THREE HUNDRED THIRTY TWO
(I/C)
“What’s the plan folks, more searching, or are we leaving?” Kovid clicked his teeth as he looked around. “It seems quiet to the south, but maybe the hobs have cleared out west of here.” He snapped his fingers and pointed at the Magic User. “Oh right, Big Brain wants to play with his magic ball.”
"What's with the tone?” Lannis said with a withering glare, sitting at the table and setting up the crystal. “It literally is a magic ball. You are a strange man, Kovid."
Brendon rubbed his hands together and made his way across the room. “Since all the commotion has been this way, I’ll listen hear while Mamma’s Boy fingers his ball for 10 minutes.”
As the wizard began trancing over the crystal, Abraxas was going back through the jars and powders and herbs, sniffing each one and either screwing up his face a bit, or holding back a sneeze and grimacing. Wyn was idly flipping through the shelves of books that Lannis had scoured, reading a few paragraphs before putting it back and taking another.
Lyra was giving the statue another once over. She ran her fingertips over the lip of the gem socket, feeling around for any imperfections, gaps, or anything of interest. “I would really love NOT to turn this sucker on,” she muttered quietly. On finding nothing there, she then turned her attention to the helm, back, base, legs, chest, and arms of the statue, hoping to find a gap, seam, or section that could be opened up – but eventually resigned to the fact that it was not the case.
After a rather heady sniff of crushed birch bark, Abraxas was looking back and forth at both doors. “Senor Whistler?” he called out softly.
“Oui?”
“We should sent this thing to el Norte y vamonos a el South,” he pointed back at the Iron Statue where Lyra was examining it. “Let's get some cinn-ah-mon and get the show started! Este es mucho exciting!! I can't wait to wake it up!"
The elf chuckled. “Oui. Lets us see what Monsieur Offop discovers an den we can shake de foundations of de castle.”
Kovid had taken the flask of naptha (5) smiling as he tucked it into his belongings. “Yeah, this’ll be a mean treat for someone,” he laughed, moving back to the south door to listen there. Taking one of his 2 still full flasks of oil, he poured it into his sputtering lantern, adding 6 more hours of light before putting the empty flask back in his pack for later.
(<Int check, Pink 17) “Alright kids, everyone get ready,” Lannis peered deep into the crystal, the interior swirling before pulling back and becoming clearer. “Alrighty, what do we have. And there she is. Duchess.”
“What is she doing?” Brendon asked hopefully.
“Well…fuck this doesn’t fill me with confidence. She is in a hall, with a bow, arrow loaded, and pointing it at a door close to the end of the hall.”
“Oh.”
He moved his hands over the ball. “And she’s not alone either. Two…Five…Eight goblins are with her.”
“Deh all crowded tagether?”
“No.” He frowned and looked closer. “There are multiple doors on the side of the hall she is in, and two of the goblins are far enough away with…slings…loaded with…flasks of some shit with a wick sticking out of it. There are candles on the ground near them.”
“Dat is not good.”
“Two more goblins also have bows and arrows drawn, also pointing at the door.”
“You said 8, Big Brain,” Kovid muttered. “That’s 4.”
“Yeah,” he slid his hands over the front of the ball and tapped it. “The other 4 have spears and…shields. And they are situated nearest the door the others are pointing their weapons at.”
“Does it look the hall we came in from? Can you see stairs?”
“Um, I said three doors on the other side of the hall, the stairs hall had no doors except at the top of the stairs, so no, it doesn’t look like that hall. Looking behind her,” he squinted, “There is a cross hall behind her, might be the main hall we had been in earlier, I can’t tell.”
“What is she doing?” Lyra asked.
“Standing there, smiling, waiting, weapon out. She seems…I would guess the expression is satisfied, but I don’t think I’ve ever seen a satisfied expression on a woman’s face before.” The rest of the party laughed briefly, making Lannis scowl. “Whatever, fuck all you all.” He sat up and looked around. “And that’s it, crystal’s gone dark.” He packed it away quickly. “And that’s it for me at all until tomorrow with this.” Standing up and looked at both doors and frowned. “What are we gonna do?”
Time now is Day 8, 11:16 AM
(OOC)
Ok! Nothing more I can tell you. What is the plan?
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