a tale of five orbs

[Erikkin]

Sling:

"The wound was festering. It was obviously poisoned. There's nothing we can do... None of the other orders will help him. They're all corrupt. We can't save him. Move on."

[pingcode20]

Wisp looks at the dead priest, and shakes her head, before re-disguising her face to look like the fallen Zrull's.

"Poor Zrull. May his name fight on."

[pingcode20]

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"Say, Sling, can you tell what kind of poison it is?"

[Erikkin]

Sling:

"It doesn't matter what kind it is. It's killing him and there's no one who can help him. I know many different kinds of poisons. I don't know what kind this is. It is most likely extremely deadly and possibly incurable. Every second we delay means Terenis is taken further away. We shouldn't waste time looking for help when there is none."

[boomwolf]

none, he's no more alive then a rock.

[Krelon]

Thyria

"Our drow cutie is right on that, the others are all corrupt, we can depend only on ourselves. But there is one last service Zrull can provide to aid us."

She begins looting the corpse, "Honey, you can scout ahead - I saw you moving, you are good. The tunnel obviously leads to the collapse under the temple but maybe there is still someting interesting on the way or at the cave-in on this side. Don't forget to pick me up afterwards, or I'll pout, badly"

Directed at Wisp, "So, you are mage after all, fine... can you see magical auras? I have an item I never got a chance to check and old Zrull here might have interesting things as well that we could miss otherwise."

ooc:
if needed take 20 on search+7 = 27

[pingcode20]

"A mage? Why not?" replies Wisp, as she dons her signature mask.

((Not sure if I have Detect Magic, thanks to RPGweb, but I'm reasonably certain I do. Casting Detect Magic now.))

[boomwolf]

i am not sure you have as well...but nothing is magical around you...

thyria:

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you can find massive amounts of empty bottles marked as healing potions, and a sealed letter addressed to "High Priest Gorgo of Germo"

[Krelon]

((is the twisted ring I found magical? I show it to Wisp

EDIT: taking the letter of course and if it is not magical, open and read
no gold or weapons?))

[boomwolf]

no gold, no weapons,
letter not magical, ring with slight traces (fading), i thought its safe to assume wisp will answer you...

anyway...
the letter says so:

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"To High Priest Gorgo of Germo
i am sad to inform you your suspicions were right, the exile, tarsiv has returned and took over the red temple, i also know he took over the black temple, the few who are not working for him are bounded by fear.

you can trust no other temple, the blue is halfway infected, and the yellow is fooled, the whites are never to be trusted at anything important as you know.

the only thing you can do is stand on your guard to attempt to stop tarsiv's agents from entering the green temple as well, you are the last beacon of hope.

contact the gnolls, they work for terenis, he is the prophet that we hold captive-against our will. they will help you purge the other temples.

and whatever you do, NEVER send anyone outside of the city walls alone, tarsiv's agents are always watching.

-yours, Zrull, High Priest of shorain."

[Krelon]

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((are you sure about the gnoll's, they work for tarsiv in the letter? from the context I expected to see Terenis thee))

[boomwolf]

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yes that was a screw-up...

[ForzaFiori]

Let us move on, we need to find this prophet

[Krelon]

"You should see this" Thyria lets the rest of the group read the letter then hides it away.

"I am unsure how to proceed, it seems we landed in the middle of a big mess. For starters we better tell no one about the letter and we either hide old Zrull somewhere in the tunnel or carry him out but tell no one that he gave us any information. Maybe what he told us is true, but for all we know this Terenis could have also manipulated Zrull to believe that crap and the temples are not infiltrated at all."

"Ideas what to do next? Except telling everyone what we are really up to, I'm open to suggestions"

[pingcode20]

"It used to be." replies Wisp, to the query of the ring.

Removing her mask, and dismissing the magic, Wisp looked at the body, and back at her own disguise.

"You know, they don't need to know Zrull is dead. Here, hand me the letter - I'll make a copy of it for our own reference, then we should hide the body and deliver the letter."

[Krelon]

Thyria

"Here you go", giving Wisp the letter.

"Let's do as Sling said and finish scouting this tunnel first. After that, shall we go after the gnolls first and deliver the letter later or the other way around?"

