireplace and lights their taper and then sets it to the wick of the Candle. Where it sits in the borrowed Lantern. The candle lights and a glow infuses the room. Something grips your shadow form and tugs and pulls. Your shadowy essence, the part that is in the glow of the lantern is beginning to be ripped apart and dispersed. You back away quickly from the light. Once your shadow essence is out of it the ripping and pulling stops. But you can feel that you have taken some non visible damage. But at least it will heal.
Turning back you see the slave as they pass-out and knock the lantern carelessly over. Morrigan runs to the lantern and examines the candle. After looking very carefully she turns to you and Raqa and mentions the wick is completely gone. Rolling the slave over you can all see that the wound is healed with a nice scar and the slave is alive though seemingly drained from the experience.
The experiment is a success. You get back to work and manage to make another 3 candles total. Before moving on to study the gems,
Morrigan brings out her two gems and goes into a little detail of what she has managed to learn so far. That they are a power focus, something like a stored ritual. When powered, apparently by blood, the ritual can be activated.
The three of you compare notes and agree that though they seem to be a ritual of some sort it is neither Thaumaturgy or Necromancy. Combined insight agrees that they are a key of some sort. The way the others disappeared when they inserted them in their arms they are almost definitely tied to some for of speedy transport. Though probably only to specific destinations. Rafael makes mention that it is possible to travel the shadowlands and cover long distances in a short period of time and that perhaps these allow someone not trained to do something similar.
Morrigan, brings a strange creature/thing with her that appears as if it might be the head of a small human with an attached pigs snout on a bulbous body that seems to be an empty sack and scuttling "finger/legs". At one point between the three of you, using his shadow arms so as not to touch it with direct flesh Rafael drives a gem into this creatures skull between the eyes. Morrigan pulls out another set of gems mounted on a tiara and explains it is a focus gems she has prepared not the infernal ones. All three of you are in agreement think that if you can channel any seeking and seeing disciplines and rituals you may have into the gems that this "thing" can use them in conjunction to track traces of the gem or its creator.
After many failures and several explosions of backfired Thaum and Necromancyin the mortal, spiritual and shadows you manage to get the gems to seemingly hold a charge (or you think so).
At this point the three of you feed this "ghoul thing" Raetus created some blood and it's sack fills up. The bad news is as it focuses an the blood can be seen coursing through the forehead veins of this creature it reaches the infernal gem and the creature, tiara and all is just gone.
Unfortunately unless one of you put one under your skin and maybe try to create another tiara, that is all you really get.
Downtime Help with Domain. You spend two downtime trying to consolidate power and save Klagenfurt.
the results are listed in the general information of here, ye.
However, in addition to that you do discover that a really fat merchant has managed to usurp your power within the guild while you were away. He seems to be calling the shots with those who are left and they jump to his bidding.
|
|
