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Post by Daos on Jul 21, 2018 9:23:33 GMT -8
The venom that put Gribben and Margarita to sleep was strong enough that slapping or punching them does nothing. There was nothing to do but wait for it to wear off.
"Wait, I don't think it's wise to split up, especially when we're in such a vulnerable state," Gimak warns. "Let's wait for the others to wake up first, before backtracking."
After about fifteen minutes or so, Gribben and Margarita regain consciousness. "Did we win?" she asks groggily as she comes to. After Zedd explains to her what happened, she heads over to Colderan and eagerly searches him. She finds a ring on him, but nothing else. "No spellbook? He must have it stashed somewhere."
The party then, at Drezden's urging, backtracks to the eastern room. The room reeks of the sharp, clean smell of plants, spring growth, rotting leaves, and biting nettles. A large iron cauldron stands in the center of the room cooking over glowing red coals. Steam rises from under the cauldrons lid. The walls are crammed with boxes; the ceiling is hung with bunches of strange herbs, many of them still fresh. There is another door to the east that the party hasn't tried yet.
The shelf with the six bottles on it are still there, as is the fallen box of seeds, which are still spilled all of the floor around it.
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Post by GreyWolfVT on Jul 21, 2018 10:26:05 GMT -8
Drezden grabs the bottles and hands them over to Gribben and Margarita "If you two can make heads or tails of what those are use em if you can. Now lets see what this door is hiding." the ranger says as he opens the unopened door.
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Post by Dram on Jul 21, 2018 13:10:02 GMT -8
Gribben looks the potions and any other things of interest.
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Post by Daos on Jul 22, 2018 12:23:03 GMT -8
Gribben and Margarita look over the bottles, which have written labels on them. Two are Potions of Healing, and the others are a Potion of Growth, a Potion of Plant Control, a Potion of Invisibility and a Potion of Gaseous Form.
Drezden then moves into the eastern doorway. All of the kidnapped victims sleep here, each lying on one of the altars, a glowing lamp above each of them. Among them are Eringard and Maria, as well as a middle aged human, a dwarf, a Zhent guard, a human woman, a young boy, an elderly woman, a half-elven man, and a woman wearing the vestments of Cyric the Mad.
Meanwhile, Gribben notices that there appears to be a door behind the shelf of potions when he realizes a slight breeze is coming from that direction.
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Post by GreyWolfVT on Jul 22, 2018 14:19:55 GMT -8
Drezden wonders how the heck to reverse the nets affect on the sleepers. "How do you suppose we wake these folk? We know it's something to do with this net but I don't have a clue how to use this thing or reverse it's effects on the sleepers." the dwarf ranger admits taking the net of dreams back out of his pack and setting the pack on the floor. He looks to the others for any guidance they might have "I don't suppose we should try and destroy the net maybe that will free them?" he adds.
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Post by Dram on Jul 22, 2018 16:56:11 GMT -8
Gribben- Reading the labels on the bottles. Is anyone in dire need of healing? We have 2 potions of healing here. Margarita which of the potions would you like to have? Noticing the secret door behind the shelves. Maybe the answers we are looking lie behind this secret door. We should check it for traps first.
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Post by Daos on Jul 23, 2018 10:06:10 GMT -8
"I'm not sure," Gimak admits. "I would have thought that with Colderan being dead, they would wake up. Maybe the mages can figure something out."
Meanwhile, Gribben, Zedd and Margarita move the shelf aside and find that the door behind it leads to a small library. Three glass-faced cabinets stand in this tiny chamber, each filled with books, one with scrolls, and one with loose-leaf notes. "Oh, now we're talking," Margarita says in excitement, immediately checking out the cabinets.
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Post by GreyWolfVT on Jul 23, 2018 10:59:13 GMT -8
Drezden tucks the net of dreams back in his pack for now and goes off to see how the others are making out with the potions.
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Post by Daos on Jul 24, 2018 10:29:36 GMT -8
Gimak and Drezden return to the previous room and find that Zedd, Gribben and Margarita have discovered a secret room behind the shelf that held the potions. It appears to be some kind of mini-library of sorts, and Margarita is eagerly paging through some books and scrolls, looking for something interesting. "I found his spellbook!" she announces. "Well, a traveling spellbook, anyway. It's a start."
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Post by GreyWolfVT on Jul 24, 2018 10:52:26 GMT -8
Drezden asks if they found anything about how to reverse the net's effects "Don't suppose there is anything that says how to reverse the net of dreams affects?"
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Post by Dram on Jul 24, 2018 17:58:02 GMT -8
Gribben searches the library for clue that may help wake the others. We are looking friend. Did you look for any writings on the net?
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Post by GreyWolfVT on Jul 25, 2018 2:50:09 GMT -8
Drezden gives a strange look to Gribben "Who would write on a net and how?" the ranger digs the net out again and looks it over for "writing" thinking the notion highly strange.
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Post by Daos on Jul 25, 2018 9:25:29 GMT -8
"I think so," Margarita answers. "There are a lot of books here on plants, dreams and magic. Give me some time and let me see what I can find." Drezden finds no script of any kind on the net.
Margarita spends some time going through everything in the library, and she relays what she finds to the others. The papers are notes from research, rough drafts of Colderan's great work of magelore, and letters to colleagues and servants. The scrolls are a compilation of information stolen from the druids, notes transcribed from other mages works, and ideas and observations derived from experiments. Most have to do with subjects related to Colderan's lorebooks. Colderan owns five complete, handwritten, illuminated books. One is a general primer on magic, Mastering the Unseen; one is a political treatise on power, manipulation, and extorting maximum taxes from the peasantry, The Iron Glove; and a third is a compilation of techniques of magical construction, Perfection and the Craft of Lasting Magic. The other two lorebooks are specialized works of arcane knowledge.
The first is a volume of arcane plant lore, Herbarium Maleficum. The Herbarium discusses the powers of all magical and poisonous plants, from absinthe and belladonna to mandrake, mudwort and dragons tongue. It includes the method of constructing a ring of thorns, but not the method for recharging one. The Herbarium contains notes on how to construct a nightshade using poisonous plants, the blood of innocents, and the life forces of dreamers. The materials for each nightshade cost 750 gp, and their construction requires two weeks. The resulting nightshade is said to be unswervingly faithful to its maker. Colderan himself is the author of a second volume: On the Aspects of Dreams, Or the Dreamers Travels in Planes Lesser and Greater. It discusses sleep magic, astral travel, and the interaction of Positive and Negative life forces. The instructions for making a net of dreams are written in detail. It is in the last two books Margarita finds the answers she is seeking. "Here, we go. The lifeforce of the victims are kept inside the nightshades, so destroying them releases the energy back to their original hosts."
"We've destroyed every nightshade we've come across so far, though," Gimak points out.
Margarita nods. "Which means the people on the surface are probably waking up already."
"And the people in the next chamber?" asks Zedd.
"From the look of it, Colderan was using those people to create new nightshades. Their lifeforce energy are being stored somewhere, a container of some sort, that must be opened," Margarita explains. "Probably something nearby the bodies. Something that would be glowing with energy."
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Post by GreyWolfVT on Jul 25, 2018 10:07:25 GMT -8
Drezden nods hearing what Margarita is saying and begins searching near the bodies of the sleepers for anything.
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Post by Dram on Jul 25, 2018 14:18:08 GMT -8
Gribben begins searching for another secret room where the others are sleeping. Checking any cupboards or tables in the room. Margarita did the book say anything about where the new nightshades are.
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