Carrying Zrull she follows the rest of the group to see what else can be found deeper in the tunnel and looking for a convenient spot to hide the body.

oog:
Thyria tries to carry Zrull over her shoulder: can carry another 120lbs, if Augustus takes her backpack then that's 140lbs. Otherwise she must ask someone for help.

[pingcode20]

((I know I bought a spellbook and ink))

Wisp produces what appears to be spellbook from within the robes, and thumbs through the pages of arcane gibberish and diagrams before arriving at one of the blank pages.

Placing the letter on the opposite page, she copies out the letter as closely as possible for future reference and passes the original back to Thyria.

"Thanks." she says, the spellbook and inkpen vanishing once again into the robes.

[boomwolf]

((showing i'm here, waiting for your actions.))

[Krelon]

((actions?
I thought Sling already left scouting deeper into tunnel, now tyria carries dead Zrull behind to deposit near the blocking [using stones from the cave-in] or even better if there is some good place on the way, hide him there.
))

[boomwolf]

ok...

zrull's body is hidden...
nothing else in the cave...

[Krelon]

"Now, you have all read the letter"

((if not, Thyria will show the letter to read))

"We can either go into the desert and look for Terenis directly, following the fresh trail OR deliver the letter to the green guys and make a deal with them. They help us with Terenis, we help them with the other temples"

"Any preferences, anyone? I'm slightly inclined to go to the green guys, cause we'll need supplies and a guide into the desert anyway. Plus, purging the temples sounds interesting"

[pingcode20]

"I believe we should see this High Priest Gorgo of Germo. The gnolls don't seem to be the sort to simply welcome us, so I'd rather have the opportunity to learn Gnoll first, if at all possible."

[ForzaFiori]

"let us work together with the green. We will most likely need all the help we can get."

[Erikkin]

Sling:

"Inform the high priest of the green. We can't let any of the other factions know about it, however. Wisp, I believe you should have the honor."

[Krelon]

"Fine, let's do it then. The guy who brought us here is a green guard, he can tell us how to find Gormo."

Nodding at Slings suggestion, "Wisp, you wanna do the talking? You used to be a yellow guard when coming in here"

Thyria leaves the tunnel.

((EDIT: any lifesigns from Augustus?))

[boomwolf]

((well...he IS outside...and nothing happens there right now...so i THINK he is still watching, but not posting.)))

[pingcode20]

Wisp nods, and staggers out, clutching the wound tightly.

Act - (1d20+10)[13]
Bluff - (1d20+10)[22]

"Urgh... Gnolls... captured Terenis... Got the other guy... Need to see Gorgo..."

[boomwolf]

Augustus, Matthew: you are back in "action"

the guard looks at wisp and asks, with a venomed voice "and why would that be shorain scum?"

[Krelon]

Thyria tries to disctract the guards attention from Wisp and directed at the green guy asks, "You guys really hate each other, don't you? I guess that temple of the six business didn't work out as planned. Whose idea was it anyway?"

[Krelon]

((OOG: about online char sheets nad the sites being down again:

there are a few sites that can be used instead of rpgwebprofiler:

http://www.thetangledweb.net/profiler/ (it appears it has been hacked recently and they are rebuilding)

http://www.myth-weavers.com/sheets/?

http://pifro.com/pro (a guy from the oots forum opened his private rpgprofiler for public use)


EDIT: just saw, there is even a thread about it (more links inside): http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=57197

EDIT2: allright, after rpgwebprofiler went down and just before tangledweb crashed I tried to salvage some of the charsheet of the group. I managed to put them on a stable site. It is crappy, because it is only static, but at least you can access the sheets as they were when I had a look at them here:

Sling: http://homepage.uibk.ac.at/~csaa074/...NGview.php.htm
Matthew: http://homepage.uibk.ac.at/~csaa074/...EWview.php.htm
Thyria: http://homepage.uibk.ac.at/~csaa074/...IAview.php.htm

I'm afraid I was too late for the rpgwebprofiler sheets.

EDIT3: for tangledweb check: http://profiler.thetangledweb.net/
but it will be oflline until end of year, so you have to migrate from there
))